Privacy Policy for valking.gg

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.

If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.

When you register for an Account, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, company name, address, email address, and telephone number.

We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:

• Provide, operate, and maintain our website
• Improve, personalize, and expand our website
• Understand and analyze how you use our website
• Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
• Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
• Send you emails
• Find and prevent fraud

valking.gg follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services' analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

Like any other website, valking.gg uses 'cookies'. These cookies are used to store information including visitors' preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users' experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors' browser type and/or other information.

For more general information on cookies, please read "What Are Cookies".

Google is one of a third-party vendor on our site. It also uses cookies, known as DART cookies, to serve ads to our site visitors based upon their visit to www.valking.gg and other sites on the internet. However, visitors may choose to decline the use of DART cookies by visiting the Google ad and content network Privacy Policy at the following URL - https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads

You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of valking.gg.

Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on valking.gg, which are sent directly to users' browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.

Note that valking.gg has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

valking.gg's Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers' respective websites.

Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:

Request that a business that collects a consumer's personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.

Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.

Request that a business that sells a consumer's personal data, not sell the consumer's personal data.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access - You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.

The right to rectification - You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure - You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to restrict processing - You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing - You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to data portability - You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

valking.gg does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

We use Google Analytics 4 (measurement ID G-1LDTGVT6YH) to understand which features are useful, which ones nobody touches, and where the site is slow. The processor is Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043, USA. They act on our behalf under the Google Analytics Data Processing Terms.

Data is processed in the United States. The transfer is covered by the EU US Data Privacy Framework, of which Google LLC is a certified participant. The EU Standard Contractual Clauses also apply as a fallback.

We have set GA4 data retention to two months on our property and IP addresses are anonymized before storage. We do not link analytics data to advertising profiles unless you have specifically given consent for personalized ads.

All Google Analytics requests run through Consent Mode v2. In the EU, EEA, UK, Switzerland, and Brazil, no analytics or advertising cookies are set until you accept them in the cookie banner. Outside of those regions, analytics is on by default and you can opt out at any time.

Categories of data processed: anonymized IP address, device and browser type, operating system, screen size, language, page paths visited on valking.gg, event names (for example "view_player_profile"), and an analytics identifier stored in the _ga cookie. We do not collect names, email addresses, or any other directly identifying data through Google Analytics.

Legal basis: in the EU, EEA, UK, Switzerland, and Brazil, we rely on your consent under Article 6(1)(a) GDPR (or the equivalent local article). In other regions, we rely on legitimate interest under Article 6(1)(f) GDPR for the same processing, balanced against your right to opt out at any time.

For data subject requests directed at Google specifically, see Google's data subject request form.

You can change your cookie choice at any moment using the “Cookie preferences” link in the footer of every page. Withdrawing consent is exactly one click and takes effect immediately. We honor the Global Privacy Control browser signal everywhere - if your browser sends it we treat it as an opt-out from advertising cookies. The full list of cookies we set, what each is for, and how long it lives is on our Cookie Details page.

About the banner design: the cookie banner has no close button because under EU law silence is not consent and we have to record an explicit decision before we can act. The Accept and Reject buttons use the same size, color, and styling because European data protection authorities require equal prominence.

If we ever introduce a new processing purpose (for example a different advertising partner or a new analytics tool), we will increment our consent version and the banner will reappear so you can make a fresh, specific choice. Your previous choice is never silently extended to cover something new.

If you live in the EU, EEA, UK, Switzerland, Brazil, or California you can lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority without going through us first. In Germany that is the federal commissioner (BfDI) or your state authority. In other EU countries it is your national supervisory authority. In Brazil it is the ANPD. In California it is the California Privacy Protection Agency. You can also write to us first at [email protected] and we will respond within 30 days.

Our backend briefly retains request logs containing IP addresses and user agents for security and abuse prevention. These logs are kept for no longer than 14 days and are not used for analytics or advertising.