Last Updated: 17th July, 2023
Version: 1.1
Your privacy is important to us. No seriously, we absolutely hate email spam and despise websites that sell user data without consent. To ensure that you are 100% confident using all features on our website, please see an outline of our privacy policy below. Should you have any questions, please contact us by clicking this link
Who we are
GamePro (the Website) is an independent blog that publishes content surrounding game news, product reviews, gaming guides and the latest updates within the gaming industry. You can find us at the website address: https://www.gamepro.com.au
Comments
When visitors leave comments throughout our website, we collect the data shown within the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to assist with spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service. If you are a member of Gravatar using the same email address that you used to post a comment on this website, your profile picture from Gravatar will be pulled through to your comment. After approval of your comment, your profile picture will be visible to the public in the context of your comment only.
Should you not be using Gravatar, your comment will have no profile picture, or a default profile picture, as chosen by our editing team.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website. In addition, you should also avoid uploading any personal images to this website. These are personal and should not be published.
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Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)
The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies.
A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.
First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising.
Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.
Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.
The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:
- IP Address
- Operating System type
- Operating System version
- Device Type
- Language of the website
- Web browser type
- Email (in hashed form)
Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements.
Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.
If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising.
You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.
For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.
Cookies
By visiting our website, we will collect cookies from your browser. These cookies are used for the sole purpose of improving our services to you. If you leave a comment on our website you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website via cookies.
These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies that we save have an expiry date of one calendar year from the date that you choose to save them.
Submitting Articles
Should you contact us via any of the following pages to submit an article to our website, we will retain your information for the purposes of publishing your content. Any information that you do not wish to be retained can be requested by emailing us at editor@gamepro.com.au
Embedded Content
On occasion, articles on this website may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
GamePro does not share your data with any third party service other than Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Facebook and Amazon. The data that is shared is not personalised data, but rather the data that you allow your website browser to share through cookies. We do not know anything about you as an individual.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights do you have over your data
If you have an account on this website, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes under Australian law.