Privacy Policy

Overview

Rignetic (rignetic.com) is a PC gaming guides, news, reviews, and setup publication. This policy explains what personal data we collect from visitors, why we collect it, how long we keep it, and how you can exercise your rights over it. We collect only what we need to run the newsletter and to honor your cookie choices — we do not require an account to read the site.

What We Collect

• Newsletter email address. If you subscribe using the newsletter form in the site footer, the email address you enter is submitted to our /api/subscribe endpoint and stored in a subscribers table in our Cloudflare D1 database, so we can send you our roundup of guides, reviews, and setup deals.
• Cookie consent choice. When you interact with the cookie banner shown on every page (Accept, Decline, or Manage), your choice is saved in your browser's local storage and also submitted to our /api/cookie-consent endpoint, which records it in a cookie_consent table in Cloudflare D1. This lets us honor your choice and demonstrate that consent was recorded.
• Advertising and analytics data. Rignetic uses Google AdSense to display ads, and Google Analytics 4 and Google Ads measurement tags (loaded through Google Tag Manager) to measure how the site is used and how our own ad campaigns perform. These services use cookies to collect standard technical data such as pages viewed, approximate location derived from IP address, and device or browser type. See the sections below and our Cookie Policy for details.

We do not knowingly collect payment information, government identifiers, or other sensitive personal data through this site.

Google AdSense and Third-Party Advertising

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies, including the DoubleClick cookie, enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to Rignetic and/or other sites on the Internet.

You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. You can also opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising at www.aboutads.info.

To learn how Google uses data from sites that use its services, see How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.

Why We Collect It

We collect your email address only when you actively submit the newsletter form — this is based on your consent, and you can withdraw it at any time by unsubscribing. We record your cookie choice so that we can remember it on future visits.

How Long We Keep It

Subscriber email addresses are kept for as long as your subscription is active, and are deleted on request or when you unsubscribe. Cookie consent records are kept for a limited period (typically up to 12 months) so that your choice persists across visits; after that period, you may be asked to confirm your preference again.

Where Your Data Is Stored

Subscriber and cookie-consent records are stored in Cloudflare D1, a database service operated by Cloudflare, Inc. as part of the same Cloudflare infrastructure that hosts this website. We do not maintain separate servers or copies of this data outside Cloudflare's platform.

We Do Not Sell Your Data

Rignetic does not sell, rent, or trade your personal data to third parties.

Third-Party Processors

The following third parties may process data on our behalf or on their own behalf as part of operating this site:

• Cloudflare, Inc. — hosting, application infrastructure, and database storage (Cloudflare D1).
• Google — Google AdSense (advertising), Google Analytics 4 (analytics), Google Ads (campaign measurement), and Google Tag Manager.

Your Rights

You can ask us to access, correct, or delete the personal data we hold about you — for example, your subscriber email address or cookie consent record — by emailing contact@rignetic.com. You can also unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time using the unsubscribe link in any newsletter email, and you can change your cookie choice at any time using the "Manage" option in the cookie banner.

Children's Privacy

Rignetic is a general-audience gaming publication and is not directed at, or knowingly marketed to, children under the age of 13 (or under 16 where a higher age threshold applies under local law). We do not knowingly collect personal data from children below the applicable age.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy as the site evolves — for example, once a specific advertising or analytics partner is connected. Material changes will be reflected by updating the "Last updated" date at the top of this page.