Privacy, in plain language.
Last updated 2026-09-11. VibeArena is operated by VibeArena. Contact contact@vibearena.app about privacy or your data.
What we collect
When you register, we store your name, username, email address, hashed password and acceptance of our terms. You can add a bio, avatar, game descriptions, screenshots and links. Your public profile, published games, visible comments and creator replies can be seen by other visitors and search engines. Your email address is not displayed publicly.
We record account and community actions such as registrations, submissions, votes, comments and moderation. For audience reports we collect game page visits, Play clicks, website-link clicks, timestamps, a hashed session identifier and a traffic-source category. We may retain the hostname of a referring website; we do not store its full URL or query string in audience analytics. Signed-in events can be associated with your account. Hashed identifiers are pseudonymous, not anonymous.
Cookies and audience measurement
Session cookies support login, form security and session-based counts. A remember-me cookie is used if you choose that login option. We do not install advertising trackers. Our own audience measurement honors Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control signals; essential account, security and moderation operations continue to work. Session records may include an IP address and browser information, and server/security logs may contain request information.
Creator dashboards show aggregate counts, not visitor names or email addresses. Repeat page loads and Play clicks are filtered, but these counts are estimates. Cookies, devices and privacy preferences can affect them.
External games and websites
Games currently run on external hosts. Clicking Play or loading an embedded game can share your IP address and browser information with that host, which has its own policies. We load embedded games only after you choose Play. Follow the game website's privacy policy for activity there.
Why we use this information
We use it to provide accounts, publish your content, send verification and password-reset emails, calculate rankings, help creators understand their audience, investigate reports and protect the community. Service providers for hosting, storage and email process the information necessary to operate those services. We do not sell your personal information.
Retention and deletion
Detailed audience events and play records are retained for up to 180 days in the active database. Lifetime play totals can remain as aggregate counters. Moderation history and closed reports are retained for up to 365 days. Public content remains until you or a moderator remove it.
You can export your account data, update your details, or delete your account from Account settings. Deletion removes your games, uploaded images, comments and votes and removes linked analytics from the active service. Minimal moderation records may remain without your account identifier until their retention period expires. Backup copies expire according to our operational backup retention; restoring a backup requires reapplying subsequent deletion requests. Content already copied by other people or indexed by third parties is outside our direct control.
Questions and requests
Contact us to request access, correction or deletion, report a concern or ask about applicable privacy rights and our service providers. We may need to verify account ownership before acting. We will update this page when our practices change.