Privacy Policy

INTRODUCTION

Welcome to Gamepad Tester Online (“we,” “our,” or “us”). We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring transparency about how we handle your information. This Privacy Policy explains what data we collect, how we use it, and your rights regarding your information when you use our website and services.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We designed our service to minimize data collection while providing a valuable tool for gamers:

1. Controller Data

Our gamepad testing tool uses the Gamepad API available in modern browsers to read input from your controller. This data is processed entirely within your browser and is never transmitted to our servers or collected by us.

2. Automatically Collected Information

When you visit our website, we may automatically collect certain information about your device and usage, including:

• Browser type and version
• Operating system
• IP address (anonymized)
• Pages visited and time spent on each page
• Referring website addresses
• Device type (desktop, mobile, tablet)

3. Cookies and Similar Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our service and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data that may include an anonymous unique identifier.

Type of Cookie	Purpose	Duration
Essential Cookies	Required for the operation of our website	Session
Analytics Cookies	Allow us to recognize and count visitors and see how they move around our site	2 years
Preference Cookies	Used to recognize you when you return and remember your preferences	1 year

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

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, for customer service, updates, and marketing purposes
• Send you emails
• Find and prevent fraud

THIRD-PARTY SERVICES

We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our service, provide the service on our behalf, perform service-related services, or assist us in analyzing how our service is used. These third parties have access to your information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our visitors use the site. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect information such as how often users visit the site, what pages they visit, and what other sites they used prior to coming to our site. We use the information we get from Google Analytics only to improve our site.

DATA RETENTION

We will retain your information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies.

Analytics data is retained for a period of 26 months, after which it is automatically deleted.

YOUR DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:

• The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
• The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete 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 at privacy@gamepadtesteronline.com.

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

Our service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Last Updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.