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Privacy Policy

This privacy statement describes how pokepc.net collects and uses the personal information you provide. It also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal information and how you can access and update this information.

Last updated: August 20, 2025

Controller and Contact

  • Data controller: PokéPC (the PokéPC platform team)
  • Contact for privacy inquiries: support@pokepc.net
  • Contact for legal notices: support@pokepc.net

Cookies

  • By navigating and using our site you accept the use of cookies. Cookies are small pieces of data that are stored on your device to help us improve your experience and to provide us with information about how our website is being used. We use cookies to track your session, remember your preferences, and to provide you with a better experience.

  • Essential cookies: We use strictly necessary cookies for core functionality (e.g., session/authentication, security, language preferences). These cannot be disabled without affecting site functionality.

  • Third-party cookies: We avoid them. Our analytics are self-hosted and cookieless by default:

    • Umami Analytics (self-hosted)
    • Plausible Analytics (self-hosted)

In case we use at some point any third-party cookies, you will be asked before they are stored on your device through a cookie consent banner. This means that if you don't consent, you won't be tracked by these services.

If you don't see the cookie consent banner (even with all Ad-Block extensions disabled), it means we are not using any third-party cookies at the moment.

Analytics

  • We use self-hosted instances of Umami and Plausible to measure page views and basic usage. These tools are privacy-friendly, do not use third-party cookies, and store only aggregated, non-personal data. IP addresses may be briefly processed to derive a coarse location (e.g., country) and then discarded.

Legal Bases (GDPR)

We process personal data under these legal bases:

  • Contract: to provide and operate the services you request (e.g., account features).
  • Legitimate interests: to maintain and improve the services, ensure security, and understand usage.
  • Consent: when you opt into optional features that require it.
  • Legal obligation: to comply with applicable laws.

Sources of Data

  • Directly from you: when you create an account, submit content, or contact us.
  • Automatically: through your browser or device (see the list under “Personal Information We Collect About You”).
  • Third parties: when you connect Patreon, Discord, Google, or similar, we receive identifiers you authorize.

Data Retention

  • We retain account data for as long as your account is active. You can request deletion of your account and associated personal data, subject to legal or operational requirements.
  • System and security logs may be retained for a limited period for fraud and abuse prevention and platform security.

Sharing and Disclosure

We do not sell your personal data. We share data only with:

  • Service providers that operate under our instructions (hosting, protection, analytics we self-host) and only as needed to provide the services.
  • When required by law, regulation, or valid legal process, or to protect the rights, safety, and security of users and the platform.

International Transfers

Depending on your location, your data may be processed outside your country. Where required, we use appropriate mechanisms (such as Standard Contractual Clauses) to safeguard international transfers.

Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect personal data, including encryption in transit, access controls, and limited access to production systems. No system is perfectly secure; please use strong, unique passwords and enable available security features.

Your Rights

Subject to local law, you may have rights to access, rectify, delete, restrict, or object to processing of your personal data, and to data portability. To exercise these rights, contact support@pokepc.net.

EU/EEA/UK Residents

  • You have the rights described above under the EU/UK GDPR, including the right to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority. A list of EU data protection authorities is available on the European Commission website.
  • Where we rely on legitimate interests, you may object to processing; we will honor your objection unless we have compelling legitimate grounds.

California and Other US State Privacy Rights

If you are a resident of California (CPRA/CCPA) or another US state with a consumer privacy law, you may have the right to request:

  • Access to and portability of specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.
  • Deletion of personal information, subject to exceptions.
  • Correction of inaccurate personal information.
  • Information about categories of personal information collected, sources, purposes, and disclosures.
  • Opt‑out of “sale” or “sharing” of personal information. We do not sell or share personal information for cross‑context behavioral advertising.

To exercise these rights, email support@pokepc.net. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights.

Children’s Privacy

The services are not directed to children under 13 (or the age of digital consent in your jurisdiction). We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under that age. If you believe a child has provided us personal data, contact us and we will take appropriate steps to remove it.

Do Not Track

Our self-hosted analytics do not rely on third-party tracking cookies. We currently do not respond to browser “Do Not Track” signals, but we design analytics to minimize personal data by default.

Personal Information We Collect About You

When you use our website, we and our partners collect some personal data about you. Depending on your privacy choices, the personal data we collect includes:

  • Device identifiers such as your IP address and IP geolocation, to prevent abuse of our services.
  • Information about your devices (via User Agent header or browser APIs), such as the type, model, manufacturer, operating system, operating system version, carrier name, browser, and screen size.
  • Information about how you use our website (search keywords, visited pages, etc), to improve our website and content.
  • Third-party login identifiers (name, email address and user ID), but only when you explicitly choose to share it with our website through a 3rd party login system such as Patreon, Github, Discord, Google, etc.
  • Your Patreon subscription data and status to our Patreon page, if you choose to authenticate with Patreon to unlock additional features. No payment method information is stored on our servers.
  • Any identifiers you provide for our services to work, such as emails, display names and usernames.

How We Use The Personal Data We Collect About You

We and our partners use the personal data we collect to:

  • We use your user ID, email and username to identify you in Canny.io whenever you post your feedback there, using the Feedback links in our website, this is done so you don't need to create an account in Canny.io to submit your feedback, and to be able to identify you as a user of our website.
  • Improve our Website: Usage data allows us to quickly identify problems in our website, introduce new features or improve usability.
  • Improve our presence in search engines: We use Umami and Plausible analytics to better understand how users find our website and improve content. We may also use Google Search Console for site indexing insights.
  • Ads: We currently don't use ads in our platform, so we do not use your data for advertising purposes.
  • Usernames and public profile data: they are necessary to bring you customized content and to reference user-created content.
  • Emails: We will send emails only in case it is necessary (e.g password reset emails, account verifications).

Our Partners, Services and Tools

Where is your data processed and stored?

  • Cloudflare: We use Cloudflare to protect our website from attacks and as a traffic proxy.
  • Vercel: We use Vercel to host our website.
  • Neon: We use Neon to host our database.
  • Hetzner: We use Hetzner to host some of our services in various EU locations.
  • Umami (self-hosted): Privacy-friendly analytics hosted and controlled by us.
  • Plausible (self-hosted): Privacy-friendly analytics hosted and controlled by us.
  • Canny: We use Canny for feedback; we currently don't share any of your personal data with this service.
  • Resend: We use Resend to send transactional emails (e.g., password resets, verification codes, etc.).

Changes to this Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post changes on this page and update the “Last updated” date above. Your continued use of the services after changes take effect constitutes your acceptance of the updates.