Effective date: May 5, 2026

Privacy Policy

Game Night Guide helps visitors discover board games, compare options, plan game nights, and find classic card games. This policy explains what information the site stores, which third-party services may receive data, and how advertising consent is handled.

Who We Are

Game Night Guide is available at gamenight.guide and is operated from Iceland. For privacy questions, email privacy@gamenight.guide.

Information Stored on This Device

The site uses browser local storage for app preferences and saved game data. These values are stored in your browser and are not sent to a Game Night Guide account or database.

• wsip_favorites stores games you saved to your list.
• wsip_played stores games you marked as already played.
• wsip_ratings stores your local game ratings.
• wsip_cached_games stores cached game details for saved or played games.
• wsip_compare_hint_dismissed stores whether you dismissed the compare tip.
• wsip_theme stores your light or dark theme preference.

You can remove this information by clearing site data, local storage, or cookies for this site in your browser settings. If your browser syncs site data across devices, these values may sync according to your browser account settings.

Advertising and Consent

Game Night Guide may use Google AdSense to show ads. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, Google AdSense Privacy & messaging is used as the consent management platform for advertising consent. It may ask you to consent to cookies, local storage, personalized ads, non-personalized ads, ad measurement, and related data processing purposes.

If you do not consent where consent is required, Google may limit or not serve ads. You can update your advertising choices from the Privacy and cookie settings link in the site footer when Google AdSense consent controls are available.

Third-Party Services

The site may request game data, images, videos, ads, or hosting resources from third-party services. These services can receive technical information such as your IP address, browser details, referring page, and the query or page needed to return content.

• Google AdSense, for advertising and consent management. See the Google Privacy Policy.
• YouTube, for game tutorial and review videos. See the Google Privacy Policy.
• BoardGameGeek, for board game data. See the BoardGameGeek privacy policy.
• RAWG, for video game metadata and images. See the RAWG privacy policy.
• Hosting provider, for standard request logs, security, reliability, and abuse prevention.

Analytics

The site does not currently load a dedicated analytics product. Hosting providers may still keep standard request logs for security, reliability, and abuse prevention.

Your Rights and Choices

You can update advertising consent from the Privacy and cookie settings link in the site footer when Google consent controls are available. You can also manage Google ad personalization at Google Ad Settings.

You can clear local storage and cookies in your browser settings. Doing this removes saved games, ratings, preferences, and any stored consent choices for this site. For questions or requests, email privacy@gamenight.guide.

Data Retention

Local storage values remain in your browser until you clear them or your browser removes them. Third-party services retain data according to their own privacy policies and retention practices.

Children

This site is intended for a general audience and does not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Changes

This policy may be updated as site features, advertising configuration, or third-party services change. The effective date above will be updated when material changes are made.

Contact

For privacy questions, email privacy@gamenight.guide.