1. Who we are
ggnomz (“we,” “us,” or “our”) runs ggnomz.com and decides how your personal data is used. For anything about your data, email team@ggnomz.com.
2. What we collect
- From Steam, when you log in: your Steam ID, display name, avatar and profile link, and the games you’ve played with total playtime, recent playtime and last-played date. We refresh your games each time you log in with Steam, or when you ask us to check them again.
- From Twitch, if you link it: your Twitch ID, login name, display name and avatar.
- From you: your birth year, handle, display name, bio, when you usually play and your time zone, your vibes, games you play outside Steam that you add from Twitch’s game list, the games you’re happy to help with or want help with (18 and over), and any Discord, Twitch or Instagram names you add as contacts.
- What you do on ggnomz: clips you submit (title, description, game, video or link, the kind of positive play, contest entry, and whether we may feature it on our socials), noms and what you liked about a clip, circle requests, blocks, reports you file with any evidence files, contest wins, your member number (the order you joined in), and which badges we’ve already announced to you.
- Moderation records: our decisions about clips, reports and accounts, and bans. If someone reports you, the report keeps your handle and Steam ID, so we can still act on it if you delete your account.
- Analytics: pages you visit, your device and browser, and your rough location, through Google Analytics (see Cookies).
- Server logs: your IP address and browser when you use the site, kept by Google for about 30 days.
- Emails you send us, such as a prize claim.
What’s public: your profile (handle, display name, avatar, bio, when you play and your time zone, game names, vibes, linked Steam and Twitch names, IDs and profile links, join date, member number and badges), your approved clips with their nom counts and how many players liked each kind of play (never who), and contest winners.
What stays private: your birth year and playtime. Your contacts are shown only to players in your circle, and only if you choose to share them. Nobody sees who nommed a clip.
3. Why we use it
- To run your account and the features you use, such as your profile, clips, noms, circles and contests. (Legal basis: our contract with you.)
- To check your age: you must be 13 or older to join, and 18 or older to win prizes. Your birth year is used only for this. (Legal basis: legal obligation and legitimate interests.)
- To keep ggnomz safe by reviewing clips, handling reports and enforcing bans. (Legal basis: legitimate interests.)
- To understand positive play. We study public profiles, clips, their labels and noms to learn what positive play looks like and how to reward it, and may analyze them in Google BigQuery. Circle connections, contacts and birth years are never included. (Legal basis: legitimate interests.)
- To feature clips on our social accounts, with your handle, only if you ticked the box when you submitted the clip. (Legal basis: your consent.)
- To improve the site with analytics. (Legal basis: your consent where the law requires it, otherwise legitimate interests.)
We don’t show ads, we don’t use your data for advertising, and we don’t sell or share your personal information.
4. Other companies involved
- Google (Firebase and Google Cloud) hosts the site and stores our database, login, uploaded evidence files, server logs and analytics. Our pages also load fonts from Google Fonts.
- Cloudflare (Cloudflare Stream) stores and plays uploaded clip videos.
They use your data only to provide their service to us. Steam and Twitch are separate companies that send us the data above when you log in or link an account. Clips linked from Twitch or YouTube show their pictures and play from those sites, which may set their own cookies when you press play. Each has its own privacy policy.
Your data is stored and processed in the United States. If you’re in the EU, UK or Switzerland, these transfers rely on the safeguards our providers offer, such as the EU Standard Contractual Clauses and the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.
5. How long we keep it
- We keep your account data until you delete your account.
- When you delete your account, we erase your profile, private details, games, clips and videos, noms, circle requests, blocks and linked accounts right away. Contest results stay, without your name, and so do noms you gave in past months, with nothing that links them to you, so finished contests don’t change. We stop featuring your clips in new social posts; email us to take down earlier ones.
- Some records stay after deletion, to keep ggnomz safe. Reports you filed stay without your name. Reports and moderation records about you stay. We keep a record of each ban, with the Steam ID and handle, so a banned player can’t simply rejoin.
- When you log in, we keep a short record of the login (platform, expiry time, the account being linked and a scrambled code for your browser). We don’t delete these automatically yet.
- Google Analytics keeps its data for up to 14 months.
- We keep emails only as long as we need them to help you.
6. Your choices and rights
You can see and change your profile, and delete your account, from Edit profile. Deleting is permanent and happens right away.
You can also email team@ggnomz.com to ask for a copy of your data, to correct it, or to delete it. We may ask you to log in to confirm it’s you. We answer within 30 days, it’s free, and using your rights never changes how we treat you.
In the EU, UK or Switzerland, you also have the right to object to or restrict how we use your data, to take your data elsewhere, to withdraw consent at any time, and to complain to your local data protection authority.
In California, you have the right to know what personal information we collect, use and disclose, and to have it deleted or corrected. We don’t sell or share personal information, and we use your birth year only to check your age. If you’re under 18, you can ask us to remove anything you’ve posted.
Do Not Track: the site doesn’t change what it does when your browser sends a Do Not Track signal. You can turn off analytics with the cookie choice below.
8. Children
You must be 13 or older to use ggnomz. Anyone younger is stopped at sign-up, and we store nothing about them. If you think a child under 13 has an account, email us and we’ll delete it. Prizes are for players 18 and older.
9. Security
Only our own servers can change your data, private details are locked to you, and contacts reach other players only through an accepted circle request. No system is perfectly secure, so if we learn of a breach that affects you, we’ll tell you.
10. Changes
If we change this policy, we’ll update the date at the top. If the change is big, we’ll say so on the site.
11. Contact
Questions? Contact us at team@ggnomz.com.