Effective Date
August 27, 2026
Information You Choose to Provide
When you email GamerGearForge, we may receive your name, email address, message, and any information you voluntarily include. We use that information to answer the inquiry and maintain appropriate business records.
Website and Technical Information
Hosting providers and security systems may automatically process standard technical information such as IP address, browser type, device type, requested pages, timestamps, and error logs. This information may be used to keep the website secure, diagnose problems, and understand general site performance.
Google Analytics
GamerGearForge uses Google Analytics 4 (GA4), a service provided by Google, to understand how visitors use the website. Google Analytics may collect or process information such as pages viewed, approximate location derived from network information, device and browser information, session activity, traffic source, engagement events, and similar usage data. Google may use cookies or other technologies to provide this service. GamerGearForge uses this information to understand site performance, improve content, and evaluate how visitors move through the website. Google processes Analytics data under its own privacy terms and settings.
GamerGearForge Affiliate Click Tracking
When you click certain Amazon or Newegg affiliate buttons, GamerGearForge may first route the click through an internal redirect used to measure outbound affiliate interest. This internal report is privacy-light by design. It stores only the article slug, button placement, retailer, product, destination key, and timestamp. It does not store your IP address, account or user ID, session ID, email address, user agent, referrer, or the full affiliate URL.
Affiliate Links and Third Parties
GamerGearForge contains links to third-party retailers and affiliate networks, including Amazon, Newegg, and Rakuten Advertising. When you follow those links, those third parties may use cookies, pixels, redirect identifiers, or similar technologies to attribute referrals, measure transactions, prevent fraud, and calculate affiliate commissions. Their own privacy policies, cookie settings, account settings, and transaction practices apply. GamerGearForge does not receive your complete payment-card information or retailer account passwords.
Cookies
The website or its service providers may use cookies or similar technologies for security, functionality, traffic measurement, analytics, and affiliate attribution. Google Analytics may use cookies or related technologies to measure site usage. Affiliate networks such as Rakuten Advertising and retailers such as Newegg and Amazon may set or read tracking technologies after you follow an affiliate link. You can control or block many cookies through your browser settings and use privacy controls offered by the relevant third party. Blocking tracking may affect analytics or affiliate attribution but should not increase the price you pay.
Data Sharing
We do not sell personal information. Information may be processed by service providers that help operate the website, email, hosting, security, analytics, or affiliate programs, including affiliate networks used to measure referrals and commissions. Information may also be disclosed when required by law or reasonably necessary to protect rights, safety, and website integrity.
Data Retention
Contact messages and operational records may be retained only as long as reasonably needed for communication, security, legal, tax, and business purposes.
Children's Privacy
GamerGearForge is a gaming-gear review website intended for a general audience and is not designed to collect personal information from children under 13.
Policy Changes
This policy may be updated as the website adds new services or legal requirements change. The effective date above will be revised when material updates are published.
Privacy Questions
Contact McCane Creations LLC at support@gamergearforge.com.