PlayVessel Privacy Policy

PlayVessel was created for you to be able to organize your backlog easier, not for us to track you. We understand how much data is collected nowadays and how invasive it is. Trackers and cookies are used to track your movement around the web and used to determine what products would best suit you. Personally we find this disgusting and as such designed PlayVessel to serve you not us. We have done our very best to pick an Analytics Provider that doesn't track you and sell your data. Instead they anonymously track engagement across the site. Think the number of visitors who visited a page in a month or if most of our initial traffic comes from search results or sharing the link directly, etc. Our logging does not include any personal user data because quite frankly it doesn't need to. We want our privacy respected, so yours should be as well. Thank you for choosing PlayVessel!

Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 9/6/2025

Welcome to PlayVessel (playvessel.com)! This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect your information when you use our website.

1. Information We Collect

  • Account Management: We collect usernames, passwords, and emails for account creation and login.
  • Profile Pictures: Users can upload images for personalization as profile pictures.
  • Logging Data: We collect IP addresses, device types, and browser types for logging purposes.
  • Analytics: We use PostHog for analytics. PostHog collects anonymous usage data including page views, login events, and basic site engagement metrics. Additionally, PostHog may collect anonymized behavioral data to help us improve the product - this includes actions like adding games to your collection, search queries, and feature usage. No personal information (names, emails, usernames) is sent to PostHog, only anonymous user IDs and behavioral data.

** Note: No cookies or cross-site trackers are added to the user's browser. Only 1 cookie is added and that is to store the user's session token.

2. How We Use Your Information

  • Account Data: Usernames, emails, and passwords are used for account creation and login.
  • Profile Pictures: Images are used for personalization as profile pictures.
  • Security: IP addresses help us detect unauthorized logins to protect user accounts.
  • Analytics: PlayVessel uses various forms of anonymous analytics to better understand how users are interacting with the site. We use Fathom for basic site engagement and growth metrics and PostHog for more in-depth user behavior tracking. An opt-out option is not currently offered.

** Note: No cookies or cross-site trackers are added to the user's browser.

3. Third-Party Services

  • IGDB API: We use the IGDB API for game data. No user data is sent to IGDB, and our user data is not involved in the talks with the IGDB API.

4. Analytics Provider

  • Fathom: We have used Fathom for analytics since the beginning of PlayVessel 1.0. It has been a great tool for us and we are quite happy with the privacy it provides to our users compared to Google Analytics. The data it collects is fairly simple and is completely anonymous. The data collected by Fathom is used mainly for site engagement and growth metrics.
  • PostHog: We have recently added PostHog to PlayVessel to better understand how users actually interact with the site. Similar to our view with Fathom, privacy is very important to us and as such some of the more "invasive" options such as session recording are disabled and will remain as such. All data sent is tied to the user's PlayVessel user id, however we do not send any personal information such as usernames, emails, or profile pictures to PostHog because simply put it's not needed. Due to our experimentation with PostHog, we are not sure if we will keep it long term, so for now it cannot be disabled. However, if we decide to keep it long term, we will allow users to opt out of this more in-depth tracking even though it is anonymous.

5. Security Measures

We prioritize the security of your data through HTTPS, password hashing and encryption, and the use of SSH keys on our servers.

6. User Rights

Users can update or delete their account information, including emails, passwords, and profile pictures. They may also request a copy of their data through the provided button in their settings.

7. Data Retention

Data is retained as long as the user has an account with PlayVessel. Upon account termination, data deletion is initiated immediately, and data becomes unrecoverable.

8. Changes to Privacy Policy

Any updates to this Privacy Policy will be reflected here. Please review this page periodically.

9. Contact Information

For any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at admin@playvessel.com.

10. Age Restriction

By using our services you implicitly affirm that you are 18 years of age or older.

11. No Promotional Communications

We do not have promotional communications. Our basic anonymous analytics (page views, login events) cannot be disabled.

Thank you for entrusting your data with PlayVessel. Your privacy is important to us, and we are committed to maintaining the confidentiality and security of your information.