Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how SaveState ("SaveState", "we", "us", "our") collects, uses, stores, and discloses information when you use savestate.fyi. It applies to public visitors and to authorized administrative users.

1. Information We Process

SaveState may process the following categories of information:

• Public content metadata from third-party sources, such as titles, snippets, links, timestamps, source labels, public counters, and platform identifiers made available by those services.
• Derived analytics generated by our systems, such as topic clustering, sentiment labels, story matching, and trend or badge calculations.
• Technical and operational logs, such as request timestamps, IP address, user agent, endpoint path, cache status, rate-limit events, and error traces.
• Administrative account/session details for restricted pages, such as authenticated email identifier, session state, and related security events.

2. How We Use Information

• Provide trend, topic, sentiment, and game-reference analysis views.
• Operate, monitor, secure, debug, and improve site reliability and performance.
• Prevent abuse, enforce rate limits, and investigate suspicious or unauthorized activity.
• Maintain and moderate restricted administrative workflows.

3. What We Do Not Do

• We do not sell personal information.
• We do not use public visitor data for direct advertising profiles.
• We do not claim ownership over third-party source content.

4. Data Retention

Operational logs, cached snapshots, and analytics artifacts are retained only as long as reasonably necessary for service operation, security, troubleshooting, moderation, and performance review, then rotated, overwritten, or deleted according to internal retention settings.

5. Cookies and Browser Storage

SaveState does not currently use advertising cookies or analytics cookies for public browsing. The site does use limited browser-side storage and cookie mechanisms where needed for requested functionality and security.

• A strictly necessary HTTP-only session cookie may be set when an authorized admin signs in, so the restricted admin experience can remain authenticated across page loads.
• A small browser storage entry may be used to remember dismissal of the site’s cookie notice or similar interface preferences.
• If SaveState introduces non-essential cookies or similar tracking technologies in the future, we will update this policy and request consent where required by applicable law.

6. Third-Party Services and Links

SaveState ingests from and links to third-party platforms and content providers. Their data practices are governed by their own privacy policies and terms. We are not responsible for third-party services, their availability, or their practices after you leave our site.

Some restricted admin flows may request third-party technical assets such as Firebase authentication resources. SaveState’s site fonts are served locally by SaveState rather than from a third-party font host.

7. Security

We use commercially reasonable administrative and technical safeguards to protect systems and stored data. No online service can guarantee absolute security, and you use the site at your own risk.

8. Children's Privacy

SaveState is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

9. Your Rights and Requests

Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have rights to request access, correction, deletion, or restriction of personal information. To make a request, use the contact email below. We may need to verify identity before responding.

10. Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy from time to time. Material changes will be reflected by updating the effective date on this page.

11. Contact

Privacy contact: please use the contact form and we will reply by email. We do not publish a personal email address on this page in order to reduce automated scraping and spam.