At GL Spotlight, we take your privacy seriously. This policy explains how we handle your information.
1. Information We Collect
We collect information to provide a personalized experience and community features.
- Account Info: Username and email address provided during registration.
- User Activity:Series added to your "My GL Tracker", sunflowers sent, and your posts/comments in GL Feed.
- Technical Data: IP address and browser type, collected automatically for security, local time conversion, and analytics.
2. How We Use Your Data
Your data is used exclusively to:
- Manage your profile, watchlists, and sunflower rankings.
- Provide local time conversions for the Airing Calendar based on your time zone.
- Analyze aggregate website traffic when you allow analytics cookies—loads via Google Tag Manager.
3. Third-Party Services & Data Protection
We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to third parties. We use trusted service providers to operate our platform under strict security standards:
- Infrastructure & Hosting: To ensure the website remains fast, secure, and available.
- Database Management: For the secure storage of your personal profile and tracking data.
- Analytics & tagging: If you opt in, we load Google Tag Manager so configured tags (such as Google Analytics 4) can measure aggregate usage.
- Ads: If applicable in the future, we may display basic, non-intrusive advertisements.
4. Cookies & Tracking
We use cookies and similar technologies as follows:
- Authentication: To keep you logged in to your account.
- Preferences:Theme choice may be stored in your browser's local storage; some UI state may use short-lived cookies (for example sidebar layout).
- Optional analytics & marketing: Only if you consent through our cookie banner or settings, we load Google Tag Manager so tags you configure there can run.
See our Cookie Policy for categories, typical names, and how to update your choices.
You can also manage or disable cookies through your browser settings; some features may not work correctly without strictly necessary cookies.
5. Your Rights
You have the "Right to be Forgotten". You can edit your information or permanently delete your account and all associated data at any time through your profile settings or by contacting our support team.
