Privacy Policy

We collect as little as possible: your email only if you ask for alerts, the display name and content you choose to submit to the community, plus limited analytics and advertising data. We never sell your personal information. Last updated November 4, 2026.

Who we are

GTA6 Times (“we”, “us”) is operated by Vijaygopal Balasa, an independent publisher, at gta6times.com, an independent GTA 6 news and tools hub. This policy explains what data we process and your rights over it. For any data request, contact us through the contact page.

What we collect and why

  • Email address, only if you subscribe to alerts, saved with the page you signed up on and your browser language. We use it solely to send the GTA 6 updates you asked for (pre-orders, price, trailers, launch). It is stored with our email provider and in our own database, and is never sold or shared for marketing.
  • Community submissions, if you post a thread or reply on forum.gta6times.com: the display name, title, category and text you choose to submit. We store these fields so a human can moderate the post; approved submissions are public. Do not include private information in a post.
  • Usage and device data, such as pages viewed, approximate region, browser and referrer, to understand what is useful and improve the site. If enabled, self-hosted Umami measurement is cookieless, excludes search parameters and respects Do Not Track. When Google Analytics is configured, its tag can load with analytics and advertising storage denied and send limited Consent Mode signals; analytics storage is granted only after you accept. Microsoft Clarity loads only after acceptance.
  • Advertising data. When advertising is enabled, Google AdSense may process limited request data and, where consent permits, use cookies or device identifiers to serve and measure ads. See “Advertising and cookies” below.
  • Local preferences, such as your pre-order checklist progress, stored in your browser’s local storage on your device. This never leaves your browser. We also keep your cookie-consent choice in a first-party cookie for up to 180 days, and that choice applies on gta6times.com and forum.gta6times.com.
  • Abuse-prevention signals, such as an IP address processed briefly in memory to rate-limit subscription, community-post, MCP server and machine-readable file (markdown view, catalogs) requests. We do not store an IP address or user-agent string with your email signup, forum thread, or forum reply.
  • Discord link clicks. Links to our Discord go through gta6times.com/discord, which records the placement of the link, your country at country level and the site you came from, with no IP address, user agent or account. Discord then handles your join under its own privacy policy.
  • The MCP server at gta6times.com/mcp is read-only and needs no account. A request is answered from the site’s public data and is not stored or linked to a person. Ordinary server logs (time, address, path and response) are kept briefly for security and then deleted. It sets no cookies. The assistant you use to call it, such as Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini, handles your conversation under its own policy.

We do not knowingly collect data from children under 13 (or the equivalent age in your country), and the site is not directed at them.

Advertising and cookies

When enabled, we display ads through Google AdSense. Ad requests can process information such as IP-derived region, browser details, page context and ad interactions. Google and its partners may use cookies or device identifiers for personalized advertising only where the required consent has been obtained. AdSense stays disabled until a Google-certified consent platform and reviewed ad placements are configured.

You can control or opt out of personalized advertising at any time:

See our Cookie Policy for the full list of cookie types and how to manage them.

Third parties we share data with

  • Google AdSense, when enabled, for displaying and measuring ads.
  • Our email provider, for storing your subscription and sending alerts.
  • Analytics and hosting providers, to run and improve the site.

We do not sell your personal information to anyone.

Your rights

If you are in the EU or UK (GDPR): you have the right to access, correct, delete, restrict, or port your data, and to object to processing. Our legal bases are consent for email alerts and optional third-party storage, and legitimate interests for aggregate cookieless measurement and site security. You can withdraw consent at any time.

If you are in California (CCPA/CPRA): you have the right to know what we collect, to delete it, to correct it, and to opt out of any “sale” or “sharing” of personal information. We do not sell your data. We will not discriminate against you for exercising these rights.

To exercise any right, contact us (see Contact). To unsubscribe from emails, use the unsubscribe link in any alert.

Data retention and security

We keep your email until you ask us to delete it, and we stop sending alerts when you unsubscribe. Community submissions remain while the discussion is useful or until they are removed through moderation or a valid deletion request; contact us with the post URL and display name to request review or deletion. Analytics and ad data follow the providers’ own retention periods. We use reasonable safeguards, including HTTPS across the whole site, but no method of transmission is perfectly secure.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as the site grows. We will change the “last updated” date above when we do. Material changes will be noted on this page.

October 4, 2026. We corrected what this policy says about browser storage and measurement. It now lists the storage the site really uses (your cookie choice, pre-order checklist progress and a dismissed buy bar), says the optional first-party counter is not running today, and says an email sign-up is saved with the page it came from and your browser language, in our email provider and in our own database.