Privacy Policy

Last updated: March 2026

1. Information we collect

When you create an account, we collect your username, email address, and profile information. If you sign in with Discord, Google, Twitch, Kick, Steam, or Epic Games, we receive your public profile data from those services.

If you connect your Steam account, we may access your public Steam profile and game library to sync your owned games with your WeLike library. We only read your library data and do not modify your Steam account.

When you use WeLike, we collect information about your activity including reviews you write, articles you publish, games you rate, direct messages you send, and pages you visit. We also collect technical data such as your IP address, browser type, and device information.

We track content views (articles, guides, games) in aggregate to display view counts and improve content recommendations. View tracking is tied to your session, not to a persistent personal identifier.

2. How we use your information

To provide and maintain the WeLike platform
To process your account registration and manage your profile
To calculate and display community scores (WL Score) based on user ratings
To manage the Red Points (RP) reward system and track contributions
To send you notifications about activity on your content
To improve our platform through aggregated analytics
To prevent abuse and enforce our terms of service

3. Data sharing

We do not sell your personal data. We share data only with the following third-party services that are necessary to operate the platform:

Resend — transactional emails and notifications
Hetzner — cloud hosting, database, and object storage
Discord / Google / Twitch / Kick / Steam / Epic Games — OAuth and OpenID authentication (only if you choose to sign in with these providers)
Anthropic (Claude AI) — editorial content analysis for the AI News Hub. Only publicly available news article data is processed; no personal user data is sent to Anthropic.
Twitch EventSub — if you link your Twitch account, we receive webhook notifications about your stream status (online/offline) to display live indicators on your profile.
IndexNow (Bing, Yandex) — we submit public page URLs to search engines when content is published or updated. No personal data is included in these submissions.

4. Cookies and analytics

We use cookies to provide essential functionality and optional functional cookies to remember your preferences. You can manage functional cookie preferences at any time via Cookie Settings.

Essential cookies (always active)

Required for the platform to function. Cannot be disabled.

Cookie	Purpose	Duration
authjs.session-token	Maintains your login session	30 days
authjs.csrf-token	Protects against cross-site request forgery	Session
cookie-consent	Stores your functional cookie preferences	1 year

Analytics (always active, no cookies)

We use Umami, a privacy-focused, self-hosted analytics tool, to understand how visitors use the platform. Umami does not use cookies, does not collect personal data, does not fingerprint users, and does not track visitors across websites. All analytics data is fully anonymized and aggregated. Because Umami collects no personal data and sets no cookies, it is exempt from consent requirements under Article 5(3) of the EU ePrivacy Directive, as confirmed by the CNIL and other European data protection authorities.

Functional cookies (optional)

Remember your preferences to enhance your experience. You can accept or decline these via the cookie banner or Cookie Settings.

Cookie	Purpose	Duration
theme	Remembers your dark/light mode preference	1 year

Third-party cookies

If you sign in with Discord, Google, Twitch, Kick, Steam, or Epic Games, those services may set their own cookies during the authentication flow. We do not control these cookies. Refer to Discord's, Google's, Twitch's, Kick's, Steam's, and Epic Games' privacy policies for details.

5. Direct messages

Direct messages between users are stored on our servers and encrypted in transit. Messages are only visible to the participants of the conversation. WeLike staff do not access message content unless required to investigate reported abuse or comply with legal obligations.

6. AI-powered features

WeLike uses AI (powered by Anthropic's Claude) to analyze publicly available gaming news articles for editorial curation purposes. This analysis helps our team identify and summarize trending news.

No personal user data, messages, reviews, or private content is sent to AI services. AI processing is limited to publicly available news articles from external RSS feeds.

7. Data retention

We retain your account data for as long as your account is active. If you delete your account, we will remove your personal data within 30 days, except where we are required to retain it by law.

User-generated content (reviews, articles, guides, comments) may be retained in anonymized form after account deletion.

8. Your rights

You have the right to:

Access the personal data we hold about you
Correct inaccurate personal data
Request deletion of your account and personal data
Export your data in a machine-readable format
Opt out of marketing communications at any time

To exercise these rights, contact us at support@welike.red.

9. Security

We implement industry-standard security measures to protect your data, including encryption in transit (TLS), hashed passwords, and secure infrastructure. However, no method of transmission over the internet is 100% secure.

10. Changes to this policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. We will notify registered users of significant changes via email.

11. Contact

If you have questions about this privacy policy, contact us at support@welike.red.