What we know about you

There is no analytics script on this site. No advertising pixel, no session recorder, no fingerprinting, no cookie banner — because there is nothing here to consent to.

If you send us a pitch, we keep what you typed into the form: your name, your email, your studio, your game, and whatever else you put in the box. Keeping it is the entire point of a pitch.

If you sign up for a newsletter, we keep your email address, the list you picked and the moment you confirmed it. Nothing is sent until you click the link in the confirmation mail, and nothing is kept if you never do.

One, for readers: bi.lang remembers which of the seven languages you are reading in. Your light or dark preference is not even a cookie — it sits in your browser's local storage and never leaves your machine.

A second one, bi.sid, exists only for people who sign in to the admin. If you do not have an account here, you will never meet it.

We count pages ourselves: one row per day, per page, per language, and a number on it. No IP address, no user agent, no cookie, no identifier of any kind — the table has nowhere to put one. Two more daily tallies sit next to it: which site sent people here (the hostname only, say reddit.com) and any utm_ campaign tags in the link. We can tell you the Steam checklist was opened four hundred times last Tuesday and that most of them came from a forum. We cannot tell you that one of them was you.

Counts older than four hundred days are deleted automatically, because nobody has ever made a decision from a two-year-old page view.

One exception, and we would rather it were none: the wire page and the Gamedev Pro Tip index embed a timeline from X, which loads its own script and sets its own cookies as soon as the page renders. Skip those two if it bothers you; nothing else on the site touches it.

Game pages show data from the public Steam store: prices, screenshots, reviews, news. Our server fetches it on a schedule and caches it, so your browser is not reporting your visit to Valve. Images and video do stream from Valve's CDN, which means it sees the requests for those files. Where a game has a YouTube trailer the player is embedded from youtube-nocookie.com, which is Google's, not Valve's — the no-cookie variant, but the request still reaches Google.

Fonts come from Google Fonts, so your browser asks fonts.gstatic.com for the font files and Google sees that request. Apart from the handful of things named above, everything on the page is served from our own machine.

Pitches stay until we have answered them, and for a while after — a no in March is context when the same studio comes back in November. Ask us to delete yours and we will.

Newsletter subscriptions last until you unsubscribe, and the unsubscribe link is at the bottom of every mail. Admin sessions expire after a week. Page counts are pruned at four hundred days.

Ask what we hold about you, ask for a copy, ask us to correct it, ask us to delete it. Write to hello@beindie.dev and a human answers — the same human who reads the pitches.

If you think we have handled your data badly you can complain to your local data protection authority. We would rather you told us first, because we can actually fix it.

If this page changes in a way that matters, the date at the top changes with it. We are not going to quietly widen what we collect: collecting things is work, and we are lazy about the right things.