Privacy Policy

1. Commitment to Canadian Privacy Standards (PIPEDA)

CanArcticCrucible (canarcticcrucible.com) respects your digital sovereignty and handles personal information in strict compliance with the Canadian federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) as well as applicable provincial privacy statutes across Canada. Because our directory is designed as a zero-registration browser game comparator, visitors can browse our entire catalog and read our technical essays without creating an account or disclosing personal identifiers.

2. Information We Collect

We practice strict data minimization and only collect information in the following limited contexts:

• Voluntary Contact Submissions: When you submit an inquiry via our Contact Form or email contact@canarcticcrucible.com, we collect your name/callsign, email address, subject line, and message content solely to respond to your correspondence.
• Technical Server Logs: Like all standard web servers, our infrastructure automatically records basic request metadata—such as anonymized IP routing headers, browser user-agent version, referring page, and timestamp—to defend against automated abuse and diagnose HTTP errors.
• Consent Mode Preferences: When you interact with our Cookie Banner, your preference state (Essential Only vs. Analytical Consent) is stored locally inside your browser's localStorage.

3. Why We Do Not Collect Game Passwords or Billing Data

CanArcticCrucible does not host multiplayer accounts, process payments, or offer paid memberships. We never ask for financial details, payment card numbers, or game account passwords. When you follow an outbound link to an official game publisher, any account registration you choose to complete on that external platform occurs solely between you and the respective publisher.

4. Purpose of Processing & Legal Basis

Under PIPEDA's Ten Fair Information Principles, we process limited data only for explicit, legitimate purposes:

• Responding directly to editorial feedback, game nominations, or broken link reports submitted by visitors;
• Ensuring the stability, cybersecurity, and fast rendering of our HTML5/PHP pages;
• Evaluating aggregate, non-identifying catalog filter usage (only when you have explicitly granted Analytical Cookie consent).

5. Data Retention & Storage Security

Correspondence received through our editorial contact channels is retained for no longer than twelve (12) months after the inquiry has been resolved, unless longer retention is required by Canadian law. Server security logs are automatically rotated and purged every thirty (30) days. We protect all administrative mail systems with TLS encryption in transit and multi-factor authentication.

6. Strict 19+ Audience Policy

CanArcticCrucible is intended exclusively for adult users aged 19 and older in Canada. We do not knowingly collect, solicit, or store personal data from anyone under the age of 19. If we become aware that an individual under 19 has transmitted personal data via our contact channels, we will immediately purge that record from our systems.

7. Your Rights Under Canadian Privacy Law

As a visitor in Canada, you have the right to request access to any personal information we hold about you, request corrections to inaccurate details, withdraw your consent for analytical telemetry at any time (via the "Manage Cookie Preferences" button in our footer), or request deletion of your prior email correspondence.

8. Contact Our Privacy Officer

To exercise your privacy rights or ask questions regarding our PIPEDA compliance practices, please contact our Privacy Officer:

• Office Address: Privacy Desk, CanArcticCrucible, Suite 1400, 150 Elgin Street, Ottawa, ON K2P 1L4, Canada
• Telephone: +1 (613) 555-0194
• Email: contact@canarcticcrucible.com