Privacy Policy

Last updated: 09/14/2025

Who we are

Our website address is: https://funxiv.com

FunXIV is an online gaming platform that provides free entertainment to our users worldwide.

Information we collect

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Gaming Data

• Game scores and progress (stored locally in your browser)
• Game preferences and settings
• Gameplay time and usage statistics
• Device and browser information for game compatibility

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

We use cookies to enhance your experience on our site:

Essential Cookies

• Session cookies for site functionality
• User preferences and settings
• Login information (if applicable)

Analytics Cookies

We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors interact with our website. This helps us improve our games and user experience.

Advertising Cookies

We use Google AdSense to display advertisements. These cookies help show you relevant ads and measure ad performance. You can learn more about Google’s privacy practices at: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Game-related Cookies

• Game progress and high scores
• User preferences for games
• Performance optimization data

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

Third-party services

Google AdSense

We use Google AdSense to display advertisements on our website. Google may use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to our website or other websites. You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings: https://adssettings.google.com/

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to analyze website traffic and user behavior. This helps us improve our gaming platform and user experience.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles and games on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, games from third parties, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personal information to third parties, except in the following cases:

• Service Providers: We may share information with trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you (such as Google Analytics, Google AdSense).
• Legal Requirements: If required by law or to protect our rights, property, or safety.
• Password Reset: If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

• Comments: Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely to recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically.
• User Accounts: For users that register on our website (if any), we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username).
• Game Data: Game progress and scores are typically stored locally in your browser and may be retained indefinitely unless you clear your browser data.
• Analytics Data: Google Analytics data is retained according to Google’s data retention policies.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to:

• Access: Receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you
• Rectification: Correct any inaccurate personal data
• Erasure: Request that we erase any personal data we hold about you
• Portability: Receive your data in a structured, commonly used format
• Objection: Object to our processing of your personal data

This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

To exercise these rights, please contact us at: [Your Email Address]

Data security

We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.

Children’s privacy

Our website is intended for general audiences. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13, we will delete that information as quickly as possible.

International data transfers

Your information may be transferred to and maintained on computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Last updated” date.

Contact us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

• Email: [Your Email Address]
• Website: https://funxiv.com