Privacy Policy

This policy describes which personal data is processed when you visit gogames.news, for what purpose and on what legal basis. Last updated: 9 November 2026.

Controller

Go Games e.U. – Go play outside
Leopoldauer Straße 19/A/4
1210 Vienna, Austria
Managing director: Alexander Wiebogen
Company register number: 504865z
E-mail: kontakt@gogames.live

Consent and cookie dialog

When you first open our site, a consent dialog appears. Until you make a choice there, no third-party services are loaded – no advertising, no analytics, no embedded content. This is implemented with Borlabs Cookie, software that runs on our own server and does not transmit any data to third parties.

We store your choice in two cookies on your device: borlabs-cookie and borlabs-cookie-gcs, both with a lifetime of one year. They contain a random identifier and a record of which services you have consented to. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in documented consent management (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

You can change or withdraw your choice at any time via the Cookie settings link in the footer. Withdrawal takes effect for the future.

Server log files

Each time the site is accessed, your browser transmits technical data that our web server records: IP address, date and time, the address requested, the amount of data transferred, the status code, the referring page and the browser identifier. We need this data to operate and secure the site; it is not combined with other data and is deleted after 52 days at the latest. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.

Google AdSense

We finance this service through advertising and use Google AdSense for this purpose, a service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. AdSense is loaded only after you have given your consent.

Google uses cookies and comparable technologies to deliver advertisements, to measure their effect and – depending on your consent – to tailor them to your interests. This may involve processing your IP address, information about your device and your behaviour on this site. Google may combine this data with data from other sources and pass it on to third parties where required by law or where third parties process it on Google’s behalf.

Together with AdSense, Google loads Funding Choices, which records in the FCCDCF cookie (lifetime 13 months) whether and when a consent request was answered.

The legal basis is your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, § 165(3) of the Austrian Telecommunications Act 2021). You can manage your Google ad settings at adssettings.google.com.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to measure reach, integrated via Google Site Kit. This service is also loaded only after you have given your consent; without consent it is not executed.

Analytics uses cookies (_ga and _ga_*, lifetime two years) to distinguish returning visits and to record the course of a session. The IP address is processed in truncated form, so that no direct reference to an identifiable person is established. We evaluate the data in order to understand which content is being read.

The legal basis is your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, § 165(3) of the Austrian Telecommunications Act 2021). You can also use the browser add-on provided by Google.

Transfer to the USA

Google also processes data on servers in the United States. Google LLC is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework; standard contractual clauses apply in addition. Nevertheless, a level of protection fully equivalent to the European one cannot be guaranteed in every case – in particular, access by US authorities cannot be ruled out. By giving your consent, you agree to this transfer (Art. 49(1)(a) GDPR).

Push notifications

You can subscribe to push notifications about new articles. We use OneSignal for this (OneSignal Inc., 2850 S Delaware St, San Mateo, CA 94403, USA). The service is loaded only after you have given your consent in the cookie dialog; subscribing additionally requires you to confirm your browser’s own prompt.

When you subscribe, a device identifier, browser and operating system details and an approximate location at country level are processed. You can unsubscribe from the notifications at any time in your browser settings. The legal basis is your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR).

Embedded third-party content

Our articles contain embedded content from other providers, such as videos from YouTube or posts from social networks. This content is blocked by default: instead of the content you see a notice with a button. Only when you click it is the content loaded – and only then does the respective provider receive your IP address and become able to set cookies. Which data is processed there is determined by that provider; their privacy policy applies.

The legal basis for loading it is your consent given by clicking (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR).

Share buttons

The buttons for sharing an article are plain links, not plugins of the respective networks. They do not transmit any data merely by displaying the page. Only when you click one of them do you open the network’s own site, where its terms apply.

Language selection

The pll_language cookie remembers which language you are reading the site in. It contains nothing but the language code, expires after one year and is required to operate the multilingual site (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

Links to websites of other providers

Our website contains links to other websites over whose content we have no influence. We therefore accept no responsibility or liability for the content found there. The respective provider is responsible for the content and its accuracy. At the time the link was created, no legal violations were apparent. Should we become aware of any, we will remove the link immediately.

Your rights

You have the following rights in relation to us:

  • Access to whether and which data we process about you (Art. 15 GDPR)
  • Rectification of inaccurate data (Art. 16 GDPR)
  • Erasure (Art. 17 GDPR)
  • Restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR)
  • Data portability (Art. 20 GDPR)
  • Objection to processing based on legitimate interests (Art. 21 GDPR)
  • Withdrawal of consent given, with effect for the future (Art. 7(3) GDPR)

An e-mail to kontakt@gogames.live is sufficient. Information is provided free of charge.

Right to lodge a complaint

If you believe that we are not processing your data lawfully, you can lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority. The authority responsible for us is the Austrian Data Protection Authority, Barichgasse 40–42, 1030 Vienna, www.dsb.gv.at.

Copyright

The content, works and information published on this website are subject to Austrian copyright law and ancillary copyright law. Any form of reproduction, editing, distribution, storage and any form of exploitation beyond the limits of copyright law requires the prior written consent of the respective rights holder.
Copying or reproducing the information provided on websites or social media channels without permission is prohibited and will be prosecuted. You are welcome to link to our articles or to quote from them with a reference to the source. Copying our content for your own gain will be prosecuted.