Privacy
GGD.deals sets no cookies, uses no third-party analytics, and has no advertising or tracking code. It does count visits, without recording who visited. This page explains the little that it stores and counts.
What is stored in your browser
Nine things, all in your browser's own storage (the session one only for the length of a visit), none of them sent anywhere:
- Your theme choice — so a dark or light preference survives a reload.
- Your currency choice — so prices stay in the currency you picked.
- Your layout choice — grid or list for the deals, so it stays the way you left it.
- Games you save — the Saved list: each game's name, a link to its picture, and when you saved it.
- Your Steam profile — only if you use the wishlist checker, so it can check again on your next visit. "Forget this profile" removes it.
- A cached exchange-rate table — public rates, refreshed daily, kept so every page view does not re-fetch them.
- Which social post brought you — only if you arrived from one of our posts, and only until you close the tab, so a click on a deal can be credited to that post.
- When you closed the sales banner — one time, so it stays closed for three days.
- Which games this device notifies you about — only if you turn on notifications for a game, so its page can show that they are on and offer to stop them.
Clearing your browser data removes all nine. Nothing identifies you, and none of it leaves your device.
What is recorded on the server
When you click through to a store, the redirect records which deal was clicked — the game, the store, and the time. It does not record who clicked it: no IP address, no cookie, no identifier, no session. The result is a count of clicks per deal and nothing that could be traced back to a person.
Counting visits
Each time a page loads, and when you open a game's prices, search, save a game, open the price-alert form, ask for an alert or turn on free-game notifications, the site adds one to a daily count. The count is kept by type of page (a game page, not which game), by where you arrived from (a search engine, a social site, directly), by country as Cloudflare places the request, and by phone or computer. It stores no IP address, no cookie and no identifier, and your browser keeps nothing for it, so the counts cannot be traced to you, and cannot even tell two visits by the same person apart. Crawlers are left out. If your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control, nothing is sent at all. The counts are kept for 13 months.
Price alerts
If you ask to be told when prices drop — for one game, or for a batch from your saved games or your Steam wishlist — your email address is stored with each game you asked about, so the alert can be sent. It is used for that and nothing else — it is never added to the weekly deals email (below) unless you sign up for that yourself, and never shared or sold. The alert emails link to that sign-up, which you can ignore. You get at most one alert email per check, however many of your games drop. Every alert email carries unsubscribe links, for one game or for all of them, and using one deletes those records. Requests that are never confirmed are deleted automatically after seven days.
You can be told on your phone or computer instead, with "Notify this device", which needs no email address. Your browser asks you first. If you allow it, it gives us an address at your browser maker's push service (Google for Chrome and most Android browsers, Mozilla for Firefox, Apple for Safari, Microsoft for Edge) and two keys, and we store those with the game and the target price, if you set one. They say which browser to notify, not who you are. The notification is encrypted for your browser, so the push service carries it without being able to read it. "Stop" on the game's page deletes that game's record, and when you turn notifications off or clear the site's data in your browser, the push service tells us the address is gone and we delete every record for it.
The Free page has the same kind of notification for new free games: "Notify me" stores the same two things, your browser's address at its push service and two keys, with no game and nothing else, and one notification is sent when a new free game appears. "Turn off" in that box deletes the record, and so does turning notifications off or clearing the site's data in your browser. The address is shared with the price alerts' notifications if you use both, and is only taken away from your browser when neither is on.
The weekly deals email
If you subscribe (the box at the foot of the page, under the Free tab, or offered in a game's window after you save the game or set a price alert), your email address is stored with the currency you were browsing in, so prices can be written in it, one word saying which of those places the form was in (or whether you came from one of our Mastodon or Bluesky posts or a price-alert email), so we can tell which are worth keeping, two random tokens (one for the confirmation link, one for the unsubscribe link), when you subscribed and which week's email you last received. The address is used for that email and nothing else: one email every Sunday morning (UTC) with the week's best-reviewed deals and the free games to keep, never sold or shared. Nothing is sent until you confirm: the confirmation email's button opens a page with one more button, so that nothing is confirmed by a program that only opens the link, and a request never confirmed is deleted after seven days. Every email carries an Unsubscribe link (and the Unsubscribe button of your mail app) which deletes the address at once. The links in the email carry c=email, so a visit or a click can be counted as coming from the email, as for our social posts; nothing about you is added to them. The email is sent through Resend.
Steam wishlist checker
If you use it, the Steam profile you enter is sent to our server, which asks Steam for that profile's public wishlist and for the current prices of those games, and reads the other stores' prices for them from our own deal lists. Steam sees our server, not you. The profile is not stored on our side: the deals found are cached for up to 30 minutes so checking again is instant, and a custom profile name's matching Steam ID for up to a day, then both are discarded.
Other companies
Price and store data comes from the stores themselves (Steam, GOG and the price lists of the stores we have an arrangement with), free-game listings from the Epic Games Store and GamerPower, and game details from Steam. Our servers fetch all of it, so the companies behind it do not see you.
Searching and buying. Searching, filtering, loading more deals and opening a game's price comparison are answered by our servers, from our own deal lists and from Steam; your browser does not ask any other company for them. A buy button goes to ggd.deals/go, which sends you on to the store with our affiliate tag where we have an arrangement. Links in older posts, from before October 2026, may pass through CheapShark's redirect on the way to the store. Nothing that identifies you is added to any of these requests.
Game cover images are another exception. They are loaded straight from each store's own image servers — Steam, Epic, GreenManGaming, Fanatical, GamersGate and others — because copying and re-hosting their artwork is not ours to do. Free-game listings also use images hosted by GamerPower. Your browser fetches those images directly, so those companies can see your IP address and that you loaded an image, in the same way any site showing an image from elsewhere would. They are not told which page you were on or anything about you.
When you follow a link to a store, you are on that store's website and their privacy policy applies. If we earn a commission on a purchase, the affiliate network is told that a sale came from us — not who you are. The links to stores on the Impact and Awin networks (Humble, Green Man Gaming, Ubisoft and Fanatical) also carry the name of the channel the link was shared on, such as "mastodon" or "site", and a short code that names our post, so that we can see which of our posts led to a sale. Neither says anything about you.
The site is hosted on Cloudflare, which may set a short-lived cookie to distinguish visitors from bots. That is part of serving the site securely and is not used to track anyone. Alert and weekly emails are sent through Resend.
Your rights
The only personal data held is an email address, and only if you signed up for a price alert or the weekly deals email, and your browser's notification address, only if you turned on notifications. To see an email address or have it deleted, use the unsubscribe link in any alert email or in the weekly email; for notifications, "Stop" on the game's page or your browser's site settings. Or write to [email protected]. If you are in the EU or UK, the GDPR rights of access, correction, deletion, portability and objection apply, and you may complain to your national data protection authority.
How we make money
When you buy through a link here, the store may pay us a commission. It never changes your price, and it never affects which deals are shown or how they are ordered — the list is sorted by price and discount, nothing else. Some stores pay nothing at all and are listed on exactly the same terms.
Changes
If this changes materially, the date below changes with it.