Last updated: June 25, 2026
1UPHeart.com respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, how we protect it, and what choices you have when you use our website, game catalog, online emulator pages, comments, user accounts, favorites, search, filters, and related features.
Who We Are
1UPHeart.com is a classic games website where visitors can browse, search, filter, discuss, favorite, and play supported retro games online. In this Policy, “1UPHeart,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to 1UPHeart.com.
Information We Collect
Information You Provide
- Account information: When you create an account, we collect information such as your username, email address, password credentials, display name, and profile settings.
- Favorites and profile activity: If you use account features, we store the games you add to favorites and related profile preferences.
- Comments: When you leave a comment, we collect the comment text, your name, email address, website URL if provided, IP address, browser user agent, and related moderation data.
- Messages: If you contact us, we collect the information you include in your message so we can respond.
Information Collected Automatically
- Log data: Our servers may collect IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, referring page, pages viewed, timestamps, error logs, and security-related records.
- Usage data: We may collect information about how visitors use the site, such as searches, filters, game pages viewed, categories browsed, and interactions with site features.
- Cookies and similar technologies: We use cookies, local storage, and similar technologies for login sessions, comment convenience, preferences, security, analytics, and emulator-related settings.
- Approximate location: We may infer approximate location from IP address, mainly for analytics, security, localization, and abuse prevention.
Emulator Save Data and Local Browser Storage
The online emulator may use your browser’s local storage, IndexedDB, or similar browser storage to save emulator settings, controls, save states, save files, cache files, or other local gameplay data. This type of emulator data is generally stored on your own device/browser and is not uploaded to our server unless a feature clearly asks you to upload, import, submit, or sync it.
How We Use Information
- To operate the website, game catalog, emulator pages, comments, user accounts, and favorites.
- To keep users logged in and remember preferences.
- To moderate comments, reduce spam, detect abuse, and protect the website.
- To understand how visitors find and use the site so we can improve navigation, search, filters, performance, and content.
- To troubleshoot errors, maintain security, and prevent fraud or misuse.
- To respond to messages, requests, legal notices, or support inquiries.
- To comply with legal obligations and enforce our policies.
Comments and Public Content
Comments you post may be visible publicly, including your display name and the comment content. Please do not include private information in public comments.
We collect IP address and browser user agent information with comments to help with spam detection, moderation, and security. If Gravatar or a similar avatar service is enabled, a hashed version of your email address may be sent to that service to check whether you use an avatar. After your comment is approved, your profile image may be visible publicly next to your comment.
User Accounts and Favorites
If you create an account, we use your account information to let you log in, manage your profile, store favorite games, and use account-only features. Your favorites are connected to your user profile so they can be restored when you log in from another device.
You are responsible for keeping your login credentials secure. If you believe your account has been accessed without permission, contact us as soon as possible.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to understand website traffic and usage. Google Analytics may collect information such as pages visited, session duration, device and browser information, approximate location, referral source, and interactions with website features. Google may use cookies and similar technologies to collect and process this information.
You can learn how Google uses information from sites and apps that use its services here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
You can also learn more about Google Analytics privacy controls and opt-out tools from Google here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
We use cookies and similar technologies for:
- Essential functions: login sessions, security, site operation, and comment functionality.
- Preferences: remembering settings such as interface choices, emulator controls, and other local preferences.
- Analytics: understanding traffic, popular pages, search behavior, and performance.
- Spam and abuse prevention: detecting suspicious activity and protecting the site.
You can control cookies through your browser settings. Blocking some cookies may affect login, comments, favorites, analytics preferences, or emulator-related features.
When We Share Information
We do not sell your personal information. We may share information only in limited situations:
- Service providers: hosting providers, analytics providers, security tools, anti-spam tools, email services, and technical vendors that help operate the website.
- Public areas: information you choose to post publicly, such as comments and display names.
- Legal and safety reasons: if required by law, legal process, security investigation, abuse prevention, or to protect rights, safety, and property.
- Business transfers: if the website is involved in a merger, acquisition, restructuring, or transfer of assets, information may be transferred as part of that transaction.
- With your consent: when you ask us to share information or use a feature that requires sharing.
Legal Bases for Processing
If privacy laws such as the GDPR or UK GDPR apply to you, we process personal information under the following legal bases:
- Contract: to provide account features, favorites, comments, and site functionality you request.
- Legitimate interests: to secure the website, prevent spam, improve features, understand usage, and maintain the service.
- Consent: where required for analytics cookies, optional communications, or similar technologies.
- Legal obligation: when we must retain or disclose information to comply with law.
Data Retention
We keep personal information only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
- Account information is kept while your account remains active.
- Favorites are kept while your account remains active or until you remove them.
- Comments and related moderation data may be kept indefinitely unless removed, because comments are part of public site discussions and moderation history.
- Security logs are kept as needed for security, debugging, and abuse prevention.
- Analytics data is retained according to our analytics settings and Google Analytics retention controls.
Your Privacy Choices and Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to request access to your personal information, correction, deletion, portability, restriction, objection, withdrawal of consent, or information about how your data is used and shared.
California residents may have rights to know, delete, correct, opt out of sale or sharing, limit use of sensitive personal information, and not be discriminated against for exercising privacy rights. We do not sell personal information. If we use advertising or analytics in a way that is considered “sharing” under applicable California privacy law, we will provide the required opt-out method.
To make a privacy request, contact us at [email protected]. We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests.
Security
We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect personal information. No website, server, database, or internet transmission is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security. You can help protect your account by using a strong password and keeping your login information private.
International Visitors
1UPHeart.com may be operated from servers or service providers located in the United States or other countries. If you access the site from outside your country, your information may be transferred to and processed in countries that may have different privacy laws from your location.
Children’s Privacy
1UPHeart.com is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has provided personal information to us, contact us and we will take appropriate steps to delete it.
Third-Party Links and Embedded Content
Our website may include links to third-party websites, embedded content, tools, scripts, or services. Third-party websites and services have their own privacy practices. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of third parties.
Do Not Track and Global Privacy Controls
Some browsers offer “Do Not Track” or Global Privacy Control signals. Where legally required and technically feasible, we will honor applicable browser-based opt-out signals. You can also control cookies and tracking technologies through your browser settings and any cookie preference tools we make available.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make changes, we will update the “Last updated” date above. If changes are significant, we may provide additional notice on the website.
Contact Us
If you have questions, requests, or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, contact us at:
Email: 12g475 at gmail.com
Website: https://1upheart.com in the comments.