Privacy

“Played it”, “Not for me”, your Game Pass, PS Plus and Apple Arcade plans, an imported Steam library (and your Steam family’s, with the profiles you added), and your light or dark theme are kept in your browser’s local storage. They never leave your device except as part of a request for recommendations, or to show names and covers in your hidden games list, and clearing this site’s data removes them.

One cookie, ngp_subs, holds your subscription plans (for example “Game Pass Ultimate”) so the first page you load already shows the right prices. It is set only when you turn a subscription on, and removed when you turn it off. There are no tracking or advertising cookies.

Your picks and filters are in the page address, so a link you share shows the same results.

Steam import happens only when you ask for it. We ask Steam for your public game list, send it back to your browser and don’t store it. Your Steam profile and “Game details” must be public for Steam to share it. If you add your Steam family, the same goes for each profile you add: we read only their public game lists, only when you ask, and never ask anyone to sign in to Steam.

Feedback. When you send feedback, we keep your message, the page you were on (its address, which includes your picks and filters) and your email if you add one. Only we read it; the email is used only to reply. Ask us to delete it any time.

“Good match?” When you answer it in a game’s details, we keep the game, your picks, the reason shown and your answer, plus what you type if you say what’s different. Nothing about you is attached to it, and only we read it.

Abuse limits. To stop scripts from overloading the site, we count requests per visitor in short windows (a minute to a day), keyed by a salted one-way hash of your IP address, never the address itself. Most counters live only in the server’s memory; the ones for screenshot lookups, Steam imports, feedback and “Good match?” answers are kept in our database and deleted after about a day.

Visit counts. We use Vercel Web Analytics to see how the site is used: which pages are viewed, the site you came from, your country, and your device type, browser and operating system. It sets no cookies and stores nothing in your browser. Visits are told apart by a hash of the request that is discarded after a day, so they can’t be followed across days or other sites. We only see totals.

It also counts a few actions the same way: a game added to your picks (and whether from search, the popular games, “More like this” or a Steam import), a game’s details opened (and from where), a store link clicked (which store and platform), a Steer chip or filter used (which one), a share link copied, and “Show more”. Never which games you picked, played or hid, and nothing that identifies you.

Hosting. The site runs on Vercel, and its database on Neon. Like any web host, Vercel keeps short-lived request logs (which include IP addresses) to run and protect the service.

Game covers and screenshots load directly from IGDB’s and Steam’s image servers, so those servers see your IP address, as with any image on the web. Trailers load from youtube-nocookie.com only after you press “Play trailer”. Store and price links take you to that store or to IsThereAnyDeal, under their own privacy policies.

Write to contact@newgameplus.app. Where the data comes from, and how picks are made, is on the About page.