What RetroPlayers.Club collects, why, how long we keep it, and how to make us delete it. Written to be read, not to be survived.
Last updated 20 July 2026
Joining takes an email address and a password — that is the whole sign-up. We do not sell personal data, we do not share it with data brokers, and we do not run the kind of tracking that follows you around the rest of the web. You can delete your account and the data that belongs to it at any time.
Your account. An email address and a password (stored only as a salted hash — we cannot read it). Optionally, the consoles you tell us you grew up with, which we use to order your home page.
How you play. Which games you open, when, and for how long; your high scores and the proof data attached to them; your saved key bindings and controller setup; save states you create. This is what makes play history, leaderboards and contests work.
What you post. Comments on game pages, live chat messages, and any gameplay clip you choose to record and upload. Clips stay private to your account unless you choose to showcase one — showcased clips can appear publicly, including on the home page.
Membership. Whether your subscription is active and when it renews. Card details are handled by the payment processor and never touch our servers.
Technical basics. Standard web-server logs (IP address, browser, page requested, timestamp) and a session cookie that keeps you signed in. Logs are kept short-term for security and debugging.
Run your account, run the games, keep leaderboards and contests honest, answer you when you report a problem, and email you about the things you asked for. Where a site here shows advertising to non-members, ad slots are filled by the ad code the operator configures; members see no ads at all. We do not build advertising profiles from your play history.
Account data lives as long as your account does. Play sessions and scores are kept while they are meaningful to leaderboards and your own history. Server logs roll off in the short term. Delete your account and we remove the personal data tied to it; anonymised or aggregate counts that identify nobody may remain.
You can see your play history from your account at any time, edit or delete comments and clips you posted, and ask for a copy of your data or its deletion. Depending on where you live you may also have rights to correct data, object to certain processing, or complain to a data-protection authority — we honour those requests regardless of where you live, because it is simpler and fairer than checking your postcode first.
To make any of those requests, write to [the club contact address is being finalised — until it is published here, send notices through the report link on any game page].
The club is not aimed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their data. If you believe a child has created an account, tell us and we will remove it.
If this policy changes in a way that affects you, we will say so on the site rather than quietly editing the page. The date at the top always reflects the current version.