This Privacy Policy applies to eventidegaming.com. The Eventide Gaming shop is a separate website with its own privacy policy: Shop Privacy Policy.
Last Updated: July 30, 2026
Eventide Gaming respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, why we collect it, how we use it, who may receive it, how long we keep it, and the choices available to you.
Who We Are
Eventide Gaming is a gaming and technology publication operated by Elevate Holdings.
Website: https://eventidegaming.com/
Location: Orlando, Florida, United States
Privacy contact: eventidegaming1@gmail.com
Information We Collect
We collect only the information needed to operate Eventide Gaming, respond to readers, protect the site, understand site activity, deliver requested content, process donations where available, and support advertising.
- Information you provide through comments, contact forms, polls, quizzes, ratings, or newsletter forms.
- Technical information such as IP address, browser type, device information, pages viewed, referring page, approximate location derived from IP address, and cookie identifiers.
- Newsletter information such as email address, name if provided, subscription preferences, email opens, and link clicks.
- Payment or donation confirmation information, where applicable, such as name, email address, amount, currency, transaction status, and billing country.
- Information generated by your interactions with site features, including comments, votes, ratings, and form submissions.
How We Use Information
- Operate, maintain, secure, and improve Eventide Gaming.
- Respond to messages, questions, reports, and support requests.
- Publish and moderate comments when comments are enabled.
- Prevent spam, fraud, abuse, duplicate votes, and automated activity.
- Send newsletters and updates you requested.
- Measure site performance, audience activity, and content performance.
- Display, measure, and limit advertising where applicable.
- Process donations or payments where applicable.
- Meet legal, security, accounting, and recordkeeping obligations.
Comments
When visitors leave comments, we may collect the information shown in the comment form, the visitor’s IP address, browser user-agent information, and information needed to prevent spam and maintain site security.
If Gravatar is enabled, a hashed version of your email address may be sent to Automattic’s Gravatar service to check whether you use that service. After approval, your profile image may be publicly visible beside your comment.
Comments and their metadata may be retained indefinitely so that we can recognize and approve follow-up comments and maintain the public conversation.
Contact Forms
When you contact us, we may collect your name, email address, message, IP address, browser information, and anti-spam signals. We use this information to respond to you, provide support, investigate reported problems, and protect the site from spam or abuse.
Contact-form submissions are not used to subscribe you to a newsletter unless you separately choose to subscribe.
We retain contact-form submissions only for as long as reasonably necessary to respond, resolve an issue, maintain security records, or meet legal obligations. Copies may remain in backups for a limited period before those backups are overwritten.
Polls, Quizzes, Ratings, and Interactive Features
When you vote in a poll, submit a quiz response, leave a rating, or use another interactive feature, we may collect your response, IP address, browser information, cookie identifiers, and anti-spam signals.
We use this information to display results, prevent duplicate submissions, identify abuse, protect the integrity of site features, and improve future content.
We retain this information only as long as needed for the feature, abuse prevention, security, reporting, or legal obligations. We may aggregate or anonymize information where reasonably possible.
Newsletter Subscriptions
When you subscribe to our newsletter, we may collect your email address, name if provided, subscription preferences, IP address, signup source, email opens, and link clicks.
We use this information to send the newsletter, deliver requested updates, understand newsletter performance, prevent abuse, and maintain unsubscribe preferences.
Our newsletter may be managed through Beehiiv, Jetpack, or another email service shown at the point of signup. That provider may process your subscription information and engagement data on our behalf.
You can unsubscribe at any time by using the unsubscribe link in a newsletter email. We may retain limited suppression information after you unsubscribe so we can honor your opt-out request.
Payments and Donations
If Eventide Gaming accepts a donation, payment, membership contribution, or other transaction, payment processing may be handled by Stripe or another payment provider shown during checkout.
Payment providers process payment-card information directly. Eventide Gaming does not receive or store full payment-card numbers. We may receive transaction details such as your name, email address, donation amount, currency, billing country, transaction status, and payment reference.
We use this information to process the transaction, provide confirmation, prevent fraud, maintain financial records, and meet legal obligations.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
Cookies are small files placed on your device. Eventide Gaming uses cookies and similar technologies for essential site functions, security, preferences, analytics, advertising, and embedded content.
You can review the active cookie categories, providers, purposes, and durations in our Cookie Policy.
You can change your choices at any time through the Cookie Preferences control available on the site. You may also manage cookies through your browser settings. Blocking some cookies may affect site features or your experience.
Essential Cookies
Essential cookies support features such as security, cookie-preference storage, comment forms, load balancing, fraud prevention, and site functionality. These cookies may be necessary for the website to work properly.
Analytics Cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use Eventide Gaming. They may collect information such as pages viewed, time spent on pages, referring websites, browser type, device type, and interactions with site content.
Marketing Cookies
Marketing cookies may be used to measure advertising performance, limit repeated ads, build audiences, and show more relevant advertising where permitted by your choices and applicable law.
Analytics and Advertising Services
Eventide Gaming may use analytics, advertising, and tag-management services. These services may collect or receive cookie identifiers, IP address, browser details, device details, pages viewed, referring URLs, and interaction information.
- Google Analytics: Helps us understand site traffic and content performance.
- Google Tag Manager: Helps manage website tags and measurement tools.
- Google AdSense: May display ads and measure advertising performance.
- Meta Pixel: May measure visits, advertising performance, and conversions.
- Pinterest Tag: May measure visits, advertising performance, and conversions.
- WordPress.com and Jetpack: May provide site statistics, forms, security, search, and related website services.
Google, Meta, Pinterest, and their partners may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, or similar identifiers for analytics and advertising where permitted by your cookie choices and applicable law.
You can learn more about Google’s data practices here: How Google uses information from sites and apps that use its services.
You can opt out of Google Analytics with Google’s browser add-on: Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Spam Prevention and Security Services
To protect forms, comments, ratings, polls, quizzes, and other interactive features, Eventide Gaming may use anti-spam and security services such as Akismet, Google reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, Cloudflare, or Cloudflare Turnstile where enabled.
These services may process technical information such as IP address, browser and device information, cookie identifiers, page interactions, and other signals used to detect bots, spam, fraud, or abusive activity.
Who We Share Information With
We may share limited personal or technical information with service providers that help us operate Eventide Gaming. We do not sell your name, email address, or newsletter subscriber information for money.
- Automattic, WordPress.com, Jetpack, Gravatar, and Akismet: Website hosting, comments, forms, security, spam prevention, statistics, and related services.
- Cloudflare and Cloudflare Turnstile: Website delivery, security, bot detection, and abuse prevention where enabled.
- Google: Analytics, advertising, tag management, and anti-spam tools where enabled.
- Meta: Advertising measurement and marketing tools where enabled.
- Pinterest: Advertising measurement and marketing tools where enabled.
- Beehiiv or another newsletter provider: Newsletter subscriptions, email delivery, unsubscribe management, and engagement reporting.
- Stripe or another payment provider: Donation, payment, fraud-prevention, and transaction-processing services where enabled.
- Embedded-content providers: Video, social-media, map, audio, gaming, and other embedded services you choose to load.
We may also disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with law, respond to lawful requests, protect rights or safety, investigate fraud or abuse, enforce our policies, or support a business transfer if Eventide Gaming is reorganized, sold, or transferred.
Embedded Content and External Links
Articles on Eventide Gaming may include embedded content or links from other websites, such as videos, social-media posts, storefronts, widgets, and external services. Embedded content behaves as though you visited the other website directly.
Those websites may collect information about you, use cookies, add third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with their content. Their privacy practices are governed by their own policies, not this Privacy Policy.
How Long We Keep Information
- Comments: Retained indefinitely with their metadata unless removed or required to be removed.
- Contact forms: Retained only as long as needed to respond, maintain records, prevent abuse, or meet legal obligations.
- Polls, quizzes, ratings, and anti-spam records: Retained only as long as needed for results, security, abuse prevention, reporting, or legal obligations.
- Newsletter information: Retained while you remain subscribed and, after unsubscribing, only as needed to honor your opt-out request, protect systems, or meet legal obligations.
- Payment and donation records: Retained as needed for accounting, tax, fraud prevention, chargebacks, and legal obligations.
- Analytics and advertising information: Retained according to the settings of the relevant provider and our configured retention settings.
- Backups: May retain limited information until the backup cycle overwrites or securely removes the backup.
Your Privacy Choices and Rights
Depending on where you live and the law that applies to you, you may have the right to request access to, correction of, deletion of, or a copy of personal information we hold about you. You may also have the right to object to certain processing, restrict processing, withdraw consent, or opt out of targeted advertising.
To make a privacy request, email eventidegaming1@gmail.com with the subject line “Privacy Request.” Please describe your request and the email address or other information connected to it.
We may need to verify your identity before completing a request. We will respond within the timeframe required by applicable law.
To change cookie choices, use the Cookie Preferences control on the site. To stop receiving newsletters, use the unsubscribe link in the relevant email.
International Data Transfers
Eventide Gaming is based in the United States. Information may be processed in the United States and other countries where our service providers operate. Those countries may have privacy laws that differ from the laws where you live.
When information is transferred internationally, we rely on the safeguards, contracts, technical measures, and provider commitments required or appropriate under applicable law.
How We Protect Information
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure. No internet transmission or storage system is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.
Data Breaches
If we become aware of a data breach affecting personal information, we will investigate, take reasonable steps to contain and address the issue, and provide notifications when required by applicable law.
Children’s Privacy
Eventide Gaming is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, contact us at eventidegaming1@gmail.com so we can review and address the issue.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy when our services, tools, legal requirements, or data practices change. When we update it, we will revise the Last Updated date at the top of this page.
Contact Information
For privacy questions, requests, or concerns, contact:
Eventide Gaming
Operated by Elevate Holdings
Orlando, Florida, United States
Email: eventidegaming1@gmail.com