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Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 2, 2026

1. Introduction

DevRunners ("we," "our," or "us") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your information when you visit our website.

2. Information We Collect

2.1 Information You Provide

There is no sign-up, no account, and no contact form on this site. The only thing you can send us from the website itself is a correction through the Console Region Checker, described in section 3. If you email us, we have whatever you chose to put in the email.

2.2 Automatically Collected Information

We use Cloudflare for website hosting, performance, and security. Cloudflare may automatically collect:

  • IP addresses
  • Browser type and version
  • Device information
  • Pages visited and time spent
  • Referring website

2.3 Content Loaded From Other Services

Some blog posts include animated GIFs hosted by GIPHY. Your browser loads the image directly from GIPHY's servers when you open one of those posts, which means GIPHY receives your IP address, your browser and device details, and the address of the page you are reading. That happens on page load rather than on a click, and we do not control it. We checked directly, and GIPHY sets no cookies when a GIF loads — we requested three of the GIFs actually embedded here and no Set-Cookie header came back from any of them. So this is a question of GIPHY receiving a request, not of anything being stored on your device. What we could not confirm is what GIPHY subsequently does with that request, because their privacy policy is not retrievable — see section 11. A post with no GIF makes no request to them at all.

Everything else the site loads comes from our own domain. Fonts are self-hosted rather than fetched from Google, and icons are bundled into the site rather than pulled from an icon CDN, so neither causes a request to a third party.

3. Reader Reports (Console Region Checker)

Our Console Region Checker lets you flag a country's status as wrong. If you send a report, we store:

  • The country and platform you are reporting
  • The status we were showing at the time, and the status you believe is correct
  • An optional comment and an optional link to a source
  • The date and time of the report

We do not store your IP address, a cookie, or any other persistent identifier alongside a report. A report cannot be traced back to you by us. Please don't put personal information in the comment field — we don't need it and we don't want it.

3.1 Bot Protection

The report form uses Cloudflare Turnstile to tell humans from bots. To do that, Cloudflare processes your IP address and signals about your browser. Cloudflare acts as our processor for this. See Cloudflare Turnstile and the Cloudflare privacy policy.

3.2 Rate Limiting

To stop one person flooding the form, we hold a temporary salted hash of your IP address for one hour, then it is deleted automatically. It is only ever used to count submissions, it is never stored with your report, and it is not written to the reports database at all.

3.3 Why We Do This, and For How Long

Our lawful basis is legitimate interest: preventing abuse of the form, and keeping the information we publish accurate. Reports are read by a person during a periodic review — they never change the site automatically. Reports are deleted 12 months after they are reviewed.

4. How We Use Your Information

We use your information to:

  • Respond to your inquiries and communicate with you
  • Improve our website and content
  • Ensure website security and prevent fraud
  • Comply with legal obligations

5. Legal Basis for Processing (GDPR)

We process your personal data based on:

  • Consent: When you voluntarily submit information through our contact form
  • Legitimate interests: Website security, fraud prevention, and the reader reports described in section 3
  • Contract: When fulfilling requests you've made

6. Data Sharing and Third Parties

We do not sell your personal data. We share data only with trusted service providers:

  • Cloudflare: Website hosting, CDN, and security services
  • Cloudflare Turnstile: Bot protection on the reader-report form (see section 3)
  • GIPHY: Hosts the animated GIFs embedded in some blog posts (see section 2.3)

These providers process data on our behalf and are contractually obligated to protect your information.

7. Data Retention

We retain personal data only as long as necessary for the purposes outlined in this policy or as required by law. Reader reports are deleted 12 months after review, and the temporary rate-limiting hash described in section 3 is deleted after one hour.

8. Your Rights (GDPR & Data Protection)

Under GDPR and applicable data protection laws, you have the right to:

  • Access: Request a copy of your personal data
  • Rectification: Correct inaccurate or incomplete data
  • Erasure: Request deletion of your data ("right to be forgotten")
  • Restriction: Limit how we process your data
  • Portability: Receive your data in a structured format
  • Object: Object to processing based on legitimate interests
  • Withdraw consent: Withdraw consent at any time where processing is based on consent

To exercise these rights, contact us at: privacy@devrunners.com

9. Cookies and Local Storage

This website does not use cookies. We do not set any cookies for analytics, tracking, or marketing purposes. However, Cloudflare may set minimal technical cookies necessary for security and performance, which are considered essential for the website to function.

We use browser local storage to remember your theme preference (light/dark mode). This stores only your display preference locally on your device (key: nuxt-color-mode) and does not collect or transmit any personal data. This is considered functional storage under GDPR and does not require consent as it serves your legitimate interest in maintaining your preferred display settings.

10. Data Security

We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the internet is 100% secure.

11. International Data Transfers

Your data may be transferred to and processed outside the European Economic Area. For Cloudflare, who host this site and provide Turnstile, their privacy policy states they store information primarily in the United States and the EEA, and that they rely on their certifications under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, with standard contractual clauses as a fallback. For GIPHY, whose GIFs some posts embed, we could not retrieve their current privacy policy, so we are not going to state a mechanism we have not verified. The practical position is that a post without a GIF makes no request to them at all.

12. Third-Party Links

Our website contains links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for their privacy practices — please review their privacy policies separately.

Some of those are affiliate links, which pass through a short /r/ address on this site before sending you on. Clicking one takes you to a third-party site that sets its own cookies under its own privacy policy; this site sets no cookies of its own in the process. Our affiliate disclosure explains which links are affiliate links and why.

13. Children's Privacy

Our services are not directed to individuals under 16 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children.

14. Changes to This Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. The "Last updated" date at the top indicates when changes were last made. Continued use of our website constitutes acceptance of any changes.

15. Contact Us

For questions about this privacy policy or to exercise your data protection rights, contact us at:

Email: privacy@devrunners.com
General inquiries: hello@devrunners.com
Website: www.devrunners.com

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