GACHANEWS

Privacy

Last updated: 7 October 2026

The short version

You can read GachaNews without an account and without giving us any personal data. We only receive personal data if you write to us. We do not use tracking cookies, we do not build profiles and we do not sell data.

1. Who is responsible for your data

  • Controller: GachaNews, the owner of gachanews.net
  • Email for privacy matters: gachanewsgg@gmail.com

The full identification details of the controller are available on request at the email above.

We have not appointed a data protection officer because the law does not require one for an activity like ours.

This policy follows Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) and Spanish Organic Law 3/2018 on the Protection of Personal Data and Guarantee of Digital Rights (LOPDGDD).

2. What data we handle, why, and for how long

When you write to us

If you use the contact form or send us an email, we receive your name, your email address and whatever you write in your message.

  • Purpose: to read and answer your message.
  • Legal basis: your consent, which you give by sending the message (GDPR art. 6.1.a).
  • Retention: as long as it takes to deal with your message, and up to 12 months afterwards in case there is a follow-up. After that we delete it.
  • Is it mandatory? No, but without a name and an email address we cannot reply.

Messages from the form are delivered to our mailbox by email. They are not published and they are not stored in the database of the website.

Please do not send us sensitive information (health, beliefs, financial details) through the form.

When you ask us to correct or remove something

If you send a correction, a right-of-reply request or a copyright notice, we use your details to handle that request.

  • Legal basis: compliance with our legal obligations (GDPR art. 6.1.c) and our legitimate interest in answering claims (GDPR art. 6.1.f).
  • Retention: as long as the request is open and, afterwards, for the period in which legal claims could arise.

When you browse the site

  • Server logs. Like any website, our hosting provider records technical data for each request: IP address, date and time, page requested and browser. We use it only to keep the site secure and to fix faults. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in the security of the site (GDPR art. 6.1.f). The hosting provider keeps these logs for a limited period.
  • Audience figures. We count how many times each page is read. This count is anonymous: it uses no cookies, stores nothing on your device and keeps no IP address or identifier. It cannot be linked to you, so it is not personal data.

What we do not do

  • We have no user accounts, comments or newsletter.
  • We do not build profiles or make automated decisions about you.
  • We do not sell or rent data to anyone.
  • We do not currently use third-party analytics or advertising cookies.

3. Who else receives your data

We only share data with the providers we need to run the site. They act on our instructions and under a data processing agreement:

  • Hosting: Hostinger, which stores the website and its server logs.
  • Email: Google Ireland Ltd. (Gmail), which we use to receive and answer messages.

Some of these providers may process data outside the European Economic Area. When they do, it is under the safeguards the GDPR requires: an adequacy decision of the European Commission (such as the EU-US Data Privacy Framework) or standard contractual clauses.

We may also disclose data to courts or public authorities when the law obliges us to.

4. Embedded content and social networks

Some articles include content hosted by others, such as YouTube, Twitch or TikTok videos or posts from X. This content does not load with the page: nothing is sent to that provider until you press its button. From that moment, the provider is responsible for the data it collects, under its own privacy policy.

GachaNews has profiles on social networks. If you follow us or interact with us there, your data is handled by that network under its own policy, and we only use it to reply to you within the network.

5. Your rights

You have the right to:

  • access the personal data we hold about you;
  • rectify it if it is wrong or incomplete;
  • erase it when it is no longer needed or you withdraw your consent;
  • restrict how we use it in certain cases;
  • object to processing based on our legitimate interest;
  • portability: receive it in a common electronic format;
  • withdraw your consent at any time, without affecting what was done before you withdrew it.

To exercise any of them, write to gachanewsgg@gmail.com saying which right you want to exercise. We will answer within one month. If we have reasonable doubts about who you are, we may ask you for proof of identity. Exercising your rights is free.

If you think we have not handled your data properly, you can lodge a complaint with the Spanish Data Protection Agency (Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, www.aepd.es), or with the authority of the EU country where you live.

6. Children

GachaNews is not directed at children under 14. In Spain, children under 14 need the consent of a parent or guardian to share personal data. If you are under 14, please do not send us personal data. If we learn that we have received data from a child under 14 without that consent, we will delete it.

7. Security

We apply technical and organisational measures appropriate to the risk, including encrypted connections (HTTPS), restricted access to the administration area and regular software updates. No system is completely secure, but if a breach affecting your data occurred, we would act as the GDPR requires.

8. Advertising and analytics in the future

We do not currently run third-party advertising or analytics. If we add them (for example, Google AdSense or Google Analytics), those services use cookies and process personal data such as online identifiers. Before switching them on, we will:

  • show a cookie notice so that you can accept or reject them, with rejecting as easy as accepting;
  • update this policy and our cookie policy to name each provider and explain what it does.

9. Changes to this policy

We will update this page whenever the way we handle data changes. The date at the top shows the latest version. If a change is significant, we will announce it on the site.