Privacy policy

Who we are

SixCentral is a UK-based fan companion for Grand Theft Auto VI, run from sixcentral.co.uk. For anything about your data, email privacy@sixcentral.co.uk and a human answers. We are not affiliated with Rockstar Games or Take-Two Interactive.

What we collect

An account is an email address, a password (stored only as a secure hash) and a handle. If you sign in with Discord we also store your Discord ID so your accounts link. Everything else on your profile is optional and you choose it: an avatar, a bio, your platform, your PSN ID or Xbox Gamertag, and a flair. Your date of birth is asked for one thing only: proving you are 18 or over before your gamer IDs can be shown publicly. It is never displayed anywhere and nobody but you can see it.

Using the community creates data too: contributions you submit, Respect you earn, clips you submit or upload, votes and reactions, friendships, and clips friends send you. Votes are private to you; only the totals are public. When you join the newsletter or agree to the Clip Licence, we store the exact wording you agreed to and when, because that record protects you as much as us.

App notifications and offline reading

If you enable notifications, we store a push token, an app installation identifier, your platform and alert preferences. When signed in, the registration can be linked to your account. Expo and Apple or Google process the information needed to deliver your alerts. We record registration diagnostics and provider receipts to investigate failures; an accepted notification does not tell us whether you read it.

The app keeps up to 30 recently opened public articles and guides on your device so you can reopen them when your connection fails. This reading cache is local to your device and is not a server-side record of what you read. Notification permissions can be changed in your device settings.

What we use it for

Running the service you signed up for: your profile, the leaderboards, the tracker, the clips feed, moderation, and keeping cheats off the board. The newsletter is sent only if you opted in and every email lets you leave. We do not sell your data, we do not run advertising cookies, and we do not profile you for ads. If any of that ever changes, this page changes first and asks you first.

Clips and YouTube

When you upload a clip, the file sits briefly in private storage, we post it to the SixCentral Clips channel on YouTube with your credit, and then we delete our copy. From that point the video is hosted by YouTube and Google’s own privacy policy applies to playback. Clips on our pages use YouTube’s privacy-enhanced player. You keep ownership of your clip and you can ask us to take it down at any time.

Who else touches your data

We use a small set of providers to run SixCentral: Supabase hosts our database and sign-in (in the EU, Ireland region), Vercel serves the website, YouTube hosts community video, Expo helps deliver app updates and notifications, Apple and Google deliver device notifications, and Discord runs our community server. Like almost every website, our hosting keeps short-lived technical logs, which include IP addresses, for security. Where a provider processes data outside the UK, recognised safeguards such as adequacy decisions or standard contractual clauses apply.

Optional website measurement

If you choose Allow measurement, we record public page paths, a random tab-session identifier, thirty-second reading signals, signup form actions and app-store link clicks. We do not record form contents, email addresses, full referring URLs, query strings or IP addresses in these measurement records. We do not use them for advertising. Vercel may still retain technical request logs as described above.

Your choice is stored on this browser and can be changed using Measurement settings in the footer. A session identifier and source page are kept in session storage until the tab closes or you switch measurement off. Raw website measurement events are deleted after 90 days. If you create an account while measurement is allowed, the source page and measurement consent are stored with that account until it is deleted, so we can count confirmed registrations by source. Declining measurement does not affect reading, registration or app access.

Staff also see aggregate counts from account and saved-checklist records to understand whether the service is being used. These do not provide a server-side history of articles read in the native app.

Cookies and browser storage

We use essential storage to keep you signed in. Optional website measurement uses browser storage only after you allow it, as explained above. We do not use advertising cookies or share these measurement records with advertising partners.

How long we keep things

Your data lives as long as your account does. Delete your account and your profile and activity are removed with it. Leave the newsletter and your address comes off the list. Consent records are kept as legal evidence of the agreement they record. Clips stay on the channel until you ask for removal or we retire them. Provider notification receipts are removed after seven days through scheduled maintenance.

Your rights

UK GDPR gives you the right to see the data we hold on you, correct it, delete it, restrict or object to how it is used, and take a copy elsewhere. Email privacy@sixcentral.co.uk and we act on it. If you think we have handled something badly you can complain to the ICO at ico.org.uk, though we would rather you told us first so we can fix it.

Younger players

SixCentral is designed with the ICO Children’s Code in mind: privacy settings default to their safest position, gamer IDs stay private unless an adult chooses otherwise, and we collect the minimum we can get away with. The game itself is PEGI 18; our editorial keeps that in mind.

Changes

When this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it, and anything significant gets flagged properly rather than buried.