Privacy Policy

Introduction

Welcome to GenCon. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website and tell you about your privacy rights.

Information We Collect

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you:

• Technical Data: IP address, browser type, time zone setting, operating system
• Usage Data: Information about how you use our website and services
• Voting Data: Your votes and ratings on public figures
• Session Data: Session IDs to prevent duplicate voting

How We Use Your Information

We use your information to:

• Process your votes and display aggregated results
• Prevent vote manipulation and ensure fair voting
• Improve our website and user experience
• Analyze website traffic and usage patterns
• Comply with legal obligations

Vote Tracking and Cooldowns

To maintain the integrity of our voting system, we track votes using IP addresses and session cookies. This prevents multiple votes from the same user within a 60-minute cooldown period. We do not link this data to any personally identifiable information.

Cookies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our website. Cookies are files with a small amount of data that are stored on your device. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.

Data Security

We have implemented appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way. We limit access to your personal data to those who have a genuine business need to know it.

Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

Your Rights

You have the right to:

• Request access to your personal data
• Request correction of your personal data
• Request erasure of your personal data
• Object to processing of your personal data
• Request restriction of processing your personal data
• Request transfer of your personal data
• Withdraw consent at any time

Third-Party Links

Our website may include links to third-party websites. Clicking on those links may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements.

Changes to This Policy

We may update our privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us.