playbenchmark.com | Last updated: January 2026

What this site does, and why privacy remains straightforward

Playbenchmark.com exists to publish independent analysis and comparative editorial content about digital entertainment platforms available to readers in Ireland. The site operates without requiring you to register, create an account, or provide any form of identification. You arrive, read what interests you, and leave. Nothing binds you to the site beyond the time you choose to spend here.

This structural simplicity shapes how privacy works. When there are no accounts to manage, no payments to process, and no personal interactions to track, the amount of data involved naturally stays minimal. Privacy becomes less about complex policies and more about basic technical necessity.

A design that reduces exposure

Privacy is not an afterthought here. The site was built from the beginning to avoid collecting information that isn't essential. The absence of user profiles, subscription forms, and transactional features means there is very little personal data in circulation.

This does not mean the site operates in complete silence. Every website generates some technical footprint simply by functioning. But the intention behind playbenchmark.com is to keep that footprint as light and impersonal as possible, limited to what keeps the pages stable and accessible.

Technical exchanges that occur during browsing

When you visit a page on this site, your browser communicates with the server to request and display content. This communication involves certain technical details that cannot be avoided if the site is to function at all.

Your IP address tells the server where to send the requested page. It provides a general geographic indication but does not reveal who you are. The type of browser and device you use helps ensure the page displays correctly. The specific page you requested and the time of the request allow the server to respond appropriately and monitor for technical issues.

These pieces of information are not cross-referenced with external databases to build a portrait of you. They exist momentarily, serve their purpose, and are not retained for behavioural analysis or commercial profiling.

What playbenchmark.com does not do

This site does not create individual user profiles. It does not track your movements from one page to another with the intention of understanding your habits. It does not sell, rent, or share information about readers with third parties. It does not require you to provide a name, email address, phone number, or any other personal identifier to access content.

These absences are deliberate. The site operates as a publishing platform, not as a service that needs to know who you are. There is no business model here that depends on harvesting personal information.

How external links function

Some articles include links to third-party platforms. These links are provided for context, to illustrate what is being analysed, or to allow readers to explore further on their own. They are not endorsements, and they are not monitored.

The moment you click on an external link and leave playbenchmark.com, the privacy policies of the destination site take over. Any data collection, tracking, or cookie usage that occurs on those external platforms is beyond the control of this site. If you want to understand how those platforms handle privacy, you will need to consult their own documentation.

Understanding cookies on this site

A cookie is a small text file that a website can place on your device through your browser. Cookies help websites remember certain information from one visit to the next, or perform technical tasks that require continuity.

Playbenchmark.com uses cookies, but not in the way many commercial sites do. There are no advertising cookies here, no cross-site tracking networks, and no tools designed to follow you around the internet. The cookies present serve narrow, functional purposes.

Different types of cookies exist, and each serves a distinct role. What follows is a detailed explanation of every category and how they apply to this site.

Essential and technical cookies

These cookies are necessary for the site to operate. They handle basic functions like maintaining a secure connection, ensuring pages load in the correct sequence, and preventing technical failures during navigation.

Without these cookies, certain core functions would break. They do not collect personal information and they do not track behaviour. They simply allow the site to work as intended. Most disappear as soon as you close your browser.

Functional cookies

Functional cookies remember preferences you may have set during a previous visit. For example, they might store a language choice, a display setting, or a preference related to how content is organised on the page.

These cookies improve usability by avoiding the need to reconfigure the same settings every time you return. They are tied to the site itself and do not share information with external parties. They do not monitor what you do beyond these practical adjustments.

Performance and analytics cookies

Performance cookies help measure how the site functions from a technical perspective. They collect data on page load times, server response speeds, and whether certain elements render correctly across different devices and browsers.

This information is aggregated and anonymised. It does not identify individual readers. It exists to detect problems—slow pages, broken links, compatibility issues—so they can be fixed. These cookies are not used to profile behaviour or to understand individual preferences.

Audience measurement cookies

Audience measurement cookies track general traffic patterns. They answer questions like: how many people visit the site in a given week? Which articles attract the most attention? How long do readers typically spend on a page?

The data collected is statistical and impersonal. It does not reveal who you are or what you do elsewhere online. It helps the editorial team understand whether the content being published is reaching readers and whether certain topics generate more interest than others. This understanding informs future editorial decisions, but it does not create personalised experiences.

Third-party cookies

Third-party cookies are placed by domains other than playbenchmark.com. They can appear when external services are embedded on the site, or when external links are clicked.

Playbenchmark.com does not intentionally integrate third-party tracking services. However, if you click a link to an external platform, that platform may place its own cookies on your device. Once you leave this site, those external policies apply, and playbenchmark.com has no visibility into or control over what happens next.

How long data and cookies remain active

Cookies used on playbenchmark.com have limited lifespans. Session cookies expire as soon as you close your browser. Persistent cookies may last for a few weeks or months, depending on their purpose, but they are never kept indefinitely.

Technical logs, when created, are retained only as long as they serve a functional purpose. They are not archived for behavioural analysis. Aggregated statistics may be kept longer to observe trends over time, but always in a form that cannot be traced back to an individual.

Nothing is stored permanently without a clear reason.

Getting in touch

If you have questions about how this site handles privacy, how cookies are used, or how technical data is managed, you can contact the editorial team directly:

[email protected]

This address is not a marketing channel. It exists for dialogue, clarification, and feedback. Messages sent here are read and responded to where appropriate, but they are not added to lists or used for purposes beyond addressing the question raised.

How this policy may change

The way playbenchmark.com operates may evolve over time. New tools might be introduced, old ones might be replaced, and the language used to explain things might be adjusted for clarity.

If significant changes occur in how data or cookies are handled, this page will be updated to reflect those changes. Updates will never be made to obscure practices or to weaken privacy protections. They will always aim to keep this policy accurate and transparent.

You can return to this page periodically to see if anything has been revised. The date at the top indicates when the policy was last updated.