Privacy
Last updated 13 November 2026
In short
No analytics, no advertising, no tracking. Visitors get no cookies; only friends with an account get a login cookie when they log in. Everything, including the game covers and fonts, is served from our own server in Switzerland. Without an account, the only thing you can send is your name, when you tap “I want to play it as well”.
Who is responsible
Pio Gino Steiner, Switzerland · info@piogino.ch
games.piogino.ch is a private, non-commercial hobby project, together with movies.piogino.ch, books.piogino.ch and news.piogino.ch.
What happens when you visit
| What | Where | What it receives |
|---|---|---|
| The website, covers and fonts | Our own server at Infomaniak, Switzerland | Your IP address, time, the page requested and browser details, written to the server log for operation and security. The log is deleted after 14 days. |
| “I want to play it as well” | Our own server; a notification via Telegram (see below) | The name you type (or your public name, if you are logged in) and the game you chose. |
| Feedback (the “F” button, only when you send it) | Our own server; a note via Telegram to the admin | Your message, the kind, the page and the parts you pointed at, your window size, and your email if you give one. |
| Accounts (friends only) | Our own server, shared by the piogino.ch sites | Username, public name, color, password (stored only as a salted hash), the time of your last login, your lists, and optionally your Telegram chat id. |
“I want to play it as well”
The name you enter and the game are stored on our server so the person whose game it is knows who wants to play it (when several people have it, you choose whom to ask). Nothing else is stored with it. That person also gets the same information (name and game title) as a message in the Telegram app, if they have linked it; Telegram is operated by Telegram Messenger Inc., and the message reaches Telegram's servers outside Switzerland, including countries without an equivalent level of data protection. Requests are deleted when they have been handled, and at the latest after 180 days; a Telegram message stays in the chat until it is deleted there. Please only enter your name, nothing else.
To keep out spam bots, the form also sends a short-lived token the page fetches when you open it, and an empty field people never see. Neither contains anything about you.
Accounts
One account works on all piogino.ch sites: movies.piogino.ch, books.piogino.ch, games.piogino.ch and news.piogino.ch. The account data (username, public name, color, password hash, last login, Telegram chat id) is kept once, on our server, and each site keeps what you add there (here: your games, your statements and your backlog).
You can create an account yourself (“Create an account” in the login, while sign-up is open), or get one from Pio. No email address is asked; if you forget your password, the admin can set a new one. To limit sign-ups by scripts, the number of new accounts per internet address is counted for an hour, in the server's memory only. The admin is told of each new account (public name and username), on Telegram if linked. The password is stored as a salted hash (nobody can read it); the time of your last login is shown to the admin only, to see which accounts are in use. Your public name, color, statements and lists are shown on the sites; the rest is not.
When you mark another person's game (“I want to play it as well” while logged in), it is added to your backlog, and when you recommend their game too (“Recommend it too”), it is added to your recommendations; either way that person is told your public name, in their requests and on Telegram. Your Telegram chat is linked by sending the bot a code shown only in your account; messages sent to the shared bot are kept on our server for a day (to find that code, and on news.piogino.ch to share a link you send it), then deleted; for your account, only your chat id is kept.
Logging in sets a login cookie (piogino_session, for piogino.ch and its sites) that keeps you
logged in for up to 30 days, on all the sites; it is needed for the login and used for nothing else.
You can delete your account yourself (My account → Delete my account, with your password). It is deleted on all piogino.ch sites: your games, statements and requests here at once, what you added on the other sites within the hour. The admin is told that you left. Or write to info@piogino.ch.
Discussion and mentions
Logged in, you can write in the discussion of a game (on the backlog: a comment, shown openly). Each message is
stored on our server with your account and the time, shown to everyone with your public name, and goes when you
delete it or your account. Who has the game or wrote there before is told of a new message on Telegram, if they
chose that. When you write @Name, that person is told in their requests and on Telegram (if they
chose that), with your public name and the game.
Feedback
The “F” button at the bottom right sends feedback to the admin: the kind you chose, your message, the page you were on, the parts of the page you pointed at, the size of your browser window, and your email address if you gave one for an answer (and your public name if you are logged in). It is stored on our own server, and the admin gets a short note of it on Telegram. Feedback is deleted once it has been dealt with, and at the latest after a year. The same anti-spam token and hidden field as in “I want to play it as well” are used; neither contains anything about you.
Links to other sites
“Steam ↗” opens the game's page in the Steam store (Valve Corporation, USA) in a new tab. Nothing from there is loaded until you click, after which Valve's own privacy policy applies. Game data and covers come from the Steam store, and emotes from 7TV, but your browser never contacts them: our server fetches them and serves them itself (also the small covers in the search while you add a game).
Stored in your browser
games-view/planning-viewin the session storage of the open tab: your sorting and filter choice, so the list looks the same when you come back; deleted when you close the tab.games-themein local storage: light or dark, if you chose one with the switch at the top (Auto stores nothing).draft:…in local storage, only when you are logged in: what you are writing (a statement, a message, a comment) is kept here as you type, so a reload or a closed tab loses nothing; it is deleted when you save or send it, or press Discard. It never leaves your browser until you send it.piogino_session, a cookie: only if you log in with an account (see Accounts).
None of this is used for tracking.
Your rights
Under the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) you can ask what personal data about you is processed, and have it corrected or deleted, for example a request with your name. Write to info@piogino.ch. You can also contact the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC).
Credits and sources
Titles, developers, years, genres, platforms, short descriptions and covers come from the Steam store. Covers and descriptions remain the work of the games' developers and publishers. Games that aren't on Steam are entered by hand. This site is not endorsed by or affiliated with Valve Corporation or Steam.
Emotes come from 7TV and are served by our own server. games.piogino.ch is a private, non-commercial hobby project without advertising.
Changes
This statement is updated when the site changes; the date at the top shows the current version.