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Privacy Policy

How NEXTARI processes personal data under the GDPR. Last updated: October 2026.

This policy explains what personal data NEXTARI (Nextari GmbH) collects, why, on what legal basis, and the rights you have. NEXTARI is built privacy-first: we will never sell who you are, and advertising never influences rankings, matches or recommendations.

1. Controller

Nextari GmbH, Plauener Str. 163-165, 13053 Berlin, Germany, hello@nextari.gg. For data protection questions, contact hello@nextari.gg.

2. What we process

  • Account data, username, email, password (hashed), profile details you provide.
  • Usage data, which collections you follow, reactions, matchmaking preferences. We store no device fingerprint. Apart from the shortened access log (section 8), your IP address is held in memory only, briefly, to rate-limit abuse, and is never written to our database.
  • Linked-platform signals, if you connect Steam/Epic/others, the public signals needed to build your connected profile. We link and aggregate; we never take over your purchases.
  • Cookies, see our cookie settings.

3. Purposes & legal bases (Art. 6 GDPR)

  • Providing the service and your account. Art. 6(1)(b) (contract).
  • Bias-free matchmaking, feed and recommendations. Art. 6(1)(b)/(f) (legitimate interest in a useful, fair product).
  • Security, abuse prevention, moderation. Art. 6(1)(f).
  • Optional analytics and labeled advertising. Art. 6(1)(a) (your consent, withdrawable any time).

Purpose limitation is enforced by the system itself, not only by policy. Every event we store carries the purposes it may be used for, and every read has to name the purpose it is for. A read that names no purpose, or an unknown one, is refused instead of quietly returning a smaller answer. We use exactly four purposes:

  • discovery · what to show you and in which order.
  • matchmaking · finding people, squads and sessions that fit you.
  • commerce · offers and prices, including purchase intent.
  • b2b_aggregat · aggregated audience figures for brands and partners. Aggregated only: it never leaves this platform as a person.

Today NEXTARI is our only product, so nothing is shared between products. Should we add one, we will ask for your consent separately for each purpose above, and you will be able to narrow or withdraw it as easily as you gave it. Events taken over from another product stay marked as external and never count as your own signals here.

4. Advertising & ranking

Ads on NEXTARI are always labeled and never affect how games are ranked, matched or recommended. We do not build hidden advertising profiles that change your results. Sponsored content is clearly marked.

5. Recipients & transfers

Hosting is in the European Union. We use processors (e.g. hosting, email, optional analytics) under Art. 28 GDPR data processing agreements. Where a transfer outside the EU/EEA is unavoidable, we rely on EU Standard Contractual Clauses.

6. Retention

We keep account data for as long as your account exists and delete or anonymise it afterwards, unless legal retention periods apply.

Interest signals lose weight over time by design: a standard signal halves its weight after seven days, an explicit rejection after thirty. Old entries therefore fade in influence before they are removed.

7. Your rights

You have the right to access, rectification, erasure, restriction, data portability and objection (Art. 15-21 GDPR), to withdraw consent at any time, and to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (e.g. Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection). Contact: hello@nextari.gg.

8. Hosting & server logs

Our hosting provider processes technical access data (IP address, timestamp, requested resource, user agent) in server logs to deliver the site securely (Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR). Our web server writes an access log for operation and security: shortened IP address (IPv4 without the last block, IPv6 to the first 48 bits), time, requested page and browser type, without referrer and without the codes in sign-in, password and invitation links. It is deleted after 7 days. Our hosting provider is Scaleway SAS (Paris, France); the servers are located in the EU (France). Scaleway processes this data on our behalf under a data processing agreement (Art. 28 GDPR).

9. Local storage on your device (§ 25 TDDDG)

NEXTARI stores settings in your browser’s local storage (for example your status, widget layout and consent choice). This storage is strictly necessary to provide the service you request and therefore does not require consent (§ 25 (2) TDDDG). We do not use tracking cookies. A full list is on the cookie settings page.

10. Embedded third-party content

Video and audio players from Twitch (Twitch Interactive), YouTube (Google Ireland) and links to Spotify load only after you actively click them. When you do, those providers process your IP address and may set their own cookies; data may be transferred to the USA on the basis of the EU–US Data Privacy Framework or standard contractual clauses.

Images load as soon as a page opens, and that is a connection to the provider serving them. There is no way around it for an image that lives on someone else’s server, so we say it plainly instead of implying otherwise. Measured across every page of this preview:

  • Game artwork from Valve’s content network (cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com, shared.steamstatic.com), on the games and store pages.
  • Channel and profile pictures from Twitch (static-cdn.jtvnw.net), on most pages that show people or channels.
  • Video thumbnails from YouTube (i.ytimg.com, Google), on the pages that list videos.
  • Product images from Shopify (cdn.shopify.com), in merch rows and in the Studio.
  • Occasional reference images from Fandom (static.wikia.nocookie.net).
  • Partner logos from the partner’s own domain, currently LVL Berlin (lvl.global), on the games page.

These requests carry your IP address and the address of the page you are on to those providers. They set no cookies for us and we receive nothing back about you. We are working on serving these images from our own servers, which removes the connection entirely; until then the list above is the honest state.

11. Payments

We do not process payments. Nothing is sold through NEXTARI, no payment data is collected by us, and no payment provider receives data about you from us. Where you buy something you found here, you buy it at the store, shop or host you are handed over to, under their terms. If that changes, this section will name the provider and its role before any payment is possible.

12. E-mails

We send e-mails via Brevo (Sendinblue SAS, Paris, France; servers in the EU) as our processor under a data processing agreement (Art. 28 GDPR). Account e-mails such as the address confirmation and password reset are necessary to run your account (Art. 6 (1)(b) GDPR). Notification and waitlist e-mails are only sent if you switch them on (Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR). Every e-mail that is not strictly necessary contains a link to unsubscribe; it takes effect on our server immediately and needs no sign-in.

13. Children and young people

NEXTARI is open from the age of 13; younger people cannot create an account. When you create an account we ask for your year of birth. From 16 you decide on consents yourself. Under 18 safe defaults apply and cannot be switched off: your profile is visible to friends only, messages and invitations come from friends only, you do not appear in search or matchmaking for strangers, advertising is not personalised, and trailers, clips, screenshots and shop links for games rated 18 are not shown. A family account is optional: a parent or guardian can follow along if you name their NEXTARI account and they confirm it, but it is never required.

For ages 13 to 15, everything that needs consent also stays switched off (Art. 8 GDPR): no personalised advertising, no advertising profile, no optional sharing of data, no matchmaking; content rated 16 or 18 is shown without trailers, clips and shop links, and giveaways are limited to prizes that need no contract. Should a feature that needs consent ever be offered to that age group, a parent or guardian confirms it through a link sent by e-mail. If we learn that we hold data of someone below the minimum age, we delete it. Write to hello@nextari.gg and we will act on it.

14. Supervisory authority

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (BlnBDI), Alt-Moabit 59–61, 10555 Berlin.

15. Automated decision-making and profiling

We build an interest profile from your own signals, and we say so rather than hiding it behind a word: what you follow, wishlist, rate or play gives an entry a weight, and that weight decides the order of your recommendations. Each signal carries the purposes it may serve, halves in weight after seven days, and you can see and remove it. Paid placement never enters this order.

What we do not do is automated decision-making that produces legal effects or similarly significant consequences for you (Art. 22 GDPR). You can object to profiling for recommendations at any time (Art. 21 GDPR) and keep using NEXTARI.