(Updated: October 22, 2026)
A Message To Our Readers
The GDPR is Europe’s privacy regulation. It gives you control over the data that organizations have about you and how they market to you.
Our team takes this very seriously. This page outlines our approaches, and we welcome your feedback at [email protected].
We already apply strict policies and practices to protect all of our customers’ and visitors’ personal data.
Thus, we will not rent or sell your email to anyone, and we never have. The only companies that ever see it are the service providers listed below, who run our emails and our course for us.
However, we use third-party analytics software from Google and Facebook (Meta). In some cases, we may place a cookie on your side to enable us to better understand who is visiting our sites and how they use them.
We use cookies to enable you to have a better experience with our courses and articles.
We do NOT serve ads to our site visitors using any third-party tools.
When we run ads on Facebook, we may use audience data to serve you and people like you ads based on your visits to our sites. Facebook’s Data Policy provides much more information on how your Facebook data is used on their platform.
At any time, you can opt out of hearing from us. You can always opt out of the collection and use of your information online. Check out these two resources to help you: YourAdChoices or Your Online Choices.
However, since what we’re in the business of teaching, it’s difficult to engage with us without hearing from us. Of course, Eddie’s blog, and other content are free, and you’re welcome to interact with it without subscribing. You can, and always have been able to, use third-party tools, RSS or even incognito browsers to interact with our free materials.
What is GDPR?
GDPR stands for General Data Protection Regulation, a privacy law that regulates the processing of personal data relating to individuals in the European Union.
GDPR strengthens the rights that individuals have regarding their personal data and seeks to unify data protection laws across Europe.
What does GDPR mean for you?
We’re treating everyone as if they lived in the EU. This means that if you’re reading this, you can:
Ask for a copy of the personal data we’ve collected about you.
Unless you’re a DETOX Course student, the answer is: your email address — plus which of our emails you opened or clicked, and which pages of our site you visited after you signed up. For students of the course, we also keep your name, your order, and your progress in the course.
Request that we stop sending you any emails.
This is as easy as it has ever been. Unsubscribe/stop following, and we’ll stop. Our goal is simply to keep our promise, not to profit from your data.
We use Encharge to send our email messages, and we’ll work with them in removing your email address (and there’s an unsubscribe link in every email).
All payments are processed by Stripe (card, Apple Pay, or Google Pay), and we never see your card details.
We’ll continue to educate, inform and work with our readers and students the best we can, and will update this page from time to time.
Thanks for engaging with us.
Eddie and the LovesAGame-Team
A More In-Depth Background About Privacy (For Lawyers)
1. Who is responsible for your data
This policy covers https://lovesagame.com (“Our Site”). The controller responsible for your personal data is LovesAGame (“We”, “Us”, “Our”).
Registered address: 113 Cherry St, 98104-2205, 92768 Seattle WA USA
Email: [email protected]
Our course and members’ area at https://academy.lovesagame.com has its own privacy policy.
2. What data We collect
When you simply read Our Site: your IP address, browser type and version, operating system, the page you came from, the pages you visit, and the time of your visit. This happens automatically, through Our hosting provider and the services listed in section 4.
When you sign up for Our emails (for example, the Healing Test or the free mini-course): your email address. After you sign up, Encharge also records which of Our emails you open or click and which pages of Our Site you visit.
When you take the Healing Test: your answers, which are used to calculate your score.
When you leave a comment: the name and email address you enter, your comment, and your IP address.
When you email Us: your email address and whatever you write to Us.
3. Why We use your data, and on which legal basis
- To send you the emails you signed up for (the Healing Test, the free mini-course, Eddie’s newsletter): your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You can withdraw it at any time with the unsubscribe link in every email.
- To run Our Site securely and reliably (hosting, caching, protection against attacks): Our legitimate interest in a working, secure website (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
- To understand how Our Site is used and whether Our ads work (Google Analytics, Meta Pixel): Our legitimate interest in improving Our Site and measuring Our marketing (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
- To answer your messages and comments: Our legitimate interest in replying to you (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
We do not carry out any automated decision-making or profiling that has a legal or similarly significant effect on you.
4. Who We share data with
We never sell or rent your data. We use the following service providers, who process data on Our behalf:
- Hetzner Online GmbH (Germany) — hosts Our website and server.
- Cloudflare — delivers Our pages quickly and protects them from attacks; it processes your IP address and technical connection data.
- Encharge — sends Our emails and stores your email address, your email activity, and the pages you visit after signing up.
- Google Analytics 4 (Google) — measures how Our Site is used (pages visited, device, approximate location, how you found Us).
- Meta Pixel (Meta / Facebook) — only on Our sign-up and course sales pages, to measure whether Our Facebook ads lead to sign-ups and course purchases. We do not send your email address or the contents of any form to Meta.
- YouTube (Google) — some pages contain embedded videos. When you play a video, YouTube receives your IP address and may set its own cookies.
The share buttons on Our pages are plain links. Nothing is sent to Facebook, Pinterest, X, or WhatsApp unless you click one.
We may also have to share data if the law requires it, for example because of a court order.
5. Data outside the EU
Some of these providers (for example, Google and Meta) process data in the United States or other countries outside the European Economic Area. Where they do, they rely on the safeguards the GDPR provides for such transfers, such as the EU Standard Contractual Clauses or the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework.
6. How long We keep your data
- Email address and email activity: until you unsubscribe, or until We remove inactive subscribers.
- Comments: as long as the comment is published.
- Analytics data: for the retention period set in Our Google Analytics account; Meta keeps Pixel data according to its own policy.
- Emails you send Us: as long as needed to answer you.
7. Cookies
Cookies are small text files stored on your device. Our Site uses the following:
| Cookie | Provider | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| _ga, _ga_<ID> | Google Analytics | Distinguishes visitors and sessions to measure how the site is used |
| _fbp | Meta (Facebook) | Measures whether Facebook ads lead to sign-ups and purchases (sign-up and course sales pages only) |
| Encharge cookies | Encharge | Connects your visits to your email subscription after you sign up |
| Opt-in form cookies | Thrive Leads (on Our server) | Remember whether you have already seen or used one of Our sign-up forms |
| Comment cookies | Thrive Comments / WordPress (on Our server) | Remember your name and email if you choose so when commenting |
| Security cookies | Cloudflare | Protect the site against bots and attacks |
| YouTube cookies | YouTube (Google) | Only when you play an embedded video |
You can block or delete cookies at any time in your browser settings. You can also stop Google Analytics with Google’s opt-out browser add-on, and limit how Meta uses data from websites in your Facebook ad settings.
8. Your rights
You have the right to:
- get a copy of the personal data We hold about you;
- have it corrected or deleted;
- restrict or object to its processing;
- receive it in a portable format;
- withdraw your consent at any time (this doesn’t affect processing that happened before);
- complain to a data protection supervisory authority.
To use any of these rights, just email [email protected].
9. Security
Our Site is only served over an encrypted (HTTPS) connection. Access to Our systems is limited to the people who need it to run Our Site and courses. No transmission over the internet is completely secure, but We take reasonable steps to protect your data.
10. Children
Our Site and courses are meant for adults. We don’t knowingly collect data from anyone under 18.
11. Changes to this policy
We update this policy when Our Site or the services We use change. The date at the top shows the latest version.