MediavaniaPrivacy at Mediavania
What is stored
Account identity is handled by Supabase Auth. Mediavania stores your profile, follows, saved and read states, game shelves, Quick Takes, claims, and private feed tokens. Article content remains on the original publisher's site.
Steam data
If you connect Steam, Mediavania stores your Steam account connection, public persona name, avatar and profile URLs, owned AppIDs and game titles, playtime supplied by Steam, and synchronization status. The numeric SteamID is used internally for synchronization and is never displayed on a public profile. API credentials are never stored with reader data. Steam data is provided by Valve on an as-is basis.
Storage location
Mediavania uses Vercel for application hosting and Supabase for authentication and database storage. The configured data-storage location is United States. Their infrastructure may process operational data according to their own service terms.
What is public
Profiles are public by default and share profile fields, reads, saves, owned Steam games, manual game statuses, follows, Quick Takes, and activity recorded while public. You can make your reading activity private at any time; your Quick Takes are then hidden from public pages and rating aggregates but remain stored so you can edit or restore them. Administrators can access and remove Quick Takes for moderation. For verified writers, professional identity fields and indexed writing remain public while reader activity, games, saves, following, and Quick Takes are hidden. Steam playtime, email, feed tokens, Steam API credentials, and the numeric SteamID are never exposed.
Analytics
Mediavania uses Vercel Web Analytics to measure visits to public pages without cookies. Private surfaces such as sign-in, settings, personal libraries, and administrative or creator dashboards are excluded. Query strings are removed before analytics events are sent. Vercel provides anonymous aggregate traffic details such as page path, referrer, approximate country, browser, operating system, and device type. Mediavania permanently stores only each completed month's aggregate visitor and pageview totals. Outbound article visits and Steam import outcomes are also counted only as aggregate totals. These totals do not include SteamIDs or API payloads and do not identify readers.
Control
You can disconnect Steam to remove imported ownership and playtime while preserving manual Played and Want to play choices. You can also revoke feed URLs, make your profile private, or delete your account and associated reader data from profile settings.