Privacy Policy
Effective July 10, 2026. SkipTheCritics.com is owned and operated by Level Ten Media LLC (“we,” “us”).
The short version
We run a review-scores site, not a data business. There are no user accounts. We don’t sell personal information. And the public posts and reviews our scores are built from are analyzed and immediately discarded. We never store who said something or what they wrote, only anonymous aggregate statistics.
What we collect from you as a visitor
Analytics. We use Google Analytics to understand site traffic (pages visited, approximate location, device type). This uses cookies or similar identifiers, and Google processes that data under its own privacy policy. We see traffic in aggregate; we don’t use it to identify you.
Contact form. If you write to us, we receive the email address and message you choose to send, delivered through Resend (an email service). We use it to reply and for nothing else. Our contact endpoint also briefly notes the network address of senders, held in memory only, to prevent spam flooding.
Hosting logs. Our host (Vercel) keeps standard, short-lived server logs, the ordinary plumbing of any website.
What we do with public posts and reviews
Our scores and summaries are derived from public posts and reviews about movies and games. Here is exactly how that works: our system reads a public post, classifies it (for example, “positive about the acting”), and then discards the text. What we keep is derived data only: sentiment labels, topic tallies, and counts.
We never store post text, usernames, handles, author identities, or anything that links an opinion back to the person who expressed it. Our summaries are written by our own system from aggregate statistics and cannot quote anyone, because the text is gone before the summary is written. If you posted about a movie last night, your words are not sitting in our database. A single anonymous tally mark is.
Email updates, if you sign up
If you subscribe to our email updates, we store your email address and which types of email you asked for, and nothing else about you. We only send after you confirm your address by clicking a link we email you (double opt-in). Every email includes a one-click unsubscribe link and a link to change your preferences; you can also unsubscribe by replying and asking. Emails are delivered through Resend, and like most senders we may see standard delivery measurements such as whether an email was opened or a link clicked. We never share or sell subscriber addresses. Unsubscribing takes effect immediately.
Services we rely on
Vercel (hosting), Neon (database), Google Analytics (traffic measurement), Resend (email delivery), and public data interfaces of social platforms and game storefronts. Movie and game metadata (titles, posters, release dates) comes from third-party providers including TMDB and IGDB. Each processes data under its own terms.
Cookies
The site itself sets no tracking cookies of its own. Google Analytics sets its measurement identifiers. The admin area sets a session cookie that only matters if you are us.
Children
The site is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.
Your choices and rights
You can browse with analytics-blocking tools without losing any functionality. If you have emailed us and want that correspondence deleted, ask via the contact form and we will delete it. Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights over personal data; requests via the contact form will be honored to the extent the law requires. Given how little we hold, that is usually a short conversation.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with an updated effective date. Material changes to what we collect would be noted prominently on the site.
Contact
Questions about this policy: use the contact form.