Privacy Policy

1. Controller Input Data (100% Client-Side)

When you connect a controller to JoystickTester.com, your web browser utilizes the local navigator.getGamepads() Web API. All joystick coordinate positions, button state actuations, trigger depth floats, and vibration actuator routines are processed entirely in memory on your personal computing device.

At no point does JoystickTester.com transmit, record, serialize, or store your controller input stream, device serial numbers, or hardware IDs to any remote servers.

2. First-Party Data, Storage & Account Policy

JoystickTester.com is intentionally designed to require zero user registration, passwords, email addresses, or personal profiling. You can access all diagnostic suites without creating an account.

• No First-Party Tracking Cookies: JoystickTester.com application code does not set first-party tracking cookies or store personal identifiers in localStorage or sessionStorage.
• No First-Party Analytics Beacons: We do not run custom telemetry recorders, session replay scripts, or keystroke/input logging scripts.

3. Google AdSense Script & Third-Party Cookie Disclosures

JoystickTester.com includes the official Google AdSense script (pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js, Publisher ID ca-pub-6315102429466612) across site pages for publisher verification and advertising integration, while custom in-page placeholder components remain disabled unless active ad serving is enabled. Because the Google AdSense script loads in your browser when visiting this website, the following third-party data and cookie practices apply:

• Third-Party Advertising Cookies: Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies (such as DoubleClick, __gads, and __gpi cookies) and similar web storage technologies to serve advertisements based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites on the Internet, as well as to measure ad performance, cap frequency, and detect invalid traffic.
• Personalized & Non-Personalized Ads: Google's use of advertising cookies enables Google and its partners to serve advertisements to users based on their visits to JoystickTester.com and/or other sites on the Internet.
• How Google Uses Data: You can review details on how Google processes data when you use partner websites by visiting How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.
• Opting Out of Personalized Advertising: Users may opt out of personalized advertising at any time by visiting Google Ads Settings. Alternatively, you can opt out of third-party vendor cookies for personalized advertising by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance Choices Page (aboutads.info) or the Network Advertising Initiative Opt-Out Page.

4. European Economic Area (EEA), UK & Swiss User Consent

In compliance with Google's EU User Consent Policy, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and UK GDPR, personalized advertising and non-essential advertising cookies for visitors located in the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom, and Switzerland require explicit user consent via a Google-certified Consent Management Platform (CMP) supporting the IAB Europe Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF). Visitors in all regions may also block or clear third-party cookies directly through their browser privacy controls at any time without affecting controller diagnostic functionality.

5. California & US State Privacy Notice

JoystickTester.com does not maintain user accounts or collect direct personal identifiers (such as names or phone numbers) through its diagnostic tools. Where third-party scripts such as Google AdSense process browser cookies or IP addresses for advertising purposes, California and US state residents may exercise their opt-out rights at any time using the Google Ads Settings and Digital Advertising Alliance links provided in Section 3, or by enabling Global Privacy Control (GPC) and third-party cookie blocking in their web browser.

6. Hosting & Server Access Logs

Standard web hosting and content delivery network (CDN) infrastructure automatically processes routine HTTP request metadata (such as request timestamps, requested URLs, browser user-agent strings, and IP addresses) strictly for network delivery, DDoS mitigation, abuse prevention, and server reliability.

7. Contact & Privacy Inquiries

If you have questions or inquiries regarding this Privacy Policy or our client-side architecture, please contact us via our Contact Page or send an email to privacy@joysticktester.com.

When you voluntarily submit a message through our Contact Page or by email, the contact details and message content you provide (such as your name, reply-to email address, inquiry category, optional device description, and message text) are used solely to review and respond to your inquiry—either via your local email application or, when direct server delivery is enabled, through our transactional email service (Resend) and abuse-prevention rate limiting. Contact submissions are never linked to live controller input streams.