(Updated: October 22, 2026)
A Message To Our Course Students
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 support@lovesagame.com.
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.
For students of the course, that is: your name, your email address, your order, and your progress in the course (lessons completed, quiz results, and anything you write 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://academy.lovesagame.com, the home of the Ex-DETOX Course and Our members’ area (“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: support@lovesagame.com
Our blog at https://lovesagame.com has its own privacy policy.
2. What data We collect
When you buy the course: your first and last name, your email address, the product you bought, the price, the payment method type (for example “card” or “Apple Pay”), and the order date. Your card details go directly to Stripe; We never see or store them.
Your account: a username, your email address, and your password (stored only in encrypted form). An account is created automatically with your purchase.
While you take the course: which lessons you completed, your quiz results, and anything you write in the course.
When you visit Our Site: your IP address, browser type and version, operating system, the page you came from (for example an email, an ad, or Our blog), the pages you visit, and the time of your visit.
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 sell you the course, give you access, and support you (order, account, course progress, order and account emails): to perform Our contract with you (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR).
- To keep order and invoice records: Our legal obligations under tax and accounting law (Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR).
- To prevent payment fraud (Stripe’s fraud checks) and to run Our Site securely: Our legitimate interest in safe payments and a secure website (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
- To send you course and member emails (for example the monthly members’ Q&A) and Eddie’s newsletter: Our legitimate interest in supporting Our students, or your consent where you signed up for Our emails (Art. 6(1)(f) and (a) GDPR). You can unsubscribe at any time with the link in every email.
- To understand how Our Site is used and which channels lead to course purchases (Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, WooCommerce order attribution): Our legitimate interest in improving Our Site and measuring Our marketing (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. Stripe’s automated fraud checks can block a payment that looks fraudulent; if this happens to you, email Us and We’ll help.
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.
- Stripe — processes your payment (card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Link) and checks it for fraud. Stripe receives your payment details, name, email address, IP address, and device information.
- Encharge — sends Our emails. After a purchase, Encharge receives your name, email address, and order status, so that you get the right emails and don’t receive sales emails for a course you already own.
- Google Analytics 4 (Google) — measures how Our Site is used. After a purchase, Our server tells Google Analytics the order number, the product, and the price, linked to the anonymous Google Analytics ID of your visit. Your name and email address are not sent.
- Meta Pixel (Meta / Facebook) — only on the checkout and order confirmation pages, to measure whether Our Facebook ads lead to course purchases. After a purchase, Meta receives the order number, the product, and the price. Your name, email address, and the contents of the checkout form are not sent to Meta.
We may also have to share data if the law requires it, for example because of a court order or a tax audit.
5. Data outside the EU
Some of these providers (for example, Stripe, 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
- Account and course progress: as long as you have access to the course (lifetime access), or until you ask Us to delete your account.
- Orders and invoice records: as long as tax and accounting law requires, even if you delete your account.
- Email address and email activity: until you unsubscribe, or until We remove inactive subscribers.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| wordpress_logged_in_*, wordpress_sec_* | WordPress (on Our server) | Keep you logged in to your course |
| woocommerce_*, wp_woocommerce_session_* | WooCommerce (on Our server) | Remember your cart and order during checkout |
| sbjs_* | WooCommerce (on Our server) | Order attribution: remember how you found the course (for example an email or an ad) |
| __stripe_mid, __stripe_sid | Stripe | Fraud prevention during payment |
| _ga, _ga_<ID> | Google Analytics | Distinguish visitors and sessions to measure how the site is used |
| _fbp | Meta (Facebook) | Measures whether Facebook ads lead to course purchases (checkout and order confirmation pages only) |
The login, checkout, and Stripe cookies are needed for the course and the payment to work. You can block or delete cookies at any time in your browser settings, but then you may not be able to log in or pay. 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 support@lovesagame.com.
9. Security
Our Site is only served over an encrypted (HTTPS) connection. Your password is stored only in encrypted form, and your card details never reach Our server. 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.
