Privacy and Cookie Policy

Last updated: August 7, 2026

This Privacy and Cookie Policy explains how Check Can I Run It handles information when you visit checkcanirunit.com, use the game-selection tool, read our gaming and PC hardware content, or contact us. Check Can I Run It is operated by Usama Sohail and is referred to in this policy as “Check Can I Run It,” “we,” “us,” or “our.”

The website provides a free PC game-requirements checker and informational content about games, processors, graphics cards, memory, storage, graphics technologies, and other subjects related to PC gaming. You do not need to create an account, sign in, purchase a subscription, or provide payment information to use the website.

This policy applies to Check Can I Run It, its game-selection tool, game pages, articles, and information submitted through our contact channels. It does not govern the privacy practices of game developers, publishers, digital stores, hardware manufacturers, advertising providers, or other websites and services that we do not control.

How the Can I Run It Checker Works

The checker does not scan, inspect, benchmark, or analyse your computer. It does not access your processor, graphics card, RAM, storage drives, installed games, system files, Windows settings, or other information stored on your device.

You do not enter your own PC specifications into the checker. You search for and select a game, and the result provides the recommended hardware and software requirements available for that title. Depending on the published information for the game, this may include the processor, graphics card, RAM, storage, Windows version, DirectX support, and additional requirements. The result may also contain information about the game itself.

Selecting a game can create an ordinary website request and, when analytics is active, an interaction event. This may record information such as the selected title, requested page, time of the interaction, browser or device category, and related technical data. These events do not allow the checker to search your computer or determine which hardware you own.

Information You Provide to Us

You may provide personal information when you contact us, report an incorrect game requirement, question information on a page, request a correction, submit a privacy request, or raise a copyright or trademark concern. Depending on what you send, a message may contain:

  • Your name;
  • Email address;
  • Organisation or company name;
  • Subject of the request;
  • Links or references related to the issue; and
  • Other information you choose to include.

We use this information to review the request, respond to you, investigate the relevant page or issue, maintain appropriate records, and protect our legal rights where necessary.

Please do not send passwords, payment-card information, government identification numbers, private account credentials, or other sensitive information that is not necessary for your request.

Information Collected When You Visit the Website

When a website loads, certain technical information is exchanged as part of delivering the page. Our hosting, security, analytics, advertising, and related service providers may process information such as:

  • Internet Protocol address;
  • Browser type and version;
  • Device category;
  • Operating system;
  • Referring page or source;
  • Pages viewed;
  • Date and time of access;
  • General location derived from network information;
  • Language or browser settings;
  • Error and diagnostic information; and
  • Security and traffic logs.

We use this information to deliver pages, maintain website availability, identify errors, protect the website from harmful traffic, prevent abuse and spam, and understand general usage patterns.

We do not use ordinary server logs to identify visitors by name unless this is reasonably necessary to investigate misuse, respond to a valid legal request, or protect the website and its users.

How We Use Information

Information processed through Check Can I Run It may be used to:

  • Deliver the website and requested game information;
  • Operate and maintain the game-selection tool;
  • Understand which games and gaming topics visitors use;
  • Monitor website reliability and technical performance;
  • Diagnose errors and broken functionality;
  • Protect the website against spam, fraud, malicious traffic, and security threats;
  • Respond to enquiries and correction requests;
  • Measure website usage where permitted;
  • Display and measure advertising where applicable;
  • Maintain legal and administrative records; and
  • Comply with applicable legal obligations.

The game-selection tool is not used to make decisions concerning employment, credit, insurance, eligibility, or other matters that produce comparable significant effects on an individual.

Google Analytics

Check Can I Run It may use Google Analytics 4 to understand how visitors find and use the website. Depending on the active configuration and the visitor’s privacy choices, Google Analytics may process information about page views, referral sources, browser and device characteristics, approximate geographic information, website interactions, game selections, and technical performance.

We do not intentionally send Google Analytics a visitor’s name, email address, contact-message contents, payment information, or other information intended to identify that person directly. The checker also does not provide Google Analytics with a visitor’s CPU, GPU, RAM, or other PC specifications, as those specifications are not collected by the checker.

Google Analytics can use first-party cookies when Analytics storage is permitted. Where Google Consent Mode is used, denying Analytics storage prevents Analytics cookies from being read or written. Google explains that limited cookieless measurement signals may still be sent in some Consent Mode configurations. These requests can contain technical information normally included in browser communications. Google states that Google Analytics does not log or store IP addresses.

Visitors can manage available Analytics choices through our privacy or cookie controls. Google also provides a Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on for supported browsers.

Google AdSense and Advertising

Check Can I Run It may use Google AdSense to display advertising and support the cost of operating the website without requiring a paid subscription.

Third-party vendors, including Google, may place or read cookies on a visitor’s browser when advertisements are served. Advertising technologies may also use web beacons, IP addresses, browser information, advertising identifiers where available, page information, ad impressions, and interactions with advertisements.

Google and participating advertising providers may use this information to select advertisements, measure advertising performance, limit the number of times an advertisement appears, detect invalid traffic or advertising fraud, and personalise advertisements where the visitor has provided the consent required for that activity.

Google’s advertising cookies can allow Google and its partners to select advertisements using information associated with visits to Check Can I Run It and other websites when personalised advertising is permitted. Visitors can manage Google advertising personalisation through Google Ads Settings.

Other advertising vendors or ad technology providers may participate in advertising served on the website. When they are active, the applicable providers and processing purposes are identified through our consent or privacy interface as required.

How Google Uses Information From This Website

When Google Analytics, Google AdSense, or another Google service is active, Google may receive information as part of providing that service.

Google explains that information from sites and apps using its services can be used to provide and maintain Google services, deliver and measure advertising, protect against fraud and abuse, and personalise content or advertising where permitted.

More information is available from Google at How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services. Google handles information under its own privacy terms in addition to the choices and controls provided by Check Can I Run It.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

Cookies are small pieces of information stored through a web browser. Websites may also use technologies such as local storage, pixels, tags, and scripts for related purposes. The technologies used by Check Can I Run It can fall into the following categories.

Strictly Necessary Technologies

These technologies support functions required to operate or protect the website. They may be used for security, traffic management, fraud prevention, technical delivery, and remembering a visitor’s privacy choices.

Where applicable law permits, technologies that are strictly necessary for a service requested by the visitor may operate without optional cookie consent.

Analytics Technologies

Analytics technologies help us understand page visits, navigation, referral sources, game selections, technical problems, and general website performance. Where consent is legally required for Analytics storage or related processing, the relevant choices are controlled through our consent mechanism.

Advertising Technologies

Advertising technologies can be used to serve, measure, limit, and, where permitted, personalise advertisements. Advertising providers may also use information to detect invalid traffic and protect their advertising systems. Advertising storage and personalisation are subject to the consent and regional privacy choices that apply to the visitor.

Preference and Local Storage Technologies

The website may use browser or local-storage mechanisms to remember settings necessary for a requested feature or privacy choice. Removing this information from the browser may cause the relevant setting to be requested again.

The active consent interface identifies or links to information about participating providers and purposes. Cookie names and durations can change when a provider changes its technology, so the consent interface should be treated as the current record of technologies active on the website.

Consent and Cookie Choices

Where applicable law requires consent, visitors can use the website’s consent interface to accept, reject, or manage optional technologies. A visitor who has already made a choice can change that choice through the Privacy and Cookie Settings or equivalent control provided on the website. Withdrawing consent affects future processing based on that consent; it does not make processing carried out before withdrawal unlawful.

For visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, additional consent requirements may apply to Google advertising and measurement services. Where required for our use of Google advertising services, the website uses a consent management mechanism that communicates the visitor’s choices to participating providers.

The consent interface also identifies Google and other participating advertising providers where disclosure of those providers is required. Visitors in jurisdictions with additional advertising privacy rights may receive different or additional controls based on their location.

Legal Grounds for Processing

Where the GDPR, UK GDPR, or another law requiring a legal basis applies, we rely on the legal basis appropriate to each processing activity. We may rely on legitimate interests to operate and secure the website, prevent abuse, maintain the game database, investigate errors, improve website functionality, and respond to ordinary enquiries where those interests are not overridden by the visitor’s rights.

We rely on consent where it is required for non-essential storage technologies, certain Analytics activities, personalised advertising, or other optional processing. We may also process information when necessary to comply with a legal obligation or to establish, exercise, or defend a legal claim. Where processing is based on consent, consent can be withdrawn through the relevant privacy control or by contacting us where an on-page control is not available.

When Information Is Shared

We may provide limited information to companies that perform services necessary to operate Check Can I Run It. Depending on the services active on the website, these can include providers of:

  • Website hosting;
  • Content delivery;
  • Website and network security;
  • Analytics;
  • Advertising;
  • Consent management;
  • Email delivery;
  • Contact forms; and
  • Technical infrastructure.

These providers receive or process information in connection with the service they perform. Some providers, including advertising and analytics companies, may also process information under their own privacy terms where applicable.

Information may also be disclosed when reasonably necessary to comply with applicable law, respond to valid legal process, investigate fraud or security threats, enforce our terms, or protect the rights and safety of Check Can I Run It, its visitors, or other people.

If ownership or control of the website changes, relevant business records may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to applicable legal requirements.

Sale, Sharing, and Targeted Advertising

We do not sell personal information in exchange for money. Some privacy laws use broader definitions of terms such as sale, sharing, cross-context behavioural advertising, or targeted advertising. Under those definitions, some advertising technologies can fall within regulated activities even when no personal information is sold for money.

Where such laws apply to Check Can I Run It, we provide the privacy choices required for the relevant advertising activity and respond to legally recognised opt-out preference signals where required.

Advertising consent and privacy controls do not affect access to the ordinary game-requirements content of the website except where a technology is technically necessary to provide a requested function.

How Long Information Is Kept

We keep information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, subject to legal, security, and operational requirements.

Contact messages may be retained long enough to answer the request and maintain an appropriate record. Privacy, copyright, trademark, security, and other legal correspondence may be retained for longer when a record is needed to document the issue and our response.

Technical and security logs are retained according to operational and security needs. Analytics and advertising information is also subject to the retention controls and policies of the providers involved.

Information may be kept for a longer period when required by law or reasonably necessary to investigate abuse, resolve a dispute, or establish or defend a legal claim.

When information under our control is no longer required, it may be deleted, anonymised, or placed beyond ordinary use as appropriate.

International Processing

Check Can I Run It can be accessed from different countries. Some of the companies that host, secure, analyse, advertise on, or otherwise support the website may process information in countries other than the visitor’s own.

Privacy and data-protection rules differ between jurisdictions. Where applicable law requires safeguards for an international transfer, the relevant provider or processing arrangement may use a recognised transfer mechanism such as an adequacy decision, contractual safeguards, or another lawful transfer method.

Your Privacy Rights

Privacy rights depend on the visitor’s location and the law that applies to the processing. Depending on the jurisdiction, a visitor may have the right to:

  • Ask whether personal information about them is being processed;
  • Request access to eligible personal information;
  • Correct inaccurate or incomplete information;
  • Request deletion in circumstances provided by law;
  • Restrict certain processing;
  • Object to certain processing;
  • Receive eligible information in a portable format;
  • Withdraw consent where processing relies on consent; and
  • Opt out of certain sale, sharing, or targeted-advertising activities where applicable.

A visitor may also have the right to complain to the data-protection or privacy authority responsible for their jurisdiction. Privacy requests can be submitted through our Contact Us page. We may request enough information to understand and verify the request and to prevent someone from obtaining or deleting another person’s information without authority.

Check Can I Run It does not create user accounts and does not require visitors to identify themselves before using the game-selection tool. As a result, we may hold little or no information that can reasonably be connected to a particular visitor. If a reasonable search does not identify responsive information, we will explain that in our response. We will not deny ordinary access to the website or unlawfully discriminate against a visitor because they exercised an applicable privacy right.

Children’s Privacy

Check Can I Run It is a general-audience website about PC games and computer hardware. The website is not directed to children under 13. We do not ask children under 13 to create an account or submit personal information through the game-selection tool. The checker itself does not require a name, email address, age, or PC hardware details.

Children under 13 should not submit names, email addresses, documents, or other personal information through our contact channels. A parent or legal guardian who believes that a child has provided personal information to us can contact us through the Contact Us page. We will investigate the request and delete or otherwise handle the information where required by applicable law. Advertising and analytics providers may apply additional age-related restrictions or protections under applicable law and their own policies.

Information Security

We use reasonable administrative and technical measures intended to protect information under our control against unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure, loss, or destruction.

Depending on the website infrastructure, these measures may include encrypted HTTPS connections, software maintenance, access controls, backups, traffic filtering, and security monitoring.

No website, network, or method of electronic transmission can guarantee complete security. Visitors should therefore provide only the information necessary for their request and should not send passwords, payment information, identity documents, or confidential account credentials.

External Links and Embedded Content

Game pages and articles may link to game developers, publishers, hardware manufacturers, digital stores, video platforms, or other external websites. Third-party websites operate under their own terms and privacy policies. Visiting an external link can provide the destination website with technical information normally transmitted during a web request.

Some pages may also contain embedded third-party material. When such content is loaded or used, the provider may receive technical information or use storage technologies according to its own privacy practices and the consent choices that apply. Check Can I Run It does not control the privacy, cookie, security, or data-retention practices of independent third-party websites.

Accuracy of This Policy and Privacy Concerns

This policy is intended to describe the information practices of Check Can I Run It accurately. If you believe a statement in this policy is inaccurate or unclear, or you identify a website feature that appears to process information in a way that is not described here, please contact us with enough information to investigate the issue.

We will review reasonable reports and correct this policy when it does not accurately describe our practices. Where information has been collected or processed improperly, we will take appropriate action when required by applicable law.

A privacy request does not require us to remove information that we are legally required or otherwise lawfully permitted to retain. Each request is reviewed according to the circumstances and applicable law.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy and Cookie Policy when the website’s features, advertising or analytics services, consent system, service providers, legal obligations, or information-handling practices change.

The current version will be published on this page with an updated Last updated date. If a change materially affects how personal information is used and applicable law requires additional notice or consent, we will provide that notice or request the necessary consent.

Contact Us

If you have a question, correction request, or concern about this page, please contact us through our Contact Us page or email us directly at editor@checkcanirunit.com.