Privacy, plainly.

Updated 17 September 2026.

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Search.

Search and filtering run in your browser against the published library. Search terms appear in the page URL so the view can be shared. Avoid putting personal information into a search. URLs may be included in ordinary hosting request logs.

Ask Up Close.

Your conversation stays in this browser tab’s memory and is cleared when you reload or choose New chat. Questions are sent to this website’s assistant endpoint to find reviewed answers. We do not keep a chat database. When the AI connection is enabled, your current question, relevant reviewed answers, and the reviewed answer titles and IDs from up to six recent exchanges are sent to OpenAI to select an answer. Previous question text is removed from that context. The interface labels these replies AI assisted; Knowledge lookup replies use the website library. When AI is configured, a question may still have been sent to OpenAI before a connection error led to a lookup reply. When AI is not configured, questions are not sent to an AI provider. OpenAI processing remains subject to its API data policies, including applicable abuse-monitoring retention. We request that response storage be disabled; that does not mean all provider retention is eliminated.

Do not include passwords, account credentials or personal details. We use Vercel BotID to verify chat requests. It processes browser challenge and connection information to help identify automated requests. Temporary rate counters use a keyed hash of the connection address rather than storing the raw address in those counters. If shared quota storage is configured, these counters are also processed by Upstash and expire within 24 hours. Shared spending totals contain no conversation text and expire within 40 days. Ordinary hosting and security logs may still contain connection information. OpenAI privacy policy.

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Image questions.

When image reading is available, you can attach one GTA screenshot and add a typed or spoken explanation. Choosing or pasting an image prepares a resized copy in this tab; nothing is uploaded until you press Ask. We accept JPG, PNG and WebP files up to 10 MB, resize them to at most 1,600 pixels on the longest side and remove embedded metadata. The server validates and re-encodes the copy before sending it to OpenAI through Vercel AI Gateway (or directly to OpenAI when configured) to identify game context for the reviewed answer library. Visible personal information in the picture is still visible to the provider: crop out names, account details and other private information before attaching it.

Images are held in tab memory and during request processing. We do not save uploads to a public image host or chat database, and earlier screenshots are not sent with later questions. Retrying an image question sends that image again. New chat or reloading clears the conversation and its images. Closing the panel clears an unsent attachment, while sent turns remain in tab memory. Vercel AI Gateway and OpenAI process image requests under their data policies. Applicable provider abuse-monitoring retention may still apply; disabling response storage does not eliminate all provider retention. If image reading is unavailable, you can type or speak a description instead.

Voice questions.

Speak starts your microphone only when you press it and your browser permits access. Your browser converts speech into an editable draft and may send audio to its own speech recognition service. This website does not record, upload or store the audio. Review the text and press Ask to send the question to our assistant. Stop mic, closing the assistant or leaving the tab stops listening. You can always type instead; speech recognition is not available in every browser.

Videos and external links.

The YouTube player loads only after you press Play. Playback then connects to YouTube using its privacy-enhanced embed domain. YouTube may process data under its own policies. Video posters are served by this site. Following social or source links takes you to another service.

Hosting and measurement.

Vercel hosts this website and processes normal connection data needed to deliver pages, such as IP address, requested URL and browser information. Vercel Web Analytics measures visitors, page views, referring sites, approximate location, and browser/device types in aggregate without analytics cookies. Page-view URLs exclude query parameters and fragments, and this site limits referrers to their origin. We do not send form contents or assistant conversations to analytics. This site has no advertising trackers or session replay. Vercel Web Analytics privacy information.

Contact.

The contact form uses your name, reply email, message and any page details you include to handle your enquiry. When you press Send message, your browser sends these details directly to FormSubmit for delivery to our inbox. This connection also shares normal connection data, such as your IP address and browser information, with FormSubmit. FormSubmit states that it retains submissions for 30 days in its submission archive. Received messages are also kept in our email services so we can respond. This website does not keep a separate message database or add you to a mailing list.

Do not include passwords or sensitive account information. See FormSubmit’s privacy policy. You can ask about a message or request deletion through this form or one of our linked social channels.

If you contact us through a linked social service, that service handles the message and your account information under its own policies. Contact GTA 6 Up Close for a question about this website.