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Privacy Policy

Last updated: 12 October 2026

PlatHub is a free tool for PlayStation trophy hunters, run by an individual rather than a company. This page explains exactly what happens to data when you use the site: what is processed and kept on the server, what is stored in your own browser, and which third parties are involved. A PlatHub account is free and optional: most tools work without one, though some are open to users only, to protect users' privacy. PlatHub never asks for your PlayStation password.

Who runs PlatHub

PlatHub is run by Buğra “sanshi” Ercan, based in Turkey, who is responsible for the data described on this page: its data controller, under both the EU and UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Turkey's Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (KVKK). Anything about your data can be sent to contact@psnplathub.com.

What PlatHub processes

When you enter a PSN ID, that ID is sent to the PlatHub server, which requests the public trophy data associated with it from PlayStation Network and streams the result back to your browser. Nothing is fetched that a public PlayStation profile does not already share, and profiles with trophies set to private cannot be read at all.

What is kept on the server

So that the site stays fast and does not ask PlayStation for the same thing over and over, the server keeps a copy of the public trophy data it reads for a PSN ID: the games on the profile with their trophy progress, when each platinum was earned, playtime for each game where PlayStation shares it, and the profile summary (online ID, avatar image address, trophy level, trophy counts and the region the PlayStation account is registered in). The copy is replaced whenever the profile is synced, is not refreshed in between, and is deleted when the profile's owner deletes their PlatHub account.

This data is used only to run PlatHub's tools, leaderboards and profile pages. What to Plat Next, for signed-in users, compares a user's platinums with the platinums kept this way for other PSN IDs to suggest games; it shows only games and a match score, never whose platinums they came from. It is never sold or rented, never shared with anyone beyond the hosting described under "Where the data is kept", never used for advertising, and never used to track or profile anyone, and there is no record of who looked a profile up.

The public leaderboard

Any PSN ID looked up on this site is also added to the public leaderboard, together with a summary of that profile: the online ID, the avatar image address, the trophy level, the number of bronze, silver, gold and platinum trophies, the region the PlayStation account is registered in (shown as a flag and used to filter the board by country), and the times the entry was first recorded and last refreshed. That summary is kept on the server and is shown publicly to everyone who visits the leaderboard.

Every field of it is information a public PlayStation profile already shares with anyone who looks at it, and nothing private is stored: your IP address is never saved alongside a leaderboard entry, and there is no record of who looked a profile up. Being on the leaderboard has nothing to do with having a PlatHub account: an entry means only that the profile has been checked here at some point.

So if somebody else looked up your PSN ID, PlatHub may hold this data about you even if you have never visited. All of it came from your public PlayStation profile, and you have the right to object to it being kept and listed. The next paragraphs say how to remove it.

If you would rather not be listed, you can remove yourself without contacting anyone: delete your PlatHub account from the account page. If you do not have one, create one with your PSN ID first and then delete it. That deletes your entry, your profile page and the trophy data kept for your PSN ID; nothing about them is kept.

Deleting does not stop your PSN ID being looked up again. If somebody enters it into a tool later, it is read from PlayStation and listed again from scratch, like any public profile. To stay off the leaderboard, set your PlayStation profile to private: PlatHub can only read profiles whose trophies are public.

Leaving goes through an account rather than whoever is at the keyboard, because creating one takes a code in your PSN About me, the only part of this data you alone can write to — it means nobody else can delete your entry. If you cannot edit your About me, email contact@psnplathub.com and it will be done by hand.

Requests to the trophy endpoints, to the account sign-in and password endpoints, and Platdle guesses are rate limited to keep the service available and to avoid overloading PlayStation's API. To do that, the server briefly keeps your IP address in memory together with a request count. These entries expire automatically within at most fifteen minutes, are never written to disk, and are not used to identify or profile you.

What is stored in your browser

PlatHub uses your browser's local storage to remember the last PSN ID you entered (and, once you sign in, which PSN ID is yours), and whether the Game of the Year and Series pages show the mosaic or the list. Once you sign in, it also notes which account badges your account already holds, so the browser does not ask the server for them again. None of this is transmitted to the PlatHub server. It can be removed at any time by clearing site data for psnplathub.com in your browser settings.

Mosaic and Plat Card settings are not stored in your browser. Without an account they are not saved anywhere: they last until you close the tab, and a new tab starts from the defaults. With an account they are saved to it, as described below.

PlatHub accounts

Creating an account is optional, and most tools work the same without one. An account opens the user-only parts of the site, and the extras that need to know you came back, such as visit streaks. If you create one, the server stores:

  • your PlayStation account ID and PSN ID, which is how the account stays yours if you rename your PSN ID;
  • a scrambled form of your password (a salted hash), never the password itself;
  • for each device you sign in on: a scrambled form of its sign-in token, when it signed in and was last used, and a short label such as "Chrome on Windows" so you can tell your devices apart;
  • the days you visited while signed in, the days you opened the Updates page, and how many times you used each tool or downloaded an image, which is what account badges are earned from;
  • your mosaic and Plat Card settings, so they follow you to any browser you sign in on;
  • the 1 to 10 ratings you give your platinums. Any signed-in PlatHub user can see them on your Platinum List, and your latest ratings on your PlatHub profile if you show that card, unless you turn off "Show my ratings and reviews" on your account page. Platinum Ratings & Reviews shows each platinum's average to signed-in users only, which includes your rating either way but never names you.
  • the reviews you write of platinums you have earned. Any signed-in user can read them on that platinum's page in Platinum Ratings & Reviews, signed with your PSN ID and shown with your rating and its score from other users' likes, unless you turn on "Hide my ratings and reviews", which keeps them to you alone. A review is kept until you delete it, or your account; clearing a rating does not delete it.
  • if you back PlatHub on Patreon and upload your own avatar, that picture, shrunk to 256 pixels square with any location or camera details removed. Anyone can see it wherever your PSN avatar would show. It is kept until you remove it or delete your account, and stays hidden while you are not backing PlatHub.
  • your Platdle guesses for each day you play while signed in, whether you solved it, and when you finished, and the days you use a streak save on. Your streak is worked out from them and shown with your PSN ID to signed-in users on the Platdle leaderboard, unless you turn on "Hide me from leaderboards" on your account page.
  • the likes and dislikes you give other users' reviews. Only each review's score, likes minus dislikes, is shown, to signed-in users; nobody is told who voted. A vote is kept until you take it back, the review is deleted, or you delete your account.
  • the games you mark as not going to plat on What to Plat Next, so it stops suggesting them. Only you see the list. A game stays on it until you take it off, or delete your account.

No email address, IP address or browsing history is stored with an account. To prove a PSN ID is yours, you put a one-time code in your PSN About me, which PlatHub reads once when you press Check; you can remove it straight afterwards. While you are creating an account, the server also keeps that pending code, tied to your browser, for fifteen minutes.

When PlatHub sees a PSN ID change to a new one, it keeps the PlayStation account ID with the old and new PSN IDs, so an old shared link still finds the right profile. This is kept for any hunter, not only users, and is deleted when that hunter deletes their PlatHub account.

Signing in sets one cookie, which keeps you signed in on that device until 180 days after your last visit. It is strictly necessary for an account to work, so it is set without a consent banner, and it is never set for anyone who does not sign in. A second cookie holds nothing but "signed in", so the page knows whether to count your activity without asking the server on every visit.

Two more cookies are set outside of signing in. While you create an account or set a new password, a short-lived cookie ties your one-time code to your browser for fifteen minutes. And opening or closing the sidebar on the mosaic or the Plat Card page sets a cookie that remembers only whether it is open, for seven days. Neither holds anything about you, and neither is used for tracking.

You can delete your account at any time from the account page, which removes everything listed here. Deleting it also deletes your leaderboard entry and the trophy data kept for your PSN ID, as described above.

Patreon backers

If you back PlatHub on Patreon, Patreon handles the subscription and the payment under its own privacy policy. PlatHub sees what Patreon shows creators about their backers, and never your payment details.

To give you your perks, the PSN ID you give is added to the site's list of backers, with your tier and when your backing started. Your tier is then shown publicly next to that PSN ID, as a tag, a badge and a coloured ID, with the number of months backed where the tier shows it, and images made from that profile can leave out the watermark. When your backing ends, the tag and badge stay next to that PSN ID with the months you backed, and the rest is no longer shown.

Other third-party services

Feedback and feature requests come in by email or social media rather than through anything embedded in the page, so nothing here collects them and no third party sees them.

Game artwork, avatars and trophy icons come from PlayStation's own image servers. Most are fetched through PlatHub's server, which keeps a copy on disk so the same image is not requested over and over; the rest load straight from PlayStation, which sees your IP address in the ordinary way that loading any image does. Fonts are served by PlatHub itself, so no font service is contacted.

Where the data is kept

PlatHub's server is rented from Hetzner Online GmbH and runs in its data centre in Nuremberg, Germany. Everything this page describes as kept on the server is stored there. Hetzner provides the machine and does not use the data for anything of its own. The data is stored in the EU and managed from Turkey.

The web server keeps a short log of requests, used to find errors and stop abuse: the time, the page asked for, the response, the browser's own description of itself, and your IP address with its last block removed. Anything after a "?" in the address is left out and profile addresses are cut to /u/*, so the log cannot say who looked up which PSN ID. It is kept for two weeks.

Once a day, the server's data is backed up, and each backup is kept for two weeks. Backups are used only to restore the site after a failure, so something deleted from the site is gone from the backups too within two weeks.

How long data is kept

  • The trophy data, leaderboard entry and PSN ID changes kept for a PSN ID: for as long as PlatHub runs, so the leaderboard and profile pages stay complete, unless the PSN ID's owner removes them as described above.
  • Your account and everything it holds: until you delete it.
  • A device's sign-in: until 180 days after it was last used, or until you sign out.
  • A pending account code and its cookie: fifteen minutes.
  • IP addresses used for rate limiting: at most fifteen minutes, in memory only.
  • A backer's tier and months backed: kept after the backing ends, for the tag and badge.
  • Backups and the web server's request log: two weeks.
  • Emails you send: for as long as it takes to deal with them.

Why PlatHub may use this data

Data protection law asks every site to say on what grounds it uses personal data. PlatHub relies on three:

  • Providing what you asked for (GDPR article 6(1)(b), KVKK article 5(2)(c)): your account, its settings, ratings and reviews, your Platdle games and their place on the Platdle leaderboard, the sign-in cookie, and a backer's perks.
  • Legitimate interests (GDPR article 6(1)(f), KVKK article 5(2)(f)): the copy of public trophy data, the public leaderboard, PSN ID changes, rate limiting, the request log and backups. The interest is running a fast, reliable public trophy tool. It is weighed against yours by using only what a public PlayStation profile already shows, never recording who looked at what, and letting anyone remove themselves.
  • Data you have made public yourself (KVKK article 5(2)(d)): trophy data is read only from profiles whose owners have set their trophies to public.

Children's privacy

PlatHub is not directed at children under the age of 13 and does not knowingly process their personal information.

Your rights

You can ask PlatHub what it holds about your PSN ID and get a copy of it in a machine-readable form, have it corrected or deleted, ask for its use to be restricted, or object to it being kept and listed. Under KVKK you can also ask whether your data is processed, for what purpose, and who it has been passed to in Turkey or abroad, and claim compensation for damage caused by unlawful processing.

Most of this you can do yourself. Deleting your account from the account page removes everything it holds, along with the trophy data and leaderboard entry for your PSN ID. Without an account, create one with your PSN ID and then delete it. Clearing site data in your browser removes everything PlatHub has put on your device.

For anything else, email contact@psnplathub.com. PlatHub holds no email address for anyone, so before acting on a request it may ask you to show that the PSN ID is yours, usually with a code in your PSN About me. Requests are answered within 30 days.

You also have the right to complain to a data protection authority: in Turkey, the Personal Data Protection Authority, and in the EU or UK, the authority where you live. Under KVKK, a complaint follows a request to PlatHub first.

Changes to this policy

This policy may be updated as the site changes, for example if a new third-party service is added. The date at the top of the page always reflects the most recent version.

Contact

For privacy-related questions, contact contact@psnplathub.com. The terms of service cover how the site itself may be used.