Privacy policy

The short version

If you read nothing else on this page, this is the substance of it.

• There is no account, no login and no sign-up form. Nothing is submitted to us.
• Your scores, streaks and settings are saved in your own browser and stay on your device.
• The site is free because it shows adverts. Advertising and analytics partners set cookies.
• In the UK, EEA and Switzerland you are asked for consent before any non-essential cookie is set, and you can change your answer at any time.
• We do not sell personal information, and we have nothing to sell — we hold no database of visitors.

What is stored in your browser

Game data is kept locally with the browser’s localStorage. It is not personal information and we cannot read it.

Your best scores, games played, streaks and preferences are saved in your own browser using localStorage. This is a storage area belonging to your device, not to us: the data is never transmitted, we have no way to request it, and it is not linked to any identifier.

Clearing your browser data, or using private browsing, removes it permanently. There is no backup and no recovery — which is the trade for not asking you to create an account.

Analytics

Aggregate measurement only — how many people came, and which pages were useful.

The site uses Google Analytics to understand overall traffic: how many visits there were, which pages were read, roughly where in the world visitors were, and whether the pages loaded quickly. It reports in aggregate and is not used to identify you.

Our hosting provider also records standard request information at the network edge — the page requested, the response status, the browser type and the country. This is the equivalent of a web server log, it is what tells us which search and AI crawlers are reading the site, and it contains no name, email or account.

Advertising

Adverts pay for the hosting and the time. This is exactly what they do and do not do.

This site is supported by display advertising, including Google AdSense. Google and its advertising partners may use cookies or similar technologies to serve adverts, measure whether they were seen, and — where you have consented — personalise which adverts you are shown based on your previous visits to this and other sites.

Adverts are placed around the game, never over it, and never interrupt a turn. That is a design rule, not a promise we can quietly drop: an advert covering the play area would make the site worse at the one thing it exists to do.

You can opt out of personalised Google advertising at any time through Google’s Ads Settings, and you can review or withdraw consent for the partners used here through the consent notice described below. Blocking or deleting cookies in your browser settings also works, and the game will keep working normally if you do.

Consent, and how to change your mind

Visitors in the UK, the EEA and Switzerland are asked before any non-essential cookie is set.

If you are in the United Kingdom, the European Economic Area or Switzerland, a consent notice appears before advertising or analytics cookies are set, and records your choices. You can reopen it at any time to change them — consent is not a one-off decision you are locked into.

Essential storage — the localStorage your game progress lives in — is not covered by that notice, because the site cannot function as a game without it and it never leaves your device.

Your rights over your data

Under the UK GDPR, the EU GDPR and similar laws you have rights over personal data held about you — and the honest answer here is that we hold almost none.

We hold no account records, no email list and no profile of you. There is nothing on our side to export, correct or delete, because there is no database of visitors to hold it in.

Where personal data is processed, it is processed by the third parties named above — Google Analytics and the advertising partners — under their own privacy policies. Requests about that data are best made to them directly, and their policies set out how. Google’s covers both its analytics and its advertising products.

If you have a privacy question, or you believe something on this site is handling data incorrectly, email john.weeks.dev@gmail.com and it will be looked at properly.

Children

This is a general-audience site, not a service directed at children.

The games here are traditional family games and people of all ages play them, but the site is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. Since there are no accounts and no forms, there is no route by which a child could submit personal information to us in the first place.

If you believe a child has somehow provided personal information through this site, contact us and we will act on it.

External links and changes to this policy

Pages here sometimes link to other sites — rule references, source material, and the other games in this network. Those sites have their own privacy policies and this one does not cover them.

If this policy changes materially, the date below changes with it. Substantive changes are made to the page itself rather than announced and forgotten.

Do you sell my personal information?

No. We hold no database of visitors, so there is nothing to sell. Advertising partners operate under their own policies, and you can withdraw consent for them at any time.

Do I have to accept cookies to play?

No. Declining non-essential cookies does not affect the game. Your progress is saved in your own browser either way, and that storage never leaves your device.

How do I delete the data this site has about me?

Clear your browser data and it is gone — that is genuinely all of it on our side. There is no account to close and no record held on a server.