Privacy

What we collect

When you play, the game sends a few anonymous events to our own server:

• That a game started, how it ended (score, level, the part you lost on), and if you pressed Share or the support link.
• For a random quarter of players: how long each puzzle step took and whether it had a mistake. This tells us which puzzles are too hard.
• In Connecthing, for the same random quarter of players: the words typed as guesses, including words the game did not know. This tells us which words to add. Do not type personal details as a guess.
• A random ID made by your browser the first time you play (stored as lgc_pid). It is not linked to your name, email, device or anything else, and it lets us count returning players.
• Your country (for example "US"), worked out by our host Cloudflare from the connection. We store the two-letter code, not your IP address.
• The site that sent you (for example a link from another site), or a short tag on the link you clicked.
• Your first result in each Daily (for example how many seconds were left, and how long it took). The best result of the day is shown to everyone as "Today's best", without any name or ID.

If you use Send feedback, we also store the thumbs up or down, the text you write, and your country. Please do not put personal details in it. If you email us, we have whatever your email contains — usually your address and the message.

What we do not collect

• No accounts, names, email addresses or passwords. Nothing you type into a game is stored except the anonymous puzzle events listed above.
• We do not sell your data, and we do not share it with anyone except the service providers described on this page.
• We do not build advertising profiles ourselves and we do not know which ads you were shown.

What stays on your device

Your streak, best score, today's daily result and settings (sound, colour-blind help, how strongly Pocket Mate's black side plays, whether you have seen a tutorial) are saved in your browser's local storage, not on our server. Clearing your browser's site data for littlegamesclub.com deletes them and also gives you a new random ID.

Cookies and advertising

We do not set any cookies of our own. The advertising on this site is served by Google AdSense, and Google and its advertising partners do set cookies and use similar technologies when ads are shown.

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites.
• Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the internet.
• You can opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings.
• You can also opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalised advertising at www.aboutads.info, or in the EU at youronlinechoices.eu.
• Google's own handling of data in its advertising products is described in the Google privacy and terms page.

Consent. For visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, a consent message is shown before advertising cookies are set, and personalised advertising cookies are used only if you agree. You can change your choice at any time through that message. If you decline, ads may still appear, but they will not be personalised using cookies.

Opting out of personalised advertising does not mean you will stop seeing ads. It means the ads you see are less likely to be based on your browsing history.

Where it is stored

The site and the anonymous data are hosted on Cloudflare. Like any web host, Cloudflare processes your IP address to deliver the pages; we do not save it. Our anonymous play data is kept for as long as it helps us improve the games, and feedback messages are kept until they have been read and acted on.

Your choices and your data

• Clear everything we hold about you. Because the data is anonymous, we cannot find your rows on request — but you can reset them yourself at any time by clearing your browser's site data for littlegamesclub.com. That removes your random ID and every stored result, and any new events start from a blank slate.
• Refuse analytics. Any browser content blocker that blocks requests to /api/ev stops the anonymous play counts entirely. Nothing else on the site depends on them.
• Advertising choices. Use the Google Ads Settings and aboutads.info links above.
• Email. If you have written to us and want the message deleted, ask using the address on the contact page.

Where data protection law gives you rights over personal data — access, correction, erasure, objection, portability — you can exercise them through the contact page. In practice, almost nothing we hold is personal data at all, because it is not tied to a person.

Other sites

The support links go to Ko-fi or Saweria, which have their own privacy policies. Nothing is sent to them unless you click. Links to other websites are not covered by this policy; read theirs.

Children

The games are made for a general audience and are not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, of any age, and there is no account, chat or user-generated content visible to other players. Personalised advertising is not intended to be shown to children.

Changes to this policy

If the site starts using a new third party, or the way data is handled changes, this page is updated before the change takes effect. The date at the top always tells you which version you are reading.

Questions

Use Send feedback at the end of any game, or the address on the contact page. Because the play data is anonymous, we cannot look up or link it to you, but you can always reset it by clearing your browser's site data.