Gauge Charts

Privacy policy

Gauge Charts has no accounts and no server-side database, so it collects no personal information directly. Your game progress is stored in your own browser and never sent anywhere. This page sets out the analytics and advertising technologies the site does use, what they collect, and how to opt out.

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.
  • Advertising has not started on this site yet. When it does, visitors in the UK, EEA and Switzerland will be asked for consent before any advertising cookie is set, and will be able to change that 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.

No adverts run on this site today. The plan is to fund it with display advertising through Google AdSense, and the honest version of this section describes what that will mean rather than pretending it is already happening. Google and its advertising partners may then use cookies or similar technologies to serve adverts, to measure whether an advert was seen and, where you have consented, to choose adverts 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. Blocking or deleting cookies in your browser settings works too, and the game will keep running normally if you do.

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.

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