Privacy Policy

1. The short version

You can play every puzzle on PlaySlop without an account and without telling us anything about yourself. If you make an account, we hold your email address, a display name, and your game results. We do not sell your data. We use Google Analytics to see which games people play. The rest of this page is the detail behind that.

2. What we collect, and why

Your email address. Required for an account, because it is how you sign in — we send a single-use link rather than storing a password. We also use it to reply if you contact us.

A name and username. If you sign in with Google or Apple, we take the name that provider gives us as a starting point; otherwise we generate a username for you. Your username is visible to other players on leaderboards. You can change it in your account settings.

Your game results. Scores, streaks, achievements, and which puzzles you have completed. This is what powers your stats and your leaderboard position. If you play without an account, we still record that a puzzle was completed so the site can show how many people played it, but that record is not linked to you.

Anything you send us. Messages through the contact or feedback forms, including the email address you give us so we can answer.

Ordinary technical data. Our server and our host log IP addresses and request details to keep the site running and to rate-limit abuse — for example, capping how many sign-in links one address can request. We also count how many people opened each game, so the home page can lead with the popular ones. That count stores a one-way scrambled form of your address rather than the address itself, records you at most once per game per day, is never linked to your account, and is deleted after a month.

We do not ask for your date of birth, your phone number, your location, or a payment method, because nothing on the site needs them.

3. Cookies and similar storage

We set a session cookie to keep you signed in and a CSRF cookie to protect form submissions. These are strictly necessary — the site cannot work without them — so they are set regardless of consent choices. We also use your browser’s local storage for preferences like the sound toggle and to remember an in-progress puzzle; that data stays on your device and is never sent to us.

Google Analytics sets cookies that help us understand which games are played and where visitors arrive from, in aggregate. We are not currently serving advertising; the section below describes what happens when we are.

4. Advertising

PlaySlop is preparing to carry advertising to cover its hosting costs. When it does, the following applies. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website and other websites on the internet. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this and other sites.

You can opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. You can also opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalised advertising at aboutads.info/choices or, in Europe, at youronlinechoices.eu. Opting out does not remove ads; it makes them less relevant.

For details of how Google uses information from sites that use its services, see How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.

Visitors in the EEA, the UK, and Switzerland are shown a consent prompt before any advertising or analytics cookies are set, and their choice is passed to Google through Consent Mode. Declining leaves the site fully playable — every game works without a single advertising cookie.

5. Email we send you

Sign-in links, email-change confirmations, and replies to your messages are service email: you get them because you asked for something, and they are not marketing.

Separately, you can opt in to hear about new games, new achievements, and occasional news. That is off unless you turn it on, we record the date you did, and you can turn it off again at any time from your preferences page or by replying to any such email. We will not add you to it for any other reason, and we do not share the list.

6. Who else sees your data

Our hosting provider (Laravel Cloud) and our email provider process data on our behalf in order to run the site and deliver mail. Google receives analytics data as described above. If you sign in with Google or Apple, that provider knows you signed in here. Your username and results are visible to other players on public leaderboards. That is the complete list — we do not sell your data or share it with data brokers.

7. How long we keep it

Account data and game history are kept while your account exists. Delete your account from your account settings and we remove your profile and results. Contact messages are kept while the matter is open and for a reasonable period afterwards. Server logs rotate on a short cycle.

8. Your rights

Depending on where you live — under Canadian privacy law, the GDPR, the UK GDPR, or a US state law — you have the right to ask what we hold about you, get a copy, correct it, delete it, or object to a particular use. Email us and we will do it. We do not charge for this, we will not make you create an account to ask, and we aim to answer well inside thirty days. If you are unhappy with our answer you may complain to your local data protection authority.

9. Changes to this policy

When this policy changes we bump the version at the top of the page. If a change materially affects how we use your data, we will say so on the site rather than relying on you to notice.

10. Contact

Privacy questions, access requests, and deletion requests all go to the same place: our contact page or hello@playslop.games. A person reads every message. See also our terms of service.