This policy explains what personal data PuzzleMoss (https://puzzlemoss.com, the "site") collects, why, and what you can do about it. The short version: we collect very little, we run no analytics or advertising, and the games come from a third party that may set its own cookies once you choose to load one.
1. Who is responsible for your data
The data controller is [COMPANY_LEGAL_NAME], [COMPANY_ADDRESS], [COMPANY_COUNTRY] ("we", "us"). For anything to do with privacy, write to contact@puzzlemoss.com.
2. What we collect
2.1 Emails you send us
There are no forms or accounts on the site. If you email us, we receive your email address, any name you use, and what you write. We use it only to reply and to deal with what you asked. We do not add you to a mailing list or use your message for anything else.
2.2 Server logs
The site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages. Like any web host, Cloudflare processes your IP address, browser type, the page requested and the time of the request in order to deliver pages and protect the site from abuse. We do not use these logs to identify or track individual visitors.
2.3 Your cookie choice
When you choose Accept or Decline on the cookie banner, the site stores that choice in your browser's local storage under the name pm-consent, with the date you chose. It never leaves your device and we cannot read it from our side. It exists so the banner does not ask you again on every page.
2.4 What we do not collect
We run no analytics, no advertising, no tracking pixels and no social media widgets. We do not sell personal data and we do not build profiles of visitors.
3. Embedded games (GameMonetize)
The games on the site are supplied by GameMonetize, a third-party distributor, and run inside a frame on the game's page. Nothing is requested from GameMonetize until you press Play on a game. Once a game loads, your browser talks to GameMonetize and the game's developer directly. They may set their own cookies or use similar storage, including for the advertising shown inside games, and they decide what data they collect under their own privacy policy, which you can find at gamemonetize.com. We do not control those cookies and receive no data from them.
4. Cookies and your choices
4.1 Cookies the site itself sets
None. The only thing the site stores in your browser is the pm-consent choice described above, which is strictly necessary to remember your decision.
4.2 What Accept and Decline do
On your first visit a banner at the bottom of the page offers two buttons of equal size, Accept and Decline. It does not block the page and nothing optional runs before you answer.
If you accept, pressing Play on a game loads it straight away, and GameMonetize may set its cookies as described in section 3.
If you decline, or have not chosen yet, pressing Play first shows a short notice that the game comes from GameMonetize and may set its own cookies, with two equal buttons: one loads that game, the other does not. Nothing from GameMonetize loads unless you press the first. Declining never stops you using the rest of the site.
4.3 Changing your mind
Use the "Cookie settings" link in the footer of any page to bring the banner back and choose again. Clearing your browser's site data for puzzlemoss.com also resets it. Cookies GameMonetize has already set can be removed in your browser's settings.
4.4 Advertising
The site shows no advertising of its own at present. If that changes, this policy will be updated before any ads appear, and ad scripts will not load unless you have accepted cookies.
5. Legal bases (UK GDPR and EU GDPR)
We reply to emails on the basis of our legitimate interest in answering people who contact us, or to take steps you have asked for. Server logs are processed on the basis of our legitimate interest in keeping the site available and secure. Loading a game, and the cookies a game provider may then set, rests on your consent, given either through the banner or by choosing to load a single game.
6. Who else receives data
Cloudflare, as our host, processes request data on our behalf. Our email provider stores the emails you send us. GameMonetize and game developers receive data directly from your browser if you load a game, as their own controllers. We share personal data with no one else, except where the law requires it.
7. International transfers
Cloudflare and GameMonetize may process data outside the UK and the European Economic Area. Where we are responsible for a transfer, we rely on the safeguards our providers offer, such as standard contractual clauses.
8. How long we keep data
Emails are kept for up to two years after the conversation ends, unless we need them longer for a legal reason. Cloudflare keeps request logs for a short period under its own policy. The consent choice stays in your browser until you change or clear it.
9. Your rights
Under UK and EU data protection law you can ask for a copy of the data we hold about you, ask us to correct or delete it, object to or restrict how we use it, ask for it in a portable form, and withdraw consent at any time. Residents of California have similar rights under the CCPA, including the right to know, to delete and to correct, and the right not to be treated differently for using them. We do not sell or share personal data for cross-context behavioural advertising.
To use any of these rights, email contact@puzzlemoss.com. We answer within one month. You can also complain to your data protection authority; in the UK that is the Information Commissioner's Office.
10. Children
The site is meant to be suitable for any age, but it is not directed at children and we do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under 13. Games aimed at young children are filtered out of the catalogue. If you believe a child has sent us personal data, email us and we will delete it.
11. Security
The site is served over HTTPS and is a set of static pages with no database of visitor data. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, but there is very little here to protect, which helps.
12. Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. Significant changes, such as introducing advertising, will be described here before they take effect.
13. Contact
[COMPANY_LEGAL_NAME], [COMPANY_ADDRESS], [COMPANY_COUNTRY]. Email: contact@puzzlemoss.com. See also the terms of use and the about page.