Who we are
Our website address is: https://hard-sudoku.com.
Your privacy is important to us. To help protect your privacy we are providing this notice to outline our information practices and how your information is collected and used. We collect basic information such as, but not limited to, IP address, hardware configuration, and browser type.
For ordinary use of hard-sudoku.com, consisting of playing Hard Sudoku on our website, we only see your IP address, browser information and some cookies. Our servers may record parts of the above information in their log files, in order to help us track usage of hard-sudoku.com and improve our services. These log files are stored on secure servers in the USA, and your name and time of completion if you successfully complete the sudoku game and want to record your name and time on the hard-sudoku.com website.
Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
List of advertising companies that we use
Hard-Sudoku.com is using third-party companies, in order to display advertisements. These third-party companies will place and read cookies and/or web beacons in order to collect statistics about these advertisements.
We currently use: Google Adsense – Google’s Advertising privacy
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Push Notifications (PC only)
You can subscribe to notifications (PC only) if you wish, in this web push service we only record you anonymously with the operating system you use, browser, device, country and time data when you access our website. a user that simply subscribes to the notifications doesn’t share any personal data with the website.
The recipients don’t need to sign up and don’t need to provide personal data to receive the notifications: usually a click on a button is sufficient to start receiving the notifications from a website.
When you accept to receive the notifications from a website, your browser doesn’t share any personal data about you (it just generates a random token that allows the website to reach you).
If you accept to receive the notifications from a website and then you change your mind, you can easily unsubscribe.
When you unsubscribe, it becomes technically impossible for the website to send you other notifications.
The users never receive spam and can unsubscribe at any time (e.g. from browser preferences).
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Do we disclose any information to outside parties?
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
Your Consent
By using our site, you consent to our online privacy policy.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page.
Contacting Us
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy you may contact us.
Last updated on April 01 2024
