Privacy notice
Your stuff is your stuff.
Last updated 10 October 2026
The short version
- You can play every game without telling us anything at all.
- No ads, no tracking, no cookies, nothing to buy. We never sell or share your information, and we never use it for advertising.
- If you make an account (13 or over), we keep your email, first name, birthday and scores. In public you're only ever the nickname you choose (we check every one is kind).
- If you write to us, we keep your message so we can reply.
- You can delete your account, and everything in it, any time.
Who we are
Games with no ads (gameswithnoads.com) is made by a dad and his two kids in the United Kingdom, and run by Alexander Pink. For the law, that makes us the "controller" of the information on this page. To ask us anything about it, use the form on our Help page and choose "Your data".
Playing without an account
Your best scores, settings and game progress are saved in your browser on your own device (in "local storage"), not sent to us. Clearing your browser's site data wipes them.
Like every website, the computers that send you our pages briefly see your IP address and the kind of browser you use. Our host keeps this in short-lived logs to run the site and keep it safe. We don't use it to work out who you are.
Playing a friend on another device
In the board games you can play a friend on their own device. The two devices connect straight to each other, not through us. The name you type is shown to the person you're playing, and each device can see the other's internet address, because it needs it to connect. To help them find each other, your browser asks Google's free "STUN" service what its address looks like from outside. The game itself doesn't go to Google or to us.
If you make an account
You need to be 13 or over to have an account. A grown-up is welcome to make one and let their kids play on it.
| What | Why |
|---|---|
| Your email address and password | So you can sign in, and so we can send the emails an account needs (like confirming your email or resetting your password). Your password is scrambled, so we never see it. |
| Your first name | So we can say hello. It's private: nobody else ever sees it. |
| Your date of birth | To check you're 13 or over. It's private, and it can't be changed later. |
| The nickname you choose, and your scores in every game | To keep your best scores and show them on the leaderboards. Your nickname, a picture and the score are the only things anyone else ever sees. Our filter keeps nicknames kind, and we keep an eye on them. |
| Games you save | So you can carry on where you left off, on any device you sign in on. Only you can see them. |
| When you signed up, agreed to our terms and last signed in, and the IP address you signed in from | To keep accounts safe and stop people misusing them. |
Our dad, who runs the site, can see the list of accounts (email, first name, age and nickname, never your password) to look after it: for example, to change a nickname that isn't kind, or to help if you get stuck. Nobody else can.
We use this information to give you the account you asked for (for the law, that's "performing our contract with you"), and to keep the site safe and fair (our "legitimate interests"). We check your age because we choose to keep accounts to people who are 13 or over.
If you write to us
The form on our Help page sends us your message, your email address, your name if you give it, which page you came from and what kind of device and browser you use (so we can help if a game isn't working). We also keep a coded version of your IP address for a day, only so one person can't flood us with messages, then it's wiped. We use all this to reply to you (our "legitimate interests").
Who helps us run the site
We don't share your information with anyone, except these companies, which help us run the site and only use it to do that job for us:
- Vercel hosts the website and sends you its pages.
- Playing together: while you're signed in, other signed-in players can see your nickname and which game you're on, so they can invite you (you can switch "Show me online" off in Play together, and block anyone). There's no chat. When you play a game together, your two devices connect directly, so each can see the other's internet address, as with any online game; the game itself doesn't pass through us.
- Supabase stores accounts, scores and messages to us, on servers in London. When you open the High scores page, the leaderboards come from there too (so, like any website, it sees your device's internet address while it sends them).
- Resend sends our emails (account emails, and your messages to us), from servers in Ireland.
- Google (Gmail) is the inbox where our dad reads your messages and replies to them.
- Google runs the free STUN service your browser asks when you play a friend on another device (see above). (The site's lettering and code all come from our own server.)
Some of these companies are based in the USA, so your information might be handled there. When it leaves the UK, it's protected by the safeguards UK law requires, such as the UK–US "data bridge" or the government's approved contract terms.
We'd only ever share information with anyone else if the law made us (for example, if the police asked with the proper legal backing).
How long we keep things
- Your account, scores and saved games: until you delete your account (a saved game also goes when you finish it). The "Delete my account" button on your account page removes it and every score straight away.
- Signed-in sessions (including the IP address and browser you signed in from): until you sign out on that device or delete your account.
- Sign-ups that are never confirmed: deleted after 30 days.
- Messages to us: deleted from our database after 12 months, and we clear them out of our inbox at least once a year. The coded IP address on a message is wiped after a day.
- Sign-in logs: deleted after 14 days. Our host's server logs are kept for a short time (days, not months).
Cookies and local storage
We don't use cookies. We save a few things in your browser's local storage so the site works: your settings, your best scores and game progress, and, if you sign in, what keeps you signed in. None of it is used to track you, and the law doesn't need you to agree to things a site needs just to work, so we simply tell you once, with a little note at the bottom of the page.
Your rights
You can ask us for a copy of your information, ask us to correct it or delete it, ask us to stop using it, or ask for it in a form you can take elsewhere. You can delete your account yourself, any time. For anything else, write to us using the Help page and we'll reply within a month. If you're 13 or over, you can ask us yourself; a grown-up can also ask for you.
If you're unhappy with how we've handled your information, please tell us first and we'll try to put it right. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK's data protection regulator, at ico.org.uk.
Children
Lots of our players are children, so we've built the site to be private by default: no chat, no ads, no tracking, no location and nothing to buy. The only things anyone types that others can see are nicknames on the leaderboards, which we check, and the name you choose when you play a friend on another device. Children under 13 can play every game, but can't have an account of their own. If we find out we have an account belonging to someone under 13, we'll delete it. If you're a parent or carer and think that's happened, please tell us.
Changes
If we change what we collect or how we use it, we'll update this page and the date at the top. If it's a big change, we'll tell account holders by email first.