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PuzzleMadness Privacy Policy

This is the privacy policy for puzzlemadness.co.uk. You can contact us at info@puzzlemadness.co.uk for any matters related to puzzlemadness.co.uk. This privacy policy is regularly reviewed and, where necessary, updated to provide accurate information.

Site features

All visits to puzzlemadness.co.uk are logged in a log file. This includes your ip address, the page requested, and some of the associated parameters (the GET parameters).

puzzlemadness.co.uk can be used freely without needing to register for an account.

If you register you provide us with your email address, a username, and a password. Your email address is never made public, but your username is.

Any puzzles you complete when logged in will be tracked against your user account, this information is freely available to anybody that visits puzzlemadness.co.uk. Your aggregate scores will be compiled and you will be placed in a monthly and 'all-time' leaderboard. Your puzzle data does not leave puzzlemadness.co.uk by any other means.

If we detect attempt at cheating from you when logged in, we will log your data for later analysis and may use this data as evidence to suspend your account.

Your data is kept indefinitely. By registering for an account you are giving consent for us to do this. You can withdraw this consent at any time by deleting your account, further details are available on the How to delete your account page.

If you wish to download your data for transfer to another site, please contact us at info@puzzlemadness.co.uk.

puzzlemadness.co.uk maintains a strict "no-spam" policy. Your e-mail address will not be sold to a third party.

User tracking

We use Google Analytics to collect aggregate information on the visitors to our site.

When a visitor requests pages from the puzzlemadness.co.uk site, puzzlemadness.co.uk and google Analytics automatically log the browser's name, and IP address. This information is collected solely for statistical purposes and is not used to identify individuals.

Personally identifiable information such as visitor's name, telephone number and postal address are impossible for us to collect and no attempt is made to do so. You are required to provide a valid email address if you choose to register for an account with puzzlemadness.co.uk, your email address is not shared with any 3rd party. The information that is recorded by Google Analytics consists of the date and time of visit, ip address, browser (e.g. Firefox 3.5), operating system version (e.g. Windows XP), screen resolution (e.g. 800x600), referring link, the current page url and the current page title.

To enable Google Analytics to track whether a visitor has been to puzzlemadness.co.uk website before (i.e. a first-time or returning visitor) Google Analytics sends a cookie to your visitors' computer. This information is collected solely to improve the service we offer to you and statistical purposes and is not used to identify individuals.

Advertising

We use advertisements from Google on puzzlemadness.co.uk to support our site.
Google will use cookies to serve ads based on a user's previous visits to puzzlemadness.co.uk
Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
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