Privacy Policy

Last updated: April 2, 2026

1. Introduction

Draughts.io ("we", "our", or "us") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and share information when you visit or use our website, web app, and online game services available at draughts.io.

2. Information We Collect

2.1. Information You Provide

If you create an account, contact us, or use online multiplayer features, we may collect information you choose to provide, such as:

• Account details: such as email address, username, and optional profile information
• Support messages: information you include when you contact us

2.2. Gameplay and Service Data

When you use Draughts.io, we may process service-related information such as:

• Game settings: board style, piece designs, theme, language, and other preferences
• Gameplay data: moves, active match state, game history, ratings, statistics, and matchmaking preferences
• Player identifiers: internal player ID, account ID, and usernames used for online play
• Technical data: device/browser information, IP address, approximate region, diagnostics, and performance logs

2.3. Cookies, Local Storage, and Similar Technologies

We use cookies, local storage, and similar technologies to operate the site and game, remember settings, keep you signed in, measure performance, prevent abuse, and understand how our services are used.

We also use consent-aware tagging and related identifiers or parameters to preserve attribution and measurement across pages. Depending on your location and consent choice, Google tags may either use normal cookie-based storage or operate in a limited, cookieless mode until consent is granted or until Google determines that consent requirements do not apply.

If advertising is enabled on our site, Google and other partners may place and read cookies on your browser, and may use web beacons, IP addresses, or other identifiers to collect information as a result of ad serving.

2.4. Analytics and Advertising Data

We use analytics, advertising, and consent-management technologies, including services provided by Google such as Google Analytics 4, Google Ads conversion measurement, Google AdSense, and Google Funding Choices / Privacy & Messaging. These services may collect information such as page views, interactions, landing pages, referrers, campaign parameters, approximate location, browser and device details, advertising identifiers, and consent status where available.

In some regions and configurations, Google tags may send limited consent state or cookieless measurement signals before a user grants storage consent. This helps support traffic measurement, conversion modeling, debugging, fraud prevention, and honoring the user's consent choice.

When Google AdSense or related Google advertising services are used, Google may collect and process data in accordance with its own policies. You can learn more here:

• How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for the following purposes:

• To provide, maintain, and secure the website and game services
• To save your preferences and synchronize your account and gameplay state
• To enable online multiplayer, matchmaking, ratings, and related features
• To monitor performance, debug issues, and prevent fraud, abuse, and invalid traffic
• To measure usage and improve gameplay, content, and site performance
• To comply with legal obligations and enforce our terms and policies
• To show and measure advertising, where advertising is enabled

4. Data Storage and Security

Local storage: Some settings and identifiers are stored on your device through cookies, browser storage, or similar technologies.

Server-side data: Account data, online game state, ratings, and service logs may be stored on our servers or infrastructure providers in order to operate the service.

Security: We use reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to protect information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure.

5. Data Sharing and Third Parties

We do not sell your personal information in the ordinary course of operating the site. We may share information with third parties only as needed to run, analyze, secure, and monetize the service.

These third parties may include:

• Infrastructure and hosting providers that help us run the site and multiplayer services
• Authentication, analytics, and crash/performance providers that help us operate and improve the service
• Advertising and consent-management partners, including Google, when ads are served or consent choices are managed on our site
• Legal and compliance recipients where disclosure is required by law or necessary to protect rights, safety, or property

6. Your Rights and Choices

Depending on your location, you may have rights regarding your information, including:

• Access, correction, or deletion: you may request access to, correction of, or deletion of your account information
• Local controls: you can clear cookies and browser storage through your browser settings
• Account deletion: if you created an account, you may request account deletion by contacting us
• Advertising and consent choices: where available, you can manage cookie and consent preferences through the consent tools shown on the site and through your browser settings

7. Consent and Regional Notices

If you are located in the EEA, the UK, Switzerland, or another jurisdiction with consent requirements, we may ask for your consent to use cookies and personal data for analytics and advertising. We may use a consent management platform, including Google Funding Choices / Privacy & Messaging, to present these choices and communicate your preferences to Google services.

Where required, analytics and advertising storage may remain restricted until you make a choice. If consent is denied, certain analytics or advertising features may be limited or disabled. Where permitted by applicable law and our configuration, limited cookieless or consent-state measurement signals may still be processed to measure traffic, model conversions, detect invalid traffic, and honor your consent settings.

8. Children's Privacy

Draughts.io is not intended for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, contact us and we will review the request.

9. Data Retention

We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide the service, maintain accounts, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, and protect the site from abuse. Retention periods vary depending on the type of data and the purpose for which it was collected.

10. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will post the updated version on this page and revise the "Last updated" date.

11. Contact Us

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