This site, CardGames.us, is created by Unicorn Games LLC. Here we will explain what data we store and for what purpose, how we store it, how we use cookies and related technologies and how our advertising works. You can also manage your cookie settings.
Personal information
We do not store on our servers any personally identifiable data about users, such as name, location, playing habits or anything else. We have no user accounts so we simply don't have that kind of information available to us, nor do we want it.
If you email us for support we will have your email address and name in our mailbox. The email address is never used for any purpose other than to reply to your support requests and is never shared with any third parties. The same applies if you send us a message via social media or contact us via any method that reveals personal information about you to us: any information you reveal to us about yourself will only be stored and processed as needed to respond to your request.
Occasionally we ask people more specific information about their devices when we are troubleshooting, such as what hardware they use, what browser they are playing the site on, details on their operating system of choice, or other technical data that could be used to identify that person. Aside from using that data to help us figure out your problem we do not collect, process, or otherwise store that data beyond what we need to help you, and we do not share any data with third parties.
Aggregate data and statistics
We collect data about gameplay in the form of aggregated events, for example how much the computer player wins, how many games were played each day, errors that the code may report during operation, and other metrics about the games. This data is stored in a database on our servers. It is not tied to individual users, we simply collect it as for example 'There were 30,000 games of Hearts played today', with nothing tying that back to who played those 30,000 games. The purpose of this data is to improve the games and adjust the computer players difficulty.
Cookies & related technologies
We use cookies (small bits of information stored on your computer), and other related technologies such as Local Storage for a few things:
- To remember which options you have chosen for the games.
- To remember the score between rounds in the games, who was the dealer and other game specific information.
- To keep statistics about your success in the games. These statistics are only stored in your browser, we don't store them on servers anywhere. You can always delete this data by going to your browser settings and clearing out all data from this website.
- To help us count the number of visitors to our website, i.e. a cookie is used so that you are not counted as 20 visitors if you play 20 games in one day.
- We use a cookie to store information about your consent of our cookie use.
The use of cookies listed above is by us, CardGames.us, and is necessary for the website to function properly. These are called 1st party cookies, because they are set and read only by us, not by any third parties. If you do not accept these cookies, either by not agreeing to the cookie consent form (for instance if you're in the EU/EEA) or by disabling cookies in your browser, then you will not be able to play the games normally. Below you can read about 3rd party cookies that are used for advertising.
Your privacy settings
You have not accepted our cookie policy yet. By default we assume you've rejected all non-essential cookies until you've granted consent.
Cookies & 3rd Party Advertisements
We use Freestar, Google adsense, and other advertising providers to source and serve ads on our site. These ad companies will set cookies in your browser and read existing cookies that they have set before, possibly during visits to other sites. These are called 3rd party cookies, since they are from entities other than CardGames.us. These ad companies use this to serve you personalized ads, e.g. if you have been looking at shoes on a shopping site you might see ads for shoes here on CardGames.us. Below is the full list of ad companies which might set or read cookies in your browser during your use of CardGames.us, and a link to each company's privacy policy where they detail how they handle your data and what data they use to serve you ads.