Privacy Policy

This policy explains what happens to your data when you visit strategogameonline.com ("Stratego Game Online", "we"). We are an independent fan site for playing Stratego online. We are not affiliated with Jumbo Games or with Strategus.

In short

• You can read every page and play without giving us your name or email address.
• We use PVUV.ai analytics, which sets first-party cookies, to count visits and see which features people use. Visitors in Europe are asked first, and everyone can change the choice under Cookie settings.
• Likes and comments are stored by our site. Comments are public.
• The game is Strategus, a separate service run by its own developer. It loads only after you press Play, and its own practices apply to it.

Hosting and server logs

The site runs on Cloudflare's network. To deliver pages and protect the site from abuse, our hosting processes technical data such as your IP address, your browser type and the address of the page you request.

Analytics

We use PVUV.ai to understand how the site is used: which pages are opened, where visitors come from (the referring site and any campaign tags in the link), country, device and browser, and events such as pressing Play, Fullscreen, Like or Share. PVUV.ai:

• sets first-party cookies, and may use your browser's local storage, to recognise a returning visitor, keep track of a visit and remember how you first found the site;
• stores IP addresses only as truncated hashes, never in plain text;
• checks technical browser signals, stored as hashes, to tell real visitors from bots.

We look at this data in aggregate to improve the site. We do not use it to identify you, and we do not sell it.

Your analytics choice

• If your browser is set to a European time zone, we ask before any analytics run. Nothing from PVUV.ai starts, and no analytics cookies are set, until you press Allow.
• Everyone can change the choice at any time with Cookie settings at the bottom of every page. Choosing Decline deletes the PVUV.ai cookies from your browser, and analytics stay off from the next page you open.
• Your choice itself is saved in your browser's local storage, so we don't have to ask again on every page.

Likes, comments and remembered details

• Likes: when you press Like, the like is counted on our server, and your browser remembers in its local storage that you liked the page, so the button shows it next time.
• Comments: if you post a comment, we store the name you enter (optional), your text and the time you posted it. Comments are shown publicly on the page and cannot contain links. To stop spam, we check how quickly a comment is sent after the page opens, use a hidden form field that only bots fill in, and limit how many comments one visitor and one network can post.
• Your name: your browser remembers the name you typed in the comment form, so you don't have to type it again.

The Strategus game

The game area stays empty until you press Play. Then your browser loads Strategus from strategus.appspot.com, a free web app run by its own developer, not by us. Strategus uses Google Firebase for sign-in and game data: playing as a guest creates an anonymous account, and signing in with your email sends a sign-in link to that address. Strategus says it records IP addresses and usage patterns to stop players from using several accounts in ranked games. Your games, chats and account inside the game are handled by Strategus, so questions about them should go to Strategus.

Advertising

There are no ads on this site at the moment. If we add advertising, we will update this policy before the ads appear.

Your choices

• Use Cookie settings at the bottom of any page to allow or decline analytics.
• You can also block or delete cookies and site data in your browser settings. The pages still work; the Like button may forget that you liked the page.
• To have a comment removed, email us the page address and the comment text.
• You can ask what personal data we hold about you, or ask us to delete it, using the contact address below.

Children

This site is not aimed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we will post the new version on this page with a new date.

Contact

Questions about this page, a comment you want removed, or a copyright notice: email contact@strategogameonline.com.