Privacy

Last updated: 12 November 2026

The short version

Hillfire has no accounts and asks for nothing about you. It keeps your settings on your own device, and it uses Google Analytics to count, anonymously, how the game is played. You can turn that off at any time in Settings.

Stored on your device

• Your settings: sound and volume, text size, Reduce flashes, key bindings.
• Your choices: difficulty, map, tank colours, and your sound picks.

These stay in your browser's storage on this device. They are never sent anywhere. Clearing your browser's site data removes them.

Anonymous play stats

To learn whether people enjoy the game and come back to it, Hillfire uses Google Analytics. It sends short notes such as "a match started" or "a match ended": the mode, the difficulty, the map, the result and roughly how long it took, plus the pages visited, your rough location (country or city), and your device and browser type. If the game hits an error, it may send the error's message and where in the game's code it happened, so it can be fixed.

No names, no account and nothing you type are sent. Google's advertising features and signals are switched off, and no ads are shown.

Cookies

Outside the EU, Google Analytics stores a cookie with a random number (named _ga) so it can tell when the same player comes back. It holds nothing about who you are. Hillfire tells you this once, the first time you play.

In the EU and EEA, Hillfire uses no analytics cookies unless you turn stats on in Settings: until then, plays are counted without storing anything on your device.

Turning it off

Open Settings and switch off Share anonymous stats. Nothing more is sent, and the cookies are deleted. The same switch is in the footer of every page on coldwirestudio.com, and the choice applies to the site and all its games. If your browser sends Do Not Track, nothing is sent at all.

Google processes this data as described in Google's privacy policy.

Links to other sites

The Credits screen links to the sites of the people whose art, icons, sound and font the game uses. Those sites have their own privacy policies.

Children

Hillfire is suitable for all ages and does not knowingly collect anything personal from anyone.

Changes

If this changes, for example if ads are added, this page will be updated first, with a new date above.