Privacy

The short version

This website and our games have no accounts and ask for nothing about you. Games keep your settings on your own device. We use Google Analytics to count, anonymously, how the site and games are used, and you can turn that off at any time.

Who we are

This policy covers coldwirestudio.com and the games on it, made by Coldwire Studio. You can reach us at [email protected].

Anonymous stats (Google Analytics)

To learn which games people enjoy and whether they come back, this website and our games use Google Analytics. It records things like the pages visited, "a match started" or "a match ended" (with the mode, difficulty, map, result and roughly how long it took), your rough location (country or city), and your device and browser type. If a game hits an error, it may send the error's message and where in the game's code it happened, so we can fix it.

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

Cookies

Outside the EU, Google Analytics stores cookies (named _ga and _ga_ followed by an ID) holding a random number, so it can tell when the same visitor comes back. They hold nothing about who you are, and last up to two years unless you turn stats off or clear them.

In the EU and EEA, we use no analytics cookies unless you allow them: until then, visits are counted without storing anything on your device.

Turning stats off

Every page of this site has a line at the bottom with a one-tap Turn off, and every game has a Share anonymous stats switch in its Settings. The choice applies to this site and all our games on it. When you turn stats off, nothing more is sent and the cookies are deleted. If your browser sends Do Not Track, nothing is sent at all.

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

Stored on your device by our games

Our games also remember your settings and choices, such as sound volume, text size, key bindings, difficulty, map and tank colours, in your browser's storage on this device. These are never sent anywhere. Clearing your browser's site data removes them.

Fonts

This website and our games load their fonts from Google Fonts. Your browser asks Google's servers for the font files, which means Google receives your IP address, as with any web request. Google's own privacy policy covers that.

Advertising

This website and our games show no ads. If that changes, this page will be updated first, with what is collected, by whom, and how to opt out.

Links to other sites

Our games' credits link to the sites of the people whose art, icons, sound and fonts we use. Those sites have their own privacy policies.

Children

Our games are suitable for all ages, and we do not knowingly collect anything personal from anyone.

Changes

If anything here changes, this page will be updated first, with a new date above.