Privacy
In short
No account, no cookies, no ads. Your games, scores and day streaks stay in your browser. Paradoxdle counts plays with anonymous events, without cookies and without storing your IP address, and measures its audience with Umami Cloud, a cookieless analytics service.
What stays on your device
Your games in progress, scores, day streaks and a random anonymous identifier are kept in your browser’s local storage, on this device only. They are never placed in a cookie or in a URL. Clearing this site’s data in your browser deletes them.
Audience measurement, without cookies
When you play, your browser sends short anonymous events to Paradoxdle: game started, try, skipped try, game finished (tries, score, win or loss), time to the first try, and the Research placement in Victoria. Each event holds the game, the puzzle date, the language and the anonymous identifier, which is random, generated on your device, and lets us count players who come back the next day. No answer you type, no IP address, no full browser identifier and no personal data is stored.
Audience statistics with Umami Cloud
Paradoxdle also uses Umami Cloud, a cookieless analytics service run by Umami Software, Inc. (United States), to record page views and a few actions: game started, try, skipped try, game finished (tries, score, win or loss), Research placement, share, next game, Play button, language change, series menu, archive opened and day streak reached. These actions only hold the game, the series, the language, the day number and numbers (tries, score, streak): no answer, no text you type and no anonymous identifier is sent. With each page view, Umami also records the page, the referring site, the browser, operating system, device type, screen size, language and an approximate location (country, region, city) derived from your IP address. Umami stores these events one by one, without cookies and without storing your IP address: it groups the events of a visit with a session hash computed from your IP address, your browser and a secret that changes every month, so your visits cannot be linked from one month to the next. The legal basis is Paradoxdle’s legitimate interest in measuring its audience without cookies. Umami Cloud’s own privacy policy also applies.
Why
To know which games are finished, too easy or too hard, and whether players come back, so that the puzzles can be improved. The legal basis is Paradoxdle’s legitimate interest in measuring how the site is used. No data is sold, shared for advertising or used to profile you.
Retention and location
Paradoxdle’s own events are kept for 13 months at most, in a database hosted in the European Union (region eu-central-1). Umami Cloud stores its events in its [To be completed: Umami region] data region and keeps them for [To be completed: Umami retention period]. Some of Umami’s providers (network, hosting, logs) are in the United States. The hosts may keep technical connection logs, including IP addresses, for security; Paradoxdle does not use them.
Your rights
Since the identifier is anonymous and generated on your device, Paradoxdle cannot link events to you. You can stop Paradoxdle’s own measurement by clearing this site’s data or by blocking its storage, and Umami’s by blocking its script (cloud.umami.is), for example with a content blocker. For any question: [To be completed: publisher, contact]. You may also lodge a complaint with your data protection authority (in France, the CNIL).