Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 30, 2026

Free Games for Seniors is built to be private and respectful. You do not need an account, and you never have to give me your name or email address to play. This page explains, in plain language, what information is and is not collected when you use these games.

Information stored on your own device

Your display preferences (text size, high contrast, light or dark theme) and your game progress are saved in your browser’s local storage, on your device only. I cannot see this information, and it is never sent to me or anyone else. Clearing your browser data will reset it.

Analytics

I use Google Analytics 4 to see which pages people visit and which games get played. It is loaded on every page of this site, and it does set cookies in your browser, including one usually named _ga, which Google uses to tell one visit apart from another. It also records your approximate location from your network address, your browser and device type, and the pages you open here. It does not receive your name or your email address, because I never ask you for either.

Alongside the page views, I record what was done with the controls, so the games can be judged on whether they work rather than on guesswork: a game started, finished, restarted or dealt again, a hint pressed, an undo pressed, a difficulty chosen, the text size or contrast changed, a board resumed, a print button pressed, and a script error if a page breaks. An event carries the name of the game and at most a size, a difficulty name, or the message of the error. What you typed, which squares you tapped, and whether you won are never sent anywhere.

You can opt out of Google Analytics on every site you visit with Google’s browser add-on, or block it with any content blocker. Nothing on this site stops working if you do.

Advertising

This site carries advertising from Google AdSense to keep the games free. Its script loads on every page whether or not an ad is showing, and everything below applies. Ads are a small number of clearly marked boxes off to the side: never a pop-up, never over the board.

• Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on this site. Its advertising cookie lets Google and its partners serve ads to you based on your visits here and to other sites on the internet.
• Google and other third-party vendors may also use web beacons, pixels and similar technologies to count how often an ad was seen and whether it worked.
• You can turn off personalised advertising for your Google account at Google Ad Settings. Google explains what its advertising cookies do at policies.google.com/technologies/ads.
• To opt out of personalised advertising from many vendors at once, use aboutads.info or, in Europe, youronlinechoices.eu.

Whatever else changes, the ads here will never cover the board, never sit between you and a move, and never pop up. Those limits are written out on my promise page.

If you are in Europe or the UK

Visitors from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland are treated differently, and more cautiously. For those countries every storage signal is switched off: Google Analytics sets no cookie, advertising sets no cookie, and nothing is used to build a profile. Google receives at most a count that a page was viewed, with no identifier attached to it.

This is done with Google Consent Mode, and it is the only setting there is. The site does not ask for your consent at the moment, so nothing ever switches those signals on. If I add a consent message later, it will appear only in these countries, and this page will say so from that day.

Children

This site is intended for adults and is not directed at children under 13.

Your choices

You can clear your saved preferences and progress at any time by clearing your browser’s site data. You can disable cookies in your browser settings; the games will still work.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email me at hello@freegamesforseniors.com.