Privacy

What stays on your device

Your game progress is saved in your own browser (its "local storage"), so you can pick up where you left off. For Overhead that is overhead2-save, overhead2-cycles, overhead2-fb-nudged and overhead2-fb-sent. We can't read these. Clearing your browser's site data deletes them, and your progress with them.

We store nothing else on your device: no cookies and no analytics ID.

What we count

Page visits

We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to count page views. It uses no cookies and doesn't follow you across sites. It tells us totals such as which pages were visited, from which sites people arrived, and roughly which countries and browsers they used.

What happens in the games

While you play, the game sends short notes to our own server: that a game started, that you were promoted, reached an ending, restarted, copied your result or opened the feedback form, plus a "still here" signal about once a minute while the game is on screen. That's how we learn how far people get and where they give up.

Each note carries:

• a random session number made when the page loads, kept only in the page's memory and gone when you close it, so we can't link one visit to the next;
• the game, its version, and whether it's the web or desktop edition, on a computer, tablet or phone;
• your progress (rank, minutes played, forms processed) and whether a save already existed;
• your country, which our host, Cloudflare, works out from the connection; and the name of the site that linked you here, if any (for example "news.example.org", never the full address).

We don't store your IP address, your browser's full identification string, or any device identifier. On a phone, Overhead shows a "desktop only" notice and records that a phone visited, with its screen size.

We keep these notes for 13 months, then delete them. We keep anonymous totals (such as "sessions per day") for longer.

Feedback

When you send feedback, we store your answers, the game and version, and your progress at the time. Your name (for a credit) and email address (for a reply) are optional. The full text is emailed to [email protected] so we can read it. We keep feedback for as long as it's useful for improving the games. Ask us and we'll delete yours.

The mailing list

If you sign up, we store your email address, where you signed up (for example the Overhead page), the promise shown next to the form ("News about new games, a few times a year. One-click unsubscribe."), and when you asked and confirmed. You're only added once you click the link in our confirmation email. Unconfirmed requests are deleted after 30 days.

Every email has a one-click unsubscribe link. When you unsubscribe, we keep your address marked "unsubscribed" so we never email you again. If you'd rather we deleted it entirely, write to us.

Who else handles it

Both are US companies, so your data may be processed outside the UK and EU, under their standard data-protection terms. We don't sell data, and we don't share it with anyone else.

Why we're allowed to

Counting visits and game progress anonymously, and keeping the site secure, are in our legitimate interest in making better games. Feedback is something you choose to send us. The mailing list is based on your consent, which you can withdraw at any time by unsubscribing.

Your rights

You can ask to see, correct or delete what we hold about you, or object to how we use it: write to [email protected]. Because game statistics aren't linked to you, we usually can't find yours. That's by design. You can also complain to a data-protection authority: in the UK the Information Commissioner's Office, or the authority where you live in the EU.