Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy explains how Solitaire.cx, the website at solitaire.cx, handles information about the people who use it. It covers what we collect, why we collect it, who we share it with and the choices you have. If anything here is unclear, write to us at [email protected] and we will explain it.
1. The Short Version
You can play every game without an account. Your settings, your current game and your statistics are saved in your own browser. We use Google Analytics to count visits. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland it sets cookies only if you allow them. Everywhere else it is on from the start, and you can turn it off at any time. Our servers keep ordinary technical logs and receive basic performance and error reports. If you create an account, we keep the details you give us and the results you save. We do not sell your personal information, and we do not show ads.
2. Information We Collect
2.1 Saved in Your Browser
While you play, the site stores a small amount of data in your browser's local storage. This includes your settings, such as card size and table color, the game you are playing, your local statistics and streaks, a random guest identifier and the choices you make about analytics. This data belongs to the browser profile, so anyone who uses the same profile shares it. We do not use the guest identifier to count visitors.
2.2 Account Information
An account is optional. It is only needed if you want your results kept across devices, a place on the leaderboards or your daily history saved with you. If you sign up with an email address, we receive that address, the username you choose and your password, which we store only in a hashed form that we cannot read. If you sign in with Google, Google sends us your name, email address and profile photo. You still choose a username before you appear on any leaderboard. If you upload a picture for your profile, we store it so it can be shown with your account. You can replace it or switch to initials, your Google photo or a built-in picture at any time. When you sign in, we save the browser and device type with that session so your account settings can show where you are signed in. We do not save your IP address with it.
2.3 Game Results and History
When you are signed in, we record the games you start, leave and finish so your history and statistics follow you between devices. When a win is submitted to a leaderboard, we receive the score, the time, the number of moves, which deal was played and the list of moves, so we can check that the game was really won. Leaderboards show only your username. Authorized site administrators can see account statistics and activity when they need to help a player or deal with abuse.
2.4 Game Timing
When you start a game, our server may note the deal, the rules and the start time so that a ranked time can be measured from the server's clock. If you are signed in, this record is linked to your account. Records that never lead to a saved result are deleted after 30 days.
2.5 Game Counts, Performance and Errors
For players who are not signed in, we count first moves and finished games by game and by day. These are totals and do not list individual visitors. Game pages also send performance reports with the page address, loading and response timings and the general type of device and connection. When a page is slow, the report also says which part of it caused the delay. If something on a page breaks, the browser sends a short error report with the page address and the error message. These reports help us find slow pages and broken features, and they are sent without your account details.
2.6 Messages You Send Us
If you email us, we receive your email address and whatever you put in your message. We use it to reply and to fix the problem you told us about.
2.7 Technical Logs
The servers that deliver the site keep ordinary technical logs, such as the time of a request, the address requested, the browser type and the IP address. We use these logs to keep the site running, investigate errors and protect it from abuse, and we keep them only as long as those purposes need.
2.8 What We Do Not Collect
We never ask for your real address, phone number or payment details. The site does not ask for access to your camera, microphone, contacts or location.
3. Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics (property G-237VT03LBQ) to understand how many people visit and which pages they use. Google receives information about your browser, your device and the pages you visit, and like any web request this exposes your IP address to Google. Advertising storage is always off.
How it starts depends on where you are. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, analytics cookies stay off until you choose Allow analytics. Until then, your browser sends Google measurement pings without cookies, which Google uses only for overall and estimated traffic reports. We show this choice on your first visit when your device's time zone is in one of those countries. Everywhere else, Google Analytics is on from your first visit and sets its own cookies on this site so that visits and sessions can be measured. Our tag asks for a cookie lifetime of one year without extending it on each visit.
To turn analytics off, open Analytics preferences and choose Turn off analytics. You will find Analytics preferences in the page footer and in the game settings. Analytics cookies also stay off if your browser sends a Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track signal. Turning analytics off removes this site's analytics cookies, and after that your browser only sends the pings without cookies described above. It cannot delete information Google has already received.
We turn off Google signals and ad personalization, and we do not send Google your account details, email address, username, saved games or moves. Page addresses are sent without anything after the question mark or the hash sign, and we do not pass on the address of the site you came from. How long Google keeps analytics data is set in our Google Analytics property. See Google's Privacy Policy for how Google handles this information.
4. Optional Usage Measurement
We also have our own usage measurement, which is off unless you turn it on in the game settings or with the control at the bottom of a guide page. It tells us whether a guide leads to a game being opened, a first move and a finished game. It records a random identifier for your browser tab, the page address, the game and its rules, the type of event and the version of the site. It does not record names, IP addresses, text you type, anything after the question mark in a page address or the site you came from.
The tab identifier is kept in your browser's session storage and changes after 30 minutes without activity. Event records are deleted after 30 days. While usage measurement is on, guide pages also send performance timings. Turning it off clears the waiting events and the tab identifier and stops new reports. A Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track signal keeps it off.
5. How We Use Information
We use the information above to run the games, save your settings and progress, operate accounts and leaderboards, check that submitted wins are real, measure how the site is used, fix problems, reply to your messages and keep the site secure.
6. How We Share Information
We do not sell your personal information. We share it only with the service providers that help us run the site, such as our hosting, database and storage providers and, when we send you account emails, our email provider Resend. They process it on our behalf and are required to protect it. Google receives the information described in section 3. The official Google sign-in button loads from Google when it is shown, even before you click it, and signing in with Google also involves Google's own service. We may share information if the law requires it, or where it is needed to protect the rights, safety or property of our players or of Solitaire.cx.
7. Cookies and Local Storage
The games rely mainly on your browser's local storage. If you sign in, a cookie keeps you signed in. Google Analytics cookies are set only while analytics is on, as described in section 3. Our Cookie Policy lists what is stored, why it is there and how to clear it.
8. Your Choices and Rights
You can play every game without an account, and you can clear the data saved in your browser at any time in your browser settings. Clearing it resets your local settings, progress and statistics.
If you have an account, you can download a copy of your account data or delete your account in your account settings. Deleting your account removes your profile, saved results and game history from our servers, and your wins are taken off the leaderboards. You can also write to [email protected] to ask us to access, correct or delete the information we hold about you.
Depending on where you live, laws such as the GDPR or the California Consumer Privacy Act may give you further rights, including the right to object to some processing and the right to complain to a data protection authority. We honor valid requests under those laws.
9. Children
Solitaire.cx is made for a general audience and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has given us personal information, contact us and we will delete it.
10. How Long We Keep Information and How We Protect It
We keep personal information only as long as it is needed for the purpose it was collected for. Account information is kept until you delete your account. Usage measurement events and unused game timing records are deleted after 30 days. We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect what we hold, including storing passwords only in hashed form. No method of storage is perfectly secure, but we work to keep your information safe.
11. Where Information Is Processed
The site and its providers may process information in countries other than your own. Where that happens, we take steps to keep your information protected to the standard described in this policy.
12. Changes to This Policy
We may update this policy as the site changes or the law requires. When we do, we will change the date at the top of this page. If a change is significant, we will make that clear on the site.
13. Contact
For any question about this policy or your information, email [email protected]. You can also use the contact page.