1. Who this policy covers
Volenger is an independently operated home for games, community, puzzles, and creative projects. This policy covers the public Volenger website, Button, Arcade, Desktop (VolengerOS), Volenger Accounts used with these services, and other public Volenger services that link to this policy. “We” and “us” refer to the operator of those services under the Volenger brand.
Questions and personal-information requests go to [email protected]. General questions go to [email protected].
A few essentials: Volenger does not run advertising or visitor-analytics trackers, sell personal information, or share it for targeted advertising. We do use technical logs, essential sign-in storage, and gameplay records to operate the services. You can use non-account features without creating a Volenger account.
2. Information we handle
- Visits and security: requests to our servers can produce logs containing an IP address, browser or device information, requested address, referring page, time, and response status. These records help us deliver pages, diagnose failures, and prevent abuse.
- Accounts: account identifiers, basic sign-in profile information, authentication and security records, and the public callsign you choose. The next section explains Google sign-in.
- Arcade: guest or registered callsigns, game and mode, scores, submission times, and information used to validate runs. Registered accounts can also have saved personal bests, game statistics, achievements, and progress that sync across devices.
- Button and Desktop: Button sends presses for its shared counter. Desktop sends activity such as boots, unlocks, discoveries, and qualifying Minesweeper results with a public callsign or generated guest pseudonym, difficulty, and completion time. If you choose optional Volenger Accounts sign-in, Desktop also saves account-linked visits, achievements, discoveries, Minesweeper results, personal bests, and statistics across browsers and devices. Desktop notes, drawings, appearance settings, and window layouts remain in your browser, separately for guest and account sessions; those features do not upload your documents.
- Messages: if you email us, we receive your address, message, and any information or attachments you choose to send. Please avoid sending passwords, sign-in codes, or unnecessary sensitive information.
3. Google and Volenger Accounts
When you use Google to create or sign in to a Volenger account, Google authenticates you and may share basic account information, depending on the permissions and information shown during sign-in: a Google account identifier, email address and verification status, and profile information such as your name and profile picture when provided. Volenger Accounts uses the information it receives to establish and recognize your account, support sign-in, and help protect it; account identifiers and sign-in records are retained for those purposes.
Google handles your Google password; Volenger does not receive it. Basic sign-in does not give us access to your Gmail messages, Drive files, contacts, or calendar. We do not use Google account information for advertising or sell it.
Connected Volenger services receive the identity information needed for their features. Arcade and Desktop each use an internal account identifier to associate your profile and progress; they do not request your Google email or picture for their leaderboards. Your registered Volenger callsign is shared by Arcade and Desktop and is separate from your Google profile name. Desktop guests use generated pseudonyms. Neither service publishes Google names, email addresses, or sign-in identifiers on its leaderboards.
Google processes its part of the sign-in under the Google Privacy Policy. You can review or remove a connection in your Google Account connections. Removing Google access may prevent future sign-in, but does not itself delete information already held by Volenger. Contact us to request that deletion.
4. Cookies and browser storage
Account services use cookies to complete sign-in, maintain authenticated sessions, and protect requests. Arcade and Desktop have separate eight-hour sessions and short-lived sign-in transactions. Signing out ends that service's session; your other Volenger service, Volenger Accounts, or Google session may remain active separately.
The interactive experiences use local browser storage for settings, guest aliases, local progress, achievements, and pending submissions. Desktop also stores notes and drawings there. Local storage can persist between visits until you clear it, use an available reset control, or your browser removes it. Some saved queues may be sent when the service reconnects.
You can block or clear cookies and site data using your browser’s controls. This can sign you out, erase local work or progress, or prevent features from working. Clearing browser storage does not remove records already saved on our servers. These storage mechanisms are used for the services themselves, not advertising tracking.
5. How information is used
We use information to deliver pages and games, recognize accounts, save and synchronize progress, display leaderboards, moderate names and scores, investigate abuse, resolve technical problems, answer requests, and meet applicable legal obligations.
Where data-protection law requires a legal basis, we rely on providing the service you request, legitimate interests in operating and securing it where those interests do not override your rights, legal obligations, or consent where required. You can withdraw consent for processing that depends on it without affecting the lawfulness of earlier processing.
7. Retention and security
Retention depends on the record. Account links, saved profiles, best scores, and achievements can remain while the account or feature is in use; they do not disappear just because you sign out. Public boards and recent game histories have size limits, but those limits do not erase every associated record. Temporary sign-in and submission records expire or are pruned as the services operate.
Logs, support messages, and backups may remain for operational, security, recovery, or legal needs. We retain personal information only for as long as needed for its purpose and applicable obligations. A deletion request may require separate handling of account records, game data, logs, and backups. Information that must be retained for a legal or security reason is limited to that purpose; backup copies may remain until their normal rotation.
We use safeguards such as encrypted connections, access controls, and protected session cookies. No online service or storage system can guarantee absolute security. Please protect your sign-in methods and tell us about suspected unauthorized access.
8. Your choices and requests
You can use available non-account features, choose a non-identifying callsign, sign out, clear local site data, and manage your Google connection. To request access, correction, a copy, or deletion of personal information or an account, email [email protected]. Include the service and account or public callsign involved so we can find the relevant records; do not send your password.
We may need to verify that a request concerns your own information without collecting more than necessary. Deleting account information can remove saved progress or access to connected features. We will explain applicable limits, including information we must retain, and respond within the time required by applicable law.
Depending on your location, you may also have rights to object to or restrict processing, withdraw consent, receive portable data, appeal a decision, or complain to your local data-protection authority. You may use an authorized agent where the law permits. Volenger will not penalize you for exercising applicable privacy rights.
9. Children and families
Volenger is intended for a general audience and is not specifically designed or marketed toward children under 13 or any particular age group. We do not knowingly collect or maintain personal information from children under 13 without any parental consent or other authorization required by applicable law. Account features are also subject to the eligibility and authorization requirements of the sign-in provider.
If a parent or guardian believes a child under 13 has provided personal information to Volenger, they may contact [email protected]. If we learn that we hold a child's personal information without the legally required consent or authorization, we will take appropriate steps to stop further collection and remove or otherwise handle that information as required by law. We encourage parents and guardians to help children avoid sharing personally identifying details through public callsigns or other features.
10. Changes and contact
We will update this page when our practices change and revise the date above. Material changes will be highlighted through the site or another suitable notice. If a new use requires your consent, we will ask before making that use.
Privacy and data requests: [email protected].
General contact: [email protected].