Privacy
Your peace of mind matters to us, both during and after your game. Sudoku Pause minimizes the information it collects and keeps account features optional.
Advertising status. No advertising is currently served on Sudoku Pause. The game, journal, Learn pages, printables, and soundscapes are available without ad requests or ad personalization.
Guest play stays local. If you do not sign in, puzzle grids, notes, timers, daily history, hint allowance and preferences remain in your browser. They are not uploaded to an account.
Optional Google accounts. If you choose “Continue with Google,” Google and Netlify Identity provide the account identifier, name, email address and optional profile image needed to authenticate you. We use these details only to operate your private Zen Garden account.
Cloud progress. Signed-in accounts store puzzle history, unfinished games, times, daily hint usage, achievements, timezone and appearance or sound preferences in Netlify’s data services. This makes progress and your selected background texture available across your devices. Profiles are private and are never made discoverable.
Your controls. Signing out removes synced account data from that browser but keeps the cloud copy for your next sign-in. The profile page includes an account deletion control that permanently removes the linked Zen Garden account and its cloud progress.
Optional analytics. Google Analytics 4 is loaded only after you explicitly choose “Accept analytics”. Before that choice, no Google Analytics script, request, cookie, or pre-consent analytics data is collected. When enabled, it records page visits and useful interactions such as puzzle starts and completions, article reading progress, printable downloads, and links from the Journal to a puzzle. We do not send names, email addresses, account identifiers, puzzle grids, or individual cell contents. Google may process device, browser, approximate-location, and interaction information under its own terms. You can change your choice at any time using “Privacy choices” in the footer.
Privacy choices. Essential local storage keeps requested features such as puzzle progress, appearance, textures, hints, accounts, and your privacy decision working. Analytics is optional and denied by default. Advertising is currently inactive: no AdSense script, advertising request, or advertising cookie is used.
Editorial illustrations. Journal header images may be generated with OpenAI tools, then selected and reviewed by the Sudoku Pause editorial team. The images do not contain personal visitor data.
No advertising data sharing. Because advertising is not currently served, Sudoku Pause does not currently send visitor data to an advertising network or use advertising cookies. Your data is not sold. If this changes in future, this notice and the consent controls will be updated before advertising is enabled.
Authentication is provided by Google and Netlify Identity, and synchronized progress is stored with Netlify. Their own privacy terms also apply when you use those services. We may update this notice as features change, while keeping account use optional and transparent.
Contact us with any privacy questions.