Privacy Policy

Effective Date: March 23, 2026

Welcome! Your privacy is incredibly important to us. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect your information when you visit and play our free online card games, including Solitaire, Hearts, Spades, and FreeCell.

Our core philosophy is to provide hassle-free gaming. We do not require you to create an account, register, or provide personal contact information (like your name or email) to play our games. However, to keep our website running smoothly, save your game progress, and serve the advertisements that keep our games 100% free, certain non-identifying technical data is collected automatically.

By accessing or using our website, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1. Information We Collect

A. Information Collected Automatically

When you visit our site to play a game, our servers and third-party partners automatically collect standard log data and device information. This may include:

Device and Browser Data: Your browser type, operating system, screen resolution, and device type (desktop, tablet, or mobile).
Usage Information: Pages viewed, the specific card games played, time spent on the site, and the time and date of your visit.
IP Address: We collect your IP address to understand your generalized location (e.g., city or country). This helps us provide localized content, analyze traffic, and comply with regional privacy laws.

B. Game Progress and Local Storage

We use your browser’s Local Storage (HTML5) and cookies to save your active game progress, high scores, and custom settings (such as audio preferences or card themes). This data is stored locally on your own device—not on our external servers. You can delete this data at any time simply by clearing your browser’s cache and site data.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the automatically collected information for the following purposes:

To operate, maintain, and optimize the website and its games.
To monitor and analyze site traffic and gameplay trends to improve the user experience.
To identify and fix bugs, glitches, or technical issues.
To serve personalized and non-personalized advertisements (which fund the website and keep the games free).

3. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Like almost all free gaming websites, we rely on "cookies" (small text files placed on your device) and similar tracking technologies.

Essential Cookies: Strictly necessary for the website to function properly.
Functional Cookies: Used to remember your game settings and save your progress.
Analytics Cookies: Used to track site performance and user behavior (e.g., Google Analytics).
Advertising Cookies: Used by our advertising partners to serve ads relevant to your interests.

Managing Cookies: You have the right to accept or refuse cookies. You can instruct your web browser to refuse all non-essential cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. Note: If you disable local storage and cookies, some features (like saving your high scores or resuming a game) will not function properly.

4. Third-Party Services and Advertising

To keep our card games entirely free, we use third-party advertising companies to display ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

Ad Networks (e.g., Google AdSense): Our ad partners use tracking cookies to serve targeted advertisements based on your prior browsing history. You can opt out of personalized advertising from Google by visiting Google’s Ads Settings.
Google Analytics: We use analytics tools to understand how players interact with our site. You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Industry Opt-Outs: You can opt out of many third-party ad networks globally by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) or the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA).

5. Children's Privacy

Our free card games are designed for a general audience and are not intentionally targeted at children. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13 (or 16 in certain jurisdictions such as the EU). If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us immediately so we can locate and delete such data.

6. Your Privacy Rights (GDPR & CCPA/CPRA)

Depending on your geographic location, you may have specific legal rights regarding your data:

European Users (GDPR): You have the right to access, rectify, or erase your personal data, as well as the right to restrict or object to certain processing. Upon entering our site from an EU location, you will be presented with a cookie consent banner to manage your tracking preferences.
California Residents (CCPA/CPRA): You have the right to request access to the data we collect, request deletion of your data, and the right to opt-out of the "sale" or "sharing" of your personal information for targeted advertising purposes.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the information provided below.

7. Links to Other Websites

Our website may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link (including an advertisement), you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit, as we have no control over their content, privacy policies, or data collection practices.

8. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in legal requirements, technology updates, or our business practices. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Effective Date" at the top of the document. Your continued use of the website after such changes constitutes your acceptance of the new policy.

9. Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or how your data is handled, please reach out to us support[at]bestfreecardgames.com