Privacy Policy

Last updated: May 30, 2026. Effective date: May 26, 2026.

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Free AI Games ("we", "us", or "the site") is a small family-run website at freeai.games that hosts original browser games. This policy explains, in plain English, what information we collect, how we use it, who we share it with, and the choices you have. We are a dad and two kids learning to code with AI assistants — we have tried to keep this honest and short. If anything here is unclear, please contact us.

1. Who runs this site

Free AI Games is operated by an individual — Chris A., based in the United States — with help from his two kids (see the about page). The site is not a company, has no employees, and does not collect personal data for any commercial purpose other than the limited advertising described below. The only way to reach us is the contact form; Chris reads every message personally.

2. What information we collect

We deliberately collect as little as possible. There are no user accounts, no sign-ups, and no payment anywhere on the site. What our server actually records on each request (you can read the exact code in our public server.js if you're curious):

• Request metadata. Your IP address, browser user-agent string, the referrer (where you came from, including any UTM parameters), the page path you requested, and the time of the request. The IP is used for security (rate-limiting, banning probes scanning for WordPress exploits) and to estimate a rough location label like "Internet · 73.x.x.x" — we do not run a full geo-IP lookup.
• Session activity. For each visitor IP we keep an in-memory session with: total page hits, time on site (in minutes), a short history of the last 20 paths visited, and which game slugs you opened. This is stored in a single rolling file capped at the most recent 1,000 sessions.
• Aggregated, anonymous play counts. A per-game counter and a 7-day-bucket count for "trending." These are not tied to any individual user.
• Local browser storage (not sent to us). Some games save your high scores, settings, or in-progress game state in your browser's localStorage. A few games (e.g. Monster Drop) let you submit a short nickname to a daily leaderboard — that nickname is sent to our server only when you click submit, and is the only thing close to "personal" we ever receive. localStorage is not a cookie, but it does persist on your device until you clear it.
• Contact form submissions. If you write to us, we keep your name, email, and message so we can reply.
• Data collected by third-party services we use. See section 4.

We do not ask for or store passwords, payment details, government IDs, or precise location, and we never sell any of the data above.

3. Cookies and similar technologies

This site uses three distinct categories of browser storage. We try to keep them clearly separated:

• First-party functional cookies / storage. Set by us (freeai.games) to remember things like which game you last played, mute/sound settings, or whether you've already dismissed a one-time notice. None of this is shared with anyone.
• First-party localStorage. Used by individual games to save high scores, in-progress game state, daily-puzzle history (Semantix, Strings, Wurdle), and the nickname you choose for leaderboards. This is not a cookie, but it is stored on your device until you clear it. It is never sent automatically to our server — only when you actively submit a score.
• Third-party cookies. Set by Google AdSense (advertising), Google Analytics 4 (audience measurement), and Google reCAPTCHA (contact-form spam protection). Details and opt-outs are in section 4.

You can clear cookies and localStorage at any time through your browser's settings. Doing so will reset local high scores but will not stop you from playing any game.

4. Third-party services

A. Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics 4 (measurement ID: G-CFSZVQL6GG) to understand basic traffic patterns — which pages are popular, what country visitors are from, what browsers they use. Google Analytics sets cookies on your browser to do this. We have not enabled advertising features in Analytics, do not use it to build advertising profiles, and do not link analytics data to ad-network data.

You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking entirely by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

B. Google AdSense (required disclosures)

This site uses Google AdSense (publisher ID: ca-pub-9896534455572588) to display advertisements. Google requires us to tell you, plainly, the following:

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites.
• Google's use of advertising cookies (including the DoubleClick / DART cookie) enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and other sites on the internet.
• You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ad Settings, or opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalised advertising by visiting https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads.

You also have these additional choices:

• Opt out across many ad networks at once through the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) or the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) consumer choice pages.
• Block all cookies through your browser settings. The site and all games will continue to work; ads will be non-personalised or not shown.

For EU, UK, Swiss, and California visitors, a Google-certified Consent Management Platform (CMP) — Google's Funding Choices messaging — is shown before personalised ad cookies are set, and you can change your choice at any time through the link Google's message provides. For more on how Google uses data when you use partner sites or apps, see Google's privacy policy for partner sites.

C. Google reCAPTCHA (contact form only)

Our contact page is protected by Google reCAPTCHA to keep spam bots out. reCAPTCHA reads device and behaviour signals (mouse movement, browser data) and is subject to Google's Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. It is not used anywhere else on the site.

D. Web fonts and CDN-hosted libraries

We load fonts from Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com / fonts.gstatic.com), and a small number of game pages load helper libraries (such as a confetti animation library) from cdn.jsdelivr.net. These providers may log the IP address that requests the file. We do not control this and we receive no analytics back from them.

That is the complete list of third parties we send any traffic to. No Facebook Pixel, no TikTok pixel, no Hotjar, no affiliate trackers, no data brokers.

5. Children's privacy (COPPA)

Most of the games on this site are family-friendly and we know many of our players are kids — in fact, this site is partly built by a 7-year-old and a teenager. We take children's privacy seriously:

• We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
• We do not require any account or sign-in to play.
• We ask Google to serve only non-personalised ads on this site to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and similar laws.
• If you are a parent and believe that a child under 13 has provided personal information through our contact form, please contact us immediately and we will delete it.

6. Your rights under GDPR (EU/UK visitors)

If you are accessing this site from the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, or Switzerland, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

• The right to access what data we hold about you.
• The right to request correction or deletion of that data.
• The right to object to processing based on legitimate interest.
• The right to withdraw consent at any time for cookie-based tracking.
• The right to lodge a complaint with your national data protection authority.

Our legal bases for processing the minimal data we collect are: legitimate interest (server logs, abuse prevention, aggregated analytics) and consent (advertising cookies, where consent is required by local law). EU/UK visitors are shown a Google-managed consent message before personalised ads are loaded; you can change your choice at any time using the link Google provides.

To exercise any of these rights, contact us through the contact form. We will respond within 30 days.

7. Your rights under CCPA (California visitors)

If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act (as amended by the CPRA) gives you the following rights:

• The right to know what personal information we collect about you.
• The right to delete personal information.
• The right to opt out of the "sale" or "sharing" of personal information for cross-context behavioural advertising. We treat the use of advertising cookies by Google AdSense as a form of "sharing" under the CPRA. To opt out, use the cookie controls described in section 4B or set your browser's Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal — we honour GPC for visitors detected as being in California.
• The right to non-discrimination for exercising any of these rights.

To exercise these rights, contact us through the contact form. We do not sell personal information for money.

8. Data retention

• Raw server logs: up to 30 days, then deleted.
• Aggregated, anonymous play statistics: indefinitely (they cannot be tied back to any individual).
• Banned IP list (for abuse prevention): until the abuse stops or the IP is no longer in use.
• Contact form submissions: kept only as long as needed to respond, then deleted.

9. Security

The site is served over HTTPS. We do not store passwords, payment information, or any sensitive personal data because we do not collect any. Server access is limited to the site operator. No security setup is perfect, but we work to keep what little data we do hold safe.

10. Changes to this policy

If we materially change this policy, we will update the "Last updated" date at the top and, where appropriate, post a notice on the home page. Continued use of the site after a change indicates acceptance.

11. Contact

Questions about this policy, requests under GDPR or CCPA, or anything else privacy-related can be sent through our contact form. Chris reads and responds to every message personally.