Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us. Learn how we protect and handle your information.

Last updated: January 2025

Information We Collect

When you visit and use Merge Rot, we may collect certain information automatically and through your interactions with our website:

  • Usage Data: Information about how you interact with our games and website, including game preferences, session duration, and gameplay statistics.
  • Device Information: Details about your device, browser type, operating system, and screen resolution to optimize your gaming experience.
  • Log Data: Server logs that include your IP address, access times, and pages visited for security and analytical purposes.
  • Cookies and Similar Technologies: We use cookies to enhance your experience, remember your preferences, and analyze website traffic.

How We Use Your Information

We use the collected information for the following purposes:

  • Providing and maintaining our gaming services
  • Improving user experience and optimizing game performance
  • Analyzing usage patterns to enhance our game offerings
  • Ensuring website security and preventing abuse
  • Displaying relevant advertisements through third-party services
  • Complying with legal obligations and protecting our rights

Third-Party Services

We work with trusted third-party services to enhance your experience:

  • Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors interact with our website. Google Analytics collects information anonymously and reports website trends.
  • Microsoft Clarity: We use Microsoft Clarity to understand user behavior and improve our website design and functionality.
  • Google AdSense: We display advertisements through Google AdSense, which may use cookies to show relevant ads based on your interests.

These services have their own privacy policies, and we encourage you to review them.

Data Security

We implement appropriate security measures to protect your information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the internet is 100% secure.

Cookies

Our website uses cookies to enhance your browsing experience. You can choose to accept or decline cookies through your browser settings. However, declining cookies may limit some features of our website.

Your Rights and Choices

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal information:

  • Access: You can request to know what personal information we have about you
  • Correction: You can request that we correct inaccurate personal information
  • Deletion: You can request that we delete your personal information
  • Portability: You can request a copy of your personal information in a machine-readable format
  • Opt-out: You can opt-out of certain data processing activities

To exercise these rights, please contact us at [email protected]. We will respond to your request within 30 days.

Data Retention

We retain your personal information only as long as necessary to provide our services and for legitimate business purposes:

  • Usage data and analytics: Up to 26 months (Google Analytics default)
  • Server logs: Up to 12 months for security purposes
  • Cookie data: As specified in each cookie's settings
  • Contact information: Until you request deletion or we no longer need it

International Data Transfers

Your information may be transferred to and processed in countries other than your own. We ensure that such transfers comply with applicable data protection laws and that your data receives adequate protection.

Children's Privacy

Our games are suitable for all ages, but we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 (or under 16 in the EU). If you believe we have collected information from a child under these ages, please contact us immediately and we will delete such information.

Parents and guardians can contact us to review, delete, or stop the collection of their child's information.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any significant changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our data practices, please feel free to contact us through our website or email us at [email protected].