PRIVACY POLICY

Plain-English summary: Fun Clicker is free to play with no account. We don't ask for your name, email or age. Leaderboards use auto-generated handles (e.g. BraveTiger_421) — never a name you type. We collect almost nothing about you ourselves. The site is supported by Google AdSense advertising; if you're in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or another region that requires it, you'll be asked for consent — via Google's certified consent tool — before any personalised-advertising cookies are set, and you can change your choice at any time. We never sell anything about you. The site is aligned with the EU / UK GDPR, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA/CPRA) and equivalent US state privacy laws.

1. Who this policy is from

This policy is published by FunClicker.com ("we", "us", "the site"), the business operating the website at funclicker.com. FunClicker.com is the operator and the business responsible for any information processed through the site.

You can contact us at any time using the contact form or by emailing [email protected]. That is the channel for privacy requests, data deletion, complaints and general enquiries.

2. Who the site is for

Fun Clicker is a general-audience games site intended for users aged 13 and older. It is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. Some games lean into horror and may not suit younger players — see each game page for what to expect before you start.

3. What we collect

3.1 Data you actively give us

• An auto-generated leaderboard handle. The first time you submit a high score, your browser generates a random handle of the form AdjectiveNoun_NNN (for example BraveTiger_421) and stores it locally. That handle is sent to our server alongside your score and shown on the public leaderboard. We never ask you to type a name. You can regenerate your handle at any time by clearing your browser data or using the regenerate button on the leaderboard.
• Contact form submissions. If you write to us via the contact form we keep the name, email and message you supply so we can reply.

3.2 Data your browser sends automatically

• A hashed IP address. When you vote on a game or submit a score we hash your IP with a daily-rotating salt and store the hash to prevent vote-stuffing and abuse. We do not store the raw IP. The hash cannot be reversed and rotates every 24 hours.
• Server log entries. Like every website, our hosting platform briefly logs request URLs, timestamps and user-agent strings. These logs are kept for diagnostic purposes only and rotated on a standard schedule (typically 14–30 days).

3.3 Data stored in your own browser (not on our server)

• Favourites and recently-played. Your favourites star and your recently-played list are kept in your browser's localStorage. They never leave your device.
• Your leaderboard handle. Stored in localStorage so the same handle persists across runs. Never transmitted except alongside a score submission.
• Session flags. Lightweight flags such as "this player has already seen the pre-play interstitial today" are stored in sessionStorage and cleared when you close the tab.

3.4 What we do NOT collect

• We do not require an email address, phone number, real name, age, or date of birth to play any game.
• We do not allow user-typed names on leaderboards. Handles are auto-generated by your browser and follow a fixed pattern.
• We do not build user profiles of our own. There is no concept of an account on this site.
• We do not operate cross-site trackers of our own. Third-party advertising cookies are covered in section 6.
• We do not sell personal information.

4. How we use the data we have

We process the limited data described above only for these purposes:

• Operating the site — displaying leaderboards, counting plays, recording thumbs-up / thumbs-down ratings, running the daily challenge.
• Preventing abuse — vote-stuffing protection via the hashed IP, contact form spam-filtering, basic rate-limiting.
• Responding to you — replying to contact form messages, fulfilling privacy requests, fixing bugs you report.
• Serving advertising — via Google AdSense (see section 6). Whether the ads you see are personalised depends on your consent choice where consent is required, and on Google's own controls elsewhere.
• Complying with the law — retaining and producing records where required by applicable law.

We ourselves do not build behavioural profiles or perform cross-site tracking. Advertising personalisation, where it applies, is carried out by Google as described in section 6 and is subject to your consent where the law requires it.

5. How long we keep things

• Leaderboard entries: retained while the site operates. You can request removal at any time by sending us the game name, the handle that submitted the score, and an approximate date.
• Ratings (thumbs up/down): retained while the site operates; rows include a hashed IP only.
• Play counts and daily-challenge attempts: aggregated by date, not by user. Retained indefinitely as anonymous totals.
• Contact form messages: retained for up to 90 days from submission, then deleted unless an active conversation is ongoing or we are required to retain them for a legal reason.
• Hashed IP addresses: hash rotates daily; old hashes have no meaning after 24 hours.
• Server logs: rotated by the hosting platform on a standard schedule (typically 14–30 days).

6. Advertising and third-party recipients of data

The site is supported by display advertising provided by Google AdSense. When Google's ad tags load on a page you visit, Google receives limited technical data (IP address, page URL, basic device information) and may set cookies or similar technologies to deliver, cap, measure and — where permitted — personalise ads. Google acts as an independent third party and data controller for the data its tags collect. Google's privacy policy is at policies.google.com/privacy, and information on how Google uses data from sites that use its services is at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

Personalised advertising and your consent. Where the law requires consent for personalised advertising — including the EEA, the UK, and Switzerland — you are asked to make a choice before any non-essential advertising cookies are set, via Google's certified consent tool (see section 7). If you do not consent, Google serves non-personalised (contextual) ads instead of personalised ones. You can withdraw or change your consent at any time.

You can also control Google's ad personalisation directly at myadcenter.google.com, and opt out of personalised advertising from participating vendors at optout.aboutads.info and youronlinechoices.eu.

We do not sell personal information, and we have no financial relationship that involves exchanging your personal information for money.

7. Cookies and consent

Cookies set by this site directly: none essential to advertising; we use only local browser storage (localStorage / sessionStorage) for gameplay features such as favourites and your leaderboard handle.

Cookies set by our advertising partner (Google): technical cookies to deliver, frequency-cap and measure ads, and — where you have consented, or where consent is not legally required — cookies used to personalise ads.

If you visit from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, or another region requiring affirmative consent, you will see a consent prompt before any non-essential cookies are placed. This is managed via Google's Privacy & Messaging consent tool, a Google-certified Consent Management Platform that supports the IAB Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF v2.2) and Google Consent Mode v2. You can change your consent at any time using the privacy / consent link in the footer.

You can clear all cookies and local storage at any time through your browser's settings. Doing this will reset your favourites and the leaderboard handle stored on this site.

8. Children

The site is intended for general audiences aged 13 and older and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. We have no registration, and no name, email, age or date-of-birth collection from anyone. If we learn that we have inadvertently collected personal information from a child under 13, we will delete it promptly.

If you are a parent or guardian and believe a child under 13 has provided us with personal information — for example through the contact form, or a leaderboard entry submitted from a device your child used — please contact us via the contact form and we will delete it. Parents and guardians are responsible for deciding which games are appropriate for a particular child; some titles are horror-themed and are not suitable for younger players.

9. Your US privacy rights

9.1 California residents (CCPA / CPRA)

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (as amended by the CPRA) you have the right to: know what personal information we collect; delete personal information we hold; correct inaccurate personal information; opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information for cross-context behavioural advertising; limit use of sensitive personal information; and not be discriminated against for exercising any of these rights.

We do not sell personal information. Where personalised advertising would involve "sharing" for cross-context behavioural advertising under California law, you can decline it through the consent tool described in section 7, or via the ad-industry opt-outs in section 6. We do not collect sensitive personal information. To exercise any right, use the contact form; we respond within 45 days as required by the CCPA.

9.2 Other US states with consumer privacy laws

If you are a resident of Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Texas, Oregon, Tennessee, Delaware, Iowa, Indiana, Florida, Montana or another US state that grants similar rights (access, deletion, correction, portability, opt-out of targeted advertising, opt-out of sale), you may exercise them via the contact form, or opt out of targeted advertising through the consent tool and industry opt-outs in section 6. We treat these requests under the same process as CCPA requests and respond within 45 days. Where a specific state law sets a shorter response deadline we will meet that deadline.

10. International visitors (EU / EEA / UK)

If you access the site from the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the UK GDPR apply to the limited personal data we process about you. Your rights include access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection, portability, withdrawal of consent and the right to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority (the UK Information Commissioner's Office or your national EU data-protection authority).

Our lawful bases for processing (per UK / EU GDPR Article 6) mirror the purposes in section 4: legitimate interests for scores, ratings, play counts and abuse-prevention; consent for contact form submissions and for non-essential / personalised-advertising cookies set by our advertising partner (collected via the consent prompt described in section 7, which you can withdraw at any time); legal obligation where retention is mandated.

To exercise any right, use the contact form; we respond within one month as required by GDPR / UK GDPR.

11. International transfers

If you are located outside the country where our hosting is based, the limited data we process (hashed IP, leaderboard handle, contact form content) may be transferred to and processed in another country. We rely on Standard Contractual Clauses, the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and equivalent transfer mechanisms where applicable. Our advertising partner may process data in its own jurisdictions; this is covered by its published transfer mechanisms.

12. Security

We use prepared SQL statements, server-side input validation, HTTPS across the whole site, and a daily-rotating IP hash. Passwords are not stored because we do not have user accounts. Reasonable technical and organisational measures are in place to protect the limited data we do hold, but no internet transmission is 100% secure.

13. Changes to this policy

If we make material changes to this policy we will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page and, where the change is significant, we will surface a notice on the homepage for at least 30 days. Continued use of the site after a change constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

14. Contact

For any privacy question, data request, deletion request, complaint or correction, please use our contact form or email [email protected]. We aim to respond to all enquiries within 7 working days. Formal data-subject requests are fulfilled within the timelines required by law (45 days under CCPA, one month under GDPR / UK GDPR).