Privacy Policy

At Sudoku9x9.com, the privacy of our visitors is of extreme importance to us. This privacy policy document outlines what information is received and collected by Sudoku9x9.com and how it is used.

• Log Files

  When visiting our site, your internet protocol (IP) address, browser information, date/time stamp and referring pages are sent to our server, and saved in log files. We use this information to analyze the traffic trend for better management of our site. IP addresses, and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.

• Cookies

  A cookie is a small piece of data sent from a web server to a browser. The browser stores the data in a file and send back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

  First Party Cookies (directly placed by Sudoku9x9.com)

  Currently Sudoku9x9.com may use only one cookie which is strictly necessary for the service. When you save your unfisnished puzzle in the middle of the game, a cookie containing only the partially filled puzzle information and the expiration time of this cookie will be stored in your broswer so that you can come back to our site to finish the puzzle at a later time. This cookie is strictly necessary for this service. It only contains the partially filled puzzle information, the expiration time of the cookie, and nothing else. Also Sudoku9x9.com will not set this cookie in your broswer unless you give the direct request to save your unfinished puzzle by voluntarily clicking on the "Save" link on our webpages.

  Besides this one cookie mentioned above, no other first party cookies are currently used.

  Third Party Cookies (placed by our advertising partners)

  Third Party ad servers may also use cookies on this site to track users activities for advertisement effectiveness and other reasons according to their own privacy policies. Sudoku9x9.com has no access or control over these cookies that may be used by them. Currently Google adsense is our third party advertising vendor and it uses cookies to serve ads on our website. Users may visit the following URL - https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads for Google's own cookie and privacy policies.

  If you are not comfortable with the use of cookies and wish to disable this function, you may do so through your browser settings. More detailed information about cookie management with web browsers can be found at the browsers' respective websites. But after disabling the use of cookies, some functions on our website may not work properly.

• Personal Information

  We do not request any personal information from you. In our old verion, users may have submitted their names to us if they participated in our daily Sudoku challenges. This information along with their IP addresses were recorded in our database. If they made the Top 10 list, part of their IP address will be displayed on our webpages. Other than that, this information will not be used for any other purposes.