We respect your privacy, thus only a bare minimum of usual analytics and marketing tools are used. We have taken extra measures to protect your privacy.
We use Google Analytics with limitations. For your privacy, we have taken extra measures to limit the data we gather (and also to comply with GDPR): we do not use Google Analytics advertisement features, your IP-address is anonymized, and Google Analytics cookie expiration time is set to 30 minutes (instead of the default of two years), thus we can't track your actions in the long run, only during the current session.
In sum, Google Analytics' anonymous data is used to see how many visitors we receive, and what you do on our sites. The purpose is to understand what we can do to get more purchases for our games by means of marketing, website improvements, and developing our games.
We also use Google Tag Manager (GTM) on our websites. GTM is used to manage scripts easily and add additional tracking to our sites. Additional tracking means mostly sending information to Google Analytics on button clicks (or other activity). For instance, we want to know how many people click “submit email subscription” on our page. We also track link clicks, contact link clicks, and file downloads. The purpose of link clicks is to understand how our site is used and what material and functions interest users. Also, we use it to debug problems on our site, should something malfunction. We also track how far users scroll on our web pages. This information is used to make bounce rate (how many people leave our pages without reading) more accurate, and understand how many people are actually interested in our content. This is scripted in Google Tag Manager. Please do remember this data is anonymous, and Google Analytics does not reveal the user, only the clicks.
If you want to disable all tracking altogether, change your browser's cookie settings or install a browser plugin to do that. (Technically. this does not prevent all tracking: one can still analyze server-side logs. We do not do that.) Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager are both Google's products. You can read more about Google's compliance with data protection laws here.
Mailing list
The very widely used MailChimp is used for the mailing list provider. We use the mailing list solely to inform you about news regarding Polte games. We highly recommend you read MailChimp's privacy policy here.
Sixth Extinction application
We ask user consent for allowing analytics tracking. This is asked during the first run of the game. The setting can later be accessed from the settings. Without consent, we do not track anything from the game. If tracking is allowed by the user, we send anonymous information about the user to Piwik PRO, in order to understand how the game is played, improve the experience, and optimize our marketing campaigns. Piwik PRO is "An analytics suite with a focus on user privacy and data security – the perfect alternative to Google Analytics". In the Sixth Extinction game, you can view the information being sent on the consent screen. You can read more about Piwik PRO's compliance with data protection laws here.
Contact us
If you have any questions about our privacy policy, please email us.