Privacy policy
Last updated September 6, 2026.
This page describes what the Jellycade portal stores. It is written to be read, not to be survived.
Key points
- We do not sell your personal data, and we do not run advertising trackers.
- An account is a display name and an identifier. Signing in adds the email address your provider gives us; playing as a guest adds nothing.
- You choose your display name yourself. The name on your Google, Apple or Discord account and your email address are never shown to other players and never sent to the games you play.
- Analytics is optional, off until you accept it in Europe, and switchable off anywhere.
- You can ask us to delete your account and everything attached to it.
Who we are
Jellycade Inc. operates this portal and decides what is collected on it. In the language of European law we are the controller of that data. You can reach us in writing at:
Jellycade Inc.c/o Robertson Stromberg LLP
Suite 600, 105 21st Street East
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7K 0B3
Canada
We are based in Canada, so your data is handled here, along with the places named under who else sees your data.
What we store, and for how long
Everything in this table exists because the portal needs it to work. There is no profile built about you, and no record of a game you merely looked at.
| What | Why | How long |
|---|---|---|
| Account record — an identifier and the display name you chose; plus the email address, provider identifier and the name on the account if you sign in with Google, Discord or Apple. Only the display name and the identifier are ever shown or shared | So the same account works across every game | Until you ask us to delete it |
| Sign-in tokens from your provider | To confirm the sign-in. We never receive your password | With the account |
| Session record — including the IP address and browser user-agent the sign-in came from | To keep you signed in, and to investigate abuse of an account | 30 days from last use, then it expires |
| Ratings — your thumb on a game | So the score is one vote per person and you can change your mind | Until you change it, or the account is deleted |
| Game progress, balances and entitlements | So they follow you between devices | Until the account is deleted |
| Presence — that a tab is currently on a game | To show live player counts | Minutes; it ages out on its own and is never stored historically |
On what legal basis (EEA and UK readers)
- Performing our agreement with you — the account, session, ratings, progress and balances. Without them there is no portal to use.
- Our legitimate interests — keeping the session’s IP address and user agent to detect and investigate abuse, and counting live players. We keep these narrow and short.
- Your consent — analytics, wherever we ask you for it. You can withdraw it at any time, and withdrawing is as easy as giving it.
Cookies and browser storage
Some of this is cookies and some is local storage, which is the same idea with a different name: a value your browser keeps and hands back to the site. This is all of it.
| Name | What it is for | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|
portal.* cookies | Your signed-in session, or your guest identity. Required for the site to work | 30 days, refreshed as you use the site |
jellycade.analytics.v1 | Whether you accepted or rejected analytics | Until you change it or clear site data |
jellycade.analytics.region.v1 | Whether your region requires us to ask — a yes or no, never the country itself | 30 days |
jellycade.locale.v1 | The language you picked, so an address without one in it takes you back to the same language. Set only when you choose one | A year, or until you clear site data |
jellycade:play-tier | Which version of the game player your browser needs, so it is worked out once rather than every time | Until you clear site data |
jellycade:presence-tab | A random per-tab number so a page refresh does not count you twice in the player count | Until the tab closes |
_ga, _ga_* | Google Analytics. Set only if you accept analytics, and deleted when you withdraw | Up to 2 years, or until you withdraw |
Only the analytics row is optional; the rest are what makes the site function, so there is no toggle for them. Clearing site data in your browser removes all of it.
Optional analytics
Whether we ask you first depends on where you are. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland we ask before loading Google Analytics or setting any analytics cookie, and load nothing until you accept. Everywhere else analytics is on unless you turn it off. Use Cookie settings in the footer to change your choice, in either direction, at any time.
To tell the two apart we read the country our network provider, Cloudflare, derives from your connection. We keep only the resulting yes-or-no in your browser, never the country itself, and if we cannot tell where you are we ask.
What Google receives when analytics is on
Google receives information about your visits — the public pages and games you browse, referral sources, and browser and device information — and its cookies distinguish visits and sessions. We use the resulting reports to understand traffic and improve the portal.
We do not send your account identifier, email address, game-room links or sign-in tokens to Analytics. Advertising personalisation and Google signals are switched off. Analytics does not measure anything you do inside a game. Withdrawing consent stops further collection and deletes the portal’s analytics cookies; it does not erase what Google already collected. See how Google uses information from sites that use its services.
Games in frames
Games are loaded in a frame from their own origin. The portal passes each game a short-lived token identifying you, and nothing else. A game’s own data handling is covered by its own policies where they differ.
Who else sees your data
- Cloudflare — hosts and delivers the portal, so every request passes through it.
- Google, Discord and Apple — only if you choose to sign in with them, and only to complete that sign-in.
- Google Analytics — only if analytics is on, as described above.
- The studios whose games you play — the short-lived token above.
These are service providers acting on our instructions, not buyers of data. Some of them are in the United States, so data reaching them leaves Canada and the EEA; each relies on its own published transfer safeguards, such as standard contractual clauses and the EU–US Data Privacy Framework. We may also disclose data where the law requires it.
Your rights
Write to us at the address above and we will act on any of the following. We will not charge you for it, and we will not treat you differently for asking.
- Get a copy of what we hold about you, in a portable form.
- Correct anything wrong, including your display name.
- Delete your account and everything attached to it — the account record, its sessions, its ratings and its balances.
- Object to, or restrict, a use that rests on our legitimate interests.
- Withdraw consent to analytics, which needs no letter at all: Cookie settings in the footer.
Where to complain if we get it wrong
Tell us first — we would rather fix it. If that does not resolve it, you can complain to a regulator: in Canada, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner; in the EEA, the supervisory authority for the country you live or work in; in the United Kingdom, the Information Commissioner’s Office. Residents of some US states have their own rights to know about and delete personal information, and to opt out of its sale or sharing. We do not sell or share personal information as those laws define it, and the rights above are open to everyone regardless of where they live.
Children
Our games are suitable for a general audience, but the portal is not intended for children under 13, and you should not create an account if you are younger than that. In parts of the European Economic Area the age at which a person can consent for themselves is higher — up to 16 — and below it a parent or guardian needs to agree.
We do not knowingly collect more from a child than the account record described above. If you believe a child has given us data, write to us and we will delete it.
Changes
If this policy changes in a way that affects what we store, we will say so on this page and move the date at the top, rather than quietly editing it.