Privacy Policy

What ordinary play does not ask for

Playing does not require a name, email address, phone number, or password. The site has no general user registration or login, and it does not ask for an identity document or payment details before a game.

Players appear under fixed, generic names. There are no public profiles, friend lists, or identities that follow a player from one room to another.

What stays in this browser

AI and same-device modes use local storage for the position, move record, AI level and side, and interface choices such as sound, sidebar state, and theme. Online mode stores a host marker, seat reconnect token, and current room identifier. Those random identifiers restore a room seat. They are not account credentials.

Clearing site data for senet.plyyard.com will usually remove those games, preferences, and reconnect information. After that you may be unable to recover the original seat. Whether uninstalling the PWA also removes site data depends on the operating system and browser, and cannot be promised in every case.

What online rooms sync

The room server processes the room code, side selection, seats and reconnect identifiers, game state, moves, resignations, draw offers, spectator count, and creation and last-activity times. That information is used to validate moves, sync the board, restore seats, and manage the room’s life.

A public room’s code, status, side selection, and occupancy may appear in the lobby, and any visitor may join or watch. Private rooms stay off the public list, but anyone with the complete link or room code may still try to enter, so treat a shared link as an access credential.

Network requests and hosting data

• Pages and board assets: Hosted by this site and loaded through your browser.
• AI search: Move calculation runs in your browser. The position is not uploaded to a cloud engine.
• Online rooms: A WebSocket connection exchanges state with this site’s room service. AI and same-device modes do not need that connection.
• Hosting and security: To deliver pages, prevent abuse, and diagnose failures, hosting may process standard technical data such as IP address, request time, browser headers, requested path, and error information.
• External resources: Board fonts and content images are served by this site. The main interface does not depend on a third-party font or image CDN.

Cookies, ads, and analytics

Ordinary play uses no login cookie. The site uses Google Analytics 4 (measurement ID G-8EWY47HNXY) to understand aggregate traffic such as page views, approximate region, device type, browser, and referral source. The same measurement ID is used on the Ply Yard studio site and other Ply Yard game hosts, so Google may treat visits from the same browser across those hostnames as related. Analytics is not used to replay games and is not tied to a player account. Advertising storage is denied by default. Cloudflare also injects a Web Analytics script to measure page-load performance at the edge. Those beacons go to a same-origin endpoint on this site. Google’s privacy policy is at https://policies.google.com/privacy. Blocking analytics does not stop you from playing.

Installing as an app (PWA)

After the site is added to a home screen, the browser or operating system stores icons, cached files, and site data on the device so it can open quickly. The cache may keep an older version of the interface for a short time. Clearing site data removes local content. Uninstall behaviour varies by platform.

When you write to us

If you write to contact@plyyard.com, we receive the sending address, mail headers, and any text, screenshots, or device details you choose to send. We use them to classify the report, reproduce the issue, and reply. We do not use them to build a marketing list.

Do not send passwords, payment information, identity documents, or unredacted screenshots that contain another person’s private information. None of that is needed to investigate a board issue.

Minors and room links

The site does not ask ordinary players to give their age. Guardians should help minors avoid publishing private-room links, and avoid putting names, schools, contact details, or other identifying information in email or screenshots.

Retention and deletion

Your browser keeps local data until you start a new game, clear site data, or the browser removes it. Rooms are generally cleaned up after both players have been offline for about 20 minutes. Waiting and completed rooms also have their own short expiry. Technical logs and email are kept as long as operations, security, troubleshooting, and applicable law require.

Policy changes

We will update this page if storage, room services, advertising, or third-party integrations change in a material way. A new version applies after it is published. Look at it again after a related feature changes.

Contact us

For a privacy question, email contact@plyyard.com and name senet.plyyard.com plus the specific issue.