Privacy Policy

What is collected when you use the site, and what choices you have. Last updated November 10, 2026.

Overview

This privacy policy explains what information is collected when you visit https://arkanoid.org (the "site"), how it is used and what choices you have. The site is operated by Arkanoid.org ("we", "us"). We do not publish a postal address; you can reach us about anything in this policy through the contact form. The terms of use are on a separate page.

In short: there are no accounts, the game keeps its data in your own browser, we use Google Analytics to understand how the site is used, and ads are served by Ezoic and its partners, who may use cookies.

No accounts

You can play without signing up. We never ask for your name, email address or other personal details in order to play. The only place where you can give us personal information on purpose is the contact form, described below.

Information stored on your device

The game saves its data in your browser's local storage on the device you play on. This includes your campaign progress (unlocked levels, stars and best scores per level), your current campaign and Endless runs (level or wave, score and lives), your best scores and furthest wave, your daily best scores and streak, your statistics, your editor draft and the levels you saved in the level editor, your settings (sound, vibration, dark theme, reduced motion, CRT scanlines, paddle speed and language), whether you have seen the tutorial and whether you have closed the language suggestion.

This data stays on your device. It is not sent to our servers, it is not linked to your identity, and we cannot see or restore it. You can delete it at any time by clearing the site data for arkanoid.org in your browser settings; this also deletes your progress, best scores, streak and saved levels.

When you share a level from the editor, the layout of the level is written into the share link itself. Anyone who has the link can see and play the level. The link contains only the bricks of the level, nothing about you.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics (measurement ID G-KZY8EGP1Y7), a service provided by Google, to understand how many people visit the site, which pages they open and how the game is played. The Google Analytics script loads on every page of the site.

Google Analytics sets first-party cookies and collects information such as the pages you visit, the time of your visit, the page that sent you to us, your browser and device type, screen size, language and an approximate location derived from your IP address. The game also sends a few events: starting a game or a level, clearing a level with its stars, the end of a game with its score, level and mode, continuing after a game over, a new best score, catching a power-up, finishing a daily level, playing or sharing a level from the editor, sharing a result, completing the tutorial, opening fullscreen, changing the language and answering the language suggestion, together with the language and the mode.

We use these reports in aggregate to improve the game and the site, not to identify individual visitors. You can learn how Google uses this data in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services. To stop Google Analytics from collecting data in your browser on all websites, install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, or block analytics cookies in your browser settings.

Advertising by Ezoic

This site uses the services of Ezoic Inc. ("Ezoic"), including to manage third-party interest-based advertising. Ezoic may employ a variety of technologies on this site, including tools to serve content, display advertisements and enable advertising to visitors of this site, which may use first-party and third-party cookies.

A cookie is a small text file sent to your device by a web server that lets the site remember information about your browsing activity. First-party cookies are created by the site you are visiting, while third-party cookies are set by other domains. Ezoic and its partners may place third-party cookies, tags, beacons, pixels and similar technologies to measure interactions with advertisements and to choose which ads to show. Disabling cookies may limit some features of the site, and rejecting cookies does not remove advertisements but results in non-personalized advertising.

The following information may be collected, used and stored in a cookie when personalized ads are served:

IP address
Operating system type and version
Device type
Language preferences
Web browser type
Email (in a hashed or encrypted form)

Ezoic and its partners may combine this data with information collected independently to deliver targeted advertisements across various platforms and websites. Ezoic's partners may also gather additional data, such as unique IDs, advertising IDs, geolocation data, usage data, device information, traffic data, referral sources and interactions between users and websites or advertisements, to create audience segments for targeted advertising across different devices, browsers and apps.

You can read Ezoic's own privacy policy and the list of Ezoic's advertising partners. The partners and their privacy policies for this site are also listed at the end of this page. Ads appear around the game and between the sections of our pages, never on the playfield.

Rewarded ads

When a game in the campaign or in Endless is over, the game offers to continue once per run. If you choose to continue, Ezoic may show a short rewarded ad first. These ads are served by Ezoic and its partners in the same way as the other ads on the site, with the same cookies and the same choices. The game itself only learns whether the ad was shown, so that it can let you continue. If no ad is available or ads are blocked, you continue without one. Watching a rewarded ad is always your choice; you can simply start a new game instead.

The consent banner and your choices

Where the law requires it, for example in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, the site shows a consent banner from Ezoic's consent platform before personalized ads are served. There you can accept or reject cookies and choose which purposes and partners you allow. These choices apply to advertising; they do not switch off Google Analytics, which loads on every page.

You can change your choice at any time by clearing the cookies and site data for arkanoid.org in your browser; the banner then appears again on your next visit. You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings and use the Google Analytics opt-out add-on linked above. If you block or clear local storage for this site, the game cannot remember your progress, best scores, saved levels and settings.

Star ratings

You can rate the game with the stars on the game pages. When you vote, we store your rating (1 to 5 stars), the time of the vote and a one-way hash made from your IP address, the date and a secret value. The hash lets us accept one vote per visitor per day; your IP address itself is not stored with the vote. Individual vote records are deleted after about 30 days. After that, only the totals (the number of votes and their sum) are kept, and they are used to show the average rating.

The contact form

If you send us a message through the contact form, we receive what you type into it: the message, the optional subject and, if you enter one, your email address, together with any screenshots you choose to attach. A small anti-spam check runs in your browser before the message is sent. The form is handled by a feedback service that delivers the messages to us. We use your message only to answer you and to fix the problem you reported, and we do not add you to any mailing list.

Server logs

Like almost every website, our web server records basic technical information about each request, such as the IP address, the date and time, the page requested and the browser's user agent. These logs are used to keep the site secure and running, and they are not used for advertising.

Selling and sharing of personal information

We do not sell personal information ourselves. Under some US state privacy laws, the use of advertising cookies by our ad partners may count as "selling" or "sharing" personal information; you can limit it with the consent banner where it is shown, the tools linked above and your browser settings. Google, Ezoic and their partners may process data in the United States and other countries.

How long data is kept

Data in your browser's local storage stays until you delete it. Contact form messages are kept only as long as we need them to answer you and to fix the problem you reported, and we delete them earlier if you ask. Individual rating records are deleted after about 30 days. Server logs are kept for a limited time for security and then deleted. Google Analytics, Ezoic and its partners keep the data they collect according to their own policies.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct or delete personal information about you, to object to or restrict certain processing, to withdraw consent, to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information or of targeted advertising, and to complain to a data protection authority. Because we do not keep accounts or profiles, most of the data related to your visit is held by your browser or by the services named above. You can use the consent banner, the opt-out tools linked on this page and your browser settings, and you can send us any request through the contact form. We will answer within the time required by the law that applies to you.

Security

The site is served only over an encrypted HTTPS connection. We take reasonable steps to protect the little data we hold, but no method of transmission over the internet or of electronic storage is completely secure.

Children

Our brick breaker is a game for all ages. The site does not ask anyone, child or adult, for personal information in order to play, and the game stores its data only on the device. The site does show ads from third parties, as described above, so we recommend that younger children use it with an adult. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has sent us personal information, for example through the contact form, tell us and we will delete it.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy when the site or the services we use change. The date below shows when it was last changed. If you keep using the site after a change, the updated policy applies.

Last updated: November 10, 2026.