Privacy Policy ~ Yukkuri Games

Our Site

+ Rather than a policy about how we're going to protect the data + we gather about you, we've got a simpler plan: Our privacy + policy is that personal privacy is mostly good, so we'll try + as hard as we can to not gather data about you. + We'd also like to help you defuse and poison other tracking + services. +

Log Data

+ We do basic logging of HTTP requests in order to help maintain + our site - fix broken links, block spammers, and so on. These + logs look like +

78.55.123.218 - - [03/Sep/2014:13:45:06 +0000] "GET /heroik/heroik.html HTTP/1.1" 200 1616 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0"

+ They contain your IP, the URL you visited, when you visited + it, what browser you were using, and (sometimes) where you + came from. This is stuff your browser sends to every site you + visit, always. If you think it's too much information, most + browsers have some way to stop sending so much - for example, + in Firefox you can set network.http.sendRefererHeader to + false and install User Agent Switcher. +

Mail

+ We host our own email service. Email sent to yuu at + yukkurigames.com + does not go through GMail on our end. + +

Cookie Policy

+ We don't use cookies or anything like cookies to track you. +

+ We use extremely short-lived cookies to prevent + request forgery. These don't contain any identifying + information and they self-destruct after a few seconds. +

+ For long-term data we use HTML5 + localStorage + and other similar client-side storage. This gives you + the benefits of cookies, plus your data is never sent to the + server, so there's nothing to secure. +

Security

+ We don't track any user data via this site, so we have no + special databases to secure. +

+ If you are concerned about your connection being intercepted + by someone else, we offer + HTTPS for our main domain. We would like to offer it + for more, but the CA racket means we can't afford it. + In the future we hope CAs are replaced by something like + Convergence so cheap + security is available for everyone, but right now it doesn't + work reliably. +

Third-Party Links

+ Because this is the web, we link to other sites. Some of our + games are only available from other sites, because trading + money for games requires handling at least a little personal + data. We'd rather that be done by people good at doing it. +

+ Most of these sites don't care about your privacy. Sometimes + at least they'll be providing you a useful service in exchange + for surveilling you, but usually they're willing to sell you + out to a dozen firms via Google in exchange for a pretty bar + graph. +

+ We think it's awful, too. Sorry. +

+ To protect yourself on these sites, we recommend you use + tools to help you browse the web safely and securely. One + straightforward and reliable one is + Disconnect. + PRISM Break has more suggestions, + though it's unfortunately-named because this problem neither + begins nor ends with the PRISM program or state surveillance. +

Other Stuff We Don't Do That You Should Push Other Sites To Also Not Do

+ We don't run Google Analytics or Cloudfront Analytics or + Cloudflare Clicky or any of that garbage. Even if a site + needs to collect data for its own operation, these services + also feed that data into even larger and more troubling + corporate databases. +
+ We don't use Google's fonts; we host them ourselves. Most Wordpress blogs are helping Google track their readers and they don't even know it. At + the very least, demand a cut of Google's revenue if you're + going to work for them. +
+ We don't put stock "share" buttons on our site. Aside from + being useless eyesores these + buttons are used by social media companies to track you on + other sites. Tools like EFF's Privacy Badger and Disconnect can + help block these on other sites. +
+ We don't minify or obfuscate most files — HTML, CSS, + or JavaScript — we serve. This means it's easy for you + to check what we're doing with just your browser. +

Changes

+ We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Since + this document is stored in our site's Git repository, you can easily track these changes. +

Mobile Browsers

+ If you see something on our site labeled (Mobile) Browser + this means you can download it and use it like an app. + Most of the features in it will work even when you're not + connected to the Internet, and usually there will be some + other minor UI changes to better fit a browser-less UI. +

+ Currently we try to support iOS 6+, and Android Chrome (which + means Android 4.0+). The sites will still work fine in most + other mobile browsers, but you won't be able to save them + easily for offline use. +

+ On iOS 6, use the button. + On iOS 7, use the button. + On Android Chrome, use the button. + Then choose Add to Home Screen. +

+ The app will auto-upgrade when you run it while connected to + the Internet. Though, this upgrade process often fails because + of poor browser support for offline mode - if something goes + wrong, you can just delete the application and add it again. + Sorry about that. +

+ +

Licenses

+ As much as possible, we've placed stuff under free software or free culture licenses. + This means you can do pretty much whatever you want with + anything you find on our site, as long as you ensure other + people can do the same thing with what you make. +

+ Most software we've licensed under the + GNU General + Public License, though some parts may be under more + liberal licenses. +

+ However, we also make play aids, expansions, and variants for + games other people have made. The original games are not + always free, and we don't want to lay any claim (exclusive or + otherwise) to them, so our changes are usually released into + the public domain. +

+ If you believe we've violated your licensing terms or + otherwise misattributed some of your work, please let us know + via email at yuu at yukkurigames.com. +

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