In brief
Gazetly ("we", "us", "our") is a free-to-play entertainment website designed to need as little of your information as possible:
- Signing up takes only a name and, optionally, a byline.
- Your profile, Scoop Coin balance and progress are stored in your browser, not on our servers.
- We never ask for passwords, payment cards, bank details or other financial information.
- We don't use advertising cookies or track you across other sites.
What we use
Sign-up details
Your name and optional byline let us greet you, show your name in the masthead and let you sign back in on the same browser.
Gameplay and rewards
To run the site's features we keep your Scoop Coin balance, the games you've launched, time played, XP, rank, badges, daily streak, milestones collected and a short log of recent coin activity.
Preferences
We remember settings such as your break-reminder interval and whether you've seen the cookie notice.
Contact form
If you contact us, you give us your name, email address and message so we can reply — see "Correspondence" below.
Browser storage
Sign-up, gameplay and preference information is saved in your browser's localStorage, where it stays until you clear it — that's how your profile and balance survive between visits.
| Key | Type | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
gaz.profiles.v1 | localStorage | Reader profiles on this browser: name, byline, Scoop Coin balance, progress and rewards | Until site data is cleared |
gaz.activePlayer.v1 | localStorage | Which profile is signed in | Until you sign out or clear site data |
gaz.settings.v1 | localStorage | Preferences such as break reminders | Until site data is cleared |
gaz.cookieNotice.v1 | localStorage | Remembers that you've seen the cookie notice | Until site data is cleared |
gaz.session.v1 | sessionStorage | Start of this visit and minutes played | Until the tab is closed |
Session storage
sessionStorage covers the current visit only — for example when it began and how many minutes you've played — so that optional break reminders can appear. It's deleted automatically when you close the tab or window.
Embedded games
Our five games are hosted on gazetly.com and load inside each game page. They can read your byline and Scoop Coin balance so you can play with your coins. Nothing else about you is shared with them.
Cookies
The site itself sets no advertising or tracking cookies. Our host may set strictly necessary technical cookies (for security or load balancing), and fonts are served by Google Fonts, which receives your IP address when fonts load. See the Cookie Policy for more.
Correspondence
When you message us through the form or by email, we use your name, email address and message only to reply, and keep the conversation only as long as it takes to deal with it.
Your control
Your information lives in your browser, so you decide what happens to it:
- Sign out from the player menu to end your session on this browser.
- Delete everything by clearing this site's data in your browser settings. Your profile, balance and progress are removed permanently.
- In a private or incognito window, your profile disappears when you close it.
We can't view, recover or transfer browser-stored profiles because they never reach our servers.
Children
Gazetly is intended for people aged 18 and over. We don't knowingly collect information from children.
Updates and contact
We may revise this policy; the date above shows the current version. Questions go to [email protected] or our contact page.