Privacy Policy

What This Policy Covers

This policy applies to block-blast.cc, a website centered on the browser game Block Blast, along with a curated selection of closely related puzzle games. The site lists games under 1 published category: Puzzle.

Playing games on this site never requires creating an account, logging in, or storing passwords. Every game runs directly in your web browser without downloading software or installing plugins. If a game stops working, it is deactivated so that all accessible titles remain playable.

This document describes how first-party features handle technical and submitted information, as well as the roles of third-party service providers and embedded game hosts.

Information We Collect Automatically

When you browse the site, every page view is recorded first-party. This record includes the requested path, the page type, the game identifier when a game page is loaded, a device class, the referring host, and a timestamp. We record only the referring host and never the full referring URL. No third party receives this page-view data. Raw page-view records are deleted after 3 days, and only daily aggregated totals are retained after that window.

To count daily unique visitors, the site generates a visitor identifier using a cryptographic hash composed of a secret value, the calendar date, your IP address, and your browser user-agent string. Because the date is part of the hash, your visit counts once per day and cannot be linked from one day to the next. The IP address itself is not stored in any form in this visitor counter.

In addition, when you like or favourite a game, your IP address is stored so that the same action is not counted multiple times.

Information You Send Us

If you choose to use the contact form, the site stores the name, email address, subject, and message text you provide. With each contact submission, we also store the sender IP address and browser user-agent string. These technical details are used to rate-limit messages to 3 per hour and to block abusive senders. Contact messages are accessible to site administrators and remain stored until manually deleted.

Every game page also features a report form. Submitting an issue stores the reason selected from a fixed list, which includes copyright concerns, your written description, an optional email address if provided, your IP address, and a timestamp. The IP address limits submissions to three reports per game per address per day. Reports are tracked with an administrative status—marked as reviewed, resolved, or dismissed—which records the handling administrator and the timestamp.

Comments You Post

When you post a comment on a game page, the site stores the commenter name you enter, your comment text, an optional email address if you choose to provide one, your IP address, and your browser user-agent string.

Comments are not deleted on an automated schedule. A submitted comment remains on the site until it is removed, and all comments attached to a specific game are deleted if that game is removed from the catalog.

Search Queries

When you search for titles on the site, your search query is logged alongside your browser user-agent, the referring page, and your current session identifier.

Within these search logs, your IP address is converted into an irreversible hash and stored strictly in that hashed format. Search logs never contain your readable IP address.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

The site uses cookies and similar technologies to maintain essential functionality. We set our own first-party session cookie so that your browsing session holds together as you navigate across pages. This session cookie is restricted to HTTP requests, is sent over HTTPS where the connection allows, expires after 30 minutes of inactivity, and has its identifier replaced every 30 minutes.

In addition to first-party session management, cookies or similar identifiers may be placed by external services. Embedded third-party games may set their own cookies within their frames. If analytics or advertising tools are enabled on the site, those services may also set cookies or store technical identifiers according to their respective configurations.

Analytics

The site may use Google Analytics to measure website traffic and evaluate overall usage patterns. When Google Analytics is enabled, it may set cookies or use similar identifiers to gather data about visits.

Data processed by Google Analytics is handled under Google's own privacy policies and terms. We do not receive direct personal identifiers from this analytics tool.

Advertising

The site may display advertisements served by Google AdSense. When advertising is active, Google may use cookies and similar digital identifiers to deliver ads across the site.

These identifiers operate under Google's own privacy policies and settings. We do not control Google's ad serving infrastructure or the data handling practices of third-party advertising networks that participate in ad auctions.

Third-Party Games and Embedded Content

Games displayed on this site are embedded inside inline frames (iframes) hosted by third-party providers. This site lists and embeds these games; it did not build, develop, or publish any of the titles.

When an embedded game loads, the third-party provider receives your IP address and may set its own cookies or local storage entries. We do not control the scripts, data collection mechanisms, or external policies of these third-party game hosting platforms.

Block Blast sits at the center of the site, accompanied by related puzzle titles. Every game is hosted to run in-browser without downloads, plugins, or accounts. If an embedded title fails to function, it is deactivated.

Children’s Privacy

Our audience includes school-age children, and we handle personal information with extra care. Nothing collected directly by this site is used to build an advertising profile of a child.

Because playing games requires no registration, logins, or user accounts, children can access games without submitting personal profile details.

How Long We Keep Data

Different types of information are retained according to specific operational rules:

Raw page-view logs are deleted after 3 days, with only daily totals kept thereafter. Session cookies expire after 30 minutes of inactivity and rotate their identifiers every 30 minutes. Contact form submissions and their technical metadata remain stored until manually deleted by an administrator. Game reports are retained along with their administrative status record. Comments stay on the site until removed, or are deleted whenever the associated game is removed.

Your Rights and Choices

You can manage or clear cookies at any time through your web browser preferences. Please note that some site features, advertisements, analytics or embedded games may behave differently when browser storage or third-party scripts are restricted.

If you have submitted a comment, a contact form message, or an issue report and wish to request its removal, you may send your request to the site operator. We review incoming requests sent to our designated mailbox and handle the corresponding stored records.

Changes to This Policy

Any updates or revisions to this Privacy Policy will be posted directly to this page. We encourage visitors to review this page periodically to stay informed about how data is handled.

How to Contact Us

For inquiries, feedback, or data requests regarding this Privacy Policy, you can reach the operator at privacy [at] block-blast [dot] cc. That mailbox is active and monitored.