Cookie Notice

01 What a cookie even is

A cookie is a small file a site asks your browser to hold onto and hand back on your next visit. Local storage is a related tool that does much the same job but never travels back to the server on its own. Most of what Greatest Games remembers uses the second kind — it lives with you, not with us.

02 What we keep on your device

None of the following is a cookie in the traditional sense, and none of it leaves your browser unless you ask it to. We list it here because it’s the honest answer to “what does this site remember about me?”

Game progress

Your streak, completed games, and per-game stats — kept in local storage so your progress stays yours. No account required to hold it.

Today's progress

A small daily record so a half-finished puzzle is still there when you come back later the same day.

Settings

Preferences such as reduced motion, contrast, and a game's difficulty toggle. These sit in local storage and never leave your device.

Your cookie choice

One more local-storage entry remembers whether you said yes or no to analytics, so we don't ask again on every visit.

Your sharing choice

If you choose "Do not sell or share" below, a local-storage entry remembers it. A session-storage entry also notes when a hashed email was already sent in this tab, so it is sent at most once per tab.

03 The cookies we set

Signing in sets a first-party session cookie — the strictly-necessary kind — so the site knows it’s still you on your next visit; until you create an account and sign in, no session cookie is set. A Greatest Games Plus member also gets a first-party gg_plus cookie, which holds no personal data and only tells the page to switch Raptive’s ads off for you; it is strictly necessary to deliver the ad-free plan you paid for. Separately, with your consent where consent rules apply, two analytics providers set cookies: PostHog sets first-party analytics cookies to recognise a returning visitor and stitch a single session together, and Google Analytics sets its first-party _ga cookies for the same job on Google’s side. Advertising cookies are covered separately, in section 05.

04 Analytics

To understand whether a puzzle landed, we record usage events — to our own first-party log, to PostHog, and to Google Analytics 4 (loaded through Google Tag Manager). PostHog includes session replay of how a page was used, with all text inputs masked so nothing you type is recorded. Events carry an anonymous device and session identifier, not your name — tied to your account only if you’re signed in. We never store raw IP addresses, your email, or anything you typed in this data.

We also have Google signals enabled in Google Analytics. For visitors signed in to a Google account who have consented within Google, this lets Google associate their visit with its own information so we can see aggregated, de-identified demographic reports — broad age, gender, and interest groups across our audience, never tied to any individual, and withheld entirely for groups too small to stay anonymous. This same data may be used for ads personalization in connection with the advertising in section 05. Turning analytics off below stops it, and signed-in Google users can also manage the association at Google Ads Settings. The full picture is in our Privacy Policy.

05 Advertising cookies

The games are free because the site carries advertising, which Raptive places on our behalf. Raptive and its advertising partners set advertising cookies, which may be used to show ads based on your prior visits to this and other sites. Where consent rules apply, you’ll be asked first. Our Privacy Policy explains how Raptive uses this data. You can opt out of personalised advertising at Google Ads Settings and aboutads.info/choices.

Do not sell or share my personal information. When you’re signed in, the page sends Raptive a one-way hash of your email so its partners can recognise you without seeing the address (the Privacy Policy explains it). California law may treat that as a sale or share. The switch below stops it on this browser. A Global Privacy Control signal from your browser stops it too. The links in our emails also carry the hash, and Raptive’s own code reads it from there. The switch does not stop that. A Global Privacy Control signal does (the Privacy Policy has the details).

06 Your choice, managing & clearing

The switch below is live — it’s the same choice the consent bar records, and it works wherever you’re visiting from. Turning analytics off stops PostHog, Google Analytics, and our own event log in one go; the games play exactly the same either way.

Beyond that, you’re in control of all of it. Clearing your browser’s site data wipes our local storage and any session cookie in one go — the games still play, you’ll simply start a fresh streak. Most browsers also let you block cookies entirely; the main thing that breaks is staying signed in.

The best cookie notice is the one that ends with a working off switch.— Our standing aim

For the fuller picture of what we collect and why, see our Privacy Policy. If something here is unclear, we’d rather you asked.