Privacy policy

hoondy.com (“this site”, also called Hoondy Sq) is a personal website run by Hoondy.com, LLC. This page explains what information this site and the services it uses collect when you visit, and what you can do about it. If anything here is unclear, email admin@hoondy.com.

The short version

There are no accounts and no sign-ups. You never have to give this site your name or email.
This site shows ads from Google AdSense and measures traffic with Google Analytics. Both use cookies. Visitors in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland are asked for consent first.
If you post a score to a game’s monthly high score board, the nickname you pick and your score are public for that month.
The LQ Test has no leaderboard. If you leave its box ticked, your result is added to anonymous statistics with no name and nothing that identifies you.
Settings such as the dark theme are kept in your own browser.

The digital billboards on this site are served by Google AdSense, and ads appear only inside those billboards. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.

You can opt out of personalized advertising in Google’s Ad Settings, or opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies at aboutads.info.
Learn more in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.

When no paid ad is available, the billboards show promotions for this site’s own games and test. Those don’t use cookies.

If you visit from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, Google shows a consent message the first time you arrive, whichever page you land on. Your choice there decides whether Google may use cookies for personalized ads and whether Google Analytics may set its cookies. Until you choose, Google Analytics runs with its cookies turned off, and without your consent you see non-personalized or limited ads only. To change your answer later, use the Privacy and cookie settings button below (it appears only where the message applies), or clear this site’s cookies and the message will ask again on your next visit.

Analytics (Google Analytics 4)

This site uses Google Analytics 4 to understand which pages are read and how people find them. It collects things like the pages you view, your approximate location (city or country), your device and browser type, and the page that referred you. Google Analytics 4 does not log or store IP addresses. You can opt out with the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.

Comments (Disqus)

Older blog posts have a comment section hosted by Disqus. Nothing from Disqus loads until you press Show comments. After that, Disqus’s own privacy policy applies to anything you do in the comment box.

Monthly high score boards

Rush Hour and Scorched Borough keep monthly high score boards. Posting a score is optional. When you do, the leaderboard service stores:

the nickname you type (pick anything; please don’t use your full real name if you’d rather stay anonymous),
your score and a few game details shown on the board (for example the stage you reached in Rush Hour, or the difficulty and shots used in Scorched Borough),
the country your connection comes from, derived from your IP address and shown as a flag,
a salted, one-way hash of your network address, used to limit spam and to keep one entry per player each month. It is cleared once the month is over. The IP address itself is never stored.

Boards reset at midnight New York time on the 1st of each month. Entries on the board are public, and old boards are deleted after two years. To have an entry removed sooner, email admin@hoondy.com with the nickname, game and month.

LQ Test statistics

The LQ Test doesn’t rank anyone. Instead, it can add your result to anonymous statistics that show everyone where they land (the score distribution on the results page) and that will be used to recalibrate the test’s norms.

What is sent: when a valid result is shown, your answers, the language you took the test in, the test version and how long it took. Results flagged as invalid are never sent, and each completed test is sent at most once.
What is stored: the date (day only), the language, the test version, your answers, and the score and leadership type computed from them. The time it took is checked and not stored. There is no name, no IP address, no hash of your IP address, no country and no time of day in these records.
Spam limits: to stop one connection from flooding the statistics, the service counts recent submissions per salted hash of your network address, kept apart from the results and deleted by a daily cleanup.
How to opt out: untick “Add my anonymous result to the LQ statistics” on the test’s start page, and nothing is sent. Your browser remembers that choice. Because the stored records can’t be traced back to anyone, a single result can’t be looked up or removed later.

Stored in your browser

This site uses your browser’s local storage (not cookies) for a few conveniences: your light or dark theme choice, the nickname you last used, your personal best scores, whether you want your LQ results counted, which LQ results were already added, and in-progress app state. It never leaves your device except as described above. Clearing your browser’s site data removes all of it.

Other services

Fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, which means your browser requests them from Google’s servers.
Videos in some old posts are embedded from YouTube, which may set its own cookies when you play them.
Hosting is provided by GitHub Pages, which may keep standard server logs. The leaderboard and statistics service runs on Cloudflare.

Children

This site is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect personal information from them.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top of this page will change too.

Contact

Questions or requests about your data: admin@hoondy.com.