Naval Games
Privacy policy
This policy explains what information the Naval Games (the games and pages at https://navalgames.benjudson.com) use, why, and the choices you have. We don't ask you to make an account, and we don't sell personal information.
Information kept in your browser
The games remember some things in your own browser's storage, so they're there next time. They stay on your device and aren't sent to us:
- The Bridge Sim's settings, your best scores for each map, and the routes you plan on its electronic charts.
- Chart images already downloaded, kept for up to 30 days so they load quickly and work offline.
- In Colregs Clash: the name you play under, your choice of questions, and, for the length of a browser session, a random key that lets you rejoin a game you dropped out of.
You can delete all of this at any time by clearing this site's data in your browser's settings.
Your microphone (the Bridge Sim)
The Bridge Sim listens for spoken orders only after you allow it to use your microphone. Speech recognition is done by your browser's built-in speech service; in Google Chrome, that means your voice is sent to Google to be turned into text, under Google's privacy policy. The game itself doesn't record or store your voice, and only reads the text it gets back. You can withdraw the microphone permission in your browser at any time.
Multiplayer (Colregs Clash)
When you host or join a multiplayer game, your browser connects to the other players' browsers. Our server introduces them: it passes on the connection details each browser offers, which include its network addresses, and, if a direct connection can't be made, it relays the game's messages (players' names, answers and scores). It holds a game only in memory while it's open and doesn't keep it afterwards. To find a direct route, browsers also contact public STUN servers run by Google and Cloudflare, which see your IP address. Other players in a game see the name you choose, so don't use one you'd rather keep private.
Charts
Chart images in the Bridge Sim come from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Canadian Hydrographic Service. Our server usually fetches them on your behalf; if it can't, your browser asks those services directly, and they see your IP address as with any website.
Server logs
Like most websites, our web host may record standard request logs (IP address, browser type, the page asked for and the time) to keep the site running and secure. We don't use them to identify individuals.
Advertising and cookies
Some pages show advertisements served by Google AdSense. The Bridge Sim itself shows no ads.
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your previous 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 may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google's Ads Settings. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalised advertising at www.aboutads.info.
- Google explains how it uses information from sites that use its services at How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.
Where the law requires your consent to these cookies (for example in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland), you'll be asked for it before personalised ads are shown, and you can refuse. If you refuse, Google may still show non-personalised ads, which use cookies only for things like frequency capping and fraud prevention.
Children
The games are meant for a general audience of students and mariners and are not directed at children under 13. We don't knowingly collect personal information from children.
Changes
If this policy changes, we'll update it here and change the date at the top.
Contact
Questions about privacy: navalgames@benjudson.com.