Games Vault privacy
Games Vault is the games site at gamesvault.uk, including the Games Vault iOS app that loads this site. This page describes that product. The wider Maths Vault teacher site has its own privacy policy for subscriptions, classrooms, and worksheets.
Accounts
You can play as a guest. A guest account is not created, and guest progress stays in this browser until you clear it.
If you create an account, we store a username, a display name, an email address, a password hash, and an avatar on our server. We do not ask for a school name, a school year, or a date of birth. Before the account is created you confirm that you are 13 or over.
While you are signed in we can store scores, streaks, badges, friends, multiplayer results, and the star ratings you give games for that account. Other players only see each game's average rating and how many ratings it has, never who gave them. There is no player-to-player chat.
Deletion
Sign in, then delete the account in the app from Settings (the gear), from Profile, or from Delete account in the menu. That removes the email address, display name, streaks, badges, friends, game ratings, and saved gameplay for that Games Vault account, and signs you out. We may keep a short security log of the deletion (the time and IP address) without the email address or display name.
Other data
Game pages use first-party analytics on our own server to see which pages are used. To opt out, email admin@mathsvault.uk.
Some pages load the Font Awesome icon kit from Font Awesome’s servers. Font Awesome may receive technical data such as your IP address.
Pop Trumps book and film cards can open Amazon when you tap a link. Amazon may then receive the technical data a normal visit involves. Those links are for physical books and films. A purchase does not unlock anything in the game. Where an Amazon Associates tag is used, the page says so.
The session cookie mathsvault_session keeps you signed in. It is an essential cookie.
Daily reminder
If you turn on the daily reminder in the Games Vault iOS app, we store the push token for that phone so we can send one notification after 4pm UK time. If you are signed in and a daily streak is at risk, the wording can name that game. If you have already played every daily you were keeping, that phone is skipped. The token is removed when you turn the reminder off or delete your account. It is not sold, and it is not used to follow you on other sites.
Games Vault Plus purchases
Games Vault Plus is bought through Apple in the iOS app. Apple processes the payment. We do not receive your payment details, your Apple Account, or your purchase history. The app asks Apple, on your device, whether Plus has been bought. The number of free practice games you have played today is kept on your device only.
How long we keep it
Account data is kept while the account is active. Deletion, started in Profile, removes the personal data described above. Guest data in the browser stays until you clear site data.
Contact
Privacy questions: admin@mathsvault.uk. Support: Games Vault support.