Privacy policy

This policy explains how FunVerdict handles personal information when you visit this website, subscribe to our dispatch, join the Plus membership list or allow browser notifications. It is written to meet the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles.

1. Who operates this site

FunVerdict is an independent editorial desk publishing verdicts on free-to-play mobile puzzle games from Australia. FunVerdict is the entity responsible for the personal information described here. You can reach the desk at press@funverdict.com for any question about this policy or about the information we hold.

2. What we collect

• Cookies and similar identifiers stored in your browser, including the record of your choice on our cookie notice.
• Technical data sent automatically by your browser: IP address, user-agent string, device and screen characteristics, referring page and preferred language.
• Server logs kept by our hosting provider: requested URL, date and time, response code and the volume of data served.
• Details you type into the dispatch form: your email address and, if you choose to give it, your name, together with the fact and time of your consent.
• Push identifiers created when you allow browser notifications: an anonymous subscription token issued by your browser vendor and held by our notification provider.
• Plus membership details for readers who join the list: the email address given, the status of the membership (on the list, seat confirmed, cancelled) and the dates on which that status changed.

We do not ask for identity documents, home addresses or telephone numbers, and there is no field for them anywhere on this site. Card numbers and other payment credentials are never collected or stored by FunVerdict: where a membership is paid for, those details are entered with an external payment provider and stay with it.

3. Why we use it and on what basis

Technical data and essential cookies are used to serve pages correctly, keep the site available and remember your cookie choice. Form details are used only to send you a note when a verdict is published or updated. Plus membership details are used to confirm a seat when one opens, to send the member digest and to keep a record of the membership status and its dates, which we also need in order to answer questions about it. Analytics data helps us understand which entries are read. Advertising identifiers may be used by our partners to measure promotional placements.

Where the law requires your agreement, we rely on your consent: you give it by ticking the box on the dispatch form, by allowing browser notifications, and by accepting optional cookies on the notice. Consent can be taken back at any time, as described in section 7, without affecting anything done before you withdrew it.

4. How long we keep it

• Server logs: up to 12 months, then deleted or aggregated.
• Dispatch subscriptions: until you unsubscribe, plus a short period to record that the unsubscribe request was carried out.
• Push subscriptions: until you revoke the browser permission or your token expires.
• Plus membership records: for as long as the membership runs, plus the period Australian law requires records of a transaction to be kept.
• Cookies: for the periods listed in the cookie policy.

5. Who else sees it

We do not sell personal information. It is shared only with the service providers that make this site work, and only for the purposes described above:

• Our hosting and content delivery provider, which serves the pages and keeps technical logs.
• OneSignal, acting as our processor for push subscriptions and for email addresses submitted through the dispatch form.
• An external payment provider, which handles membership payments and holds the payment credentials we never see.
• Advertising networks and measurement partners whose tags may be present on the site if you accept advertising cookies.

Some of these providers operate outside Australia, which means your information may be handled overseas. We take reasonable steps to require them to protect it in a manner consistent with the Australian Privacy Principles. We may also disclose information where we are required to do so by Australian law.

6. Cookies

Cookies and the categories we use are described in detail in the cookie policy, together with their purposes and lifetimes and the ways to switch them off.

7. Your rights

Under the Privacy Act 1988 and the Australian Privacy Principles you may ask us to give you access to the personal information we hold about you, to correct it if it is wrong, out of date or incomplete, and to delete it where we are not required to keep it. You may also revoke your consent at any time by using the unsubscribe link in any dispatch message, by revoking the notification permission in your browser settings, or by clearing cookies and choosing again on our notice.

Write to press@funverdict.com and we will answer within a reasonable period, normally 30 days. If you are not satisfied with our response, you can complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), the national privacy regulator, using the contact channels published on the OAIC website.

8. Keeping information safe

The site is served over an encrypted connection. Access to subscription data is limited to the people who run the desk and to the providers listed above under their own security obligations. No online service can promise absolute protection, so we also keep the amount of information we collect as small as the site allows.

9. Children

This site is written for a general adult audience and we do not knowingly collect information from children. If you believe a child has submitted details through the dispatch form, tell us and we will remove them.

10. Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the new version appears on this page with a fresh date at the top. Material changes affecting how we use personal information will be announced on the home page as well.

11. Contact

Questions about privacy go to the editorial desk: press@funverdict.com