Privacy Policy

You can read oowls without an account; you only need one to comment on a story, or to use the community in our apps, Oowls and DeadEye. This page explains the little data we handle and the choices you have.

What we collect

• Your account. If you log in — with Google on this website or in either app, or with Apple on this website or in the Oowls app — we keep your account ID, name, email address and profile photo, copied each time you log in. Apple may give us a private relay address instead of your email, and no photo. Your name and photo appear beside what you post; your email is never shown. Google or Apple handles the log-in itself, through Google's Firebase sign-in service and under their own privacy policies.
• What you post. We keep your comments, and your community posts, replies and likes from the apps. With each comment we also keep a scrambled (one-way hashed) form of your IP address to stop spam; the address itself is not stored.
• App sign-in. The apps keep you logged in with a token that we store only in scrambled form. It ends when you log out.
• Messages to us. If you email us or use the contact form, we keep your name, email address and message to deal with it.
• Server logs. Our host records standard request details — IP address, time, page and browser — to keep the site running and secure.

Cookies

• Essential. A session cookie and a security token keep you logged in, protect our forms and count each story's reads once per visit. They expire after two hours without a visit.
• Your cookie choice. cookie_consent remembers for a year that you accepted our cookie notice.
• Advertising. Google and its partners set their own cookies to show and measure ads — see below.

You can block or delete cookies in your browser at any time. The site still works without them, except for logging in, commenting and the contact form.

Advertising

oowls is paid for by Google AdSense.

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your previous visits to this website or other websites.
• Google's advertising cookies let it and its partners serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and other sites on the internet.
• You can turn off personalised advertising in Google's Ads Settings, and opt out of other vendors' cookies at aboutads.info.
• How Google uses information from sites that use its services: policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

How we use it

To run and protect the site and the apps, publish and moderate comments and community posts, answer your messages, and show the ads that pay for the site. We do not sell your personal data.

Children

oowls is a news site for a general gaming audience and is not directed at children. If you are a parent and think your child has given us personal data, email us and we will delete it.

Your choices

To see, correct or delete your data — including your account or anything you posted, on the site or in the apps — email support@oowls.in.

Changes

We update this page when what we collect changes. The date at the top shows the latest version.