Cookie Policy

Last updated: 2 October 2026

1. What we mean by “cookies”

“Cookies” here covers cookies and similar technologies: localStorage, sessionStorage, device identifiers and pixels. They can be set by us (first party) or by an advertising partner (third party). This policy covers lynxy.io and every game published on it.

2. Strictly necessary storage (always active)

These items make the games work and are exempt from consent. They are stored locally and are never transmitted to us. Two of them are shared by the whole site:

• lynxy.theme - your manual light/dark choice. Kept until you clear it.
• lynxy.consent - the cookie choice you made, its date and when the banner was last shown, so the banner is not shown on every visit.

Each game stores its own progress under its own prefix. Sudoku uses:

• sudoku.game - your current puzzle, entries, notes, mistakes, hints and timer. Kept until you clear it.
• sudoku.stats - total points and solved counts per difficulty. Kept until you clear it.

Minesweeper uses:

• mines.game - your current board, the mine layout, opened and flagged tiles, hints and timer. Kept until you clear it.
• mines.stats - total points, wins per difficulty and your best time per level. Kept until you clear it.

Snake uses:

• snake.game - the game in progress: snake, fruit, score and time played. Kept until you clear it.
• snake.stats - total points, games played, fruits eaten and your best score per level. Kept until you clear it.

Block Drop uses:

• blockdrop.game - the game in progress: well, pieces, score, lines and time played. Kept until you clear it.
• blockdrop.stats - total points, games played, lines cleared and your best score per level. Kept until you clear it.

Memory Match uses:

• memory.game - the game in progress: where each card lies, the pairs found, your moves and time played. Kept until you clear it.
• memory.stats - total points, wins, games played and your best moves and time per level. Kept until you clear it.

Mahjong uses:

• mahjong.game - the game in progress: the layout, where each tile lies, the tiles taken, undo history, shuffles and time played. Kept until you clear it.
• mahjong.stats - total points, wins, games played and your best time per level. Kept until you clear it.

Maria and the Missing Coder uses:

• maria.progress - cleared and unlocked stages, total coffee beans, your best run and whether the ending is still open. Kept until you clear it.
• maria.settings - sound effects and music on or off. Kept until you clear it.

Nova Bricks uses:

• novabricks.run - the run in progress: stage, score and lives. Kept until the run ends or you clear it.
• novabricks.stats - best score, total points, runs played, cleared stages and the highest stage unlocked. Kept until you clear it.
• novabricks.settings - sound on or off. Kept until you clear it.

Harvest Hollow uses:

• harvest.farm - your farm: coins, level, fields and crops, barn, supplies, hens, beehives, orders, market prices and farm statistics, with the time of the last save. Kept until you go bankrupt, start a new farm or clear it.
• harvest.records - how many farms went bankrupt and your best level and earnings. Kept until you clear it.
• harvest.settings - sound on or off, notifications on or off and how many items the barn sells at a time. Kept until you clear it.

Star Prospector uses:

• starprospector.save - your career: the star system you are in, credits (in total and earned in this system), ship upgrades, cargo, fuel, hull, missiles, the planet you last docked at, bounties collected and ships lost. Kept until you start a new game or clear it.
• starprospector.settings - sound on or off and the touch controls you chose (stick or buttons). Kept until you clear it.

Lily Leap uses:

• lilyleap.progress - the levels you have opened, and your stars and best score for each level. Kept until you clear it.
• lilyleap.settings - sound on or off and the touch controls you chose (swipe or buttons). Kept until you clear it.

Puffer Reef uses:

• puffer-reef.stats - your best score, the number of dives, the pearls you have collected and the deepest water you have reached. Kept until you clear it.
• puffer-reef.settings - sound on or off. Kept until you clear it.

Lynx Run uses:

• lynx-run.stats - your best distance, the number of runs, the berries you have collected and the farthest land you have reached. Kept until you clear it.
• lynx-run.settings - sound on or off. Kept until you clear it.

Gem Cascade uses:

• gem-cascade.progress - the levels you have opened, your stars and best scores and the boosters you have left. Kept until you clear it.
• gem-cascade.settings - sound on or off. Kept until you clear it.

Solitaire uses:

• solitaire.game - the game in progress: the draw mode, the deal, where every card lies, undo history, moves and time played. Kept until you clear it.
• solitaire.stats - total points, wins, games played and your best time and fewest moves per mode. Kept until you clear it.

Pipe Flow uses:

• pipe-flow.game - the board in progress: the level, the board number, how every pipe is turned, your undo history, moves and time played. Kept until you clear it.
• pipe-flow.stats - total points, wins, games played and your best time and fewest moves per level. Kept until you clear it.
• pipe-flow.settings - the level you last played and whether sound is on. Kept until you clear it.

3. Advertising cookies - Google AdSense

Ads on lynxy.io are served by Google AdSense. Google and the third-party vendors it works with use cookies (for example __gads, __gpi, IDE and NID) or similar identifiers in order to:

• select which advertisement to show you, including ads based on your previous visits to this or other sites;
• limit how often you see the same advertisement (frequency capping);
• measure impressions and clicks;
• detect invalid traffic and fraud.

In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, Google shows a consent message, a certified consent management platform under the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework, before any of this relies on your consent. You can accept, refuse or pick individual vendors and purposes, and reopen the message later from the Privacy and cookie settings link on the page. Elsewhere you can turn off personalised ads in Google Ads Settings or for many vendors at aboutads.info.

These cookies are set on Google's domains under Google's own retention periods; we have no access to them. Details: policies.google.com/technologies/ads. No game feature depends on ads: hints, shuffles, continues and boosters work the same whatever you choose.

4. Analytics cookies - Google Analytics 4

We use Google Analytics 4 (property G-PTDJ02SRNC), supplied by Google Ireland Limited, to see how many people play, which pages they reach and how long they actually stay.

4.1 Only after “Accept all”

Before you answer the banner, and for as long as you stay on “Essential only”, the Google library (gtag.js from googletagmanager.com) is not loaded at all: no analytics request goes to Google, no cookie is set and nothing is measured. Pressing “Accept all” loads it, and the following cookies are then set:

• _ga - a random identifier used to tell one browser from another. Expires after 2 years.
• _ga_PTDJ02SRNC - keeps the state of the current session. Expires after 2 years.

Your choice is remembered in lynxy.consent and re-applied on your next visit. If you chose “Essential only”, the banner is shown again once at least 24 hours have passed since you last saw it; until you choose otherwise, your refusal stays in force. Google Analytics' advertising features are not used: advertising storage stays denied in Google Consent Mode even after you accept.

4.2 What is measured

Besides the standard page view, the site sends a single kind of event: an engagement ping every 30 seconds while the tab is active (shown and in focus) and you have used the page in the last five minutes. It carries the kind of page you are on (for example “sudoku:game”) and how many seconds you have been active on it. Clicks, moves, games played, scores, puzzles, entries and notes are not reported - they stay on your device.

4.3 Opting out

Choose “Essential only” in Cookie settings at any time: Google Analytics is switched off immediately and its cookies are deleted. You can also install Google's browser opt-out add-on or block googletagmanager.com with an ad blocker. Google's own explanation of this data is at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

5. Managing your choice

• Open Cookie settings in the footer of any page to change your analytics decision at any time. The choice applies to the whole site, not to a single game.
• Choosing “Essential only” switches Google Analytics off and deletes its _ga cookies.
• Your advertising choice is managed in Google's consent message (EEA, UK, Switzerland) or in Google Ads Settings. Cookies Google has already set belong to its domains; they remain in your browser until they expire or you delete them.
• You can delete all cookies and local storage for this site in your browser settings (usually under “Privacy”, “Site data” or “Clear browsing data”).
• Blocking all storage in your browser is possible, but the games will then forget your progress and points.

6. Do Not Track and global signals

Browsers send these signals inconsistently, so we do not rely on them. Your choice in our cookie banner controls the analytics cookies, and Google's consent message controls the advertising cookies described above.

7. Changes

If we add a partner, add a game or change how storage is used, we will update this page and ask for your choice again.

See also our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.