Privacy Policy

Who we are

Games2 Network (games2.net) is an online gaming hub that brings together browser-based games licensed from third-party game catalogs and developer networks. This policy explains what information we collect when you visit, how we use it, and—just as importantly—what we refuse to do with it.

games2.net is operated by Perfezasian. References to “we,” “us,” and “our” below mean Perfezasian acting as the operator of this site.

The short version

We don’t sell, rent, or trade your personal information to anyone, for any reason. Not to advertisers, not to data brokers, not to “trusted partners.” If you give us your email, it’s because you want to hear from us—not because we’re building a list to hand off to someone else.

That’s a promise about our intentions and practices. It’s not a guarantee about the internet itself—we rely on hosting providers, data centers, and third-party services to run this site, the same as virtually every website does, and none of us can fully control what happens on their end or on yours. See “Data security” and “Your responsibility for your own security” below for what that means in practice.

Information we collect

When you browse the site:
We automatically collect some technical information—your IP address (used at the city/region level, not to pinpoint you precisely), browser type, device type, referring page, and which pages you visit. This comes through standard analytics tools (currently Google Site Kit / Analytics) and helps us understand what content is actually useful to readers, not to build a profile to sell.

When you subscribe to our email list:
We collect your email address and—only if you tell us—your interests and content preferences. We use this to send you things you actually asked for, not everything we publish.

When you use the contact form:
We collect whatever you submit—typically your name, email, and message—solely to respond to you. This isn’t added to any marketing list unless you separately opt in.

When you comment (on posts where commenting is enabled):
We collect the information shown in the comment form, plus your IP address and browser “user agent” string, which helps with spam detection. If you opt in, we’ll save your name, email, and website in a cookie for one year, purely so you don’t have to retype them next time. An anonymized hash of your email may be checked against Gravatar to display a profile picture, if you use one—or, where we run a local avatar system, a picture you’ve uploaded directly here, which never leaves our server. After a comment is approved, your name and chosen picture are visible publicly alongside it.

Embedded content:
Articles on this site may include embedded content—most commonly video or audio players hosted elsewhere. Embedding works the same as if you’d visited that other site directly: the host may collect data about you, set its own cookies, and track your interaction with that embed according to its own privacy policy, not ours.

When you play a game on this site:
Games on games2.net are supplied by third-party game catalogs and developer networks and are loaded into a frame on our page. When a game loads, the game provider’s own servers receive the technical information any web request carries—your IP address, browser, and device type—and the provider may set its own cookies and record gameplay or session data under its own privacy policy. We do not control, and cannot switch off, what a game provider collects inside its own frame.

Game progress and scores:
Where a game saves progress, that data is normally stored by the game provider or in your own browser’s local storage, not in an account with us. Clearing your browser storage can erase progress permanently, and we have no way to recover it.

Advertising inside games:
Some third-party games display their own advertising, including video ads, which may involve ad networks operating under their own policies. We do not receive your personal information from those ad networks, and we do not sell your data to them.

If you create an account:
Where account registration is offered, we collect your chosen username, email address, and password (stored only as a one-way hash, never in readable form), plus standard account-related items such as the IP address included in a password-reset email.

How we use your information

We use the information above to:

• Send you email content that matches interests you’ve told us about—sorted by what you actually asked to hear about, not a blanket blast of everything
• Respond to messages sent through our contact form
• Understand which content is working, in aggregate, anonymized form—not to track you individually
• Detect and filter spam in form submissions and comments
• Keep the site secure and functioning properly
• Comply with legal obligations and enforce our terms
• Load and run the games you choose to play

What we never do—and what that actually means in practice

A lot of privacy policies say “we value your privacy” and then bury the opposite in the fine print. Here’s a direct comparison so there’s no ambiguity about where we stand:

Legal basis for processing

Where applicable data protection law requires us to identify a legal basis for handling your information, here’s ours:

• Consent—for email subscriptions, optional comment cookies, and any non-essential cookies, which you affirmatively opt into and can withdraw at any time
• Legitimate interest—for basic site analytics, spam detection, and security monitoring, weighed against your privacy interests
• Legal obligation — where we’re required by law to retain or disclose specific information
• Performance of a contract—to deliver services or accounts you have signed up for, and to handle billing and support connected to them

Cookies

We use a small number of cookies—essential ones that make the site work, functionality ones that remember your preferences, and analytics ones used in aggregate. We do not use cookies to build an advertising profile about you or to sell your behavior to anyone.

Our Cookie Policy breaks down each category, names the third parties involved, and explains how to block or clear them in any major browser.

Third-party services we use

Each of these services has its own privacy policy governing how they handle data on their end; we encourage you to review theirs if you have specific concerns about a particular tool. Where a specific vendor in a category above has not yet been selected or is swapped out, we update this table rather than leaving it vague.

Affiliate disclosure

Some links on this site are affiliate links (including through the Amazon Associates Program and similar programs). If you click one and make a purchase, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Affiliate networks use their own cookies to attribute that purchase; they do not give us your name, address, payment details, or a list of what you bought. This never influences our actual review verdicts—see our full Affiliate & Review Disclosure for details on how we handle this.

Data security

We take reasonable steps to protect the information we collect—but no method of transmission over the internet, and no method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. This includes systems we don’t directly control: our hosting provider’s infrastructure, data centers, and the third-party services listed above all carry their own inherent risks, including the possibility of a breach or leak on their end that’s outside anything we could prevent.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, this limitation extends to unauthorized access resulting from causes beyond our reasonable control—including outages, vulnerabilities, or security failures of our hosting provider or any third-party service we rely on to operate this site.

If a security incident affecting your data ever occurs, we’ll notify affected users as required by applicable law and take appropriate steps to address it. We just can’t promise a risk that doesn’t exist anywhere on the internet—what we can promise is that we’re not the ones creating it on purpose.

Your responsibility for your own security

The internet runs in both directions. We secure our side of this relationship as described above—but you’re responsible for securing yours: keeping your own devices, browsers, and email accounts protected; using strong and unique passwords; and staying alert to phishing attempts that impersonate us.

We will never ask you for your password, payment details, or sensitive account information via email. Any message claiming to be from Games2 Network that asks for this kind of information isn’t really from us—treat it as suspicious and don’t respond.

How long we retain your data

• Comments: kept indefinitely so we can recognize and approve your future comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue
• Email list: kept until you unsubscribe or ask us to remove it
• Contact form messages: kept only as long as needed to address your inquiry and then for a short period as a record that we responded
• Analytics data: retained in aggregate; individual-level logs are kept only for the short window our tools require
• Account data: kept while your account is active, and deleted on request or a reasonable period after you close it

Your rights

Regardless of where you’re located, you can ask us to:

• Know what personal information we hold about you
• Correct anything that’s inaccurate
• Delete the personal data we hold about you (this doesn’t include data we’re legally required to keep)
• Port a copy of the data you gave us in a portable format
• Opt out of any sale or sharing of your data—this is easy for us to honor since we don’t sell or share your data in the first place
• Not be discriminated against for exercising any of these rights

If you’re in the EU or UK, you also have the right to object to or restrict certain processing, to withdraw consent at any time without affecting processing already carried out, and to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority if you believe we’ve mishandled your information.

If you’re a California resident, the CCPA/CPRA rights above apply to you, and you may use an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. We do not sell or share personal information as those terms are defined under California law, and we do not knowingly process the personal information of anyone we know to be under 16 for those purposes.

To exercise any of these rights, email us at contact@games2.net. We’ll verify the request against information we already hold and respond within the time applicable law allows—typically 30 days, with an extension only where the law permits one and we tell you why.

Where your data is handled

We operate from the United States, and the services we rely on are generally hosted there. If you access this site from outside the US, the information described in this policy will be transferred to, stored in, and processed in the United States, where data protection law differs from that of your home country. Where a transfer from the EEA or UK requires a lawful transfer mechanism, we rely on the standard contractual clauses or equivalent safeguards offered by the relevant provider.

Do Not Track signals

Some browsers offer a “Do Not Track” (DNT) setting or a “Global Privacy Control” (GPC) signal. There’s currently no unified industry standard for how sites should respond to DNT, so like most small independent sites, we don’t yet have automated systems that read and act on it. Since we don’t sell your data or run behavioral advertising, the practical impact of this is minimal—but we’re noting it here for transparency rather than pretending otherwise.

Children’s privacy

Games2 Network is a general-audience site. It is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. We do not require an account to play, and we do not ask players for personal information in order to load a game.

Parents, please read this part. Games on this site come from third-party catalogs. Individual games carry their own age ratings and content, may display their own advertising, and may link outward to the developer’s own site or app store listing. We surface the rating information our game providers supply, but we do not author those games and cannot guarantee that every title is appropriate for every age. If you’re supervising a young player, we’d encourage you to review the games they’re playing the same way you would any other app.

If you believe a child under 13 has provided personal information through this site, contact us through our contact page, and we will delete it promptly.

Governing law

This policy, and any dispute arising from it, is governed by the laws of the State of Texas, USA, without regard to conflict-of-law principles—except where applicable data protection law (such as the GDPR or CCPA) grants you rights that cannot be waived by this or any other agreement.

How this policy may change

If we materially change how we handle your data, we’ll update this page and note the revised date at the top. We won’t quietly loosen these commitments without telling you. Continued use of the site after a material change means you’ve had the chance to review it—but we’ll never bury a real change silently.

Contact us

Questions about this policy or your data? Reach us through our contact page. .

This policy was written in plain language on purpose. We’d rather you actually understand it than skim past legal boilerplate.