Connected by Puzzles

Privacy Policy

Last updated 11 June 2026

Connected by Puzzles is a free online jigsaw you play in your browser, at connectedbypuzzles.com. We built it to ask as little of you as possible, and that includes your data. This page explains what little we handle, and what we do not.

The short version

No account, no sign-up

There is nothing to register. You open a table and play. Because there are no accounts, we hold no profile, no login, and no contact details for you unless you choose to write to us.

Your pictures stay on your device

When you choose a photo of your own to build, it is stored only in your browser, on the device you are using. It is never sent to our servers, and in a two-player game it is never sent to the other player either. Only the positions of the puzzle pieces travel between the two of you, never the picture underneath them. A private picture is safe to put on the table.

Analytics

To understand roughly how many people visit and which pages they reach, we use Umami, a privacy-friendly analytics tool. It sets no cookies and does not collect personal data. It records aggregate, anonymous figures such as page views, the country a visit came from, the referring site, and the kind of browser used. None of this identifies you, and it is not combined into a profile or shared for advertising.

Playing with someone

If you open a shared table and invite another person, the two browsers are connected through a real-time server so the same pieces stay in sync. The data that passes through it is the live state of the game: where the pieces are, an optional display name if you type one, and any chat messages you send. This is used only to run your table while it is open, and it is not kept once the table is gone. Voice, if you turn it on, runs directly between the two devices.

What your browser stores

So you can leave a puzzle and come back to it, we save a little information in your browser using local storage: your puzzle in progress, your chosen picture, and the tokens needed to rejoin a shared table. This stays on your device, is not used to track you, and you can remove it at any time by clearing this site's data in your browser.

Hosting

The site and its real-time server run on Cloudflare. Like any web host, Cloudflare processes basic technical information such as your IP address in order to deliver the pages and protect the service from abuse. This is handled under Cloudflare's own terms and privacy policy.

Children

Connected by Puzzles is a gentle, general-audience site and is not directed at young children. We do not knowingly collect any personal information from anyone, of any age.

Your choices and rights

Because we hold essentially no personal data about you, there is very little to access, correct, or delete. You stay in control of what lives on your device, and you can clear it whenever you like. If you have a question about your privacy, you are welcome to contact us and we will help.

Changes to this policy

If we change how the site handles data, we will update this page and the date at the top. The current version is always the one you are reading here.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Write to [email protected].