Privacy Policy

What this site is

Cloned Games is a catalog of open-source game clones and remakes, with links to the original games each one is based on. You can browse the entire site without creating an account — there are no accounts, logins, or user profiles here.

Cookies

This site stores one cookie of its own, cookie-consent, which remembers your answer to the cookie banner for one year. Google Analytics loads only if you accept analytics cookies, and stops if you withdraw consent.

The site also shows ads served by Google AdSense, which may set its own cookies and use them to personalise ads. See how Google uses data from sites that use its services. Other third-party content that can set cookies is the embedded material described below (X posts and the comment thread).

Forms on this site

Submitting the contact form or a DMCA takedown notice stores what you enter — name, email, and whatever else you fill in — along with your IP address and browser user-agent (basic anti-abuse signal, same as most web forms). That data is used only to process your message or notice and is not shared beyond what is needed to review and respond to it.

Subscribing to the newsletter in the site footer stores your email address, plus your IP address as the same anti-abuse signal. Right now that just means it sits in our own database — the newsletter itself has not started sending yet, so nothing is forwarded anywhere and no mailing-list email reaches you in the meantime. Once we start sending, addresses already collected will be added to our list on Resend, the service we use to send it, used only for that — every email will include an unsubscribe link. This section will be updated once sending actually begins.

Third-party images

Cover art and screenshots on this site are hotlinked from their original sources (Wikipedia/Wikimedia, Steam, itch.io, SourceForge, and GitHub-hosted READMEs) rather than copied onto our own servers. Loading a page with these images means your browser makes a direct request to those third parties, which may see your IP address the same way any website you visit would. No tracking parameters are added to these requests.

Embedded posts and comments

Some blog articles embed a post from X, and articles have a comment thread run by giscus (GitHub Discussions). These load from the third party's servers only after you scroll or interact with the page, and the third party then sees your IP address and may set its own cookies. For X embeds we ask X not to use the visit for personalisation. Before they load, an embedded post appears as a plain quote with a link to the original.

Your choices

• Block third-party content (X posts, comments) in your browser if you prefer; the articles stay readable.
• Ask to see or delete a DMCA submission or a message you sent us by reaching out through the contact form with your request — every submission is reviewed and answered by a person.

Children’s privacy

This site is not directed at children, and personal information is not knowingly collected from anyone under 13.

Changes to this policy

If what is collected changes — most likely once analytics or advertising actually goes live — this page and the update date above will change too.