🍪 1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored on your computer or mobile device by your web browser. They help websites remember your actions and preferences over time so you do not have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.

⚙️ 2. How We Use Cookies

At Sudoku Leader, we use cookies and local storage technologies strictly to enhance your puzzle-solving experience and analyze website traffic. We use them for:

• Essential Site Functions (Auto-Save): We use local browser storage to power our Auto-Save Engine. This ensures that if you accidentally close your browser, your puzzle progress, timer, and pencil notes are saved and restored when you return.
• Analytics and Performance: We use Google Analytics (GA4) to understand how players use our website. These cookies track anonymous data such as page views, puzzle completion times, and general geographic regions so we can continue to improve our games.

🤝 3. Third-Party Cookies

In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties.

• Google Analytics: This site uses Google Analytics to help us understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Privacy page.
• Advertising: To keep our games free, we use Google AdSense to serve personalized ads. AdSense uses cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to our website or other websites on the internet.

🛡️ 4. Managing Your Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser’s Help menu for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of the Auto-Save engine and other features of this site. If you wish to opt-out of Google Analytics tracking across all websites, you can install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.