Information for parents & guardians
The Daily Junction Arcade is a free games and quizzes site. This page explains, in plain language, what we store, how children’s accounts work, and your rights.
Playing needs no account and stores nothing
Anyone can play every game and quiz without signing in. When you play anonymously we store nothing about you on our servers — no account, no age, no name.
What a player account stores
If a player is created, we store only: a random player token (kept in the browser), the nickname you choose, your scores, points and favourites, and a scrambled connection fingerprint used only to stop cheating. None of this can contact or identify a child.
- We never collect a child’s email, real name, phone number or location.
- We never sell data, and never share children’s information with advertisers.
- We never show interest-based (behavioural) ads to anyone under 18. Ads on the arcade are matched to the page, not to the person.
What we use identifiers for (internal operations)
Under children’s-privacy law we may keep a token and a hashed connection fingerprint without consent, strictly for: contextual ads and frequency capping, remembering a chosen nickname, security and anti-cheat, and legal compliance. We never use them to build a profile of a child.
Accounts for under-13s need a parent’s OK
We ask every new player their age group with a neutral screen. If a child tells us they’re under 13, their account is created in a pending state: they can play and save favourites on their own device, but they’re kept off leaderboards, chat and notifications until a parent or guardian approves. The child never enters an email — we ask for a parent’s email and send you a permission request. We store only a hashed version of that address.
Perks are never conditional on you agreeing to any marketing.
Your rights — review, revoke, delete
- Review: the child’s profile shows exactly what’s stored (nickname, points, favourites, badges).
- Revoke / delete: the permission email contains a one-click link to delete the account and everything in it. A player can also delete their own account from the profile page at any time.
- When a parent can view a child’s profile, the child sees an indicator saying so.
How long we keep things
| Data | Kept for |
|---|---|
| Player record (nickname, points, favourites) | While the account is used; deleted after long inactivity or on request |
| Connection fingerprint (anti-cheat) | Short-lived, rotated hash |
| Lounge / comments | Rolling window; older messages drop off |
| Parent-permission record | Kept as proof of consent, then removed |
Ads & third parties
Games are embedded from GamePix, which may serve its own contextual ads inside the game frame. Any ads on arcade pages are contextual only for children and teens. We do not run behavioural ad networks on the arcade.
Contact & complaints
Questions or a request about your child’s data? Contact us here. In the UK you can also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). Read the full privacy notice and cookie policy.