This notice explains how Tooston complies with the United States Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and with similar protections for children elsewhere. It applies to this site and to every game we publish.
1. General-audience service
Tooston is a general-audience service. Our games are not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.
2. We don't collect personal information
Our games require no account, no email address, no phone number and no sign-in of any kind. Specifically, we do not collect:
- Real names
- Email addresses or phone numbers
- Postal addresses
- Photographs, audio or video
- Precise geolocation
- Persistent identifiers used to build a profile of an individual
The only user-supplied value in any game is a display name, chosen freely and stored in the player's own browser.
3. No chat, in any game
There is no chat anywhere on Tooston: no text, no voice, no emotes, no preset phrases. During an online match the only things shared between players are game state (positions, moves, scores) and the display name each player chose. Players have no way to send each other messages or any other free-form content.
This is a deliberate design decision rather than a feature we have not got to yet. Chat is the mechanism through which nearly every child-safety problem in online games arrives, and a game without it cannot have that problem.
4. No advertising
We serve no advertising of any kind, and we use no advertising or retargeting cookies. There is therefore no behavioural targeting of any user, adult or child. The only optional technology on the site is Google Analytics, which loads solely with explicit consent and runs with all of Google's advertising signals set to denied.
5. Guidance for parents
We recommend that parents:
- Ask their child to use a nickname rather than their real name
- Review our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy
- Use browser settings to manage or clear local storage
- Decline the analytics cookie banner if they prefer, because everything works the same
6. Parental rights
If you believe your child has provided personal information to us, email support@velovid.net with "COPPA Request" in the subject line. We will investigate and delete any such information promptly. Parents may also ask us to stop any further collection of their child's information.
In practice there is rarely anything to delete, because the information simply is not collected, but we will confirm that to you in writing on request.
7. Contact
COPPA-related enquiries: support@velovid.net