This policy explains how DiceRead (“we”, “the site”) handles personal information collected through diceread.com. It is written for readers in Australia and follows the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles.
1. Who is responsible
DiceRead operates this site as an independent editorial project covering free mobile puzzle games. We decide what personal information is collected here and why, which makes us the entity responsible for it. Questions about this policy can be sent to hello@diceread.com and reach the same desk that maintains the catalogue.
2. What we collect
- Technical data recorded automatically by the hosting infrastructure: IP address, user-agent string, referring page, requested URL, date and time of the request, and standard server log entries.
- Cookies and similar identifiers set by the site and by third-party services described in our Cookie Policy.
- Form data you submit to the update form: the e-mail address you enter, the name if you choose to give one, and the fact that you ticked the consent box together with the time you did so.
- Push identifiers created if you allow browser notifications: an anonymous subscription token issued by your browser vendor and stored by OneSignal, plus basic device and browser type.
- Plus membership data if you join the Plus list: your e-mail address, the state of the membership (requested, confirmed, active or cancelled), the plan you chose, and the dates on which that state changed.
We do not ask for a postal address, a phone number or identity documents, and none of those fields exist on this site. Card numbers and other payment credentials never reach us either: a Plus payment is completed with an external payment provider, which sends us only the confirmation that a membership is active and the date it applies from.
3. Why we use it and on what basis
- To run and secure the site — server logs and essential cookies let pages load, keep your cookie choice, and help us detect abuse. This is necessary for the site to function.
- To send catalogue updates — your e-mail address and any push identifier are used only for the update notes you asked for. The basis is your consent, given by ticking the box in the form or by allowing notifications in the browser.
- To understand traffic — aggregated analytics show which sections are read. These cookies run only after you accept them in the cookie banner.
- To display advertising — advertising partners may set identifiers to measure and limit how often a promotion is shown. These also run only after you accept.
- To run the Plus membership — the e-mail address, the membership state and its dates are used to confirm your seat, to send the digest you signed up for, to apply and stop billing at the right time, and to keep the record we need for tax and consumer-law purposes. The basis is the performance of the membership agreement described in the Terms of Use, together with our legal obligations to keep transaction records.
Consent can be revoked at any time: use the unsubscribe link in any message, switch notifications off in your browser settings, or clear the site data to reset your cookie choice.
4. How long we keep it
- Server logs: up to 12 months, then deleted or aggregated.
- E-mail address and subscription record: until you unsubscribe, and then up to 6 months so that the opt-out can be honoured.
- Push subscription tokens: until the subscription is revoked in the browser or expires.
- Cookie consent record: up to 12 months, after which the banner appears again.
- Plus membership record: while the membership lasts and for 12 months after it ends, except for the plain record of a completed transaction, which Australian tax law requires us to keep for 5 years.
5. Who else can receive it
We do not sell personal information and we do not share it for anyone else’s independent purposes. Limited disclosure happens to the service providers that make the site work:
- Hosting and content delivery providers, which process server logs and IP addresses in order to deliver pages.
- OneSignal, which acts as our processor for push subscriptions and for e-mail addresses submitted through the update form, and stores them on our behalf under its own security terms.
- Advertising networks and analytics providers, which receive cookie identifiers and technical data only after you accept those categories.
- Our payment provider, which handles a Plus payment under its own terms and privacy policy. It receives the details you enter on its own page; we receive back only your e-mail address, the membership state and the relevant dates.
Some of these providers operate servers outside Australia, including in the United States and the European Union. Where information is disclosed overseas we take reasonable steps, as required by Australian Privacy Principle 8, to ensure the recipient handles it consistently with the Australian Privacy Principles.
6. Cookies
Cookie categories, their purposes and their lifetimes are described in the Cookie Policy. The banner at the bottom of the site records whether you accepted or declined the optional categories, and your choice is stored locally in your browser.
7. Your rights
Under the Privacy Act 1988 and the Australian Privacy Principles you may:
- request access to the personal information we hold about you;
- ask us to correct anything inaccurate, incomplete or out of date;
- revoke consent for updates and for optional cookies;
- ask us to delete information we no longer need to keep;
- make a complaint about how your information has been handled.
Send any of these requests to hello@diceread.com. We respond within 30 days. If you are not satisfied with our answer you may complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) at oaic.gov.au, which supervises compliance with the Privacy Act 1988.
8. Security
The site is served over HTTPS. Access to the subscriber list is limited to the people who prepare the update notes, and it is held with our processor rather than in ad-hoc copies. No transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be perfectly secure, but we take reasonable steps to protect information from misuse, interference, loss and unauthorised access, and we review those steps when the site changes.
9. Changes to this policy
If the way we handle personal information changes, this page is updated and the date at the top is revised. Material changes to how consent-based data is used will be announced on the site before they take effect.
10. Contact
Privacy questions, access requests and complaints: hello@diceread.com