Privacy policy

We take the protection of your data seriously and only collect what is needed to play. We do not use advertising or analytics services and no tracking cookies.

1. Controller

SEOeffekt Farhadian
Hamed Farhadian
Papenreye 1
22453 Hamburg
Germany

E-Mail: kontakt@onlinebackgammon247.com

2. Visiting the website

When you visit the site, our hosting provider processes technically necessary data such as IP address, time, requested address and browser identifier in order to deliver the site and protect it against attacks. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in a secure, working service (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

Our hosting provider is Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. A data processing agreement is in place. Cloudflare is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework; transfers to the USA are based on it (Art. 45 GDPR) and on EU standard contractual clauses.

3. Player account

When you sign up we store your player name, your password (only as an irreversible, salted hash – we do not know your password), the time of sign-up and last login, and your game statistics (wins, losses, rating). We do not ask for an e-mail address or your real name.

Your player name, your rating and whether you are online are visible to other logged-in players; name, wins and rating also appear on the leaderboard. This processing is necessary to provide the game (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR).

If you create an invitation link, we store who created it so the invitee can see who the invitation is from.

4. Games

For running games we store the game state on our server so you can continue after a lost connection. Finished or abandoned games are deleted after 24 hours at the latest; only the result is added to the statistics.

5. Cookie and browser storage

After you log in we set a single, technically necessary cookie ("bg_s") so you stay logged in. Your browser also remembers settings such as language, sound, dice announcements and computer strength, and a running game, in your device's local storage. This storage is strictly necessary for the service you requested (§ 25(2) no. 2 TDDDG); no consent is required.

6. Fonts and sound files

Fonts and the dice announcements are loaded from our own server. There is no connection to Google or other font providers.

7. Retention and deletion

We keep your player account as long as you use it. If you would like it deleted, send us a short message with your player name to the e-mail address above.

8. Your rights

You have the right of access (Art. 15 GDPR), rectification (Art. 16), erasure (Art. 17), restriction of processing (Art. 18), data portability (Art. 20) and to object to processing based on legitimate interests (Art. 21). You may also lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority, for example the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information.

As of November 2026. The German version (Datenschutzerklärung) is legally binding.