Caribbean Trivia ("we", "us", or "our") operates the Caribbean Trivia game accessible at caribbeantrivia.com. We are committed to transparency regarding how information is collected, used, and shared. This Privacy Policy outlines our data handling practices, our use of cookies and analytics, and our advertising partnership disclosures, including Google Ads.
1 Information We Collect
Caribbean Trivia is built to be accessible to players everywhere. We collect information through three primary channels:
- Local Browser Storage: Your gameplay progression (unlocked carnival masquerade avatars, costume accessories, carnival coin balance, island tour progress, sound volumes, and display languages) is saved locally on your device via browser
localStorage.
- Optional Cloud Authentication & Leaderboards: If you choose to sign in with Google or submit high scores, we record your public display name, email address, profile picture URL, and submitted score in our secure Firebase database. Account creation is entirely optional.
- Analytics & Technical Identifiers: We use Google Analytics to measure site traffic and engagement. Analytics collects anonymized telemetry including your device type, operating system, browser type, referral source, page views, and approximate geographical region (country/city level).
- Advertising Cookies & Identifiers: When advertisements are served, third-party advertising vendors (including Google) collect cookie data, IP addresses, and device identifiers to deliver and evaluate digital advertisements.
2 How We Use Your Information
We process collected data for the following legitimate purposes:
- Enabling interactive gameplay, scoring, countdown timers, and lifelines (50/50, Ask the Masquerader, Carnival Boost).
- Personalizing game recommendations and suggesting Caribbean islands based on your quiz history.
- Displaying contextual and personalized advertisements to fund the ongoing hosting, maintenance, and development of Caribbean Trivia.
- Preventing click fraud, bot interactions, and malicious abuse of our leaderboards and advertising units.
- Remembering your preferred sound settings and language options across visits.
3 Advertising & Google Ads Disclosure
Ad-Supported Free Game: Caribbean Trivia is supported by advertising revenue to ensure free, unrestricted access to educational Caribbean cultural trivia and games for players worldwide.
Third-Party Advertisements: We partner with third-party advertising companies, including Google (Google AdSense / Google Ads), to serve advertisements when you visit and play our game.
Use of Cookies by Google:
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to your website or other websites.
- Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to Caribbean Trivia and/or other sites on the Internet.
- Advertisements may be personalized (based on your previous web browsing history, interests, and demographics) or non-personalized (contextual ads based on current page content and general location).
Google Partner Privacy Policy:
For detailed information on how Google collects, shares, and uses information when you use partner sites and apps, please review:
How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services →
Opting Out of Personalized Advertising:
Users may opt out of personalized advertising at any time through the following consumer choice portals:
4 Cookies & Consent Management (GDPR, UK GDPR & CCPA)
A cookie is a small text file placed on your device by your web browser. We categorize cookies and storage technologies into:
- Strictly Necessary: Local storage required for core game mechanics, question randomization, and maintaining state.
- Analytics Cookies: Google Analytics cookies used to understand site interactions and popular Caribbean territories.
- Advertising Cookies: Google Ads / AdSense cookies used to serve relevant ads, prevent ad frequency repetition, and detect invalid ad traffic.
When you visit Caribbean Trivia, you are presented with a Cookie Consent banner that allows you to accept or decline non-essential analytics and advertising cookies. You can also configure your web browser to block or delete cookies at any time.
5 Player Rights and Data Control
Under global data protection regulations (including the EU/UK General Data Protection Regulation and the California Consumer Privacy Act):
- Right to Erasure: You can instantly purge all local progress by clearing your browser's site data and cache.
- Cloud Data Deletion: If you created a cloud profile or submitted high scores via Google Sign-In, you may request full deletion of your database records at any time by emailing us.
- Do Not Sell My Personal Information: We do not sell player personal identifiers for monetary consideration. You can opt out of third-party cross-context behavioral advertising through the opt-out mechanisms in Section 3.
6 Children's Privacy
Caribbean Trivia is a family-friendly educational cultural game. We do not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under the age of 13 (or under 16 in certain jurisdictions) without parental consent. If you believe a child has provided personal information to our cloud database, please contact us immediately so we can remove it.
7 Terms of Service & Wellness Reminders
By using Caribbean Trivia, you agree to our public Terms of Service, which include our wellness break reminder guidelines (Section 5a) encouraging healthy screen breaks and hydration during long play sessions.