Last updated: July 15, 2026
The Castle ("we") respects your privacy. This policy explains what data we collect, why, and your rights under the GDPR.
The Castle is a web game published at playthecastle.com. For any question about your data, contact us through the site.
• Account: if you create a gamertag, we store your email, ID and game progress.
• Payments: purchases (ad removal, donations) are handled by Paddle. We never store card or bank details.
• Technical: server logs (IP address, user-agent) kept for security and debugging.
We display ads via Google AdSense. Google and its partners use cookies to serve personalized or non-personalized ads depending on your consent.
Visitors from the EEA, UK and Switzerland see a Google CMP consent banner on first visit. You can accept, reject, or manage your choices in detail.
You can change your choices at any time by clearing site cookies. More info: policies.google.com/technologies/ads.
If you purchase ad removal, no Google ads or advertising cookies will be loaded.
• Consent: advertising and non-essential cookies.
• Contract: user account, payments, progress.
• Legitimate interest: security, fraud prevention.
Account: while active. Technical logs: up to 12 months. Payment data: per accounting obligations (up to 10 years).
You have the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict, port and object. You can withdraw consent at any time and lodge a complaint with your data protection authority.
• Lovable Cloud / Supabase (hosting, database, auth)
• Google AdSense (advertising)
• Paddle (payments)