PLANET MERGE — COOKIE POLICY
Effective Date: October 25, 2026
Policy Version: 2026-10-25.1
Published by Emmanuel Interactive.
1. Introduction
This policy describes cookies and similar browser storage technologies used in connection with the Planet Merge website and web version, including relevant publisher website services. The game, the publisher website, and an external hosting platform can use different technologies. Mobile advertising identifiers are discussed separately from browser cookies.
2. What Cookies Are
Cookies are small pieces of information websites may store in your browser. Similar technologies, such as local storage and IndexedDB, can also store information used by websites and browser-based applications. These are distinct technologies; not all browser storage is a cookie.
3. Local Game Storage
The Godot web export uses a local virtual filesystem backed by IndexedDB, when supported and permitted by the browser, to persist its user data. Planet Merge uses that filesystem for its save and session files. Records may include scores, coins, planet discoveries and customizations, completed levels, challenges, streaks, saved games, tutorial progress, purchase bookkeeping, and settings such as music and sound volume.
This storage preserves your game between visits. The game does not send the save files to an Emmanuel Interactive server, use them for cross-site tracking, or implement cloud synchronization. The current web game does not set any cookies itself and has no advertising SDK, analytics script, or custom JavaScript tracking integration. IndexedDB persistence is not the same thing as an HTTP cookie or the browser's localStorage API. Private browsing, denied persistence, storage quotas, or browser eviction can prevent lasting saves.
4. Essential Storage
Local game storage is used to save progress, remember settings, restore unfinished rounds, and maintain normal game functionality. The supplied web export does not enable a progressive web app or its optional service-worker offline cache. Browsers may cache downloaded files as part of ordinary page delivery.
The publisher website source uses Cloudflare hosting and a Cloudflare Turnstile security check on the contact form. These services may use browser information and security-related storage to deliver the website and prevent automated abuse. The contact endpoint also performs server-side IP-based rate limiting; that is not a browser cookie. The website's own application code does not add localStorage, IndexedDB, or cookie-based visitor tracking. Provider security behavior depends on configuration; we do not invent cookie names or guarantee that no provider-managed storage will ever be used.
5. Analytics and Advertising Cookies
The inspected Planet Merge web export and Emmanuel Interactive website source do not include optional analytics, advertising pixels, or marketing-cookie scripts. No optional advertising or analytics cookie is intentionally set by that application code. Host-provided technologies, if present, are distinct from the game itself and are governed by the host's policy.
Supported mobile versions may use Google AdMob and Google UMP. Mobile advertising may involve advertising or device identifiers and SDK consent storage rather than ordinary browser cookies. This does not make mobile advertising data-free. See the Planet Merge Privacy Policy for the applicable mobile disclosures and choices.
6. Third-Party Websites
External services, including itch.io and payment-related platforms, may use their own cookies, storage, and security technologies when you visit or use them. An itch.io page embedding the game can use technologies outside the game's own iframe. Emmanuel Interactive does not control every third-party cookie or platform setting.
See itch.io Privacy Policy, Cloudflare Cookie Policy, Cloudflare Privacy Policy, Turnstile Privacy Addendum, Google Privacy Policy, and Apple Privacy Policy for applicable provider practices.
7. Managing Cookies and Storage
You can manage, block, or delete cookies using your browser's privacy or site-data settings. Similar controls may allow you to clear IndexedDB, cached files, and other website storage. For an embedded game, you may need to review storage for both the host page and the game's serving origin, depending on the browser.
Deleting the game's browser storage may erase locally saved progress, coins, unfinished games, customizations, and preferences. Blocking required storage may prevent saving. Blocking security technologies may prevent the website's contact form from working. Clearing cookies alone does not necessarily clear IndexedDB or all other site data.
8. Consent
The inspected game and publisher website do not intentionally add optional analytics or marketing storage, so this update does not add a cookie banner simply for appearance. Local saving and security technologies are used for the functions described above. We do not treat merely visiting a page as proof of consent to optional tracking.
If consent-requiring, nonessential technologies are introduced, appropriate controls must obtain any legally required consent before those technologies operate and allow applicable choices to be changed. Third-party hosts provide their own controls under their policies. The mobile UMP consent interface governs applicable mobile advertising choices and does not replace browser consent controls for unrelated websites.
9. Changes to the Cookie Policy
We may update this policy when storage practices, hosting arrangements, third-party services, or legal requirements change. We will update the effective date when appropriate and communicate material changes where required.
10. Contact
Emmanuel Interactive
thomas@emmanuelinteractive.com
8735 Dunwoody Place, Ste N
Atlanta, GA 30350
United States