Privacy Policy

1. Scope & Regulatory Framework

This Privacy Policy outlines how bocardstope.com collects, processes, and safeguards user information when you visit our website. Our operations are governed by the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) of Canada, the Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector (Quebec Law 25), and general international data privacy standards.

2. Information We Collect

We restrict data collection to the minimum required to deliver our web directory and maintain technical stability:

• Direct Communications Data: When you send a message through our Contact Desk, we receive your name, email address, subject matter, and message contents to respond to your technical inquiry.
• Technical Diagnostic Logs: Our web servers automatically log standardized, non-identifying telemetry including your IP address (anonymized at subnet level), browser user-agent string, operating system version, referring URL, and page timestamps to defend against denial-of-service attacks.
• Cookie & Local Storage Preferences: We store your consent choices (Consent Mode status) in your browser's local client storage to remember whether you accepted or declined analytical cookies.

3. Use of Personal Information

The information gathered by bocardstope.com is used strictly for legitimate operational purposes:

• To display and maintain our curated directory of free-to-play browser games;
• To diagnose server latency, WebGL asset load bottlenecks, and optimize cross-browser rendering;
• To correspond with users who submit editorial inquiries or developer submissions;
• To verify age compliance (19+) and prevent unauthorized automated scraping.

4. Disclosure to Third Parties

We do not sell, rent, lease, or monetize user data. We do not disclose personal information to external commercial brokers. Data may only be shared with:

• Infrastructure Providers: Reliable cloud hosting and CDN partners that assist in serving encrypted assets and upholding server security, under strict data-protection agreements;
• Legal Authorities: Where required by binding subpoena, search warrant, or statutory order issued by a Canadian court of competent jurisdiction.

5. Age Verification & Mature Audience (19+)

bocardstope.com is engineered exclusively for an adult audience of 19 years of age or older. We do not purposefully solicit, collect, or store personal information from individuals below the age of 19. If we become aware that an inquiry has been transmitted by a minor, the corresponding records are purged immediately from our systems.

6. Data Retention & Security Protocols

Inquiry correspondence is retained only for the duration necessary to resolve the technical query, typically not exceeding ninety (90) days, after which it is archived securely or deleted. All web traffic to bocardstope.com is encrypted in transit using industry-standard TLS 1.3 cryptographic protocols.

7. Individual Rights under Canadian Law

Under PIPEDA and Quebec Law 25, you retain the following rights regarding your personal information:

• Right to Access: You may request a copy of any personal communication records we maintain regarding your email address;
• Right to Rectification: You may request the correction of inaccurate or incomplete contact records;
• Right to Erasure (De-indexing): You may request that we permanently delete your contact history from our editorial inbox;
• Right to Withdraw Consent: You may adjust or revoke your cookie choices at any time via the "Cookie Preferences" link in the footer.

8. Contact the Privacy Officer

For privacy-related inquiries, data requests, or formal rights requests, please contact our designated Data Protection Officer:

bocardstope.com — Privacy Desk
Attention: Data Protection Officer
1000 de La Gauchetière Street West
Montreal, QC H3B 4W5, Canada
Telephone: +1 514 875 3241
Electronic Mail: contact@bocardstope.com