Privacy Policy

1. Commitment to Canadian Data Privacy

Cryptic Boreal Interactive Media Inc. ("CrypticBorealZone", "we", "our", or "us"), operating from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, respects your fundamental right to digital privacy. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, store, and safeguard personal information in compliance with Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL), and applicable provincial privacy statutes.

2. Information We Collect

Because CrypticBorealZone operates as an open-access browser MMO directory that does not require account registration, we minimize data collection to the following categories:

• Voluntary Correspondence Data: When you submit an inquiry via our Contact Form, we collect your name, email address, inquiry subject, and message text solely to respond to your request.
• Technical & Diagnostic Logs: Our web servers automatically record standard anonymized HTTP telemetry, including browser user-agent strings, operating system type, referring URLs, and truncated IP addresses for security threat mitigation.
• Consent Mode Preferences: Your cookie consent selection (Essential Only vs. Analytical) is saved locally inside your browser's localStorage object.

3. Purpose of Processing & Legal Basis

Under PIPEDA's Ten Fair Information Principles, we process information strictly for identified purposes to which you have consented:

• Responding to editorial feedback, game submission inquiries, or link audit reports submitted by visitors aged 19 and older.
• Maintaining platform cybersecurity, preventing automated bot abuse, and optimizing WebGL catalog page load speeds.
• Aggregating anonymized, non-identifiable readership metrics when optional analytical cookies are explicitly enabled by the user.

4. Data Retention & Cross-Border Transfers

Contact inquiries are retained only for the period required to resolve your request and for up to twelve (12) months thereafter for editorial audit records, after which they are permanently purged. We do not sell, rent, or trade visitor email addresses or personal details to third-party data brokers.

5. External Publisher Websites

Our catalog entries contain outbound links to external game publishers (such as Gameforge, Bigpoint, InnoGames, Failbetter Games, and CrazyGames). Once you click "Play Now" and leave cacrypticborealzone.com, any data you provide on those third-party sites is governed by the privacy policy of the respective publisher.

6. Protecting Adults 19+ & Minors

CrypticBorealZone is designed exclusively for Canadian adults aged 19 and older. We do not knowingly solicit or store personal information from anyone under the age of 19. If you believe an underage individual has submitted personal data through our contact form, please notify our Privacy Officer immediately for instant deletion.

7. Your Rights Under PIPEDA

Canadian residents have the right to request access to any personal information we hold about them, request corrections to inaccurate details, or withdraw consent for optional data processing at any time. To exercise these rights, contact our Privacy Officer:

Office of the Privacy Officer — Cryptic Boreal Interactive Media Inc.
Suite 1840, 100 King Street West, First Canadian Place, Toronto, ON M5X 1C9, Canada
Telephone: +1 (416) 849-7310 • Email: support@cacrypticborealzone.com