1. Who we are and scope
Mindful Echo Ltd, an independent studio in the United Kingdom, is responsible for deciding why and how this aggregate measurement is used.
This notice covers free Limina Oblita games played in a browser through mindful-echo.com or directly from our verified production game host at main.d14uk8o6bjp2gn.amplifyapp.com, including Eleusis and Pente Grammai. It does not replace the separate privacy policies for the Forgotten Games anthology or Eleusis Axiom iPhone and iPad apps, which describe those products’ on-device and Apple-service data paths.
Our website hosting and security providers may also process technical request information such as an IP address, browser or device type, requested page and access time to deliver and protect the site. This notice focuses on the additional aggregate measurement used to understand browser play.
2. What we count
We use aggregate counts to learn whether a public story or campaign leads people into a game and whether the game holds their interest. Depending on the game, the fixed milestones can include:
- the game loading and its playable surface becoming visible;
- a first completed player action and a defined engaged-play threshold;
- a completed challenge or match, replay, share or selected call-to-action; and
- bounded campaign information such as source, campaign and creative labels from a link.
Event records use a restricted path made from the game, milestone, campaign, creative and, where relevant, an allowed game version or difficulty. These are totals for a campaign or event. We do not use them to assemble a person-level funnel or claim that separate milestones came from the same visitor.
3. What analytics does not contain
Our analytics adapter does not include a player’s moves, game seed, hidden rule, submitted answer, survey response, other free text, session ID or full query string. Campaign and creative labels are restricted to short values selected for our own campaigns; they must not contain names, email addresses or other personal information.
Analytics remains separate from any local information a game needs in order to work. It does not use cookies, localStorage, cache entries or another browser mechanism to create a persistent analytics identifier. Blocking the analytics request does not block or change the game.
4. GoatCounter’s role
We use the hosted GoatCounter service as a service provider and processor acting on our behalf for aggregate visit and milestone counts. Mindful Echo controls the account, chooses the permitted events and purposes, and restricts access to the results. GoatCounter is not authorised by us to use this information for advertising or to track people across websites.
GoatCounter’s aggregate service can store separate daily totals for browser and version, operating system, country derived from the request’s IP address, language and screen width. The service allows those dimensions to be disabled. Our measurement programme will not be enabled until recorded configuration evidence confirms that all five dimensions are disabled and that only the aggregate path, campaign, source and permitted milestone totals needed for this programme remain.
We also require GoatCounter’s optional individual-pageview collection to remain disabled, with that setting checked and recorded before enablement. GoatCounter says it uses a site name, IP address and user-agent header temporarily in memory for up to eight hours to avoid counting repeated visits, but does not store that source mapping in its database when individual-pageview collection is off. It states that it does not retain IP addresses, full user-agent headers or tracker IDs in the aggregate records and does not place cookies or other identifiers in visitors’ browsers.
Its hosted service is operated from Ireland and stores data on servers in Finland and Germany. Read GoatCounter’s privacy information.
5. Why we use the counts and how they are shared
We use the counts to understand whether a game or story resonates, diagnose where an experience loses people, improve the games and decide whether a small marketing experiment should be promoted, changed or retired. We rely on our legitimate interests in measuring and improving our own public games while using a deliberately limited, aggregate system.
We do not sell analytics information, use it for targeted advertising or combine it with information from other sites. It is available only to Mindful Echo and providers processing the website and aggregate measurement for us, or where disclosure is required by law or necessary to protect rights and safety.
6. Retention, review and security
Hosted aggregate counts remain only while the Limina Oblita measurement programme is active. We review that need and the configuration at least once a year. Deleting the GoatCounter account deletes its hosted data, although GoatCounter says some information may remain in backups for up to 30 days.
We may keep an export of aggregate campaign totals and a derived results record with the relevant project so that we retain the evidence behind a product decision. We do not create or retain a separate person-level analytics export.
We limit event names and values, keep account credentials outside the public website repository and restrict account access. No system is completely secure, but collecting bounded aggregate counts reduces the information exposed if something goes wrong.
7. Your choices and rights
You can block analytics requests with browser settings or content-blocking software; the games should continue to work. Because the hosted records are aggregate and are not linked to an analytics identifier, Mindful Echo normally cannot identify or retrieve an individual’s contribution to those totals.
Depending on where you live, you may have rights concerning personal information Mindful Echo holds about you. To ask a question or make a request, email hello@mindful-echo.com. If you are in the UK, you can also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office.
8. Changes and contact
We may update this notice if the games, measurement design, provider or legal requirements change. We will post the revised notice here, change the effective date and highlight material changes where appropriate.
Questions about browser-play privacy can be sent to Mindful Echo Ltd at hello@mindful-echo.com.
This notice is permanently available at https://mindful-echo.com/limina-oblita/privacy/.