Privacy

The short version

No cookies. No trackers. No ads. No third-party analytics.

Server logs

Like nearly every website, the web server keeps standard access logs: the address a request came from, the page it asked for, when, and the browser it claimed to be. They're looked at in aggregate — "how many people visited the games page" — and rotate away after about a week. The pages also send the site a quick, anonymous ping when a game is started or made fullscreen, so plays can be counted — it sets no cookie and stores nothing about you, just another line in that same log.

Comments

If you post a comment, the site stores the display name you typed and the comment itself. To slow down spam floods, it also keeps a salted hash of the posting address for rate-limiting — the address itself is never stored with your comment and can't be recovered from the hash. No email, no account, no profile.

Email newsletter

If you sign up for game-launch emails, the site stores the email address you typed, when you signed up and confirmed, which form you used, and the same kind of salted, non-recoverable address hash described above (that's the consent receipt). Nothing is ever sent to you until you click the confirmation link — typing someone else's address gets them exactly one "was this you?" email and then silence.

Every email includes an unsubscribe link that always works, no login or begging required. Unsubscribing keeps your address only as a "don't email this person" marker. The list lives in this site's own database and mail is sent from this site's own web host — no third-party mailing service holds your address.

What this site doesn't do

Sell data (there isn't any to sell), run third-party analytics, embed social widgets, load fonts or scripts from other people's servers, or set cookies to remember you between visits.

If this ever changes

If the site grows new features that touch any of the above, this page gets updated first, before those features go live.

Questions

hello (at) hibachicat (dot) com