Privacy policy
Last updated: 14 October 2026
What we collect
Pocket Arcade has no accounts and does not ask for your email or any other personal details.
Scores and settings
Your best scores and your sound setting are saved in your browser's local storage on your own device. Your saved best scores stay on your device unless you choose to save one to the leaderboard (see below). The score of each finished game is counted in our visitor statistics, without your name or any account. You can delete them at any time by clearing your browser's site data.
Visitor statistics
We use Google Analytics to count visits and see which games are played and what scores are reached. It records things like the pages you view, your rough location, and your device and browser type, and may set cookies to tell repeat visits apart. These cookies are only set if you accept cookies. See how Google uses data from sites that use its services.
Leaderboard
If you choose to save a score to the leaderboard, the name you type and your score are sent to our server and shown publicly to everyone. Please don't use your real full name. To stop spam, the server also keeps a scrambled (hashed) version of your IP address, which changes every day. It is only used to count how many scores were saved in the last 10 minutes, and old ones are deleted as new scores come in. The address itself is never stored. Names with rude words are refused. The same goes for the Daily Challenge board, which is kept for 60 days. The leaderboard runs on Cloudflare, see Cloudflare's privacy policy. To have a name removed, ask on the site's GitHub page linked below.
Hosting
This site is hosted on GitHub Pages. Like most web hosts, GitHub may log technical information such as your IP address when you visit. See GitHub's privacy statement.
Advertising and cookies
This site shows ads from Google AdSense. Ads are served by third-party vendors, including Google. These vendors use cookies to serve ads based on your previous visits to this and other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies lets it and its partners serve ads based on your visits to this site and other sites on the internet.
You can opt out of personalised advertising in Google Ads Settings, or opt out of some third-party vendors' cookies at aboutads.info.
When you first open the site you are asked whether to accept cookies. You can change your answer here:
If you visit from the European Economic Area, the UK or Switzerland, you are asked for your consent before personalised ads or advertising cookies are used. You can change your choice at any time from the privacy settings link shown with the consent message.
Children
We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children.
Contact
Questions about this policy can be raised on the site's GitHub page.