Cookie policy

The choice you were offered

The banner on your first visit offers two options and nothing is set beyond the strictly necessary until you pick one. Accept all allows the preference and measurement entries described below. Necessary only limits us to what the site cannot work without. Neither choice changes what you can play or what a match costs.

Your decision is itself stored on your device, because there is no other way to remember it without asking you again on every page.

Cookies and local storage are not the same thing

Worth being precise, because most policies are not: the banner choice is kept in local storage under the key ta_cookie_ok, not in a cookie. Local storage stays in your browser until you clear site data and is not transmitted to us automatically with every request, which is why we use it for a preference only the page itself needs to read. Clearing cookies alone in some browsers leaves local storage untouched — if you want the banner back, clear site data rather than only cookies.

Strictly necessary

These cannot be switched off, because the site breaks without them.

• ta_cookie_ok (local storage) — records which banner option you chose so the banner stops appearing. Stays until you clear site data.
• Session identifier (cookie) — keeps you signed in across pages during a visit and ties a match you started to the account that started it. Cleared when you close the browser.
• Security token (cookie) — proves that a form submission came from a page we served, which is what stops a third-party site submitting on your behalf. Cleared with the session.

Blocking this group will keep you signed out and will make match entry fail. That is a limitation of how sessions work rather than a decision on our part.

Preference

Set only if you accepted all cookies. These remember choices that make the site less irritating on a second visit, such as whether the arena host panel was left open and which game page you last looked at. Nothing in this group is shared with anyone, and clearing them costs you nothing except those small conveniences.

They expire after six months without a visit, on the reasonable assumption that a preference you set half a year ago is no longer a preference.

Measurement

Also set only if you accepted all cookies. These count page views and record which games get opened, in aggregate, so we can tell which titles deserve to stay in the rotation. They do not carry your name or email address and they are not used to target advertising at you anywhere.

What we actually look at is narrow: how many people opened each game, how many finished a first practice round, and which pages people leave from. That last one is how we found out that an earlier version of our prize-split explanation was unreadable. Measurement data is aggregated monthly and the per-visit records are discarded after ninety days.

Entries we do not control

Every game on this site is embedded from a third-party provider. When you press Play, that provider's frame loads and it may set its own cookies to remember game settings, progress, volume, or its own analytics and advertising. Those entries belong to the provider, sit outside our banner choice and are governed by the provider's policy rather than this one.

In practice a game frame commonly sets a device or session identifier, a stored preference for sound and graphics quality, a saved progress marker, and — because most free browser games are advertising-funded — entries belonging to an advertising network. If you would rather not accept any of that, do not open the game frame; browsing the rest of the site sets none of it.

We embed no advertising networks and no social media tracking pixels on the site itself. The only third-party code that loads is the game you chose to open.

Seeing it for yourself

You do not have to take this page on trust. Every current browser will show you exactly what a site has stored.

• Chrome and Edge — open developer tools with F12, then the Application panel, then Storage.
• Firefox — open developer tools with F12, then the Storage panel.
• Safari — enable the Develop menu in Settings, then Web Inspector, then Storage.

If you find something on that list which is not described on this page and does not come from a game frame you opened, tell us. That would be a mistake on our side and we would want to fix it.

Changing or clearing your choice

Clearing site data for this domain in your browser settings resets everything, including the banner, so you will be asked again on your next visit. Every current browser also lets you block cookies wholesale or per site — Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge all keep the control under privacy settings.

Private or incognito windows discard everything when the window closes, which means the banner will greet you on every visit and you will not stay signed in between sessions. That is the browser working correctly, not a fault on the site.

Do Not Track and global privacy signals

Browsers vary in how they express a Do Not Track preference and there is no agreed standard for honouring it. Rather than claim support we cannot define, we simply do not set measurement entries unless you accepted all cookies in the banner. That is the same outcome, decided by you rather than inferred.

Where a browser sends a machine-readable opt-out signal that is unambiguous, we treat it as a refusal of the optional categories and the banner will not override it.

Updates

If we add or remove an entry, this page changes with it and the date below is updated. A change that would broaden what we store is treated as a material change and triggers the banner again, so you can make the choice fresh rather than inherit a consent you gave to something narrower.

Questions about anything on this page go through the contact form, and our privacy policy covers what happens to personal information once it reaches us.

Last updated: 11 August 2026.