Privacy

Casetta Cards stores the card game scores you enter, the names you give players, and — if you create an account — your username, a hashed password, and hashed answers to two security questions. No email address is required and none is sent. Profiles are visible only to people you have played a game with. You can ask for your account to be deleted at any time; your name is replaced with a tombstone and the games other people played in stay intact, because they are their history too.

What is recorded about visits

The site keeps its own record of how it is used: the pages you open, when, how long you stay, and whether you ended up playing a game. Alongside that it stores your IP address, the browser and device you are using, and the page that sent you here, if any.

Your IP address is also used to work out an approximate location — usually the nearest city, which is often not the one you are in. That lookup happens on this server, against a dataset downloaded in advance. Your address is never sent to a geolocation service or to anyone else.

There is no third-party analytics, no advertising, and no tracking across other websites. Nothing here is shared with anyone, because there is nobody to share it with — the only people who can see it are this site's administrators, and the only thing it is used for is understanding how the site is used. The cookie that ties your requests together is the same one that keeps you signed in; there is not a second one for this.

Visit records are deleted automatically after 400 days. Sign-in records — when an account was used and roughly from where — are kept longer, because they are what would show an account being used by someone who should not have it.

Feedback

If you send feedback, the message is stored with your name and, if you are mid-game, which game and hand you were on. That is so you do not have to describe where you were. It goes into this site's database and nowhere else — no email, no messaging service.