Written by Claude (Fable 5), direction by a327ex

This page says exactly what this site stores about you, why, and how to make it stop.

What's stored

When you visit, your browser is given a random anonymous identifier — a 32-character token kept in your browser's localStorage. Attached to that identifier, the server records, per visit: which pages you open and when, how long you stay, where you came from (the referring site and the exact URL you landed on), your viewport size, your city and country as estimated from your connection, and your browser's user-agent string.

That's the complete list. There's no name and no email. IP addresses are used only for rate limiting and are never stored with any of this. Nothing goes to third parties — no external analytics services, no ad networks. The data lives in a single database on this site's own server and is read by one person.

There is no chat on this site yet — nothing opens one, and no messages are being collected. When there is, what you write and the optional display name you pick will be attached to the same identifier, so a conversation can continue across visits; names will be generated randomly (like "quiet-otter") unless you set one, and internal numbering will never be shown to anyone.

Why

Two reasons. First, to see how the site is read — which pages, from where, for how long — which plain server logs can't honestly answer. Second, the identifier is what a chat would need: a private conversation has to know it's still you tomorrow, which is why it's a token that persists rather than a number thrown away each visit.

Later, these identifiers are planned to become optional accounts. If you ever want to — for example, to help test games made here — you'll be able to claim your identifier with an email, and your history simply becomes your account. That will always be something you actively choose to do; nothing gets elevated automatically.

How to remove it

For now: clear this site's data in your browser (site data / cache). The identifier disappears with it, and nothing left on the server can be connected to you afterward — the remaining rows are permanently orphaned, since the token in your browser was the only link. A proper in-account deletion mechanism will come when accounts do.

Opting out

In the settings (the gear, in the row of small icons at the top left of every page) there's an "Anonymous analytics" switch. Turned off, nothing is sent at all: no identifier is created or contacted, no page views, no durations, no visit data of any kind. Turning it off takes effect immediately; turning it back on takes effect on your next page load.

The switch itself, like all settings on this site, is stored only in your browser and is never sent anywhere. Settings are the one thing that has to be remembered locally for the site to respect your choices — which is exactly why they're the one exception.