Privacy Policy

Accounts and game inputs

Pocket Arcade does not require an account to play. Game controls and gameplay calculations run in the browser. The current games do not ask you to submit a name, email address, profile or payment information to begin playing.

Local browser storage

Some games use browser localStorage to remember small pieces of device-local state such as a best score, an unlocked level, distance record or audio preference. That information remains in your browser unless you clear site data or a future feature explicitly states otherwise.

Aggregate play counts

Pocket Arcade maintains aggregate play counters for its game cartridges. The counter middleware checks whether a request looks like a real browser document navigation before accepting it. To reduce rapid repeat inflation, the service derives a short daily pseudonymous guard value from request information and stores that guard for a limited period together with the game identifier and counter-control timestamps.

The application does not write the visitor's raw IP address into the play-count database. Cloudflare, as the hosting and edge provider, can still process normal technical request information such as IP address, user agent, timestamps and requested URLs for security, delivery and operations.

Live ScubeStacks observatory

While a Pocket Arcade tab is visible, it maintains a temporary connection to a ScubeStacks Cloudflare Worker. The Worker uses Cloudflare’s country code and the Pocket Arcade site origin to show country-level active visitor signals on scubestacks.com. The connection closes when the tab is hidden or closed. The presence service does not store IP addresses, precise locations, identities, cookies or visit history.

Advertising and analytics

The repository version covered by this policy does not currently load a production Google AdSense ad script or a separate third-party analytics script. Pocket Arcade may use advertising after publisher approval. Before active advertising is enabled, this policy and any required consent controls will be updated to describe the providers, cookies or similar identifiers, purposes and available choices.

The publisher identifier may appear in page metadata for site ownership and readiness checks; that metadata by itself does not display an advertisement.

External links and changes

Links to ScubeStacks or other external destinations have their own privacy practices. This policy can change when Pocket Arcade adds or removes features. Material changes will be reflected on this page.

For privacy questions, use the Contact page.