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Cookies and Tracking

Last updated 11 June 2026

This page is short, because there is not much to tell. We set no tracking cookies of our own, and with no advertising on the site at the moment, no ad network sets any either.

No tracking cookies of our own

We set no advertising cookies and no cross-site tracking cookies ourselves. What we do keep is listed below, and it stays in your browser.

Cookieless analytics

We use Umami to see roughly how many people visit and which pages they reach. It uses no cookies and collects no personal data, only anonymous, aggregate figures. More detail is in our Privacy Policy.

What we store in your browser, and why

So the puzzle is there when you come back, we keep a little information in your browser's own storage. The small things sit in local storage, your lamp and your sound level among them, and a picture you upload sits in IndexedDB, your browser's store for larger files. This is functional, not tracking, and it never leaves your device:

• the puzzle you are building on your own, a jigsaw or a game of Jigsaw Solitaire, so you can step away and resume it,
• the picture you chose for a table, and the file itself if you uploaded one,
• a small token for each shared table, plus a random id for this browser and the display name you last typed, so you can take your seat again after a refresh.

A shared table is the one thing that is not kept here. It lives on the server that keeps the two of you in sync, so either of you can close the tab and come back to the same pieces, and it is deleted two days after the last piece moves. The token in your browser is the key to your seat, not a copy of the puzzle.

Advertising

There is no advertising on the site right now, so there are no advertising cookies either. Google AdSense used to serve them and it has been removed, script and all, so no ad network is contacted from any page here. There are no social media tracking pixels. One thing is embedded from outside: when you set up a table for two, a Cloudflare Turnstile check runs to keep bots out. It can store something in your browser for that check, it is not advertising, and it does not follow you between sites. If advertising returns, and one day it probably will, it will be a lighter network than that one, and this page will describe what it sets before it goes live.

Clearing it

You are always in control. Clearing this site's data in your browser removes everything we have stored on your device, including any saved puzzle.

Contact

Questions? Write to [email protected].