Connected by Cards

Privacy

Last updated 15 September 2026

Connected by Cards is a free card table you open in a browser. There is nothing to sign up for, so there is not much about you to hold. This page says what little there is, where it sits, and how long it stays.

The short version

• No account, no sign-up, no password. We never ask for your name or your email.
• A table you open with someone lives on our server for 48 hours, then it goes. It holds the hand in progress and whatever name you typed, and nothing that says who you are.
• Voice is off until you switch it on, and it goes straight between the two browsers.
• Our analytics set no cookies and build no profile of you.
• There is no advertising on the site today, and nothing from an ad network runs here.

No account, nothing to sign up for

You open a page and play. There is no registration anywhere on this site, so we hold no profile, no login and no contact details for you unless you choose to write to us. A display name, if you type one, is a label on a seat for the length of one table, not an identity we keep.

Opening a table, and the link you send

A table is a room on our server, made when you press the button and given a random id. You get a link for every seat you did not take, and you send those links to the people you want to play with. Anyone holding one of those links can take that seat, so send them to people you actually mean to play with.

Making a table runs a Cloudflare Turnstile check first, a quiet test that you are a person and not a bot. It loads a small script from Cloudflare. It is not advertising and it does not follow you to other sites.

Talking while you play

Voice is off unless you turn it on, and both of you are asked for the microphone before anything is sent. It works between two people at a table, and the audio goes straight from one browser to the other rather than through us. Nothing is recorded, by us or for you.

To find that direct path, your browser asks public STUN servers run by Google and by Cloudflare how it can be reached, which means those servers see your IP address. Usually the connection is then direct. When a direct path cannot be made, the audio is relayed through Cloudflare instead, and the moves can take the same route.

What our server keeps

The table itself is kept so either of you can close the tab and come back to the same hand: the cards as they lie, who is in which seat, and the display name you typed if you typed one. It is deleted 48 hours after the last move, and nothing of it is attached to an account, because there are none.

Chat is not part of that. A message passes through the server to the other seats and is never stored. The server keeps a count of how many were sent, never a word of what they said.

Separately, so one person cannot open a hundred tables at once, your IP address is hashed with a secret value the moment it arrives. The hash is what counts your open tables, and it is held with the table so the slot can be released when the table goes. The address itself is never written down, and the hash cannot be turned back into it.

We also keep a row per table for what it cost to run: the random table id, which game it was, how many seats, how long it lasted, how many messages and moves went through, and when it started and ended. There is no name, no address and no IP in any of it.

What your browser keeps

So you can come back to a table you already have, a few small things are saved on your own device, not on our server:

• a token for each table you opened or joined, which is what the "still in progress" list on a game page is made of,
• a random id for this browser and the display name you last typed,
• at the tables that offer them, how many computer opponents you chose last time,
• what you last typed into the library search, for the length of the browser tab.

A solitaire is not saved

The games you play on your own keep nothing. Close the tab and that hand is gone, which is the honest description of what the code does rather than a promise about privacy. Nothing about a solitaire reaches our server either.

Analytics

To see roughly how many people visit and which pages they reach, we use Umami, a privacy-friendly analytics tool. It sets no cookies and collects no personal data. It records aggregate, anonymous figures such as page views, the country a visit came from, the site that sent you and the kind of browser used. None of that identifies you, none of it is built into a profile, and none of it is shared for advertising.

It is served from this site's own address rather than the vendor's, so ad blockers do not have to guess at it. The request that forwards it drops your cookies before it goes, and anything that is not the live site, a preview build or a local run, is answered with a tracker that does nothing at all.

Advertising

There is no advertising on this site today. No ad script loads, no ad network is contacted, and nothing here sets an advertising cookie or reads a device identifier. We are not promising it stays that way, because the site has to pay for itself eventually. You might see an ad now and then, and we will try to keep them discreet. If that day comes, this page will name the network and say what it stores before the first ad appears.

Hosting

The site and the server that keeps a table in sync both run on Cloudflare. Like any web host, Cloudflare handles basic technical information such as your IP address in order to serve the pages and to protect the service from abuse, under its own terms and privacy policy.

Children

This is a general-audience card table and it is not directed at young children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, of any age.

Your choices and your rights

Because we hold essentially nothing personal about you, there is very little to ask for, correct or delete. What is on your device is yours to clear whenever you like, and a table clears itself. If you have a question about any of it, write to us and we will answer.

Changes to this page

If we change how the site handles data, we will change this page and the date at the top of it. The version you are reading is the current one.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Write to [email protected].