What I keep

After Dark is free games on my website. I'm Ben, one person, not a company. Here is exactly what I keep about you, why, what I don't, and who else sees a request. Updated 29 October 2026.

The short version

What I keep, and why

• Your stool. One cookie (bar_device) holds a random token so the same browser gets the same player back tomorrow. With it I keep the name and face you picked, when the player was made, when it was last seen, and your browser's name (the user-agent string). Clear the cookie and you're a new player; the old one just sits unused.
• Results. When a game ends at a shared table, the bar records which game, when, who sat where, and the score or place. That's what "Tonight" and the sign out front count. No cards, no hands, no drawings.
• Table chat, briefly. While a table is open the bar keeps its last 20 chat lines, so a Report has something to show. When the table closes those lines are deleted. Trivia answers and Doodle guesses are never kept at all, and nothing drawn in Doodle is ever written down.
• Reports and blocks. If someone taps Report, the last 20 lines are saved with the report for 7 days, then deleted. Blocks you set are kept so they stick.

Your address

Every website sees the network address you connect from; that's how the page gets back to you. Here is what happens to yours.

• The bar counts connections per address, in memory, so one address can't flood a table. The count isn't saved.
• When a new player is created, or a limit trips, the bar writes one line to its server log that includes the address. Those logs live on the server and nobody but me reads them.
• The web server in front of the games never sees your address at all; it only sees the tunnel it sits behind.

Who else sees a request

• Cloudflare carries every request to the server, which lives behind a tunnel with no open ports. Cloudflare sees the request and your address to do that, under its own policy. It's there so the site stays up and so nobody can reach the server directly.
• Google Analytics is on the pages. It counts visits: which page, how many, roughly where from, what kind of device. It sets its own cookies and runs under Google's policy. It's there so I can see whether anyone plays. It does not run on test machines.
• Google Fonts serve the two typefaces on the front page, so Google sees a font request from your browser there. The games themselves use fonts served from my own server.
• The jukebox tracks come from Pixabay, but they're served from my server; Pixabay never sees you.

What I don't do

• No accounts, no email, no phone number, no real name unless you type one.
• No payment of any kind. Chips are play chips, always.
• No ads, no ad trackers, no selling or sharing of anything to anyone.
• No "sign in with" anything. No reading your contacts, your clipboard, or your other tabs.
• No recording of what you draw, what you answer, or what you guess.

Where it lives

One small server that I run myself, in the United States. I'm the only person with access. There is no company behind this.

Want yours gone?

Clear the cookie and you're gone from the games' point of view. If you'd like the player record and results deleted too, ask me and say which name and face; I'll do it by hand.