Privacy

What this site stores in your browser

The games keep your progress and settings on your device under a single local key: ahaarcade:local:v1. That key never leaves your device. The site does not use sessionStorage on https://www.ahaarcade.com.

You can delete that key here at any time. Clearing is immediate and there is no backup and no copy anywhere else.

If an adult signs in with Google on the Account page, we receive and store the email address, name, and avatar Google provides, plus a login session cookie (HttpOnly, Secure) so the page remembers you. Signing out revokes the current session; "Sign out everywhere" revokes every session on every device. No child data exists in accounts today, and account deletion arrives with the next family feature wave.

Anonymous play-quality events

While you play, the site sends anonymous, coarse-grained events so puzzles can be made fairer. Each event may carry only these fields: the event name; the schema and app version; the page you are on; the game, skill, level, and mode (when a game is running); a derived channel; an allowlisted campaign code; a coarse device class; the outcome; bucketed active time, move, hint, and restart counts; whether an explanation was viewed; a coarse returning-player bucket; and a one-time random event ID used only to remove duplicate entries in a queue.

Events never include a stable session, player, or account ID; your name, email, age, or nickname; raw moves or replays; the full referrer; an IP address hash; or your full User-Agent. Nothing in any event identifies you across visits.

Server records

The Cloudflare network that serves this site keeps standard technical logs (IP addresses, request times, and browser types) to protect the service from abuse. Those operational records are separate from the product events above and are not used to profile players.

Page view counting

AhaArcade counts page views with a small script loaded from its own subdomain, um.ahaarcade.com. The counter is self-hosted on our own domain — not a third-party analytics service — and it is separate from the play-quality events described above.

What this site does not have

No accounts, no profiles, no payments, no advertising, no chat, and no social plugins. AhaArcade is not a medical product and does not diagnose or assess anything.

Questions about this page? Contact us.