Privacy policy
Playpit is a general-audience site of original browser games, and we know families and kids play here. So the policy is built around one idea: collect as close to nothing as possible. The plain-language version:
- No accounts. There is nothing to sign up for, so we never ask for your name, email, or age.
- No chat. Our games have no chat, messaging, or voice of any kind. Every game is currently single-player, so nothing you do travels to another player at all. If we turn on the optional invite-a-friend multiplayer we have built, there will still be no names, no profiles, and no way to talk; the only thing that would cross the wire is game moves.
- Your saves stay on your device. Game progress and worlds are stored in your own browser (IndexedDB/localStorage). They are never uploaded to us. Clearing your browser data deletes them.
- No selling of data — we have essentially none to sell.
Advertising: contextual only
Playpit is free and may show ads to keep it that way. Any ads we show are contextual: chosen by the page you are on (e.g. "a building game"), never by who you are, what you've browsed elsewhere, or a behavioral profile. We do not permit personalized or interest-based advertising anywhere on the site, and we configure ad partners to treat all traffic with child-directed care (no personalization, no retargeting, no cross-site tracking). This is our COPPA posture, chosen deliberately.
Analytics: counting, not tracking
To know which games people enjoy, we may measure anonymous, aggregate usage — page views and basic device class. When enabled, our analytics run cookieless: nothing is stored on your device, sessions are not recorded, IP addresses are not kept, and we honor the "Do Not Track" and Global Privacy Control browser signals. There are no analytics identifiers that follow you between visits, and no data is shared with data brokers.
Error reports
If a game crashes, your browser may send us a technical error report (the error message, the page it happened on, and browser version) so we can fix it. Error reports contain no personal information and are used only for debugging.
Sharing links and postcards
Some games create shareable links or images (Bloomstead's postcards, Starskip's star charts, Korveth's battle reports). These are generated entirely on your device and encode only game data — a world seed, a position, a list of moves — never anything about you. Sharing them is always your choice, done through your own apps.
Multiplayer rooms
Multiplayer is not enabled right now. Every game on Playpit is single-player today: no room can be joined, and no game data of yours leaves your device to reach another player. We are describing this in advance so the policy is already true on the day we turn it on, and so you can see what we have decided it will never do.
Two games (Stackpark, Korveth) have a built invite-a-friend mode we have not switched on. When we do, rooms will carry game moves only — block placements, unit orders, positions. There will be no chat channel, no display names beyond "player 1"-style slot labels, no matchmaking with strangers, and nothing said or typed, because there will be nowhere to say or type it. Room activity will not be linked to any identity, and a room will keep only what the game itself needs (a shared build, a match seed) — nothing about the people in it. We will update this page before that changes.
Children
Playpit is a general-audience site and does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children under 13. Because there are no accounts, no chat, no uploaded content, and no behavioral advertising, playing on Playpit does not involve giving us personal data. If you believe a child has somehow provided us personal information, contact us and we will delete it.
Changes and contact
If this policy changes, we will update this page and its effective date. Questions or requests: hello@playpit.fun.