Privacy
PoketPoker has no accounts, no sign-up, no cookies and no analytics service. There is nothing to log in to, so there is no profile of you to build. This page describes the small amount that is collected, and why.
There are no cookies
The site sets no cookies at all, which is why you have never been asked to accept any. It does use your browser’s local storage, which is a different thing: local storage stays on your device and is never sent anywhere. It holds your light or dark theme choice, your saved practice game so you can resume it, your recent hands list, and the playing-style statistics the practice-game opponents use to read you. Clearing your browser data for this site removes all of it, and the practice game has its own “forget me” button.
What is collected
Two things, both anonymous:
- Counts of what gets used. When you open the practice game, ask the coach a question or share a hand, the site records that the event happened — a name from a fixed list, and nothing else. No identifier, no session, no way to join two events into a visit. It exists so the site can tell which features are worth improving.
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Error reports. If something breaks, the error message and the part of the
code it came from are recorded, so it can be fixed. The address of the page is included
with the part after the
#removed — that fragment is where hands are stored, so removing it means the cards you were looking at are never sent.
Neither carries a name, an account, a cookie, an advertising identifier, or anything that would let one visit be recognised as the same person as another. There is no analytics product behind it and no data is sold, shared or used for advertising. The reports go to the site’s own server logs and nowhere else.
What is never collected
The cards you enter, the hands you play, your results, and anything you type stay in your browser — with the single exception below. The odds engine runs entirely on your device; no calculation is sent anywhere to be performed.
The exception: the AI features
The coach, the rules referee and the “describe a hand” box are the one place text leaves your browser. What you type is sent to this site’s own server, which passes it to OpenRouter, which routes it to the model that answers. That is the only way a language model can reply. Nothing identifying you is attached, and the exchange is not stored by this site beyond the ordinary server logs — but the request does reach those companies, so please don’t type anything private into it.
Server logs
Like every website, the servers that deliver these pages see the network address your request came from, which is unavoidable in how the internet works. Those logs are used to run and secure the site. They are held in the operator’s own hosting account and are not combined with anything else or shared.
Who else is involved
- Amazon Web Services — hosting and content delivery for the site.
- Cloudflare — the domain name records and email forwarding.
- OpenRouter and the model provider behind it — only for the AI features described above.
There are no other third parties: no advertising, no trackers, no embedded widgets.
Data protection, and your rights
The data protection rules people usually mean by the General Data Protection Regulation — in the European Union, and the equivalent rules in the United Kingdom — give you rights over personal data held about you. This section says how they apply here, because a page that never names them leaves you guessing.
The operator of this site, an individual rather than a company, is what the regulation calls the controller: the person who decides what is collected and why. The contact is admin@poketpoker.com.
The only personal data held is the network address in the server logs described above. The feature counts and error reports carry no identifier of any kind, so they are not personal data — there is nothing in them to connect to you. The legal basis for keeping the logs is legitimate interests: a site cannot be run or defended without knowing where requests came from. Nothing is collected on the basis of consent, which is why there is no consent banner, and nothing is used for advertising or profiling or sold to anyone.
You have the right to ask what is held about you, to have it corrected or erased, to object to it being processed, and to receive a copy. In practice there is almost never anything to return, because nothing collected identifies you — but ask and you will get a straight answer. If you are unhappy with that answer you have the right to complain to the data protection authority in your country; in the United Kingdom that is the Information Commissioner’s Office.
One thing worth repeating: what you type into the AI features does leave your browser, as described above. If you type personal details into it, they travel with the message — so please don’t.
Changes
If what is collected ever changes, this page changes with it. It is the description of record, and the site’s own answers about privacy are kept in step with it.
Last updated 14 August 2026.