Privacy

What stays in your browser

Your profile (name, color, play time, streaks and trophies), your saved list, your recently played history and the interface sound toggle are stored in this browser on this device, using local storage. They are never sent to a server. You can export, import or reset all of it from your profile.

Some games run in a private session so they can use features their site needs. In that mode the game's own saves are cleared when you leave the player. The game page says so before you press Play.

Analytics

We use Vercel Web Analytics and Vercel Speed Insights. They are cookieless and do not set a persistent identifier or track you across sites. They give us aggregated page views, the pages people open, device and browser class, country, and page performance timings. Nothing in these reports identifies you.

Bot protection on forms

When you send a game submission or feedback, Vercel BotID checks the request to tell people apart from automated traffic. It processes request signals such as your IP address for that purpose only and sets no cookies.

Game submissions and feedback

What you type into the submit and feedback forms (a title, link, description, optional creator links, an optional email address and optional images or video) is sent to a private GitHub issue tracker that only the Joycabinet review team can read. Attached files are stored in private Vercel Blob storage and are reachable only through review links inside those private issues. GitHub and Vercel process this data on our behalf.

To limit abuse, a hashed copy of your IP address is kept for about one hour so the forms can apply a limit of three new reports per hour. The hash is discarded after that.

Your email address is optional. If you give one, we use it only to follow up on that report. It is never published in the catalog or shared with anyone outside the review team.

Retention: attachments and contact details for rejected or resolved reports are deleted within 90 days. Media for an approved game is kept while the game is listed, so it can appear on the game's page.

To have a report and its attachments deleted sooner, write to hello@joycabinet.com and include the submission or feedback reference the form showed you.

Third-party games

Games are made and hosted by their creators on their own sites. Joycabinet loads them inside a sandboxed frame or opens them in a new tab. Those sites have their own privacy practices, cookies and analytics, and Joycabinet cannot see what happens inside a game. Check the game's own site for its policy.

Contact

Questions about this page or a data request: hello@joycabinet.com. For a copyright or credit concern, see content removal.