What this game knows about you.
Almost nothing, and this page is the whole list.
Screwcap Games, LLC · last updated 18 August 2026
The short version
There is no account, no sign-up, no email box and no password. We do not know who you are and we have not built anywhere to put that even if we wanted to. Your run lives in your own browser. What we collect is a count of anonymous events so we can tell whether anybody is playing and where they stop.
Since August 2026 those same counts also go to Google Analytics and the Meta Pixel, so that a very small company can tell whether the money it spends telling people this game exists is doing anything. If your browser sends Do-Not-Track or Global Privacy Control, neither of them is loaded at all. Section 2 is the long version and section 5 is the full list.
1 · What stays on your machine
Kitchen Table uses your browser's local storage. This never leaves your device and we cannot read it:
| Key | What it holds |
|---|---|
| kt.save.* | Your saved run — the eight decisions and which quarter you are in. |
| kt.seen.* | Whether you have seen the opening card, so it does not nag. |
| kt.last | Which era you played last, so a bare link opens the right one. |
| kt.ledger | The decisions from finished runs, so the comparison card can be drawn. |
| kt.adfree | Set only if you have bought the ad-free unlock. |
| deck_sid | A random string. See the next section. |
Clearing your browser data deletes all of it, including your saved run. There is no copy on our side to restore it from.
2 · What we count
The game reports anonymous, aggregate events to our own server so we can see whether the game
works: a session, a run started, which quarter you reached, a run finished, a share card taken.
Each carries a random per-browser identifier (deck_sid), the era, and nothing else.
It is enforced on both sides, not just promised: the collector drops any value longer than thirty-two characters, because at that length it is free text rather than a tag. There is no field for a name, an email or a message, and none is sent.
Our own counting cannot connect this to you. It tells us that a browser reached quarter five and stopped. That is genuinely the level of detail it operates at, and it is the level we need.
The same events are also sent to three outside services — Plausible, Google Analytics and the Meta Pixel — and that changed in August 2026. It is written here rather than left for you to find in the page source. The event names and the era are all they get from us; what they then know about you is their business and not ours, and in the case of the Meta Pixel it is an advertising profile and it is shared with the other Screwcap games. If that is not a trade you want, the next paragraph is the whole of the opt-out.
If your browser sends a Do-Not-Track signal — or Global Privacy Control — nothing is sent to our collector, and Google Analytics and the Meta Pixel are never loaded at all. Not loaded and then made quiet: never requested, so no cookie is set and no request reaches either company. Plausible still runs, because it sets nothing on your device and collects no personal data. You can check all of this in your browser's network tab, which is the only kind of privacy promise worth making.
3 · Advertising
Kitchen Table has two ad spaces: one low on the front page, one at the very foot of the end-of-run reckoning. There are none during play.
When they are switched on they are served by Google AdSense, which sets its own cookies and may use them to choose which advert to show you. That is Google's processing under Google's own policy, not ours, and we receive no personal data back from it — only aggregate earnings.
If the ad spaces are switched off, the AdSense script is not loaded and no advert cookie is set. It is not hidden, not collapsed, not rendered at zero height — the request is never made. The same is true if you have bought the ad-free unlock, and if your browser sends Do-Not-Track.
We are saying this precisely because the opposite has caught us before. On a sibling title the ad slot was hidden from paying players while the ad network loaded anyway. Nothing visibly rendered, so nobody noticed for months. Kitchen Table is built so that cannot happen: the script tag is created inside the same function that draws the advert, after every check has passed.
4 · Paying means less of the above
If an ad-free unlock is published for this game, buying it removes AdSense and every cookie it sets — the network is never contacted. That is a real, concrete difference, not a promise about intentions.
It does not change the anonymous event counting in section 2, because that has nothing to remove: no profile, no third party, no cookie.
5 · Everyone else this page talks to
| Who | Why | Their policy |
|---|---|---|
| Vercel | Hosts the site. Sees the usual server request logs. | vercel.com |
| Google Fonts | Four typefaces. Your browser fetches them from Google, which sees the request. | google.com |
| Supabase | Stores the anonymous event counts. | supabase.com |
| Google AdSense | The two ad spaces, when switched on. | google.com |
| Plausible | Aggregate page and event counts. Cookieless; stores nothing on your device. | plausible.io |
| Google Analytics | The same events again, for a shared Screwcap property. Not loaded under Do-Not-Track. | google.com |
| Meta Pixel | Advertising measurement and audiences, shared across the Screwcap games. Not loaded under Do-Not-Track. | meta.com |
| Gumroad | Only if you buy the ad-free unlock. They are the merchant and take the payment details; we never see a card. | gumroad.com |
This page used to say that none of the last three ran here, and until August 2026 that was true. It changed, this is the paragraph recording that it changed, and the date at the top moved with it. We would rather say that plainly than quietly edit a promise out.
What is still deliberately NOT here: no TikTok pixel, no Google Tag Manager, no
behavioural profiling of our own, no data sold to anybody, ever, and no account to attach any of
it to. Google Analytics runs here with advertising features, Google Signals and ad
personalisation all switched off, so this game does not feed an interest-based profile through
that route. If you want to check rather than trust us, view the page source and the network
tab — everything the page loads is in it, and that is the point of doing it in one file you
can read (/screwcap-tracking.js).
6 · This list is not fixed forever
We are a very small company and the tools change. If we add or swap a vendor we will update this page and the date at the top of it. What will not change without being written here first is the shape of the promise: no accounts, no selling data, and nothing that ties a person to a run.
7 · Children
This is a teaching game about household money and it is suitable for teenagers. It is not directed at children under 13, we do not knowingly collect anything from them, and there is nothing here to collect. If ads are running and you are a parent who would rather they were not, the ad-free unlock removes the network entirely.
8 · Your rights
If you are in the UK, EU, California or anywhere with equivalent law, you have rights of access, correction, deletion and objection over personal data held about you. The honest answer here is that we hold none that identifies you, so there is nothing to hand over and nothing to delete on request — clearing your browser storage removes everything on your side, and the event counts cannot be traced back to you to find. Write to us anyway if you want that confirmed in writing.
Our lawful basis for the anonymous counting is legitimate interest: knowing whether a free game works. For advertising, where consent is required in your jurisdiction, that consent is handled by Google's own consent flow.
An honest note about the Meta Pixel and Google Analytics. In the UK and EU those two require your opt-in consent, and a consent banner is not built yet. What is built is the opposite default: if your browser sends Do-Not-Track or Global Privacy Control, neither one is ever loaded. A silent browser is not the same as a browser that agreed, and we are not going to pretend otherwise on the page where we tell you what we do. If you are in a jurisdiction that requires opt-in and you have not sent one of those signals, turn it on in your browser and this site will honour it immediately — and write to us if you would like the banner sooner.
9 · Contact
Screwcap Games, LLC. Not a lawyer's document — a plain description of what the software actually does, which we would rather be accurate than impressive.