Privacy Policy
Last updated: 12 November 2026
- You don’t need an account, and we never ask for your real name, email or phone number.
- Your settings and win counts are saved only in your own browser.
- Online lobbies only exist while they’re running. We don’t store your nickname or your games on our server.
- We count visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which uses no cookies.
- We may show Google ads. Ads only use cookies for personalisation if you agree.
Who we are
Couch Arcade (games.nikolaaa.dev) is an independent browser game made and run by the owner of nikolaaa.dev. For any privacy question or request, email nikola@nikolaaa.dev.
What we collect and why
Saved in your browser
The game saves a few things in your browser’s local storage so they’re still there next time: your nickname, how many players you picked, rounds to win, your chosen tournament games and the win counts on the menu. It also keeps a random session ID for the current tab, so a page reload can reconnect you to your online lobby. All of this stays on your device and is never sent anywhere except as described under Online play. You can delete it at any time by clearing this site’s data in your browser.
Online play
When you create or join an online lobby, your browser connects to our game server. The server receives your nickname, the random session ID and the buttons you press, and passes the game state to the other players in your lobby. Lobbies and matches exist only in the server’s memory while they’re running and are gone when everyone leaves. We don’t keep logs of nicknames, lobbies or games.
Like any website, our server and hosting software see your IP address in order to connect you. We don’t use it to identify you, and the server does not write it to its own logs.
Other players in your lobby can see the nickname you choose, so please don’t use your real name if you’d rather not share it.
Analytics
We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to count visits, see which pages are visited and see roughly which countries and devices visitors use. It doesn’t use cookies, doesn’t use fingerprinting and doesn’t track you across other sites. We only see totals, never individual visitors. See Cloudflare’s privacy policy.
Advertising
To keep the game free, we may show ads from Google AdSense. Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on this site. Google’s advertising cookies let it and its partners serve ads to you based on your visits to this and other websites.
- If you accept all cookies, Google may show you personalised ads.
- If you choose necessary only, we ask Google to show only non-personalised ads, which are based on the page you’re viewing rather than your history. Google may still use cookies to limit how often an ad is shown and to prevent fraud.
- In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, Google may show its own consent message as well. Your choice there also applies.
Ad blocker check. Because ads pay for the game and its online server, the game checks whether ads can load: it loads Google’s ad script once, and looks at whether a small hidden test element on the page gets blocked. If an ad blocker is found, you’re asked to turn it off for this site before playing. The result isn’t stored or sent anywhere.
You can turn off personalised ads across the web in Google’s Ads Settings or at aboutads.info. Read how Google uses data from sites that use its services: policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
Fonts
The game’s fonts load from Google Fonts, so your browser sends Google your IP address when it fetches them. See Google’s privacy policy.
Cookies and storage we use
| Name | Type | Purpose | Kept for |
|---|---|---|---|
couchclash.* | Local storage (necessary) | Your nickname, game settings, win counts and cookie choice | Until you clear it |
couchclash.cid | Session storage (necessary) | Reconnects you to your online lobby after a reload | Until you close the tab |
| Google advertising cookies | Third-party cookies (advertising) | Serving, limiting and measuring ads, and personalising them if you agree | Set by Google, see Google’s cookie list |
Cloudflare Web Analytics sets no cookies.
Your rights
If you’re in the EU, the UK or another place with similar laws, you can ask us to access, correct or delete personal data about you, object to how we use it, and complain to your local data protection authority. Since we don’t store accounts, nicknames or game history on our server, there’s usually nothing for us to look up, but email us and we’ll help. For data held by Google or Cloudflare, you can also contact them directly.
We rely on your consent for personalised advertising, and on our legitimate interest in running and improving the game for everything else.
Children
Couch Arcade isn’t directed at children under 13 and we don’t knowingly collect personal data from them. If you think a child has given us personal data, email us and we’ll remove it.
Changes
If we change how we handle data, we’ll update this page and the date at the top. If the change affects cookies, we’ll ask for your choice again.
Contact
Email nikola@nikolaaa.dev.