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Privacy policy
SelectACard is operated by Moves and Measures, LLC. This page covers what this site does, which is very little. The company-wide policy covering your rights, how long data is kept and who to contact is on the Moves and Measures site.
The short version
This site has no accounts, no logins, no shopping basket and no database. We do not ask for your name (other than the name you choose to show at a table when you play with friends), we set no cookies of any kind, and we do not sell anything directly.
What this site collects
Only a count of games played. There is no analytics script and no tracking pixel. The practice games run entirely in your browser, and by default they store nothing: your progress lasts until you leave the page.
So that we know which games people play, a practice game sends one short message to this site when you open it, when a deal is played to the end, and when you start a new deal before the end. Each message says only which game it was and which of those three things happened. Our server writes it down with the time and throws away your IP address, browser details and everything else about the request before it is saved. There is no cookie and no ID, so this game count cannot tell one player from another or follow you anywhere: it adds up to "Hearts: 40 deals played this week", and that is all we see.
If you tick Remember my progress on this device in a practice game, that game saves your totals (hands played, how many you got right, your best streak) in your browser's local storage, so they are still there next time. It is never sent to us or anyone else, nothing else is saved alongside it, and unticking the box or pressing Reset progress deletes it. It is not a cookie and is not used to track you.
Playing with friends
When you open or join a table to play Hearts with friends, your browser talks to our game server, which runs alongside this site. It holds each table in its memory: the name each player typed, the cards and the score, and nothing else. There is no account, and nothing about a table is written to disk or to a database. A table and everything in it is deleted ten minutes after its game ends, after half an hour with nobody at it, or eight hours after it was opened at the most, and every table is lost if the game server restarts.
The name you type is shown only to the others at your table, so a nickname is fine. Anyone with a table’s invite link can sit down while there is a free seat, so share it only with people you want to play with.
So that one computer cannot open hundreds of tables, the game server counts requests by IP address, in its memory, for up to an hour. Those counts are never written down or logged. Your browser keeps two things in its local storage for this site: a key to your seat, so reloading the page puts you back in it (keys older than twelve hours are cleared the next time you open the page), and the last name you typed, so it is filled in for you next time. Neither is a cookie, and the seat key is sent only to the game server, only while you play.
What a page loads
Every file a page needs — the stylesheet, the typeface, the logo, the practice games — comes from this site. Nothing is fetched from anyone else, so simply reading a page here does not tell any third party that you did.
This was not always true. Pages used to load the Space Grotesk typeface from Google Fonts, which sent your IP address and browser details to Google in order to serve the font file. The font is hosted here now, and the change is enforced rather than remembered: the pre-deploy checks fail if any page references an outside address, so it cannot quietly come back.
What our host sees
The site is hosted on IONOS. Like any web host, its servers record standard request data — IP address, the page requested, timestamp, browser user-agent — in access logs used for security and diagnostics. We do not use these logs to build a profile of you, and we do not combine them with anything else. The game count described above is the only log this site keeps for itself.
Analytics
There is none on this site today, beyond the game count described above. If analytics is added, this section will say so before it goes live, and will name what is collected and how to opt out.
Links to Amazon
Product links on this site point to Amazon and carry our affiliate tag. Following one takes you to Amazon's site, where Amazon's own privacy policy and cookies apply — not ours. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases; Amazon reports aggregate sales and click totals back to us, but not who made them. See the affiliate disclosure.
Everything else
Your rights over personal data, how long we keep what little we have, how to make a request and who to complain to are all covered by the company policy:
- Moves and Measures privacy policy
- Cookie policy — this site sets none, but the policy is there
- Terms of service
To ask about anything on this site specifically, write to hello@selectacard.com.
Changes
If this page changes materially — particularly if analytics or advertising is added — the date at the top changes with it.
This page is written to describe the site accurately. It is not legal advice and has not been reviewed by a lawyer. Get one to look at it before the site takes payments, runs advertising, or collects email addresses.