Privacy Policy
Last updated 24 September 2026
The short version: you don't need an account, and we don't ask for personal information. Your game progress, settings and character are saved in your own browser, not on our servers. If you allow it, Google Analytics measures how the site is used — and nothing optional runs until you choose. Our hosting provider keeps routine server logs, fonts load from Google, and if you click a sponsored link the partner may track that click.
1. Who we are
Blackjack Count Coach ("we", "us") is an independent website. For anything about this policy or your data, use our contact form. We are the "controller" of the limited personal data described below.
2. What we collect and why
Things you send us
There are no accounts or sign-ups. If you use our contact form, we receive the email address and message you enter (and your name, if you give it). The form is handled by our hosting provider, Netlify, which stores submissions for us and screens them for spam. We use what you send only to reply to you, and delete it once we've dealt with it. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in answering you.
Game data stored on your device
To remember your game between visits, the site uses your browser's local storage (not cookies). It holds your table settings, play-money bankroll and chip counts, practice statistics, your character's appearance and the name you give it. This information stays in your browser and is never sent to us. You can erase it at any time by clearing this site's data in your browser settings, or with the Reset buttons on the tables.
Server logs
Like almost every website, our hosting provider, Netlify, Inc., automatically records technical information when your browser requests a page: your IP address, browser and device type, the page requested, the referring page, and the date and time. These logs are used to deliver the site, keep it secure and fix problems, and are kept for the period set by the host. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in running a secure website.
Fonts from Google
Our pages load typefaces from Google Fonts. To do this, your browser connects to Google's servers, which receive your IP address and browser details. Google's use of this information is covered by the Google Privacy Policy. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in presenting the site consistently.
Sponsored and affiliate links
Some pages show sponsored links (see our Affiliate Disclosure). Nothing is shared with a partner just because you see an ad. If you click one, you leave our site, and the partner or its affiliate network may set cookies or use similar technology on their site to record that you came from us, so we can be paid a commission. Their privacy policies apply to that. The reports we receive from partners show clicks and sales, not who you are.
Analytics — only with your consent
If you choose Accept all, or turn on Analytics in Cookie settings, we use Google Analytics 4 to understand how the site is used: which pages and practice sections are opened, how long visits last, your device and browser type, how you arrived, and your approximate location (country or city, worked out from your IP address — Google Analytics 4 does not log or store IP addresses). It sets the cookies listed below and gives your browser a random identifier. We don't send Google your name, email address or anything else that directly identifies you, and we have not turned on Google's advertising features.
Google Analytics is provided by Google Ireland Limited (for visitors in the EEA, UK and Switzerland) and Google LLC (elsewhere), acting as our service provider. We keep analytics data for 2 months. You can read how Google uses data from sites that use its services. Legal basis: your consent, which you can withdraw at any time — withdrawing deletes the analytics cookies from your browser.
Until you make a choice, and if you choose Reject, Google Analytics is not loaded at all. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, we treat it as a refusal of advertising cookies.
Advertising cookies
We don't currently use advertising cookies. If we add affiliate-network ads that use them, they will only load after you allow Advertising in Cookie settings, and we'll list them below first.
3. Cookies and similar technologies
We use two kinds of storage: strictly necessary storage that makes the site work (always on, never leaves your device), and optional cookies that only run with your consent.
| Name | Set by | What it does | Kept for | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
blackjack-trainer-v1(local storage) | This site | Saves your game progress, settings, character and name | Until you clear it | Necessary |
site-consent(local storage) | This site | Remembers your cookie choices | 12 months | Necessary |
_ga | Google Analytics | Distinguishes one browser from another | 2 years | Analytics — only with consent |
_ga_<ID> | Google Analytics | Keeps track of the current visit | 2 years | Analytics — only with consent |
After 12 months we ask for your choice again. You can change it any time:
You can also block or delete cookies and site data in your browser settings; the game will then start fresh. Partners may set their own cookies on their websites after you click a sponsored link — see section 2.
4. Sharing and selling
We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising. The only third parties involved are the service providers named above — our host (which also handles the contact form), Google Fonts, and Google Analytics if you allow it — which process data on our behalf to deliver and measure the site.
5. Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct or delete personal information we hold about you, to object to or restrict how we use it, to data portability, and to complain to your data protection authority (in the UK, the ICO; in the EU, your local authority). California residents have the rights to know, delete and correct, and to opt out of sale or sharing — which we don't do. Because we hold almost nothing about you, most requests can be answered quickly; send yours through the contact form. We won't treat you differently for using these rights.
6. Age
This site is intended for adults aged 18 or over, because it covers casino games and may show gambling-related sponsored links. We don't knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If you believe a child has sent us information, contact us and we will delete it.
7. International transfers
Our host and Google (for fonts, and for analytics if you allow it) may process the data above in countries other than yours, including the United States. Where required, these transfers rely on safeguards such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses or the EU–US Data Privacy Framework.
8. Security and retention
The site is served over HTTPS. We keep contact-form messages only as long as needed to deal with them, server logs only as long as our host retains them, and analytics data for the period stated in section 2.
9. Changes to this policy
If we change how we handle information, we'll update this page and the date at the top. Significant changes will be highlighted on the home page.
10. Contact
Use our contact form — we read every message.