No accounts, no tracking, no personalised ads

What’s collected

Nothing about your child. No sign-up, no account, no email address. What they type, the answers they give, how fast they go — none of it leaves your device. It’s saved there and it stays there.

The advertising is the exception. That’s another company’s code running on the page, and the Advertising section below sets out exactly what Google does and doesn’t get.

Visits do get counted — how many people came, which pages they opened, how many races were started and finished. No analytics company is involved, nothing is added to your device, and one visitor can’t be told from another on a different day.

Where it all stays

The games run inside your browser. When a race finishes, the result is saved on your device, and nothing is sent anywhere.

The advertising is the only part of a page that comes from another company. Everything else you see is served by this site.

What’s on your device

Player profiles — a name you pick, an emoji, a color, an age — and the history of races: times, scores, and which facts came out right or wrong. It sits in your browser’s own storage.

You control all of it. Clearing your browser’s site data wipes it for good, and deleting a player in the app removes that player and every race they ran. None of it can be brought back afterwards, so the app can save you a backup file to keep yourself.

Children

This site is for children and the adults helping them, and that decides what the advertising on it is allowed to be. No profile of any child is built here or used to choose an ad. Personalised advertising is off everywhere, with no setting to turn it on and no page it doesn’t apply to. No advertising ID, no analytics ID and no tracking cookie belongs to this site.

Google’s ad requests are the exception to “nothing leaves the device”. An ad request reaches Google, carries an IP address, and may set a cookie to stop the same ad repeating and to catch fraudulent clicks. What it doesn’t do is target your child.

The other exception is the ordinary record every website keeps of who asked for a page, described below. It notes the address a request came from, it’s needed to send the page at all, it’s deleted after 90 days, and counting is the only thing it’s used for.

The name you type for a player stays in your browser. A first name or a nickname is plenty; nothing checks it and nothing sends it anywhere.

Cookies

None belong to this site. Google’s advertising may set some — to limit how often the same ad turns up, and to spot fraudulent clicks — but not to build a profile, because the ads aren’t personalised.

How visits get counted

Every website is sent a request each time somebody opens a page, and the computers that answer write down a line about it: the address it came from, what sort of browser, which page, and the site you followed a link from if there was one. Those lines are deleted after 90 days.

They are the only thing counted, and it happens every so often: how many different addresses turned up, which pages were opened, how many races were started and finished, which other websites send people here, and roughly where in the world the visits came from. The answers are numbers — “412 people, 1,900 races, 40 arrivals from a link” — read once and left at that. Nothing gets filed away. When the lines are deleted, that stretch of time simply stops being something anyone can ask about.

Most sites count visitors by leaving a marker in the browser, so the same person can be recognized next week. Nothing here does that, which is why these counts are only ever rough.

Two of them are worth spelling out. When another website sends somebody here, only that site’s name is kept: “google.com”, never what was typed into it, and never the rest of the link.

The other is roughly where a visit came from, worked out here against a public list of which addresses belong to which country, region and town. Your child’s address is not sent to a location service or to any other company. It gives a country, a region and sometimes a town, and never coordinates, a postcode, a street or a map — and it is often wrong about the town, because an address given out in one place gets used from another all the time.

None of these counts are published, shared or kept. Once the lines go at 90 days, they can’t be worked out again.

A few things that happen inside a game — a race started, a race finished, a deck saved — are counted by asking this site for a tiny invisible image with the action’s name in the link. That request carries nothing that identifies anyone, and it never carries what your child typed, which list they chose, their name, or their age.

Advertising

This site carries advertising from Google AdSense, including on the game screens. It’s how a free site with no accounts and nothing to sell pays for itself. Google’s advertising code runs on every page, whether or not an ad actually appears there — so read everything below as describing every visit, not only the ones with a visible advert.

The ads are non-personalised, everywhere, always. They’re chosen from the page they sit on, not from anything about the person looking at it. No profile of your child is built, consulted or added to. There’s no setting for this and no page it doesn’t apply to — a site made for children isn’t a place for advertising that follows people around, and under children’s privacy law it would need a kind of parental consent a free website can’t honestly get.

Google does receive requests from your browser: one to load the advertising code, another to ask for an advert. Both carry an IP address, as every web request does, and Google may set a cookie to cap how often an ad repeats and to catch fraudulent clicks.

Ads are labeled and kept inside a marked frame. The youngest player here is five, and telling an advert from the rest of a page is a skill children pick up late.

Changes

Last updated 19 August 2026. Material changes will be reflected in that date.

Contact

Questions: hello@schoolskills.app