Privacy policy

Effective September 1, 2026 · updated October 12, 2026

bridge.games is a free site for playing contract bridge, run independently. This page says what we collect, what we do with it, and — mostly — what we don’t do. Questions: hello@bridge.games.

What we collect

• Your account: an email address, a username, and a password (stored hashed — we cannot read it).
• Your profile, if you fill it in: real name, country, bio, photo, bidding style, and convention cards. Profiles and convention cards are visible to other players by design — that’s how opponents read your system, as at any club.
• Your play: every board you play is recorded — calls, cards, results — so hands can be replayed, scored against the field, and reviewed. A table’s log also records seating changes, undos, and claims.
• Your connections: friends, follows, and blocks you set up.
• Technical basics: ordinary server logs (such as IP addresses) and, when table video misbehaves, connection diagnostics that help us fix it.
• Visit counts: this website counts its visitors with GoatCounter, a privacy-respecting counter. Per visit it keeps the page, the site that sent you, your browser and system family, screen width, and the country your connection appears to come from. If you click one of our sign-up buttons, it counts which one. Your IP address is used only to work out that country and to tell visits apart for a few hours; it is not stored, no cookie is set, nothing is kept in your browser, and nothing is tied to you or to an account (GoatCounter’s own policy).

What we never do

• No advertising, and no advertising trackers.
• No analytics that follow you around the web — our visit counter sees only this site.
• No selling, renting, or sharing your data with anyone.
• No payment details — the site is free, so we never ask.

Video and voice

Table video and voice travel directly between the players at your table, encrypted, peer to peer. When a network requires it, the encrypted stream may pass through our relay server — still unreadable to us. Nothing is ever recorded or stored, and we couldn’t watch if we wanted to.

Cookies and storage

This website sets no cookies at all. The app keeps a few things in your browser: your sign-in token, which is how the server knows it is you, and small notes about how you like the screen — table colour, card style, whether the lounge bar is open, whether the drawer is pinned — so the page paints right before it has heard from us. Some of those preferences are also saved to your account.

What other players see

Your username, profile, presence at tables, and results are part of playing bridge with other people — anyone at your table or in the lobby can see them, and boards are scored against everyone who played the same cards. Your unplayed cards go where the rules of the game and the table’s settings send them, and nowhere else: a player sees their own hand and dummy’s; dummy sees declarer’s; whoever answers a claim sees all four; spectators and directors see what the table allows; everyone sees the deal once the board is over. Our bots see a single seat, except the Double Dummy bot, which is marked as such and whose boards count in no one’s comparisons.

Where your data lives, and your rights

Data is stored on our servers in the United States. Email hello@bridge.games to ask for a copy of your data or to delete your account. One honest caveat: results already scored into a board’s field stay in the scoring history (removing them would change other players’ scores), but we’ll disconnect them from your identity.

Age

bridge.games is not directed at children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect their information.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version appears here with a new date. We won’t quietly start doing any of the things listed under “what we never do.”