Privacy Policy
Last updated: October 7, 2026 (time-trial leaderboard)
Super Peliad Kart is a free browser game. This policy explains what information the game uses, why, where it goes, how long it's kept, and your rights. In short: everything the game keeps stays on your own device. Only if you race online, send us a track you've made, or post a time-trial time to the leaderboard does it send anything - for online racing, the racing name you choose, your racer and your kart's moves, passed to the other racers in your lobby and forgotten when the lobby closes; for the leaderboard, your racing name, racer, times and the recording of that run. There are no ads, no analytics, no tracking and no cookies.
1. Who's responsible
The game is run by Joe F, in Ireland, who is the "controller" of any personal data described here under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Contact: artifexarcanum@gmail.com.
2. What the game keeps on your device
The game stores a few things in your browser's local storage, on your device:
- Your profile: the race you set up last (racer, track, laps, CPU level, weather), your settings (volumes, graphics, camera, controls and the keys and buttons you've chosen), your racing name for online play, and your records (races, wins, podiums, best laps and times, for races, time trials and online races).
- Time-trial ghosts: a recording of your best time-trial run on each track (where your kart was, moment by moment), so you can race it next time.
This storage is strictly necessary to provide the game you've asked for - your saved settings and records - so it doesn't need your consent, and none of it is used to track you. Apart from online racing, sharing tracks and the leaderboard (sections 3 to 5) it never leaves your device and we can't see it. You can wipe it by clearing this site's data in your browser.
3. Online racing
Nothing goes online unless you choose Online and make or join a lobby. Then the game connects to our lobby server and sends:
- The racing name you choose (a made-up one unless you change it - please don't use your real name) and the racer you pick. Everyone in your lobby sees them.
- Your race: your kart's position, speed and direction about 15 times a second, the items you use, your horn, the emotes you pick, and your finishing time. These are passed straight on to the other racers in your lobby.
- Why: to let you race the people you've invited, which you ask for by making or joining a lobby (GDPR Art. 6(1)(b): providing the service you request).
- How long: only while the lobby is open. Nothing about you is written to a database: when the last racer leaves (or after 20 minutes without a race) the lobby closes and everything in it is deleted. We keep only a count of how busy the service was each day, with nothing about who.
- Your IP address is used at that moment to limit how often lobbies can be made from one place, and isn't stored.
- The lobby code and invite link let anyone who has them join, so share them only with people you want to race.
4. Sharing a track you've made
The Track editor works on your device. Only if you press Send for review does it send us: the track itself, the track name and the author name you typed (please not your real name), and a random id your editor made so it can show you what happened to your tracks.
- Why: to consider your track for the game and, if it's approved, publish it as a Community track with its name and author name, which you ask for by sending it (GDPR Art. 6(1)(b)).
- How long: while it's waiting, listed or until you take it down; rejected tracks are deleted from time to time. "Take it down" in the editor deletes it at once (or email us).
- Your IP address is used at that moment to limit how often tracks can be sent, and isn't stored.
- Public: approved tracks, their names and author names can be seen and raced by anyone.
5. The time-trial leaderboard
Only if you choose to post a time-trial run to the leaderboard does the game send us:
- The racing name you choose (please not your real name) and the racer you drove.
- Your times: the whole run and each lap, which track (and which version of it) and how many laps.
- The ghost of that run: the recording of where your kart was, moment by moment.
- A random id your game made on this device, so the leaderboard keeps only your best run on each board and can show you which entry is yours. We keep only a scrambled (hashed) form of it.
- Why: to show your time on the leaderboard and let other players race your ghost, which you ask for by posting it (GDPR Art. 6(1)(b)).
- Public: anyone can see the leaderboard - names, racers, times and dates - and race the ghosts of the top 10 on each board.
- How long: while your run is among the best 100 on its board; a ghost is kept only while its run is in the top 10. A better run of yours replaces your old one.
- Your IP address is used at that moment to limit how often times can be sent, and isn't stored.
- Removing them: you can delete all your leaderboard entries at once from the game's settings, or email us (tell us the name, track and time) and we'll take an entry down. We also remove entries that look cheated or have offensive names.
6. Service providers
Two companies run the servers the game uses, as our processors, under data-processing terms:
- Vercel Inc. serves the game's pages and files.
- Cloudflare, Inc. runs the online lobbies, the community tracks and the time-trial leaderboard (Workers, Durable Objects and D1).
Like any website, their servers may keep standard technical logs - such as IP address, browser type and the time of a request - for a short time, for security and to keep the service running; we don't use these to identify you. Both are based in the United States and certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which the European Commission recognises as protecting personal data transferred there.
7. What the game doesn't do
- No advertising, no tracking, no analytics, no profiling, and no cookies.
- No third-party scripts or fonts: everything the game needs comes from this site.
- No accounts. If more online features arrive, this policy will be updated first to say exactly what they send and keep.
- We don't sell or share your information.
The game's credits link to the sites its art, music and sounds came from. They have their own privacy policies.
8. Children
Super Peliad Kart isn't directed at children. In Ireland, children under 16 need a parent's or guardian's permission to race online or post to the leaderboard; the rest of the game sends nothing anywhere. We don't knowingly hold information about children.
9. Your rights
Under the GDPR you have the right to access the personal data we hold about you, to have it corrected or erased, to restrict or object to its use, and to receive it in a portable form. We don't keep any: what the game keeps is on your device, and it's yours to see, change or wipe by clearing this site's data; what you send online is gone when your lobby closes; a track you've sent can be taken down from the editor; your leaderboard entries can be deleted from the settings. If you have any questions, email us and we'll answer within one month. You also have the right to complain to the Data Protection Commission (dataprotection.ie).
10. Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. Significant changes will be mentioned in the game's changelog.
11. Contact
Joe F - artifexarcanum@gmail.com