Privacy

Your game stays with you

When you paste a battle log, all the work happens in the tab you opened. We read the text, replay your turns and write your report on your own device.

The log you paste stays in that tab's memory. Close the tab and nothing is left of it. Your settings sit in the browser's memory instead, on this device, which is what lets them still be there tomorrow.

What goes up if you keep a game

You can ask your account to keep a game — with a click on that game, or with the switch in Settings that keeps every following one until you turn it off. At that moment, and never before, this is what leaves your device for our database:

• the text of your battle log, in full
• your decklist, if you pasted one
• both player names in the game, and the result
• the number of turns, and the word of the report's harshest verdict
• the version of poko that read the game that day

The report itself never goes up: it gets rebuilt in your browser from the log, every time you open the game again.

Kept games sit in our database, run by Supabase, on servers in Frankfurt, Germany.

Nobody but you can open them: our database turns away every row from anyone not signed in with your own address. They are not encrypted, though. Someone on our side, holding the server keys, could read them.

You can remove them whenever you want, one by one or all at once, from your games page. Removing a game erases it for good: there is nothing else left to chase behind it.

Your account

There is no password. You give us your e-mail address, we send you a link, and clicking it signs you in. So what we keep about you comes down to one thing: your e-mail address. It is what says which games are yours.

The service that sends those links and recognises accounts is called Supabase. It is the same one that runs our database, in Frankfurt. Your session lives in your browser's memory, and signing out throws it away.

What you tell us about you

When you open an account we ask you seven short questions. Whether you play or collect, where you play, what language your cards are in, what you plan to do with them, what you spend on them each month, your mobile number if you want, and how you found us.

They do one job: they decide what we show you next. A question that changed nothing about that would not get asked.

We keep these answers because you chose to give them to us, and for no other reason. You can go back on that choice whenever you like, without explaining yourself and without losing any of the site.

• you answer question by question, and you can skip every one of them
• none of it is needed to use the site
• all of it can be changed and wiped from your settings

The mobile number sits apart, because it is the one thing here that can reach you. It is optional, we write down the day you gave it to us, and it is only ever used to warn you when a buyback offer is coming up on its expiry date. Taking it off wipes it from our servers there and then.

These answers live as long as your account does. They go with it the day you close it, and you can wipe them long before that, without closing anything, using the button at the bottom of your settings. Nothing is left behind then: no copy, no calculation kept to one side.

They sit in our database, run by Supabase, on servers in Frankfurt, Germany. Our database refuses your answers to anyone not signed in with your own address.

Your opinion on a verdict

Under every verdict in your report you can tell us whether it helped. Here is what reaches us when you answer:

• your yes or your no
• the turn number and the word of the verdict
• the version of poko that answered you, and the language you were reading in
• the sentence you cared to write, if you wrote one

And here is what never travels with an opinion:

• your name or your e-mail address
• your device's address on the Internet (the IP address)
• your battle log, or anything that would let someone find it

Even we cannot find the game an opinion is about.

No trackers

There is no advertising counter on this site, and nothing that follows you from page to page. That is why you get no cookie banner to accept on the way in.

What your browser keeps, it keeps on your device:

• your settings
• your session, if you are signed in
• the game you just pasted, in the tab you pasted it in — closing the tab throws it away

You can sweep all of it from your browser's settings. The site will keep working, it will just have forgotten your choices.

When you click a merchant link

On some pages we show you where to buy cards or boxes, and every link says whether it earns us anything. When you click, you leave poko for the shop's own site, and the address can carry a tag telling them you came from us. That tag is what lets them pay us a cut.

Once you are on its site, the merchant and its partner platform set their own cookies, on their own turf and under their own rules. Until you click, none of that exists.

Your data can be erased

What we hold of yours can be seen and erased from the site: your kept games on their page, and your settings from the pages where they apply. For anything else, write to us — to make your account and the email address with it disappear, for instance:

kevin@kawlet.com

When this page changes

If the site ever starts doing something else with your data, this page will change first, and the date at the top with it.