Thrifty Privacy Policy
Last updated: 29 September 2026
Thrifty is made by Kitchen Labs. It's a quick arcade game played in your web browser. This page says, in plain English, what happens to your information.
The short version
- Playing the game sends nothing anywhere. The game runs entirely in your browser.
- Only if you choose to save a score to the public leaderboard do we store anything: the name you type, your score, and a few numbers about the game.
- There are no accounts, no ads and no tracking.
What we handle, and why
Playing. The game runs on your device. Your moves, the things you catch and your score are not sent anywhere while you play.
The leaderboard (only if you save a score). When you tap Save my score, your browser sends Kitchen Labs' database (hosted by Supabase) the following, over an encrypted connection:
- the name you typed (1 to 15 letters or numbers),
- your final score,
- how many rounds you cleared, and
- how long you played, in milliseconds.
The database adds the date and time the score was saved. It uses the rounds and play time only to turn away scores the game couldn't produce.
Everyone can see your name, score and the date on the leaderboard. Please don't use your real full name or anything personal as your leaderboard name. Names with offensive words are refused.
An anonymous session. To save a score, the game signs you in invisibly with a random ID the first time you save. It isn't linked to your name, email or device identifiers, and it is never shown on the leaderboard. We use it to tie your saved scores together so we can limit how often one player saves (one score every 10 seconds, 30 a day, 200 in total) and so we could delete them together. Your browser keeps this session in its local storage so the next save reuses it. The game doesn't create a session when you only visit, play or look at the leaderboard.
Our web host (Vercel) and database host (Supabase) keep standard server logs, such as IP addresses and request times, for security and reliability.
What we don't do
No advertising, no analytics tools, no tracking across apps or websites, no selling or sharing of data. We don't ask for your email, location, contacts or photos.
Removing a score
Scores can't be edited or removed from the game itself. To have your scores removed, send us the name you used and roughly when you saved them through our contact page, and we'll delete them. Clearing your browser's site data forgets the anonymous session; your saved scores stay on the board until we remove them.
Children
Thrifty is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect personal information from them. The only thing it stores is what a player types into the leaderboard name.
Changes and contact
If this policy changes, we'll update the date above. Questions? Send them through our contact page.