This page explains what cookies and similar technologies this site uses, and why. Read it alongside our Privacy Policy, which covers data protection more broadly.
The short version, as of the date above: this site sets no cookies of its own. The longer version, including what a game you choose to play can store and what will change when advertising goes live, is below.
1. What a cookie is, briefly
A cookie is a small piece of data a website can ask your browser to store, then read back on later visits. Cookies, and similar local storage technologies, are used across the web for things like remembering settings, measuring traffic, and showing relevant ads. Not every part of this site uses them the same way, which is why we have broken it down below.
2. What this site itself sets
2.1 No cookies of our own
The pages of this site set no cookies. There are no accounts, no sign-in, no preference cookie, and no consent cookie, because there is currently nothing on the site that would need consent.
2.2 Cloudflare Web Analytics: no cookies
Where traffic measurement is switched on, it is Cloudflare Web Analytics, which is genuinely cookieless: it does not set a cookie or any other persistent identifier in your browser, and it does not track you across other websites. It counts pageviews and aggregate visitor statistics without needing to. We are stating this plainly because it is an easy thing to overclaim or vagueify in a cookie policy, and we would rather be precise: this specific tool sets nothing on your device.
The beacon is controlled by a build-time setting. When it is off, the script is not written into the page at all, so there is nothing to block.
2.3 Storage used by a game you start
The games we build from source and serve from our own domain keep their save data in your browser's local storage, on our domain, because that is how those games have always worked and there is no server holding your progress. That storage is created by the game after you start it, it stays on your device, and it is not sent to us or to anyone else. There is no account behind it, so it identifies a browser, not a person.
The games this applies to today are 1255: Rise of Teutonics, A Dark Room, Achiever, Ankyria, Antimatter Dimensions, ArchipIDLE 2025, Atom Clicker, Axiom, Axiom: An Incremental Game of Natural Philosophy, Bean Harvester, Big Fish, Bitcoin Clicker, Blaze Code Changers, Blueprint, Boss of the World, Browser Clicker, BubbleBust, Bubbleverse, Button Clicker, Calculator Evolution, Candy Box 2, Cavern Crawler, Chōshi Incremental, Circuit Idle, CivClicker Mod, Clicker, Clicker Aldea, Clicker Cookie, Clicker Game, Clicker Ultimate, ClickerGame, ClickJS, Clickopolis, Clickopolis 2, Clicky Game, Coffee Drinker, Cog and Cosmos, Cookie Clicker Brasil, Cookie Clicker Clone, Cookie Clicker IO, Cool Idle, Coop Co, Dark Sun Dungeon, DevLife, Diggetty Clicker, Dojo RPG, Drug Dealing Simulator, Egg Incremental, Elemental Incremental, Eternal Sunshine, Ethereal Farm, Existence Simulator, ExoToaster, Expresso, Feed the Flames, FirstIdle, Fishing Incremental, Food Clicker: Ultra Legend, Formula Clicker, Generator Idle, Grind, Grow Your Garden, Hands of Fate, Happy King, I. Stellar and Co., Idle, Idle 2, Idle Capitalist, Idle Clicker Game, Idle Football Manager, Idle Game, Idle Game EB, Idle King, Idle Mine: Remix, Idle Programmer, Idle Soccer, Idle Xiuxian, IdleAnt, IdleAnt2, IdleSpace, IdleSpace2, IdleT Clicker, Incremental Corp, Incremental Game, Incremental Game 2, Incrementalism, IncrementalRPG, IncreMultiplication, Infinite Layers, Infinity Clicker, Kardashev Incremental, Last Waystation, Let's Play the Game, Level 13, Mass, Matter Grid, MiniTES, Monster Tapper, Mortal: An Incremental Aging Game for Ludum Dare, MySaaS, Nepal Clicker, Omega Layers, Omega Meta Zero, Ophion, Orangutan Clicker, Paraclicker, Particle Clicker, ParticleRNG: Particle Drop Simulator, PepperTown, Pig Clicker, Planez, Point Generation, PokéEggs, Popcorn Clicker, Potion Factory, Progress Knight, PTI Rewritten, Quick Click, RandNumInc, Random Clicker, Robot Islands, RPG App, Rule Over the Universe, Santa Inc., Shark Game, Shattered Eon Gems, Skill Issue Chronicles, Slime Clicker, Snail Game, Soap Idle, Society Fail, Stardust Tycoon, Structure, Survival, Taba, Tecremental, The Ascension Tree, The First Alkahistorian, The Game, The Limitless Journey, The Most Pointless Game, The Ruins Remember, Time Tickle, To the Moon Doge, Tree Simulator, Trimps, Universal AI, Universe Shrinker, Void Development Incremental, Web Clicker, Widget Factory, Wigmaker and Yet Another Idle RPG. Clearing site data for this domain in your browser clears those saves, which is worth knowing before you do it.
Nothing else on the site writes to local storage, and no game storage is created until you click to play.
3. What third parties set
3.1 Advertising cookies
No advertising script runs on this site as of the date above, so no advertising cookie is set on any page.
We intend to run Google AdSense display advertising on directory and guide pages. When that goes live, Google and its advertising partners may set cookies in your browser to:
- serve ads, and measure how many times they are shown and clicked,
- limit how many times you see the same ad,
- where you have consented, personalise which ads you see based on your browsing activity.
Those cookies would be set by Google and its partners, not by us, and we do not have visibility into their exact contents. Google publishes its own list of the cookies its advertising products use, and how to control them, at policies.google.com/technologies/cookies and adssettings.google.com. This page and its date will be updated before the first ad is served, not after.
3.2 Cookies set by embedded games
Every playable frame on this site today is served from our own domain, from a build we made ourselves out of the game's published source. None of them loads a third party's code, and none of them carries a third party's advertising or analytics.
That is the part of a games directory with the least direct oversight, so it is worth saying what would change if it ever stops being true. There are none. No game on this site is loaded from a distribution network or from anyone else's server, and if that changes the page for that game will say so. A game loaded from a distribution network runs inside its own frame, on its own domain, and can set its own cookies for its own analytics or in-frame advertising, entirely separate from anything on this list. We would not receive a feed of what those cookies are; you would need to read that network's own cookie or privacy policy, which we would link from the game's page. If that ever happens, this page will name the network before that game goes live.
In every case, we do not load a game's frame until you click to play it, specifically so that a game's own storage is not created just from browsing the directory.
3.3 Hosting
The site is served by Cloudflare Pages. Cloudflare does not set a cookie on this site for us. Cloudflare's own handling of connection data is covered in Section 2.5 of our Privacy Policy.
3.4 What is actually set right now
| Provider | Purpose | Type | Duration | Set by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| This site | Nothing | None | n/a | n/a |
| Cloudflare Web Analytics | Aggregate traffic measurement | None, cookieless | n/a | n/a |
| Games we host ourselves | Your save file for that game | Local storage, first party | Until you clear site data | The game, on your device, after you press play |
That is the whole list. It is deliberately short, and it will grow when the advertising described in Section 3.1 goes live. The way to check it is the same way we do: load the site in a fresh browser profile and look at what is actually set.
4. Managing cookies in your browser
Most browsers let you see, delete, and block cookies and site storage in their settings. Blocking storage for this domain will lose the save file of any game you are playing here. Typical settings locations:
- Chrome: Settings, then Privacy and security, then Cookies
- Firefox: Settings, then Privacy and Security
- Safari: Preferences, then Privacy
- Edge: Settings, then Cookies and site permissions
5. Consent for visitors in the EEA, UK, and Switzerland
Nothing on this site currently sets a cookie or reads a non-essential identifier, and the only storage created is the save file of a game you asked to play, so there is nothing here that requires prior consent and no consent banner is shown.
That changes the day advertising goes live. Before any personalised advertising is enabled for visitors in the EEA, the UK, or Switzerland, we will show a consent prompt, in line with Google's EU User Consent Policy for AdSense publishers. No consent platform is installed yet, because there is nothing yet to consent to; this page will name the mechanism and how to change your choice before one is needed.
We are not currently aware of an equivalent opt-in cookie consent requirement under Australian law for a site like this, which relies mainly on disclosure rather than prior consent. See Section 9 of our Privacy Policy for the Australian position specifically.
6. Changes
We will update this page and the date at the top whenever the cookies or storage on the site change, including the first time we add an ad network or embed a game from a third party.
7. Contact
Questions about this page: hello@coolidlegames.com