Privacy
Pibono is run by Baroxa ehf, registered in Reykjavík, Iceland. We try to keep this site as simple as the games on it. The short version: your game state lives on your device; we show a small number of ads, and we explain below what that means for cookies.
What we store on your device
The site uses your browser's local storage to remember:
- Your preferred card-back colour and theme.
- Your Blackjack bankroll, so it survives a refresh.
- An in-progress Solitaire hand, if one exists.
- Whether you have dismissed the cookies banner.
That data lives on your device only. Clearing your browser's site data for pibono.com removes everything.
Advertising
To keep Pibono free we run a small number of ads, placed so they don't get in the way of play. Building something this polished takes real time and money, and the ads are what pay for it. We pick networks that don't play video ads with sound, and don't load content-recommendation chumboxes.
What you should know:
- Ad providers see your IP address when their script loads. That's how the open web works; we can't change it.
- Some ad providers set their own cookies to limit how often you see the same ad and to detect fraud. These cookies are first-party to the ad provider, not to us.
- Where the network supports it, we request the non-personalised / privacy-preserving ad mode. EU and UK visitors will see a separate consent prompt from the ad provider where required.
- We don't sell your data, run retargeting pixels, or stitch your activity together with any other site.
Anonymous game statistics
To learn which games people enjoy, we count play on our own server: when a page is used, when a game is started or finished, and basic context such as the game, language, type of device (phone, tablet or computer) and card style. It is anonymous. There are no cookies for it and nothing is stored on your device; your IP address is never saved (it only goes into a one-way code that changes every day, so a visit can’t be traced back to you or linked to another day); and the counts are never shared with advertisers or anyone else. Just opening a page isn’t counted — only real taps, clicks or key presses.
What we still don't do
- We don't run third-party analytics on you (no Google Analytics, no Mixpanel, no Hotjar).
- There are no accounts, no profiles, no email collection.
- We don't share your game state or any identifier with the ad provider.
Fonts
The site loads the Newsreader and IBM Plex Sans typefaces from Google Fonts. Google's servers see your IP address when fonts are fetched; we don't receive that information. If you'd rather avoid even that, a privacy-blocker extension will fall back to system fonts cleanly.
Contact
Questions? Write to [email protected]. We're a small team and we'll answer.