Privacy
This page explains what our games and this website do with data. The short version: no accounts, no ads, no names or e-mail addresses, and anonymous play statistics that you can switch off.
Anonymous play statistics
Hold the Dacha sends anonymous events so we can see where the game is too hard or breaks. For example: a game started, a night reached, the run won or lost, how long the tab was open and in view.
- Each event carries a random player id and a random session id. The game creates the player id and keeps it in your browser's local storage. It is not linked to your name, e-mail or any account.
- With the events we store game settings (difficulty, view, language, co-op on or off), the game version, the screen size, whether the device has a touch screen, the browser's user-agent string (browser and system version), the browser language, the time zone, the website the game runs on and the website you came from (domain only).
- The server works out your country from the request and stores only the two-letter country code. We do not store your IP address.
- If the game hits an error, we store the error message so we can fix it.
To switch it off: open the game's main menu and set Anonymous stats to off. The game then sends nothing.
The events are stored in a database run by Neon, hosted in the United States. We use them only to improve our games and do not sell or share them.
Saves and settings
Your progress, language and sound settings are kept in your browser's local storage on your device. They are not sent to us. Clearing the site data in your browser deletes them.
Playing together
Online co-op connects two browsers directly (WebRTC). To find each other, the browsers use the public PeerJS server. As with any direct connection, the two players' browsers can see each other's IP addresses. We do not receive or store them.
This website
The website is hosted on Vercel. Like any web host, Vercel keeps short-term technical logs of requests. The site uses no cookies, no ads and no third-party analytics. Fonts are served from this site.
Games on itch.io
When you play one of our games on itch.io, itch.io's own privacy policy also applies to the page around the game.