Privacy Policy — Kitchen Table Cards

Kitchen Table Cards (kitchentablecards.com) is an informational website about classic card games, made for readers in the United States. We collect as little as a website can get away with. Here’s the whole picture, in plain English.

The short version: we don’t require an account, we don’t run ad trackers, and we don’t sell anyone’s information. The only personal data we ever hold is an email address you chose to give us — and every email we send has an unsubscribe link.

What we collect, and why

Your email address — only if you subscribe

If you enter your email in our signup form (for example, to get updates about new printable score sheets and guides), we store that address and use it to send you those updates. We use double opt-in: after you sign up, you’ll get a confirmation email, and you’re only subscribed once you click the link in it. No confirmation, no subscription — simple as that.

Downloading our free printables does not require an email address.

Technical data that comes with any website visit

Like virtually every website, our infrastructure briefly processes technical information about visits — things like IP address, browser type, and pages requested — in ordinary server and security logs. We use this only to keep the site running and secure, not to build profiles of readers.

Cookies and local storage

We don’t use advertising cookies or cross-site trackers. The site stores one small flag in your browser’s local storage (named ktc-popup-shown) so that our subscription popup doesn’t pester you more than once a week. It contains a date, nothing personal, and it never leaves your browser. Our email service (MailerLite) may set functional cookies needed for its signup form to work.

The services we rely on

MailerLite handles our email subscriptions. When you subscribe, your email address is stored with MailerLite on our behalf and handled under MailerLite’s privacy policy.
Cloudflare sits in front of the site for speed and security and processes technical request data (such as IP addresses) to do that job, under Cloudflare’s privacy policy.
Our web host keeps standard server logs, as described above.

That’s the entire list. If it ever grows, this page will say so.

Links and the card club

Our card club runs inside the third-party X-Poker app. If you install it, your relationship with that app — including any data it collects — is governed by its own terms and privacy policy, not ours. The same goes for any external site we link to.

Children

This site is written for adults. We don’t knowingly collect personal information from children under 13; if you believe a child has subscribed with their email, let us know and we’ll delete it.

Your choices

Unsubscribe anytime using the link at the bottom of any email we send — it works immediately, no questions asked.
Ask us to delete your email address entirely by writing to us via the contact page; we’ll remove it from our list promptly.
Clear the popup flag (or anything else) by clearing your browser’s site data for kitchentablecards.com.

Changes to this policy

If our practices change, we’ll update this page and its effective date. Meaningful changes will be noted plainly — we’re not the fine-print type.

Contact

Questions about privacy — or anything else — reach us through the contact page.