No cookies, and why that is worth stating
Flappy Arcade sets no cookies. Not functional ones, not analytics ones, not advertising ones. The site loads no third-party scripts, so nothing else sets one either.
That is unusual enough to be worth saying explicitly rather than burying in a longer document. It also means there is no consent banner on this site, because there is nothing to consent to — a banner would be theatre.
If advertising is enabled in future it may involve cookies, and in that case a consent mechanism will be added and this page will be rewritten first. Nothing will be added quietly.
What local storage is
Local storage is a small amount of space your browser gives each website to remember things on your own device. It differs from a cookie in one important way: it is never automatically sent to a server with a request. It simply sits in your browser until something reads it.
Since this site has no server to send anything to, local storage is exactly the right tool for remembering your preferences and exactly the wrong tool for tracking anyone.
Every key this site writes
| Key | Contents | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
| fa:bests | Best result per game and metric, plus a date | Showing your personal best | Until you clear it |
| fa:favorites | An array of game identifiers | Your favourites page | Until you clear it |
| fa:recent | Game identifiers, timestamps, play counts — capped at 40 | Recently played and most-played lists | Until you clear it |
| fa:prefs | Sound enabled or disabled | Remembering the mute setting | Until you clear it |
That is the complete list. No identifier is generated, nothing is shared between keys that could form a profile, and none of it is transmitted anywhere.
When storage is unavailable
Private browsing, cleared site data and strict privacy settings can all make local storage unavailable or non-persistent.
Every game still works in that case — only the memory goes away. The site detects the situation and shows a plain notice on the pages that depend on storage, rather than failing silently and leaving you to wonder why a favourite disappeared.
Clearing your data
You can remove everything this site has stored in one click. This affects only this browser on this device, and it cannot be undone — there is no copy anywhere else.
This removes your favourites, recently played list, best scores and sound preference from this browser immediately.
You can also clear it through your browser's own settings, usually under "site data" or "storage" for this domain, which has the same effect.
Third parties
There are none. This site loads no external JavaScript, no web fonts, no embedded video, no social widgets and no tag manager. Every file it requests is served from this domain.
That is a deliberate design choice and it has a side effect worth mentioning: because there are no third-party requests, no third party learns that you visited. For a games site, that is unusual.