Privacy

Book Cover Rummy is a free game. It has no accounts, no advertising, no cookies, no trackers and no third-party scripts. This page says what it keeps, in plain words.

On your device

The game stores a few things in your browser's local storage so it can remember you next visit: your sound setting, the deck you last chose, whether you have seen Auggie's card at the door and her first-game walk-through, your ledger (games finished, best, average and last tally) and your daily streak with the day's first tally. A hand in progress is not saved: leave the page and it is gone. None of this leaves your browser. Clearing your browser's site data removes all of it.

Challenge links and shared results

When you copy a result or a challenge link, the link carries a short code: which deck, which deal, and the returns you made in each hand. It carries nothing about you. Whoever opens it replays the same deal on their own device.

Hosting

The site is served by Netlify, which keeps ordinary server logs and aggregate, cookie-free visit counts for the site owner. Netlify's own privacy terms apply to that hosting.

The Readerboard

If you post a finished Today's Shelf to the Readerboard, the game sends your handle, the short code of your game and a random token this browser made up, so that the handle stays yours on this device. The board keeps the handle, the tally it worked out from the code, the code, the day and the deck. It keeps no name, no email and no address; a scrambled form of your network address is kept for an hour to limit floods. Posting is optional and the game works fully without it. A handle can be anything that is not a real name.

The Tally

The game counts taps anonymously: arrivals, games started, hands graded, finishes, notes opened, cards pulled, posts, shares. Counts per day, nothing per person.

Book covers

Most covers on the cards are served from this site. The rest are loaded from Open Library (covers.openlibrary.org, run by the Internet Archive). That is the one request the game makes outside this site. Like any image on the web it carries your IP address to the server that holds it; the game sends no referrer and no other information with it, and Open Library sets no cookies for it. If a cover cannot be loaded, the card shows a plain jacket instead.

The cards

Every card is a real novel: its title, author and year, and the numbers behind it. Weeks, positions and weeks at No. 1 are from The New York Times hardcover fiction best-seller list, as compiled by the Post45 Data Collective and updated from the published lists; The New York Times has nothing to do with this game. Prize facts are from the awarding bodies. The shelf notes are the opinions of a fictional bookseller, written for the game. Dog-Eared is an independent game and is not affiliated with, licensed by or endorsed by any publisher, retailer, newspaper, prize or bestseller list.

Children

The game is suitable for all ages and collects nothing from anyone.

Contact

Questions about this page go to Macguffin Co. via macguffin.co.