Last updated 25 October 2026
KaoGames is a platform for free browser games, made by us and by creators. This page describes exactly what the site collects and why. It is written to match what the site actually does rather than to cover every possibility.
Every game works without an account. If you choose to sign in with Google, we keep the few details listed under "Accounts" below so your favorites and recent games follow you, and you can delete all of it at any time. We do not sell or share data with anyone for marketing. Without an account, the only things stored are a play counter, a thumbs up/down rating, and a few preferences kept in your own browser.
Each game shows how many times it has been played and the share of players who rated it positively. To stop one person inflating those numbers, we need to recognise a repeat visit without identifying you.
When you start a game or cast a vote, we take your IP address, your browser's user-agent string and the current hour, combine them with a secret value known only to our server, and run the result through a one-way SHA-256 hash. Only that hash is stored. It cannot be reversed into your IP address, it is different for every game and every hour, and it is deleted after six hours. Your raw IP address is never written to our database.
A small amount of data is kept in your browser and never sent to us:
Clearing your browser's site data removes all of it.
Accounts are optional. If you sign in with Google, we store:
Google tells us your name and email when you sign in; we do not receive your password or anything else from your Google account. A sign-in cookie keeps you signed in for up to 60 days, and only a one-way hash of it is stored on our side.
You can delete your account from your account page. That removes everything listed above straight away. Vote totals on each game stay, because they are anonymous counts.
When you report a game or a creator, we store the reason, anything you write, and your email address if you choose to give it. To cap reports at a few a day, we also store a one-way hash of your connection, made the same way as the play-count hash above. The creator is not told who sent a report.
A copyright notice or counter-notice needs your name, postal address, email and (for a counter-notice) phone number. We keep these to handle the notice and pass them to the other side, as the process requires. We never publish them.
The site is hosted on Cloudflare, which processes requests on our behalf and keeps standard security and traffic logs. See Cloudflare's privacy policy.
The games are free and advertising is what pays for hosting them. Ads on this site are supplied by third-party advertising networks, which means the advert itself is served by that network rather than by us. We do not give those networks your name, email address or any account details, because we do not hold any.
Our games are suitable for a general audience and some of them appeal to children. Accounts are not available to children under 13. Sign-up asks for a birth month and year, and an answer under 13 creates no account and stores nothing; every game remains playable without one. Where advertising is served to an audience that may include children, it will be configured as non-personalised.
If this policy changes in a way that affects what is collected, the date at the top of this page will change and the new version will be published here before the change takes effect.