Your privacy
Your saved game and budget choices stay in your browser. There is no account and we use no tracking cookies.
Understanding how the game is used
We collect page views, broad referral sources (such as Google or Reddit), and counts of games started and completed. We do not collect your budget decisions, election results, saved games, search terms or URL query strings.
To estimate daily visitors, our collector briefly processes your IP address and browser user-agent and turns them into a code using a random secret that changes each UTC day. We do not store raw IP addresses or user-agents in our analytics database or application logs, and the code cannot be used to follow visits across days. Different people can still count as one visitor, and one person can count more than once.
These statistics are hosted in our AWS account in London. Event records are scheduled for deletion after 35 days, and daily secrets after two days; AWS can take a few additional days to finish deletion. Reports are private to the site operator. AWS necessarily processes network information to deliver and protect the website.
Your choice
We respect Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control browser settings. You can also disable statistics here. This stores only your opt-out preference in this browser; clearing site data resets it.
The game works the same whether or not statistics are enabled.