Privacy

PokerThangs has no accounts, no login and no forms, so there is nothing here that could collect anything about you. Your answers, your streaks, your grades and your timings are written to your own browser and read back from it. None of that leaves your device, because no code in this product can send it anywhere.

The site does send one thing: a count of page views, so we can tell whether anyone is using it and whether anything is broken. It is not about you, and it is set out in full below, field by field.

You can check all of this rather than take our word for it. Every file this site serves is plain, unminified JavaScript and CSS. js/telemetry.js is the only file that sends anything, it is under a hundred lines, and reading it tells you the whole list.

What Is Stored, and Where

Your progress is saved in your own browser's localStorage, which is a private box on your own machine that this site can read and no other site can. It is never uploaded. Four keys are used:

• pokerthangs_progress_v1. Attempts, correct answers, streaks, elapsed drill time, and a capped list of trainer decisions as { id, grade, timestamp }. That is the whole shape.
• pokerthangs_prefs_v1. One boolean: whether you turned the timer off.
• pt_home_quiz_v1. Your streak on the two quiz questions on the homepage.
• pokerthangs_errors_v1. The last 20 script errors this site hit in your browser: the message, the file, the line, and which page you were on. This is how a bug that only happens on one machine can still be found. It stays on your machine.

A fifth key, pokerthangs_probe, is written and deleted immediately on load to test whether storage works at all. If your browser blocks it, for example in private mode, the app says so out loud and runs for the session without saving anything.

The Page-View Counter

The site uses Vercel Web Analytics, the counter built into our host. It sets no cookies and writes nothing to your device. A visitor is identified by a hash of the incoming request, and that hash is discarded and rebuilt every 24 hours, so nobody can be followed from one day to the next or from this site to any other. The script serves from pokerthangs.com and reports back to pokerthangs.com, so no outside company receives a request from this page.

A page view records the time, the page address and any query string, the page you arrived from, a rough location worked out from your IP (usually country, region and city), your browser, your operating system, and whether you are on a phone, tablet or desktop. The record is not tied to your IP address or to any identifier that would let anyone reconstruct who you are.

Four other counts are sent. All four are about the product, none of them about you:

• drill-reps. Your 1st, 10th, 50th and 100th answer on a given drill, with the drill name and that count. Not the questions, and not your answers.
• trainer-hands. The same four milestones for trainer hands played.
• client-error. That a script error happened, and which page it happened on. The error message itself stays in your browser and is never sent.
• waitlist-click. That somebody clicked the "email me when there's more" link on the free page. That link opens your own mail app; the site never receives your address, and if you send the message it arrives as an ordinary email like any other.

That is the complete list of what this site transmits.

What Is Not Stored

No name, no email address, no account, no password, no payment details, no IP logging by us, no device fingerprint, no advertising identifier. No cookies are set by this site, for any purpose, including the page-view counter. There are no third-party scripts, no embedded fonts from anyone else's server, no tag managers, no pixels and no ad trackers. Nothing about you is sold or shared with anyone, because the counts above are the only thing collected and none of them identify a person.

Deleting It

Open the Progress tab in the trainer and use Reset all progress. That clears the store immediately and permanently. Clearing site data for pokerthangs.com in your browser settings does the same thing and also removes the three smaller keys, including the error log. There is no copy anywhere else to request, because we never had one.

Hosting

This site is served as static files by Vercel. Like every web host, Vercel's servers see the requests that fetch the pages, which necessarily includes your IP address, in the ordinary course of delivering a web page to you. That is the same information any website's host sees when you load any page. The page-view counter described above runs on the same platform and is the only analytics on this site.

Children

PokerThangs teaches a game that adults play for money in card rooms. It is not built for, marketed to, or appropriate for children, and we do not knowingly collect anything that identifies anyone, of any age, for the reasons above.

Changes

If this ever stops being true, for example if a payment system or an email list is added, this page changes first and says what changed and when. The date at the top is the only version marker there is.

Changed 22 August 2026: page-view counting was switched on, a local error log was added, and the free page gained a link that opens your mail app if you want to hear about new drills. Before that date the site made no network requests after the page loaded and used three storage keys instead of four. All three changes are described above.

Questions

Write to Hello@GeekThangs.com. PokerThangs is made by Geek Thangs, LLC in Metro Detroit, Michigan.