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Privacy policy – Star Race (מרוץ הכוכבים)

Last updated: 9 November 2026

This page describes the free beta that exists today. The game does not ask players to create an account, does not take payment, and does not send scores, diamonds, or progress to a game server.

1. Who runs the game

Star Race is a space race played in the browser. In this beta, progress stays on the player’s own device.

Operator: David Goldring · Email: starrace.support@gmail.com

2. Age

The game is made for players aged 11 and older.

The beta does not ask for a name, email address, phone number, or a parent’s contact details.

3. What is stored on the device

The game writes three entries in the browser’s local storage. They are not sent to a game server:

• star-race-language — the language the player chose.
• star-race-setup — the selected stage, ship model, ship color, race length, and melody volume, including off.
• star-race-progress — opened trial stages, cleared stages, the diamond count, the diamond tokens already counted, and whether the three-stage trial was finished.

Stages 4–30 are not opened by this saved progress. There is no account and no subscription flag.

4. What stays only for the current race

The star score, lives, rocks picked up in that race, and the race clock live in the page’s memory. They are not written into local storage. Refreshing the page or closing it ends that race. Diamonds already saved on the device remain there.

Hand-in-the-air and finger-pointing control (camera)

If you choose “Hand in the air” or “Point a finger”, the browser asks for permission to use the camera. The camera turns on only after that tap and your approval. The game compares small, blurry pictures (64 by 48 dots) on the device to see where the hand is moving. The pictures are not saved, not recorded, and not sent to any server, and each one is discarded right after the comparison. In finger mode the game also keeps a blurry average of the background in memory while you play, to tell what is new in the picture. That average is never saved or sent, and it is erased when the camera turns off. The camera turns off when you switch back to “Keyboard & touch”, close the page, or move to another tab. This choice is not saved.

5. What this beta does not collect

• No name, email, password, phone number, or photo. Camera pictures used for hand control are never saved or sent either.
• No precise location, contacts, or advertising identifier collected by the game.
• No card number and no purchase record. The beta does not take payment.
• No advertising script in the game. There is one visit counter, Cloudflare Web Analytics, described in section 6.
• The game code does not set cookies.

6. The hosting service

The game is hosted with Cloudflare Pages. To deliver the site, keep it secure, and operate it, Cloudflare may process technical data such as an IP address and details of the request to access the site. Progress, diamonds, and language are not sent to Cloudflare as game data, and the game does not use that data to run the race.

How long the information is kept varies by the type of data and the relevant services. For more information, see Cloudflare’s privacy policy.

Visit counting. The game page loads a small Cloudflare Web Analytics script, so we can see how many people open the game and where they came from (for example, a link on LinkedIn). According to Cloudflare, the script does not set cookies, does not store anything on the device, and does not track the player across sites. It sends Cloudflare the page address, the page the visitor came from, the browser and device type, and page load timings. The country is worked out from the IP address, and Cloudflare states that it does not keep the IP address for this measurement. The operator sees only totals, never a specific player. The script does not receive the score, progress, language, or camera images.

7. Sharing

The beta does not sell player information and does not send progress to advertisers. The only outside service is Cloudflare: it delivers the files and also counts visits (Cloudflare Web Analytics).

8. How long it stays

Language, setup, and progress stay in that browser until the player clears the site data or the browser removes it. The operator does not keep a copy.

The score and lives of one race disappear when that race ends or the page is closed.

9. Access and deletion

Only three items are stored on the device, in the browser’s local storage: the chosen language, the game settings (the selected stage, ship model, ship color, race length, and melody volume, including off), and the progress (opened trial stages, cleared stages, the diamond count, the diamond tokens already counted, and whether the three-stage trial was finished). There is no server copy and no user account.

On that same browser, the game shows the language, the ship, the race length, whether the melody is on, the open trial stages, and the diamond count. The diamond tokens are stored on the device and are not shown as a list. The operator has no copy, and so has nothing to send when someone asks to see the game data stored on the device.

Game data is deleted in the browser, by clearing this website’s site data. The name of that action differs from browser to browser. The deletion removes the language, the game settings, and the progress from that browser. Changing the language, the ship, or the race length inside the game leaves the progress on the device. Clearing one browser does not clear the data in another browser or on another device.

The operator cannot remotely delete game data that is stored only on the device, because the operator has no access to the browser’s local storage.

A player or a parent can write about privacy to starrace.support@gmail.com.

Connection data that Cloudflare may process, such as an IP address and details of the request to access the site, is separate from the game data on the device. This page does not promise that it will be deleted.

10. Children

The beta does not ask children for contact details and does not use their saved progress for advertising. There is no advertising in the game.

11. Other countries

The saved game stays on the device. Some information may be processed outside Israel, including in the United States and in Europe, according to Cloudflare’s services and settings.

12. Changes

If an account or a payment is added later, this page will be replaced before either one starts. The date at the top is the date of this text. This beta has no account and no payment.

13. Contact

Operator: David Goldring · Email: starrace.support@gmail.com