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This policy explains what happens to information when you use cardcountacademy.com ("the site"), which is operated by CardCount Academy ("we") from Costa Rica. The short version: there are no accounts, your training progress never leaves your browser, we measure visits with cookie-free analytics, and some pages show ads from Google AdSense, which uses cookies as described below.
Information we don't collect
- We don't ask for your name, email address or any other personal details.
- There are no user accounts, sign-ups or contact forms.
- We don't use social media plugins or tracking pixels, and we don't sell or share any data about you.
- We don't run a backend or database that stores information about you.
Information stored on your device
To remember your progress, the site saves a small amount of data in your browser's local storage. It stays on your device and is never sent to us or anyone else. We can't see it, and it isn't linked to your identity.
| Key | Purpose | What it contains |
|---|---|---|
cc-method | Remembers the counting system you selected. | A system id such as "hi-lo". |
cc-learning-v1 | Remembers which lessons you marked as understood. | Lesson ids grouped by counting system. |
cc-stats-v1 | Powers your progress report and recommendations. | Dates and results of drills, quizzes, blackjack hands and count checks (latest 50–100 per type). |
This data remains until you delete it. You can delete it at any time with the controls on the progress page, or by clearing this site's data in your browser settings. Private or incognito windows discard it when you close them.
Hosting and technical logs
The site is hosted by Vercel. Like any web host, Vercel necessarily receives technical information when your browser requests a page — such as your IP address, browser type, the page requested and the time — in order to deliver the site, keep it secure and prevent abuse. This processing is governed by Vercel's privacy policy. We don't use these logs to identify or profile visitors.
Analytics
We use Vercel Web Analytics to count page views. It does not use cookies. For each visit it records the page, the referring site, a coarse location (country, region, city), and the browser, operating system and device type. Visitors are recognized only by a hash of the request that is discarded after 24 hours, so we see aggregated statistics, never individual people or browsing histories.
Advertising (Google AdSense)
To keep the site free, some pages show ads served by Google AdSense. Ads never appear on the responsible gambling page or inside the training tools (drill, quiz, blackjack table and progress page).
- Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites.
- Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
- You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings (https://www.google.com/settings/ads). You can also opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalized advertising at https://www.aboutads.info/choices/.
Google and its partners may process information such as your IP address, browser and device details, cookie identifiers and the pages you view in order to show, measure and personalize ads and to prevent fraud. Google explains this in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services (https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites). We don't receive personal data about you from Google; we only see aggregated ad performance reports.
If you visit from the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland, Google's certified consent message asks for your choice before cookies are used for personalized ads. If you don't consent, Google may still show non-personalized or limited ads. You can change your choice at any time through the privacy settings link that the consent message provides, or by clearing this site's cookies.
Emails you send us
If you write to us at contact@cardcountacademy.com, we receive your email address, any name you include and the content of your message. We use this only to read and answer your message — for example, to handle a correction or a privacy request — never for marketing, and we don't sell or share it.
The inbox is hosted by Zoho Mail, which stores and processes these messages on our behalf under Zoho's privacy policy. We keep correspondence only for as long as we need it to deal with your message and keep a record of any correction or request it led to. You can ask us at any time to delete the emails you have sent.
External links
Some pages link to other websites, such as sources in our guides or support organizations. Those sites have their own privacy practices, which apply once you visit them.
Children
The site is educational and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect information from children, and ads on the site are not intended for them. It is about a casino game, and gambling itself is only for adults of legal age where they live.
Your rights
Your training progress is fully under your control in your browser; we never receive it, so we can't access or delete it for you — use the controls on the progress page instead. The only personal data we hold ourselves is the email correspondence described above; you can ask to see it, correct it or have it deleted. For advertising data processed by Google, use the Google controls linked above. For any privacy question or request, email contact@cardcountacademy.com and we will respond.
Changes to this policy
If the way the site handles information changes — for example, if we add another analytics or advertising provider — we will update this policy and revise the date at the top of this page. Advertising is also described on the advertising disclosure and cookie policy pages.