Cookies

One technical cookie, and analytics only if you accept

There are no advertising cookies, no personalisation cookies and no social media pixels. The fonts are served from our own server, so your browser does not contact Google to load them either.

The online match cookie

When you look for an online match, our server sets a cookie. It is technical: it only serves the match you asked for, so it does not depend on the cookie banner. If you never play a match, it is never created.

Cookie	Who sets it	What it is for	How long it lasts
pg_match	Padel Guess	Remembering your guest name and adjusting the difficulty of your matches. It is encrypted, only sent to the match addresses and no script can read it	1 year

Analytics

We use Google Analytics 4 to see which challenges and matches get played, which pages get read and from what kind of device. It helps us decide where the time is worth spending; it is not combined with anything and it is not used for advertising.

Until you accept, Google’s script loads in denied mode: it writes no cookie and stores no identifier in your browser. Google receives only an anonymous, stateless signal it uses to estimate aggregate totals. If you accept, these two cookies are added:

Cookie	Who sets it	What it is for	How long it lasts
_ga	Google Analytics	Telling a returning visitor from a new one	2 years
_ga_5GL8EMPLBQ	Google Analytics	Keeping the session state for that property	2 years

You can change your mind at any time from Cookie preferences, in the footer. If you reject after having accepted, those two cookies are deleted straight away. The site works exactly the same either way.

What your browser does store

The challenges, the online match and the rulebook assistant need to remember a few things between visits. For that we use local storage (localStorage, and sessionStorage for the match in progress), which is not the same as a cookie: it is never sent to the server. It stays on your device and we cannot read it.

Key	What it is for	How long it lasts
pg:<mode>:<date>	The day’s game in a challenge: which players you have already tried, so reloading does not start you over	Clears itself when the day changes
pg:pairs-men:game	The game in progress in the pairs challenge: lives and streak	Until the game ends
pg:pairs-men:best	Your best streak in the pairs challenge	Until you delete it
pg:rules-chat:<language>	Your conversation with the rulebook assistant, so it is still there if you reload	24 hours
pg:match:seat	Your place in the online match in progress, so you can get back to it if you reload the page	Until you close the tab
pg:match:tracked	Whether analytics has already counted that the match in progress started, so a reload does not count it twice. Only if you accept analytics, and it is deleted when the match ends	Until you close the tab
pg:match:look	How your player looks in the online match: body, colours, headwear and gesture	Until you delete it
pg:match:nick	The name you have chosen for the online match, if you have chosen one	Until you delete it
pg:match:tips	The online match tips you have already seen, so they are not repeated	Until you delete it
pg:match:muted	Whether you have muted the online match sound	Until you delete it
pg:consent	Your answer to the cookie banner, so you are not asked again on every visit	Until you delete it

None of this identifies you or is combined with anything else. It is games you have played and text you have written.

How to delete it

All of the above disappears if you clear the site’s browsing data from your browser. In most of them you get there from the padlock in the address bar, under something like “Site settings” or “Clear data”. Browsing privately also stops anything being kept from one session to the next.

Deleting it means losing your saved games and your chat history, the cookie banner asking you again, and the online match treating you as someone new. The site carries on working the same.