Legal notice and privacy
Who publishes Tamalou, who hosts it, and what the game knows about you: almost nothing. No account, no cookie, no ads.
Publisher
Tamalou is published by Steeve Pommier, a private individual, on a non-commercial basis: it is free, has no ads and sells nothing.
Contact: pommier.steeve+tamalou@gmail.com
As a non-professional publisher, the identification details required by French law (Loi pour la confiance dans l’économie numérique, art. 6-III) are kept with the host named below.
Hosting
tamalou.steevepommier.com runs on Cloudflare Workers, which also runs the online rooms: Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, United States, cloudflare.com.
A copy without online play is served by GitHub Pages at costardrouge.github.io/tamalou: GitHub, Inc., 88 Colin P. Kelly Jr. Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, United States, github.com.
The local network version runs on the computer of whoever starts it, at their place: nothing from it reaches the publisher. Audience measurement runs on a server of the publisher’s (see Privacy).
Privacy
In short: Tamalou does not know who you are and does not try to. No account, no cookie, no ads.
On your device
A game solo or around one phone is played entirely in your browser: nothing is sent. The game keeps in your browser’s local storage, on this device only, the language, sounds and vibrations, and your last setup (mode, names, number and level of bots, rules), to offer it next time; and, if you play online, one token per room for a day, to take your seat back after a dropout.
Opening the game also stores its own files in the browser’s cache, so that it works offline: files, never your data. To erase everything, clear this site’s data in your browser’s settings.
Online rooms
In an online room, the name you type and your moves go through the server, which shows them to the other players in the room (each one sees only what the rules let them see). Nothing is written to disk: the room lives in memory and disappears after two hours without activity, or once a finished game has nobody left. Anyone with a room’s code or link can join it or watch: keep your name impersonal.
Audience measurement
Visits are counted with Umami, self-hosted on a server of the publisher’s at insight.steevepommier.com: no third party receives the data, and nothing is used for advertising.
What is counted: page views (the home page, this notice, the game’s home screen, a game, an online room without its code); the site you came from; a few anonymous events (a game started, with its mode, the number and level of bots, the preset and whether rules were changed; a game finished and its number of rounds; a room created; rules shared and how; an install; on the home page, the practice round finished, won or not, with the number of moves tried, and each answer to the values test, right or not); your browser, system, device type, screen size, language and country.
What never is: names, a room’s code, the details of the rules, your moves or your cards, your IP address (it gives the country, then is forgotten), nor anything that could follow you from one site to another. No cookie is set. The local network version counts nothing.
The counter is not even loaded when your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control, or when you switch it off below; that choice is kept in this browser.
Your visits are counted, anonymously, in this browser.
Your visits are not counted in this browser.
Your browser asks not to be tracked: your visits are not counted.
This copy of Tamalou does not count visits.
Cookies
Tamalou sets no cookie, hence no consent banner: there is nothing to accept.
Hosting and abuse
Like any host, Cloudflare (and GitHub for the copy) processes your IP address to deliver the pages and protect the site: see Cloudflare’s privacy policy. Tamalou uses it to limit how many rooms one address can create per minute, without keeping it. Cloudflare keeps technical logs of calls to the server for a few days, which the publisher reads to fix errors.
Your rights
The GDPR lets you ask for access to the data about you, or for its deletion. Tamalou keeps none that names you: your settings are on your device, and an online room erases itself. For any question or request, write to pommier.steeve+tamalou@gmail.com; you can also lodge a complaint with the CNIL.
Licence
Tamalou is free software: its source code is published under the MIT licence. Tamalou is a traditional card game; its rules belong to no one.
Liability
Tamalou is provided as is, in good faith, with no warranty of any kind. Links to other sites are given for convenience; their content is theirs. Something here infringes one of your rights? Write to pommier.steeve+tamalou@gmail.com, and it will be fixed.
Last updated on 17 October 2026.