Cookies & storage
Last updated October 9, 2026
Hatchnight doesn't use advertising or tracking cookies, and doesn't load anything from Google, Facebook or other trackers. Fonts and libraries are served from hatchnight.com itself. That's why there's no cookie banner.
What we store in your browser
These are strictly necessary for the site and game to work, so they don't need consent under UK and EU rules.
| Name | Type | What it's for | How long |
|---|---|---|---|
hatchnight.token.v1 | Local storage | Keeps you signed in to your guest player. | Until you clear it (the token expires after a year) |
hatchnight.tvroom.v1 | Local storage (TV page) | Keeps the TV's room code if the page reloads. | About 11 hours |
| Demo hatchery | Local storage (home page) | Remembers which beasts you hatched in the website demo. | Until you clear it |
| Offline cache | Service worker cache | Stores the game's files so it loads fast and can be installed. Contains no personal data. | Until the next update or you clear it |
Cookies set by others
- Cloudflare, our host, may set a strictly necessary security cookie (such as
__cf_bm) to tell people from bots. It's not used for tracking. See Cloudflare's cookie policy. - Stripe sets its own cookies on its checkout page (checkout.stripe.com) to process payments and prevent fraud. See Stripe's cookie policy.
Clearing it
You can clear site data in your browser settings at any time. Clearing it signs you out of your guest player; make a transfer code first (Store → Move to another device) if you want to keep playing it.