Privacy

What leaves your device, and when

Last updated October 8, 2026 (season three and its checkout added)

Your town, your case files and the names at your table are kept in your own browser and nowhere else. There are no accounts, no cookies, no advertising and no analytics. The one time anything you write leaves your device is when live townsfolk are seated in a case, and the game tells you when that is. If you buy season three, Stripe takes the payment and we keep only the key we give you.

What stays in your browser

• Your town: its name, the places on the map, every case file (including the culprit's alibi) and each resident's record.
• The names you typed for the players at your table, so you don't have to type them again.
• Your Daily Alibi results for the last fourteen days: for each day, whether you named the culprit and the evening. Older days are dropped. Alongside it, your streak: how many days running you have played, the last day you played, and your best run.

This is held in your browser's local storage on this device. We cannot see it, it is not backed up, and it does not follow you to another phone or computer. "Start a new town" on the Town page erases the town; clearing this site's data in your browser erases everything.

Buying season three

Seasons one and two are free. Season three is paid for once, through a checkout page run by Stripe. Your name, email address, card and billing details are typed into Stripe's page and go to Stripe, not to us; Stripe handles them under its own privacy policy and is the seller of record for tax.

When you come back from the checkout we ask Stripe whether that purchase was paid, and if it was we give you a key. We store two things: the key, and the reference number of the Stripe purchase it came from, so the same purchase always gives the same key. We do not store your name, email address or card. Your browser keeps the key and a copy of the season so it plays without asking us again. Entering your key on another device sends only the key.

The townsfolk: scripted or live

Empty chairs can be filled with townsfolk. The seating screen and the "How to play" page say which kind this site is running right now.

• Scripted. Their alibis and votes are worked out in your browser. Nothing you write is sent anywhere.
• Live. To write what the townsfolk say, your browser sends our server which case it is, the name your table gave the place, and the alibis written at your table. Our server passes these to Anthropic's Claude, an AI model, and sends back its answer. Players' names are not sent; players are labelled "Player 1", "Player 2". We do not store any of it. Anthropic handles it under its own terms: see Anthropic's privacy policy.

If a case has no townsfolk seated, nothing leaves your device in either mode. The Daily Alibi and the Lamplighter story are always worked out in your browser and send nothing. "Share your result" hands a short text (the day's number, two ticks or crosses, and your streak if you have one) to whatever app you choose; we never see it. Because an alibi may be passed to an AI model, please keep real surnames, addresses, phone numbers and anything else private out of them. That goes double when children are playing.

Stopping abuse

When live townsfolk are used, our server counts requests per visitor per day so that nobody can run up a bill. The count is kept against a scrambled form of your internet address that changes daily, not the address itself, and every count is deleted the following day.

Our host

The site is served by Cloudflare. Like any web host, Cloudflare processes your internet address and basic request details to deliver pages and keep the service secure. We do not use this to identify or follow anyone.

Children

Alibi Town is meant to be played by families together. We do not ask for or knowingly collect personal information from anyone, of any age. An adult should seat the table and decide whether townsfolk sit in.

Changes and contact

If what the game does with data changes, this page changes on the same day. Questions: hello@alibitown.com, or by post to the address below.