Privacy, in plain words
Last updated: 18 October 2026Who we are
Better Than HTML is a free site where people, including people with little experience of computers, can make things, share them and get ideas started. It is run by Blase Ulric Bowden. You can reach us at rfsoftwareresearch@gmail.com.
What we keep, and for how long
- What you publish. The pages, games, notices and comments you choose to share, together with the name you choose to show. It stays until you ask us to take it down, or until it expires if it is a timed notice.
- A temporary technical address. When you publish something (a Workshop page, a Dispatch notice or a game), we briefly keep the internet address (IP address) it came from. We use it only to stop spam and abuse. It is deleted after 7 days. We never show it to anyone.
- Rough location of visitors. When someone opens a game we count it, and note the country only, never a town or a street. This tells us roughly where the site is used.
- How a game visit started. When a game opens we note only a category: it was reloaded, came from the back button, came from a Better Than HTML page, was a direct link, or came from another website (for another website we keep just its domain name, such as facebook.com, never the full address). This tells us how people find games. It is not linked to you.
- Live location sessions. If you use a feature that shares your location (for example a live map session), your position is kept only while the session is live and is deleted after 7 days at most.
- An email address, only if you give one. A few features, such as registering an AI tool, let you add a contact email. It is optional, never shown publicly, and we will delete it if you ask.
- Chat and AI helper messages. What you type into a chat or the AI helper is stored as part of that session. Messages to the AI helper are processed by an AI provider (Cloudflare Workers AI, and in some features Anthropic or Groq) in order to answer you.
What stays on your own device
Game saves and settings (for example your Waterworks city, or a high score) are kept in your own browser on your own device. We do not receive them. Clearing your browser data removes them. We do not use advertising or tracking cookies, and we do not run third-party analytics.
Who else sees your data
The site runs on Cloudflare, which stores our data and handles web traffic for us, so Cloudflare sees your internet address when you visit, as any web host does. Some pages load common open-source libraries or fonts from public content delivery networks (such as cdnjs or Google Fonts), which see your internet address too. We do not sell data, and we do not share it for advertising.
Taking down something you published
When you publish a Workshop page, a Dispatch notice or a game you are given a delete key. Keep it safe. Put it in at betterthanhtml.com/workshop/remove with the link, and it is deleted for good. If you lost your key, or published before keys existed, use the removal request on the same page and we will look at it. The same request route works for posts on the Exchange.
Your rights
You can ask us what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. Write to rfsoftwareresearch@gmail.com. If you published something and want it removed, tell us the link and we will take it down. If you are not happy with how we handled your request, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk).
Children
Some pages here are made by young people or by classes at school. If you are under 16, please ask a parent or teacher before you publish, and never put your full name, school, address or contact details in anything you share.
Changes
If we change this page we will update the date at the top.