Privacy FAQ

Players don't make accounts, and nothing they type, draw or answer in a game is saved.

What do players share?

Just a nickname and the room code. Suggest first names or made-up nicknames, not full names.

Is anything from a game saved?

No. Answers, guesses, drawings and nicknames exist only while the game is running. They're deleted when the host ends the game or starts another one, or after two hours with no activity.

What do you keep?

• Host accounts: name, email, a scrambled (hashed) password, and sign-in dates.
• Basic usage counts: which games are played, by which host account, how many players joined (a number, never who), and how long each game ran. When someone tries a sample lesson plan without an account, it's counted as a sample, with no account and nothing about who ran it.
• Visitor numbers: how many people visit each day. No IP addresses are stored with these counts.
• Problem reports from hosts: what a host writes in "Report a problem", plus what the game was showing at that moment (the question or clue, its answer, the game settings and how many players were in the room, never their nicknames or answers), the page, and the browser type. Only the site's admins can see reports, and they can delete them.
• Issue reports from anyone: what someone writes in "Report an issue" (linked at the bottom of every page), the kind of issue they picked, the page it came from, the item on screen (such as a Skillword answer) and the screen size. No name, email or IP address is kept with it, so we can't reply. Only the site's admins can see these reports.

All of this is kept in one database on a private network that can't be reached from the internet, not with a cloud service.

Do you share information with other companies?

No. We don't share or sell any information, and there are no ads or tracking.

As on most websites, the lettering loads from Google Fonts, and the answer-key QR code from Cloudflare. No game information goes to either. The Resources page links to other websites, which have their own privacy policies.

Cookies and logs

• Players get no cookies. Their phone remembers their nickname so they can rejoin after a reload.
• Hosts get one sign-in cookie.
• Like most websites, the server keeps standard access logs (including IP addresses) for 14 days, then deletes them. They don't include anything typed in a game.

What about the solo games?

The solo games at /solo/ (Skillword, Four of a Kind, Cross Talk, the practice quiz, The Ask and Hat Trick) don't ask for a name and send nothing to the server. Progress, like a Skillword streak, a best time or a settings choice, is saved only in that browser, and clearing the browser's site data deletes it. A host who is signed in also sees a "Report a problem" button there, for sending the team a problem report about the game; clients playing on their own never see it. Anyone can use the "Report an issue" link at the bottom of the page, which sends only what they write and which page they were on.

Can we use real clinical information?

Please don't. This is a skills-review game, not a medical-records system. Ask players not to type names, diagnoses or personal stories into answers.

The same goes for problem reports: describe the problem with the game, not the people playing it.