Privacy Policy
There is no account. You pick a nickname for the evening; a room lives in the cloud for a few hours so the people in it can see each other, and once it has ended nobody can open it again. Nothing identifies you across nights.
What Is Stored in This Browser
Your nickname, the code of the room you are in (so a reload rejoins it), the last few room codes you used, any custom question packs you have written, and your choice of colour theme — all in this browser's local storage on this device. Clearing your browser's site data removes them; so does Forget This Browser in the Back Up window.
What Is Stored in the Cloud, and for How Long
A room is a small set of documents in a Firebase (Google Cloud) database belonging to this project. A room lasts six hours from when it is started (the host can extend it to twelve), and once it has ended nobody can open it again — the database's security rules refuse it, whatever the app or a browser asks for. It holds:
- The room itself: which game is on, the question in play, the running scores for the evening, and — only if the host wrote one — a custom question pack.
- One record per player: your nickname, when you joined, when you were last seen (a heartbeat every 90 seconds, which is what draws the online dot), and the number of the last question you answered.
- Your current answer: which option you picked, overwritten each question. Only the host's browser can read answers before the reveal.
- During a drawing game: the drawing itself, as pen strokes in one record everyone in the room can read, wiped at the start of every turn; and your latest guess, overwritten by the next. A wrong guess is shown to the room until the turn ends; a right one never is. The drawer's word is sent only as a one-way fingerprint until the turn ends, so not even the host's screen shows it early.
- During an icebreaker: what you write (a short answer, or two truths and a lie) goes to the host's browser like any answer, and then onto the room for everyone to read, unsigned — which answer is whose is kept in a separate record that only the host's browser can read, until the reveal names the writer. The answers are cleared from the room when the next prompt starts, and they and the who-wrote-what record are emptied when the game ends.
When It Is Deleted
- Pressing Leave deletes your own player record and your answer.
- The last person to leave deletes the room itself.
- A drawing is wiped at the start of every turn, and again when the game ends.
- A room everyone simply closed the tab on is not deleted. This project uses Firebase's free plan, which has no automatic clean-up, so those few small records stay in the database. Nobody can open them through the app once the room has ended; the project's owner can see them in the Firebase console.
A room is reachable by anyone who holds its six-letter code. The code is random and cannot be listed or guessed, but it is not a password: share it only with the people you want in the room. There is no notes field, no chat log and nothing from any work system — guesses and answers are short, capped, and gone with the round.
Signing In
The page signs in to Firebase anonymously the moment it opens: Firebase issues this browser a random identifier so it can tell your answers from the next person's. That identifier is not linked to an email address, a name or a Google account, and it is the only thing that persists between visits in this browser. It is kept in the browser's own storage and never shown to anyone.
What Is Not
- No analytics, no tracking, no advertising, no cookies of the app's own.
- No third-party script beyond the Firebase client library, loaded from Google's
www.gstatic.com. The page talks to three Google endpoints — sign-in, token refresh and the database — and to nothing else; a Content Security Policy on the page refuses anything further. - No email address, real name or other personal information is asked for or kept.
Backups
A backup is a plain JSON file holding your nickname and your custom packs, written to wherever your browser puts downloads. It never contains a room, and it never leaves your device unless you send it somewhere yourself.
Changes
If what the app stores ever changes, this page and its effective date are updated in the same commit as the change.