Privacidade

No account needed for casual play

Same-screen games and friend challenges do not require an account. Challenge games store no personal data beyond the guest nickname and avatar you choose (shown to the other player), and are deleted automatically after 7 days of inactivity.

Avatar and nickname — stored in your browser (localStorage). They leave your device only when you play a game without an account: then they are sent when you create or join the game (see Guest nickname below). Sound on/off stays in your browser only.

Anonymous usage statistics

To learn whether the game is fun and fair, we count visits, matches started and finished, answers accepted or rejected, and searches that find no movie. Your browser gets a random id (stored in localStorage) that is not linked to your nickname, avatar, account or IP address. We do not store IP addresses or use cookies for this. Statistics are deleted after 400 days.

Your browser's Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control setting turns this off. You can also open this link (?analytics=off) to stop it on this browser.

What we store for ranked play

• Sign-in account — your email address (and your Google account id if you use Google), held by our authentication provider, Neon Auth. Your email is never shown to other players.
• Username — public, chosen by you.
• Public profile — your username, avatar, rating, wins, losses and draws, ranked match history and earned avatars are shown on your profile page (anyone with the link can see it), on the leaderboard and in games.
• Lobby presence — When you are signed in, other players can see that you are online (you can turn this off in Account settings) and your ranked matches while they are being played.
• Friends — You can add other players as friends. Your friends can see when you are online (unless you turn off "Show me as online") and challenge you to friendly matches.
• Guest nickname — if you play without an account, the nickname and avatar you picked are sent when you create or join a game, shown to that game's players and spectators, and deleted with the game after 7 days.
• Rating — your rating, rating deviation and win/loss/draw record.
• Ranked games — the grid, moves, answers, timings and result of each game.
• Anti-cheat signals — per-move thinking time and answer popularity, used only to detect abuse.

Deleting your account

You can delete your account at any time from Account settings. This deletes your sign-in account and removes your username and sign-in link from your profile. Past ranked games stay in your opponents' history with you shown as "Deleted player", and their ratings are not changed.

Advertising

The game may show ads from Google AdSense on the results, past-grids, home and how-to pages, never while you play. When ads are shown, Google and its partners may use cookies or similar storage to show and measure ads. Visitors in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland are asked for consent first, and you can change your choice at any time from the privacy link in the consent message. You can also manage ad personalisation at adssettings.google.com. Google's use of data is described at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

Cookies

Signing in sets session cookies needed to keep you signed in. Our own statistics use no cookies. Advertising cookies are set only by Google, only when ads are shown, and only with consent where the law requires it (see Advertising).

Email and contact

If you sign in, we email you once when you choose your username and once when you delete your account. We never send newsletters or marketing. Questions or requests about your data: support@gridelo.app.