Privacy
Who runs this game
Stored on your device
The puzzle you are playing (your pins so far), today's result, your average miss for your last seven puzzles , whether you bought no-ads , and your answers to the age and counting questions — kept so the game works and so we do not ask again. If you start or join a duel we keep your chosen name and up to three duels’ names and daily totals, removing each expired duel and any unneeded name when the game next runs after seven days beyond its last day. Duel links contain readable names and scores; the fragment is excluded from the game-page HTTP request, but your messaging service and anyone receiving or forwarding the link can access it. Clearing your browser removes them. Results are also sent when you enter the leaderboards.
What we count, only if you say yes
Daily tallies — ; and whether it saw the pack, bought it, and played in a test month . Links shared from the game carry the kind of link and a test-group mark. If you agree after opening such a link, we count whether you finish a puzzle within a week of agreeing — only as a total for each kind of link; the link carries no name. A total for a small group can still relate to the few people in it, so before anything is published, totals that could rest on fewer than 50 devices are merged with others or held back; this lowers what the published figures could show about a few people, but does not rule it out. To work these out, your device keeps, after you say yes and not before: the time of its first finished puzzle, the time you agreed if you came through a shared link, which test groups it falls in (whether it can be followed for a day, for a week, or for sharing), short codes from our server (below), which reports it has sent and when it last tried each. To make sure a "came back" is counted only for a device whose first report arrived, our server answers some reports straight away with a short code that is the same for everyone sending the same thing; your device keeps it and sends it back with the later report. If that answer does not arrive, the report is sent again on a later visit, and our server counts such repeats. It also counts the reports it refuses: those from browsers that describe themselves as automated, and those that arrive without a matching code. Your browser's self-description is read by our code when a report arrives, to refuse automated traffic, and our code does not keep it (what the host itself records is below). Why: to learn whether the game is worth building on. Sent to
The leaderboards, only if you join
Offered only if you said you are 16 or older, and only after you finish today's puzzle and choose "Put my name on". You give a nickname and an email. A nickname is fine; your full name is not needed. Your nickname and scores are public; your email is never shown. Email is required to check address ownership, manage your entry and contact you if you win. One address holds one nickname; this does not prove one person has only one entry. Nothing goes on the leaderboards until you open a link we email to that address. Until then our server keeps what you sent (the nickname, the email, the words you agreed to, a news yes if you ticked it, a scrambled form of this device's code, and today's game) with a deadline 30 days after you sent it; the link works once, and if it is never opened all of that is deleted at the first daily clear-out after the deadline. This page gives every address the same answer, whether or not it is already on the leaderboards; only the email says which. To send at most one email to an address in 10 minutes, our server keeps a scrambled form of the address for at least 10 minutes; it is deleted by the next sign-up after that, from anyone, or else by the daily clear-out (it runs with the first leaderboard request of each day, UTC time), so on a quiet site it can stay longer than a day. The link email is sent through
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Where your data is handled
Children
The game is made for teens and adults, and children may still play. Before we ask to count anything, we ask your age. If you say you are under 16, or do not answer, nothing is counted. We cannot check the answer, so our figures describe players who said they were 16 or older. The same answer decides the leaderboards: they are never offered to "under 16" or no answer.
Your rights
To ask what we hold about you, to have it corrected or deleted, to withdraw consent at any time, and to complain to us, then to the Australian privacy regulator (OAIC), or in the EU/UK to your data-protection authority. With counts kept only as totals, we may be unable to find one person's share in them; we say so if asked. For the leaderboards, "Leave the leaderboards" on the device you played on deletes your name, email, games and news yes at once; without that device, write to us from the email you joined with.
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