Privacy // & safety

The short version

• No accounts. No emails. No real names needed.
• No ads. No trackers. Nothing is sold.
• Quizzes you share are public on purpose, so keep private stuff out of them.
• You can erase everything any time: Settings, then Erase my stuff.
• Every quiz prints as a paper worksheet. Paper isn't tracked at all.

What stays on your device

Your settings (sound, skin, Echo on or off), your stars, the board size you like, the nickname you type for duels and Live Wire, and quizzes you've built but not shared yet. This lives in your browser's own storage. We can't see it. Clearing your browser data, or Erase my stuff, removes it.

What goes online, and why

An invisible player ID

A random code your browser gets the first time it connects. It lets you edit your own quizzes and play duels. It isn't tied to a name, email, phone number or address.

Quizzes you share

The name, questions, answers, colors and picture. These are public: anyone can play them. That's the point of the game.

Duels

The nickname you pick, the moves, and where you hid your words. Only you can see your own hidden words.

Finished games

Which quiz, board size, whether you won, and how many you got right. No names. We use it to count how many games are played and which quizzes are too hard.

Anonymous play counts

When a game starts, finishes, gets quit, or a quiz is printed, we count it: which game, which quiz, and a few numbers like how many questions were asked. For each question we only add to three counters: asked, right on the first try, missed. These counts carry no player ID at all, not even the invisible one, so they can't be tied to anyone. They show us which games people like and which questions are too hard, so we can fix them.

Reports

Which quiz was reported and the reason you picked. We use it to hide quizzes that break the rules.

Live Wire links

Nothing. The secret word rides inside the link you send. It never goes to our database.

What we never collect

Real names, email addresses, phone numbers, birthdays, home or school addresses, your location, contacts, or photos from your camera roll (unless you choose to add one to a quiz you build). We don't use advertising, analytics companies, social media trackers, or cookies for tracking.

Who helps run it

• Supabase stores shared quizzes, duels, game counts and quiz pictures.
• Hostinger hosts the website. Like every web host, its servers keep short-term technical logs (such as IP addresses) to keep the site running and safe.

That's it. Fonts and game code are served from playthestatic.com itself, so no other company sees you visit.

Kids and safety rules

The Static is made for families and classrooms. We don't ask anyone for personal information, and nobody needs an account to play.

• Use a nickname, never your real full name.
• No real names, faces, addresses, schools or phone numbers in quizzes or pictures.
• A word filter blocks common bad words in quizzes, nicknames and Live Wire words.
• Anyone can report a quiz from its dots menu. A quiz with 3 reports is hidden for everyone until a person checks it.
• Duels only happen with someone who has your code, or who joins a duel you left open.

Parents and teachers: if you see something that shouldn't be there, or want something deleted, email us and a real person will handle it.

How long things are kept

• Shared quizzes stay until you delete them (in Build) or erase your stuff.
• Duels nobody joined are cleared after about 3 days. Finished duels are cleared after about 30 days. Duels nobody touches for 14 days are ended.
• Finished-game records stay until you erase your stuff.
• Anonymous play counts are deleted after 180 days. Because they have no player ID, they can't be matched to you to erase early, and they don't need to be.

Your choices

• Erase everything: open the gear menu, then Erase my stuff. It deletes your quizzes and their pictures, your duels, your game history, and everything on this device.
• Delete one quiz: open Build, then delete it from your list.
• Ask us: email us and we'll delete or fix anything for you.

Contact

Questions, a problem, or something to report? Email a real person:

hello@quizmeback.com

If this page changes, the date at the top changes too.