Trivia Gauntlet is a daily trivia game. This page says exactly what it stores about you, who else gets to see it, and how to have it deleted.
Last updated 18 August 2026.
The short version. You can play the entire game without an account and without giving us your name or email. If you do create an account, we ask for a username, an email address and a password — nothing else. We do not run advertising, we do not use third-party analytics or tracking pixels, and we have never sold or shared anyone's data for marketing. We do count how the game is played — how many people, on what kind of device — and that counting happens here, on our own server, and goes no further.
You do not have to tell us anything to play. The game still records:
device holding a
random number, so we can count how many people played on a given day without
counting a household as one person. It is not derived from anything about you or
your machine, it is never sent to anyone else, and it stops mattering the moment
you sign in.| What | Why |
|---|---|
| Username | Identifies you in the game. It is public — it appears on leaderboards, in multiplayer, and to anyone who opens one of your finished rounds. |
| Email address | Password resets, and confirming the account is yours. It is never shown to other players. |
| Password | Stored only as a salted hash. We cannot read it, and nobody here can tell you what it is. |
| Your profile and progress | Avatar, level, streaks, stats, and your friends list. |
An email address is required to create a new account. If you would rather not give one, play as a guest — the game itself is identical. A small number of accounts made before August 2026 have no email on file and continue to work.
Parties, duels and battles let you send messages to the other players in that game. When you do:
Your username also appears on duel and battle records, which are part of the game's history and are kept alongside the games themselves.
The Contact the developers box stores your message, the subject, which page you were on, your username if you were signed in, your IP address, and your email address only if you choose to give one — without it we have no way to reply.
The IP address on a message is erased after 90 days. The message itself is kept, along with your address if you gave one, so that a conversation is not lost halfway through and so we can look back at what was reported.
To stop harassment and abuse we do three things, and they involve looking at what people type:
If someone is being abusive, please tell us through the contact link.
We do not record where games are played. We do not look up your location, we do not store one, and we do not send your IP address to anyone to have it resolved into a place.
This is a change. Until 16 August 2026 the game did do this: after a round finished it sent the player's IP address to a third-party service, got back a city, region and country, and stored that alongside the game for an internal view. That has been removed, and every location previously stored was deleted rather than simply left alone.
We use no advertising or tracking cookies. Two cookies, and two notes your browser keeps to itself:
| Name | What it is | How long |
|---|---|---|
session | A cookie. Keeps you signed in. Not readable by scripts. | Until you sign out, or two years after you signed in |
device | A cookie. The random browser id described above. Not readable by scripts. | One year, refreshed while you keep playing |
gg_theme | Stored in your browser only. Whether you chose light or dark mode. | Until you clear your browser |
gg_banner_seen | Stored in your browser only. Which announcement you have already been shown, so it is not shown again. | Until you clear your browser |
gg_email_nudge | Stored in your browser only. That you have been asked to add an email address, so we stop asking. | Until you clear your browser |
The last three never leave your browser — they are not sent to us and we cannot read them. We do not ask for cookie consent, because none of these do the thing consent exists to control: two are needed to run the game at all, and the rest are your own settings.
We do not sell your data, and we do not share it for anyone's advertising. These services necessarily receive some of it in order to run the game:
| Service | What it receives | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Railway | Everything, as our host | Runs the site and stores the database |
| Brevo | Your email address | Sends password-reset and account email |
| Google Fonts | Your IP address | Serves the fonts the page is set in |
| flagcdn.com | Your IP address | Serves the flag images in geography questions |
| Wikipedia | Your IP address, and a search term describing the question you are being asked | Fetches the article summary and picture shown beside a question |
Google Fonts and flagcdn receive your IP simply because your browser fetches files from them when the page loads, which is true of any site using an external font or image host.
Wikipedia is different and worth being clear about. When a question shows a summary or a picture, your browser asks Wikipedia for it directly, and the request contains a few words describing the subject of that question. So Wikipedia receives your IP address together with something that indicates what you are being asked about. We do not send them anything else, and we receive nothing back about you — but the request comes from your browser, not from our server, and we would rather say so than let it look like an ordinary image load.
We will also hand over data where the law requires it.
Trivia Gauntlet is built with the help of AI coding assistants, which write and review a large part of the site's code alongside its developers.
Your data is not sent to an AI service. The AI helps write the program; it does not run inside it. No player's account details, messages, guesses or scores are sent to any AI model, and nothing you do in the game is used to train one.
Question and answer data is compiled from public sources — and, like anything assembled at this scale, may contain mistakes. Each question names the source it came from, and the Contact the developers box is the fastest way to tell us one is wrong.
| What | How long |
|---|---|
| Your account and its scores | Until you delete it |
| Guest games | Kept as part of the leaderboard history for the day they were played |
| IP addresses on games and on messages you send us | 90 days |
| Chat messages in parties, duels and battles | 90 days |
| The text of a message you send us | Kept, so a conversation is not lost halfway through |
| Sign-in sessions | Two years from signing in |
We do not delete accounts for being inactive. A streak you have not played in a year is still yours.
About backups. We keep backups of the database so that a failure does not lose everybody's scores. We do not currently guarantee how long a backup is kept or when one is destroyed, so we cannot promise a window in which deleted data disappears from them. Deleting your account removes it from the live database immediately; we would rather say this plainly than name a number we do not yet enforce.
device cookie, and the next visit is treated as a new browser.Depending on where you live you may have further rights over your data, including under the GDPR, the UK GDPR, or US state privacy laws such as the CCPA. Write to [email protected] and we will do our best to honour them. We will not treat you differently for asking.
If you are in the UK or the EU and you think we have got something wrong, you can also complain to your national data protection authority.
Trivia Gauntlet is a general-audience trivia game and is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their personal information. We do not ask anyone's age or date of birth. If you believe a child has created an account, write to [email protected] and we will remove it.
Passwords are stored only as salted hashes. Sign-in and browser-id cookies are set
HttpOnly so page scripts cannot read them, and the site is served over
HTTPS. No service can promise perfect security, and we do not.
If this policy changes in a way that matters, we will update the date at the top of this page. Continuing to play after a change means the updated policy applies.
For anything about your personal data — a question about this policy, a request to see what we hold, or a request to erase it — write to [email protected].
The Contact the developers link at the bottom of any page reaches us just as well, and is the better route for a question that looks wrong in the game itself.
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