Privacy policy
When you play Nichest, a bit of info about you is stored. Here's what and why. Basically: the game only has what it needs, nothing is sold, no ads and no tracking cookies.
If you make an account
- Email and password: all we do with your email and password is log you in, verify your account, and send you a password reset message. Your login provider 'scrambles' (hashes) your password, so it's impossible for anyone to read it.
- Sign in with Google: when you sign in with Google, we receive your name and email address. We do not receive your Google password or any other info about your Google account.
- Display name: your preference of what to be known as. Can be visible to other users for upcoming features such as leaderboards.
- Game results: your daily challenge scores and answers, and your best practice score, so your stats and streak follow you from device to device.
- Ranked: if you play ranked, your display name, rating and challenge results (scores and answers) are stored and shown to the players you challenge and on the open challenge board.
Answers and feedback
When you play, the answers you give (right and wrong) are stored so we can see which answers are popular and identify correct answers missing from the game. Question suggestions, error reports and difficulty ratings are saved to improve the game. The name field on question suggestions is optional.
They are not connected to your personal name or account. They are recorded with a random code created by your browser (counting each user once only) and a scrambled version of your internet address, used solely for spam control (a limited number of messages sent per hour).
Stored in your browser
Your sound settings, today's daily progress, your streak, questions you've recently played, and the random player code mentioned above are stored in your browser's local storage. You can clear them at any time by clearing this site's data in your browser.
Services we use
- Cloudflare: runs the game and records answers and feedback. Web Analytics counts visits without cookies and does not profile you.
- Supabase: for accounts and storing account and results data.
- Google Fonts and jsDelivr: these are the game's fonts and code library. Your browser will send your internet address as soon as these files are accessed, in the same way it would for a standard website.
We don't sell or share the data these services process with anyone else. We use no advertising or tracking cookies.
Age
You need to be at least 13 to create an account. No account is needed to play.
Deleting your data
You can remove your account and all your saved results at any point by going to the account menu in the game and clicking Delete my account. For anything else, and questions about your data, use the Report an error button in the game.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the very top will change.