Privacy
RANDOM is a prototype word game. It has no accounts, no ads and no tracking cookies.
What stays on your device
Your scores, streaks, settings, recent words, the worlds you’ve collected, your vocab level and the name you type for challenges are saved in your browser’s local storage. They never leave your device unless you share them. Clearing your browser data removes them.
Challenge links
A challenge link contains the name you entered, your words and your scores. Only people you send it to can see it. When a link is shared in a chat app, our site uses the name and score in it to draw the preview picture; nothing from the link is stored.
Feedback we receive
When you tap “Unfair?” on a result, or type a word the game doesn’t know, the game sends us that word, the prompt and the reason for the ruling so we can improve the word list. It doesn’t include your name or scores. The site is hosted by Netlify, which stores these submissions and, like any web host, handles standard connection data such as IP addresses.
What everyone said
When you finish a daily game, the game sends us which words you answered for each of the ten prompts, so it can show how many players said the same thing. It sends the words only: no name, no score. To count each device once a day it also sends a random code made on your device, which isn’t linked to you or to anything else you do. It also sends your creative spread score for that game, so you can see how it compares with other players. We show other players only totals, such as “12% said this”. We may post a day’s highlights, such as the most common answer or a word only one person said, but never who said it.
Moving to another device
If you tap “Create a transfer link” on your stats page, the game uploads a copy of your progress (scores, streaks, trophies, the words you’ve played, the worlds you’ve collected, your vocab level and the name you entered) so another device can collect it. It’s kept under a random code for up to 24 hours and deleted as soon as the other device takes it. Only someone with the code or link can open it.
Voice input
When you tap or hold the microphone button, your browser’s built-in speech recognition turns your speech into text. Depending on your browser this may be processed by its maker (for example Google for Chrome or Apple for Safari) under their own privacy terms. The game only receives the resulting text. The microphone only listens while you’re using the mic button.
Counting visits
Once a day, the game tells our server today’s date and the date you first played. That’s all: no name, no code for your device, no cookies. We only keep totals, such as “40 people played today and 12 of them came back from yesterday”, and how many games of each kind were finished.
Questions
Questions about privacy, or anything else? Email Bookmintsupport@gmail.com.