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Privacy Policy

Last updated: 2026-11-09

Who Runs Gramarye

Gramarye is made and run by an independent developer, Magus Apprentice. For anything about your data, email gramaryegame@gmail.com.

What We Collect

Gramarye is a free, browser-based game. We collect the minimum data necessary to operate the service:

  • IP addresses — used only as a short-lived counter key for rate limiting, to prevent abuse of our API endpoints. The counter expires automatically when its time window ends, and your IP address is not written to any analytics record or report.
  • Anonymous analytics — we use Vercel Web Analytics to collect anonymous, aggregated page view data (pages visited, browser type, country). No cookies are set and no personally identifiable information is collected.
  • Answer statistics (optional) and leaderboard entries (optional), described below.

What We Do NOT Collect

  • We do not require user accounts, logins, or registration.
  • We do not use tracking pixels, and players never receive cookies. A single session cookie is used only by the developer admin tools.
  • We do not collect names or personal information, except the display name you choose to put on the online leaderboard and the optional email described under Feedback Reports.
  • We do not sell, share, or transfer any data to third parties for marketing purposes.

Local Storage

Your game progress (save files, settings, preferences) is stored locally on your device using your browser’s localStorage. It stays on your device unless you link devices, and it is not otherwise transmitted to our servers. If you choose to share answer statistics, a small queue of them is also kept on your device until it is sent. If you download a backup file, it is made on your device and goes only where you put it; Gramarye never receives it.

Linked Devices

If you link devices, each of your games, your progress (including your leaderboard keys and online name) and a few settings (colour theme, colour-blind mode and category choices) are locked on your device with a secret that only your linked devices hold, and one locked copy of each is kept on our server. Each copy is replaced when you save, and deleted 30 days after your last save or straight away when you reset the link. We cannot read it, and it carries no name, account or device identifier. The secret travels in a link fragment, which browsers do not send to servers, or through a short code whose second half never leaves your devices. Requests to this feature are rate limited like the rest of the site.

Multiplayer Mode

When you use TV Couch Party mode, your chosen display name and game actions are transmitted in real time to other players in your room via Pusher (WebSocket service). Room data is stored temporarily in Upstash Redis and is automatically deleted when the room expires.

Answer Statistics (Optional)

The first time you visit, Gramarye asks whether you want to share anonymous answer statistics. You can change your answer at any time in Settings. If you say yes, the game records, for each question you answer: which question it was, which game mode you were in, whether you were right, whether you were right the first time, whether time ran out, how many seconds it took, and which in-game helpers (such as the Knowledge Gem) you used. These records are sent in batches to our server and added to anonymous totals for that question. They do not include your name, an account (there are none), your score or your device. Once counted, nothing links one answer to another or to you. If you say no, or turn it off, nothing is recorded or sent.

Feedback Reports (Optional)

If you send feedback, we receive what you write plus a short technical summary: the game version, screen size, theme, settings such as the trivia packs you have switched on, and where you are in your run. For a trivia report we also receive the question you chose and, if you answered it, which answer you gave and whether it was marked right. Reports never include your name, a room code or other players’ names. A screenshot is included only if you switch it on. A suggestion can include an optional email address, but only if you type one in. Please only add an email if you are 13 or older. It is used only to reply to you, goes only to the developer, is never posted publicly and is deleted with the report. Stored reports are deleted automatically after 90 days. Each report is also sent to the developer’s Gmail inbox and filed in the developer’s private GitHub issue tracker. Neither copy contains your email address in its text or a screenshot. The inbox copy keeps your reply address in its header until the developer deletes it. To have a report or your email deleted sooner, see Your Rights below.

Online Leaderboard

If you choose to submit a score to the online leaderboard, the display name you enter, your score, the floor reached, the game mode and the date are stored on our server and shown publicly on the leaderboard. Submitting is always your choice. Please use a nickname, not your real name.

Third-Party Services

Children’s Privacy

Gramarye is a general-audience game and does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. Children under 13 should not type an email address, their real name or other personal details into feedback, a leaderboard name or a team name. If we learn that we have received personal information from a child under 13, we delete it. A parent or guardian can ask us to do this by emailing gramaryegame@gmail.com.

Your Rights

We hold no account or profile for you. You can clear your local game data at any time by clearing your browser's storage for this site. In Settings, 'Clear my statistics data' deletes statistics held on your device and removes leaderboard entries you submitted from this device (to remove older entries, ask us as described below). Anonymous answer totals that have already been counted cannot be removed, because nothing links them to you.

To have a feedback report or your email deleted, or a leaderboard entry removed, email gramaryegame@gmail.com. If you gave an email with your report, write from that address; otherwise tell us roughly when you sent it and what it said, or the leaderboard name and date. We delete the stored report, the inbox copy and the issue-tracker entry, or the leaderboard entry, within 30 days and reply to confirm. You can also ask what we hold about you or ask us to correct it the same way.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy from time to time. Changes will be reflected on this page with an updated date.

Contact

If you have questions about this policy, email gramaryegame@gmail.com or reach out via our Discord community.