Privacy
LAST UPDATED 10 AUGUST 2026
The short version
You can play this game without an account and without giving us anything. Signing in is optional. The main reason to do it is to keep your scores against your name across devices; it may also opt you in to occasional email from us, covered below.
If you never sign in
Nothing that identifies you is stored on our server. If you post a score, we keep the name you typed into the box, the score itself, and when it happened. That name is whatever you chose, and it does not have to be your real one.
Your theme preference and the list of scores you posted are kept in your own browser’s local storage, not on our server. Clearing your browser data removes them.
Your browser also holds a random id in a cookie, generated the first time you start a round. It contains nothing about you: no name, no email, nothing we could use to identify you. It exists only so we can avoid repeating a part you’ve already seen and track your day-to-day play streak. Clearing your browser data resets both.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics to see which pages get visited and roughly how a round of play unfolds, nothing beyond the aggregate traffic and usage numbers that come out of the box. Google Analytics sets its own cookies, separate from the ones above, and Google processes that data under its own privacy terms rather than ours. It only runs on the live site, never in development.
If you sign in with Google
Google tells us three things: your name, your email address, and your profile picture URL. We store those, plus the tokens that keep you signed in. We do not receive or store your Google password, and we cannot read your Gmail, Drive, Calendar, contacts, or anything else. The permission we ask for covers basic profile information only.
Your email address is used to recognise you when you come back. It is not displayed on the leaderboard, which shows only the name you play under. Depending on where you’re signing in from, it may also be opted in to email updates by default — see “Email updates” below for exactly how that works and how to change it.
Email updates
If you sign in, we can hold your email address to send you updates about the game — new parts, new features, the odd newsletter, things like that. It’s always from us, about this game, never rented or handed to a third party to send their own message through.
Where opt-in consent isn’t legally required before sending marketing email — which, as of this writing, is most places — a new account starts opted in, whether it was made with a password or through Google, and every email carries an unsubscribe link that works without signing in. Where it is required (the EU and EEA, the UK, Switzerland, Canada and Australia, currently), a new account starts opted out instead, and nothing is sent unless the box is actually ticked. Either way it’s a starting position, not a lock: check or change it any time in your account.
Advertising
There’s no advertising on the site today. If that changes, ad partners would receive what’s ordinarily needed to serve and measure an ad — things like a cookie or device identifier, the page being viewed, coarse location — never your name, your email address, or anything else that identifies your account directly. This section will be rewritten with specifics, and the date at the top will move, before that happens rather than after.
What we don't do
We do not sell personal data — your name, your email, anything that identifies you individually — to anyone. We don’t hand your email address to a third party to market to you directly. Aggregate, anonymised numbers (how many people played today, which categories are popular) are a different thing and may be used more freely, because there’s no one in them to identify.
Where it lives
Scores and accounts are currently stored in a Postgres database hosted by Neon, on a site hosted by Vercel. Both can see the data they store or serve in the course of providing that hosting. Which providers we use may change as the site grows; this section describes where things stand today, not a permanent commitment to any one vendor.
Deleting your account
Email hello@namethispart.com and ask, from the address you signed in with, and the account and its personal data will be deleted. That includes email preferences — deleting the account is itself a permanent opt-out, since there’s no address left to hold a preference about. We may keep a minimal record that the address was deleted, so a re-signup doesn’t silently reopen a channel someone closed on purpose, and whatever a longer legal retention requirement obliges us to keep.
Scores you posted stay on the leaderboard, but detached from you and showing only the play name, so removing your account does not rewrite other players’ rankings.
Children
This site is not directed at children under 13, and accounts should not be created by them.
Changes
We may update this policy as the site, its features, or how we use data change — new sections like “Advertising” above are exactly the kind of thing this covers. A material change moves the date at the top; continuing to use the site afterwards means you accept the update. We don’t individually notify every account holder of every change, though we may where the change is significant enough to warrant it.