Privacy policy

What stays on your device

When you finish or pause a daily round, we save your pins, scores, and streak in local storage so you can come back to the same device and see what you already played. We also store a random anonymous identifier (fartherle:aid) so game events from this browser can be de-duplicated. Unlimited rounds are not kept as a permanent score history in v1. We do not use this storage to identify you across browsers or devices, and you can clear it in your browser’s site settings.

What a share contains

A shared result includes the daily number (or a practice label), your total out of 500, five colored squares, an optional streak, and, once a rank is available, a spoiler-free rank line. It does not include the countries you pinned or the clues you saw.

What we count

When you play, we record these game events: starting a round, the score for each clue (not the country you pinned), your total score when you finish, a successful share or copy of your result, and whether you returned on a later America/New_York game day. We use these records, together with the anonymous ID, to count real players, completion rate, average score, share rate, and next-day return. We do not collect your name, email address, or IP address in plain text for this.

If you choose to join the leaderboard, we also store your anonymous ID, any display name you confirm, and the five countries from your first Daily result that game day so we can re-score it. Public boards show the display name and official total for the top 100, never the countries you pinned. Unlimited rounds are not ranked. Rate limits may briefly count a hashed network address in memory or a hashed key in the database; we do not store your IP address in plain text.

If you send a clue report, a leaderboard report, or other email, we keep what you write so we can look into it. Cloudflare hosts the site and processes the requests used to deliver it.

Google Analytics 4, when enabled, may set first-party cookies named _ga and _ga_ followed by a measurement identifier, which Google uses to measure visits; those are Google cookies, not Fartherle account cookies. If GA4 is not enabled, the gtag script is not loaded and those cookies are not set by this site. Cloudflare Web Analytics is also prepared in the layout; it is not turned on in this version, so its beacon is not loaded. If that changes, this page will say so.

Services currently configured: Google Analytics 4 is enabled. Cloudflare Web Analytics is prepared but not turned on. Google AdSense is reserved and is not loaded. A Google-certified consent management platform (CMP) slot is reserved in the site layout and is disabled by default. This list will be updated if advertising is turned on.

Advertising cookies

Third parties, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to this website or other websites. Advertising scripts are not loaded on Fartherle today. This section describes how advertising cookies will work if a future configuration turns ads on, and we will update this page if that happens.

Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.

You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings at https://www.google.com/settings/ads. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info. If we later work with other advertising networks, this page will name them and explain how to opt out.