Privacy policy

Who we are

Fively (fively.io) is a daily game run by João David Botelho, a private individual in Portugal, who is responsible for the processing described here (the “controller”). You can reach us at the email address we'll publish here soon.

In short

Fively has no accounts, sets no cookies and doesn't follow you around the web. Your progress stays in your own browser. Our server only keeps anonymous guesses and counts, so everyone can see how the others played.

What stays in your browser

The game saves in your browser's local storage: your progress and results for each day (from which your stats and streak are worked out), your settings (colour-blind mode, less animation, theme, language) and a random code that lets each browser's guess count only once per round. None of it is sent to us as such. You can delete it at any time by clearing this site's data in your browser; your stats go with it.

What our server keeps

Guesses: the date, the round, the guess and its points, stored with a one-way code made from the random code above, the date and the round. It makes sure a browser counts once per round, and it can't be used to link your guesses across rounds or days, or to you. They are kept to show how everyone guessed.

Anonymous events about how the game is used (a game started or finished, a round started, a result shared, the archive or practice opened), with the date of the challenge, the language and the type of screen (phone, tablet or computer). When a game starts, the dates of your previous and first game are sent too, so we can count how many people come back. No IP address, cookie or identifier is stored with them. Raw events are deleted after 30 days; only daily totals are kept.

Errors and problem reports: if something breaks in the game, the error message, the page, the version of the game and the name of your browser are sent so we can fix it, without IP address or identifier. A problem you report yourself is sent the same way, with the day and round on screen and the message you choose to write. They are deleted after 30 days.

Your IP address

Like every website, ours receives your IP address with each request. We use it only briefly, in memory, to limit abusive numbers of requests, and we don't store it.

Analytics

We count visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which doesn't use cookies and doesn't track you across websites.

Hosting

The site and its database run on Cloudflare (Cloudflare, Inc.), which processes requests on our behalf. Cloudflare may process data outside the European Union, with the safeguards the GDPR requires, such as the European Commission's standard contractual clauses.

Ads

Fively doesn't show ads at the moment. If it does in the future, they will come from Google AdSense, and Google and its partners will only use cookies to show and measure ads after you agree in the consent message shown on the site. You will be able to change your choice at any time. We will update this policy before that happens.

Legal basis

The anonymous statistics above don't identify anyone. Where personal data is involved, such as the IP address used briefly against abuse or an email you send us, the legal basis is our legitimate interest in running a working, secure game (Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR) or, for your emails, replying to you.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you can ask to access, correct or delete personal data about you, to restrict or object to its processing, and to receive it in a portable format. Because our server keeps nothing that identifies you, we usually can't link anything there to you; what's in your browser is entirely under your control. To use your rights, write to the email address we'll publish here soon. You can also complain to the Portuguese data protection authority, the Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados (cnpd.pt).

Children

Fively is not directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect any data from them.

Emails

If you write to us, we use your email address and message only to reply, and delete them once they're no longer needed.

Changes

If anything here changes, we'll update this page; the date at the top shows the latest version.