A little privacy goes a long way.
A game needs a nickname. It doesn’t need your life story.
When you play
No account, email address, or persistent player identifier is required. A nickname, team and score are stored temporarily in the live game room. Your phone keeps a rejoin token in sessionStorage so you can reconnect to that game. It expires when the game ends. We do not set player cookies or use localStorage on player pages.
When you host
A random, anonymous host cookie remembers which boards belong to your browser for up to a year. It is set only when you create, edit, claim or host a board. Our database stores a hash of this identifier, not the original value. Clearing your browser’s cookies can remove your access to your boards.
When a game closes
Round deletes temporary player data (nicknames, team names, scores) from the servers and storage it controls when a game closes, normally ten minutes after it ends or after three hours without activity. Data may still briefly appear in platform logs, network caches or on players’ own screens and devices, outside Round’s control.
What we keep
Boards stay until their owner deletes them. We keep aggregate game statistics such as player count, duration and clues played, associated with an anonymous host hash. These summaries contain no nicknames, team names or player identifiers. Generation limits use salted hashes of IP addresses, never raw addresses in our application database.
AI and service providers
If you ask AI to make a board, your topic or pasted notes are sent to Anthropic. Avoid pasting private or sensitive information. Hosting and storage use Vercel, Cloudflare and Neon when configured for production. No third-party analytics, advertising pixels, widgets or remote fonts are used on join or player pages.
Your choices
You can delete a board from its editor, make it private, or move ownership to another device using a one-time link. A board has one owner at a time. For concerns about shared content, use Report this board on its board page.