Privacy

What this game keeps

A game about oversharing should be careful about what it collects. Here is all of it, in plain words.

Everyone in the cases is invented

Maya, Daniel, Rae, their posts, their photographs and every detail in them were written for this game. The pictures are drawings, not photographs. Nobody real is depicted, and nothing here is anybody's actual data.

Nothing connects to your accounts

There is no sign-in, no social login and no permission request. The game never reads, touches or asks for any account of yours. It cannot see your posts, because it never asks to.

What we record

• Your name and email address. Both are asked for before the first case. The email is there so a six-digit code can prove it is yours, and so your streak follows you to another device. Nothing else is ever sent to it.
• Your scores and which days you played, against that email, so the streak and the points are the same wherever you sign in.
• Anonymous totals: how many people opened the site, started a case and finished one, and which clues are commonly missed. No names in these.
• Your IP address in a security log, to spot automated abuse. It is stored as a one-way fingerprint rather than the address itself, deleted automatically, and kept apart from names and scores.

Cookies

One, and only after you sign in: a cookie that remembers it is you, so a daily game does not ask for a code daily. It carries no advertising identifier and no third party can read it. Your browser also keeps your progress locally, which never leaves the device unless you are signed in.

Who can read it, and the ranking

Netras staff can see a private list of players, ranked, with name, email, points, cases solved and days played. It sits on a private page that is not linked from this site, is not on this site's address, and needs an authenticator app to open. It exists so the prize draw can be run and so we can tell whether people are finishing the cases.

There is a public leaderboard, and your name and score are on it. It shows the name you gave, your points and how many cases you have solved. Nothing else: not your email, not when you played, not how long you took. Anyone can see it, including people who are not playing.

You only appear once you have finished a case. If you would rather not be listed at all, write to info@assurex.co and we will take you off it, or delete your account entirely, whichever you prefer.

Prize eligibility is decided by the domain of your email address. Anyone may play; the draw is limited to a named group, and the game says so rather than pretending otherwise.

Not sold, not shared, not advertising

No advertising, no analytics product, no third-party trackers, no marketing cookies, and no mailing list. Your address is used for sign-in codes and nothing else. Nothing is sold or passed on.

Your choices

If you would rather not be recorded, do not start a case. Reading the site records nothing beyond the anonymous totals. To have your name, address and scores deleted, write to info@assurex.co from the address you played with, and it goes. You do not have to give a reason.

Digital Detective is an awareness project by Netras, the cyber security venture of Assurex. A score reflects one invented case, not your security.