Privacy

Last updated: September 26, 2026

The short version: you can play as a guest or save your progress with a free account. No ads, no third-party analytics, no tracking cookies, and we don't sell or share your data. Your answers to questions are only ever used as anonymous statistics.

Who runs this site

What Would It Take? is run by a small team in Slovakia. For anything about your data, email hello@whatwouldittake.app.

What stays on your device

Your progress, your settings and a random player ID are saved in your browser's local storage, so the game remembers you between visits. As a guest, that stays on your device, except the player ID described below. If you have an account, your progress is also saved with it. Clearing this site's data in your browser deletes the copy on your device.

If you create an account

When you save your progress, we store:

• your email address (from the sign-in link, or from Google if you sign in with Google),
• the display name and avatar you choose,
• your progress: level, XP, streak, badges, quest progress, your recent answer history and your settings, so it's the same on every device, and
• a sign-in cookie, which keeps you signed in on this device for up to 180 days. It's needed for the account to work, so it's not a tracking cookie.

We use your email only to sign you in. We don't send newsletters. Sign-in emails are delivered by our email provider, Resend. If you sign in with Google, Google tells us your email and first name; we don't get your password or anything else.

You can delete your account at any time in the game (Profile → Settings → Delete account). That removes your account, profile and saved progress immediately.

What we receive with each answer

When you lock in a price, your browser sends us:

• your random player ID (it isn't linked to your account, name or email),
• which question you answered, and
• your answer (a price, or "Never").

We use this to show how everyone else answered each question, and to make sure each player's answer counts once.

Usage counts and crash reports

So we know whether the game works and what people enjoy, our own server counts, per day, how many players visited and how many rounds, Daily Dares, shares and weekly chests happened. Each count carries only your random player ID (the same one sent with answers, not linked to your account), so we can tell how many different players there were and how many came back. If the game crashes, your browser sends us the error message, which screen it happened on, and your browser and system type (for example "Chrome · Android"). These stay on our server and aren't shared with anyone.

Your IP address

Like any website, our server sees your IP address when your browser connects. We use it, in memory only, to stop scripts from flooding the game with fake answers. It is never written to our database and is forgotten within 24 hours. Our hosting provider may keep standard server logs for a short time for security.

Where your data is stored

Our server is rented from OVHcloud and located in Canada, a country the European Commission recognises as protecting personal data to EU standards. We back up the database every night and keep the backups for 14 days, so data you delete is gone from them within two weeks.

What we don't do

No advertising, no third-party analytics or tracking tools, no tracking cookies, and no fonts or scripts loaded from other companies. We don't sell or share data.

Legal basis and how long we keep it

Account data is processed to provide the account you asked for (GDPR Article 6(1)(b)) and kept until you delete the account. Anonymous answers are processed based on our legitimate interest in running the game and keeping its statistics honest (Article 6(1)(f)) and kept for as long as the game runs. Usage counts and crash reports are processed on the same basis, to keep the game working; we keep only the latest 500 crash reports.

Your rights

You can see and change your profile in the game, delete your account yourself, and ask us for a copy of your data. You can also complain to your data-protection authority. Answers are stored only under a random ID that isn't linked to your account, so they stay in the anonymous statistics after you delete it.

Age

The game is meant for people aged 16 and over.

Changes

If this changes (for example, if we ever add ads or analytics), we'll update this page and the date at the top first. Account holders will be told in the game.