Your data stays yours.

The short version

You can play every mode without signing up. We do not run analytics scripts or cross-site trackers. We do not sell, rent, or share personal information. The game stores your progress and theme preference in your own browser, and nothing else.

There are exactly two situations where data leaves your device: your browser requests the pages and images that make up the site, and you may choose to send us an email. Both are described below.

What stays on your device

FoodGuessr uses browser local storage, not cookies, to remember your game. Local storage is a small key-value store that belongs to this site in this browser. It is not transmitted to our servers. Two keys are used:

• foodguessr:progress:v1 — your streak, best scores, daily and Cuisine Match history, the countries and dishes you have collected, and the emoji summaries shown on your passport. This is what makes the daily game and the passport work across page loads.
• foodguessr:theme — whether you last chose the light or dark theme, so the site opens the way you left it.

This storage is strictly functional. It contains no name, email address, IP address, or advertising identifier, and it is never combined with data from other sites. Because it is essential to the game and to your display preference, it is used without a consent banner.

To erase it, clear site data for this domain in your browser settings, or use a private window. Clearing it resets your streak and passport. If your browser blocks local storage, the game still works for the current page, but progress will not be remembered.

Server logs & hosting

The site is served by a hosting provider. Like almost every web host, it may process standard request logs such as the requested page, the time of the request, a truncated or full IP address, the referring page, and the browser’s user-agent string. These logs are used to deliver the site, keep it secure, diagnose errors, and prevent abuse.

We do not use those logs to build profiles, track you across other websites, or serve ads. They are retained only for as long as the provider needs them for security and operations, and are then deleted or aggregated. Which provider is used, and where its servers are located, can be confirmed by emailing us.

All pages, styles, fonts, scripts, and dish photographs are served from this domain. The game does not call third-party analytics, font, map-tile, or advertising services at runtime.

When you email us

If you use the contact page, your email application sends the message directly to us. We receive whatever you include: your name, email address, and the content of your message. We use it only to read and reply to you, and to fix the issue you raised, such as a misattributed dish or a broken page.

Contact emails are kept for as long as needed to handle the conversation and any follow-up. We do not add you to a newsletter or marketing list, and we do not share the message with anyone except a service provider that helps us receive email. You can ask us to delete a correspondence at any time.

Please do not send sensitive personal information — health details, government identifiers, or anything you would not want a stranger to read. A corrections email only needs the dish name and the source that supports your correction.

Third-party links

Some pages link out to Wikimedia Commons, Natural Earth, or other reference sites. Those links open only when you click them, and the destination site’s own privacy policy applies from that point on. We do not embed third-party content that loads automatically.

Dish photographs are credited on the sources page. They are stored and served from this site; viewing them does not send your browser to Wikimedia.

Your choices & rights

Because the game has no accounts and keeps no server-side profile, most data is already under your direct control:

• Reset the game — clear site data for this domain in your browser.
• Reset the theme — toggle the theme, then clear site data, or remove the theme key.
• Delete an email — ask us and we will remove the correspondence.
• Ask what we hold — email us; in practice, the answer is usually “your message, if you sent one.”

If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or another region with comparable data-protection law, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, or object to processing, and to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority. We honour those requests for the limited data described on this page. Our lawful bases are legitimate interest in operating and securing the site, and your consent or request when you contact us.

We do not knowingly process data for automated decision-making or profiling, and we do not transfer personal data for sale.

Children

FoodGuessr is a general-audience game suitable for classrooms and families. It is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. The game itself collects nothing beyond the local progress described above. If a child sends us an email, a parent or guardian can ask us to delete it.

Changes to this policy

If the site starts using analytics, accounts, advertising, or any other service that changes how data is handled, this page will be updated before the change goes live. The date at the top always reflects the current version. Continued use of the site after an update means you accept the revised policy.

Contact

Privacy questions, data requests, deletion requests, general questions, and photo or fact corrections can all go to contact@foodguessrgame.com.

This policy is written to be read. If a sentence is unclear, tell us and we will rewrite it.