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Privacy

BrainBreak is about giving your attention somewhere better to go, so collecting more than it needs would be beside the point.

On your device

Your games in progress, statistics, streak and settings are stored in your browser's local storage. They never leave your device unless you join the leaderboard. Clearing your browser data clears them, and you can erase them yourself from Settings.

If you join the leaderboard

There is no account. Joining stores a display name you choose plus a random identifier in a cookie that only the server can read. Your daily results are then saved against that identifier so a ranking can be worked out. No email address, no password, no profile.

What is never collected

  • Your name, email address or contact details.
  • An account — there isn't one to make.
  • Anything about how you play, tied to who you are. Your results stay on your device unless you join the leaderboard.

Advertising

BrainBreak shows ads supplied by Google AdSense, which is how it pays for itself. They are non-personalised unless you say otherwise. There is no consent pop-up here because there is nothing to consent to by default: ads are chosen from the page you are on and your rough location, not from a profile of you, and no advertising cookie or identifier is set.

If you would rather see ads picked for you, you can switch personalisation on in Settings. That lets Google and its partners use cookies or similar identifiers, drawing on your visits to other websites. It is Google's processing rather than ours either way: we never receive it, and it is never joined to your game results. You can turn it back off at any time.

You can turn off personalised advertising for your Google account at My Ad Center, and review how Google handles this data at how Google uses information from sites that use its services.

Ads never appear on the game screen itself — only once a game has finished, and below the content on pages that scroll anyway.

Product analytics

We use Vercel Analytics. It counts page views and a small set of events — a game started, a guess submitted, a result shared — carrying only the mode, the number of guesses and how long a game took. It sets no cookies, assigns you no identifier, and cannot follow you to other websites.

What is never sent: the words you guessed, the answer, your display name, your statistics, or anything you typed. Those stay in your browser. The events exist to tell us whether the game is any good, not who you are.