Privacy

While a game is on

The server holds the room: the names you typed, your answers and the judge’s verdicts, so every phone in the game can show them. It keeps a copy on disk so that a restart doesn’t end the game.

A room is deleted ten minutes after its last player leaves.

The judge

Answers are judged by Claude, an AI model made by Anthropic. The server sends it the category and the round’s answers, without names. Anthropic’s privacy policy covers what it receives.

After a game

A transcript of every finished game is kept to help improve the judges: the categories, the answers, the verdicts and the scores. Players appear in it as P1, P2 and so on, never by name, though anything typed into an answer is kept as it was typed. Transcripts are deleted after 90 days.

On your device

Your browser keeps your seat in the game, your half-written answer, your light or dark choice and whether the judge’s voice plays, in its own storage on your device. Clearing this site’s data removes them. Rankle sets no cookies.

Counting

Page visits are counted by Cloudflare Web Analytics, which uses no cookies and doesn’t follow you to other sites: it reports which pages were opened, which site linked here, and roughly where and on what kind of device.

The game server counts, per day, how many rooms were made, how many games started and finished, how far they got, which judges were chosen, and whether players joined on a phone or a computer. These are totals: they name nobody and hold no answers or addresses.

Internet addresses

To stop one connection starting endless rooms, the server counts rooms by internet address. That count lives in memory for an hour and is never written down. The hosting provider, Railway, may keep standard request logs of its own.

Questions

Write to skremis.dev@gmail.com, including the room code if it’s about a particular game.