Privacy Policy
Effective 28 October 2026
Country Detective (spintheglobes.com) is a free geography game. There are no ads, no purchases, no chat between players and no tracking tools. This page explains exactly what the site keeps and why.
Playing without an account
Anyone can play without signing up. When you do, nothing about you is saved on our server. Your browser itself remembers a few settings so the game works the way you left it:
- your language (Korean or English) and colour theme;
- which countries you solved today (so they are marked on the globe);
- the last day you visited, so the visitor count counts you once a day. Our server only keeps the number of visitors per day.
These stay on your device. You can clear them at any time by clearing this site's data in your browser.
If you create an account
An account is only needed to save scores and appear in the ranking. We keep:
| What | Why |
|---|---|
| Email address (email sign-up only) | To log you in. It is never shown to other players or sent to anyone. |
| Password | Stored only as a one-way scrambled code (scrypt hash). We cannot read it. |
| Nickname | Shown next to your score in the ranking. Please use a made-up name, not a real name. |
| Google account ID and name (Google sign-in only) | To recognise you when you log in. In the ranking, the name is partly hidden (for example "J***n"). |
| Scores, number of questions and the date and time of each game | For your daily records and the ranking. |
A small login cookie keeps you signed in for up to 30 days. It is not used for anything else.
Language requests
If you use "Request a language", we keep the language you asked for, your message and, only if you choose to give one, an email address so we can reply.
Children
The game is made for children and families. Children can play fully without an account, and we encourage that. To create an account, a player must be 13 or older, or have a parent or guardian's permission. A parent can ask us to delete a child's account at any time (see below).
Who else sees data
- We do not sell, rent or share personal data with anyone.
- The site runs on Railway (hosting), which processes visitors' IP addresses to deliver pages.
- Fonts come from Google Fonts and some program files from cdnjs and jsDelivr. Like any website, these services see the visitor's IP address when the page loads.
- Links on country information cards (Wikipedia, UNESCO, Google search) open other websites with their own privacy rules.
Keeping and deleting data
Account data is kept until the account is deleted. Any player can delete their own account and all their scores at once: log in, open "My records", then choose "Delete account". Language requests are deleted once they have been handled.
Contact
For questions or a deletion request, use the "Request a language" button on the game page and write your message there (you can add an email address for a reply).
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new date.