Privacy policy

Play without an account

You can write and host a game with no account. The night, player names, and scores then live in this browser on this computer. We do not receive that data.

Clearing this site’s data in your browser deletes that local game.

Optional Google sign-in

If you sign in with Google, we receive the name, email address, profile photo, and account id Google sends us. We use that to recognize you and to save quizzes to your account. This sign-in does not read your Gmail, Drive, or other Google data.

Signing in sets a session cookie so you stay signed in for about 30 days, or until you sign out.

Pubquis’s use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Saved quizzes

Quizzes you save while signed in are stored on our servers: the title, questions, answers, and any image links you paste. Each account can keep one saved quiz. You can update or delete it. There is no public gallery.

You can delete a saved quiz from the your quizzes.

Phone names

A closest-number round stores the player names the host typed, and the numbers those phones send, on our servers until that round is replaced. Picture and song rounds are different: phones buzz with a name, and that name passes through a live connection so the host can see who buzzed. We do not save those buzz names in the quiz.

Question images

We do not accept file uploads. If you paste a public image link, that URL is stored with the question so the board can show it. For some hosts, such as Google Drive or Dropbox, the app may fetch the image through our server so it can display.

Anyone who can see the board can see those images. Do not paste private files.

Cookies and local storage

Pubquis uses:

• Browser storage for the board and live scores on this device
• A session cookie if you sign in with Google

We do not use advertising cookies or a marketing pixel.

Audience and performance

We use Vercel Web Analytics and Speed Insights to see which pages are visited and how fast they load. Those tools do not set cookies and do not collect names, emails, or other personal details.

Who else sees data

We use Google for sign-in, and hosting and database providers to run the app, store saved quizzes, carry closest-number answers, and pass picture-round buzzes between phones and the host. They process data only to provide those services. We do not sell your information, and we do not use it for ads.

How long we keep it

Local game data stays until you clear it. Saved quizzes stay until you delete them. The sign-in cookie expires after about 30 days, or when you sign out.

Children

Pubquis is meant for a family room. Google sign-in follows Google’s own age rules. Player names and questions you type are stored on this device, and with your quizzes if you sign in, so keep children’s details out of the board if you do not want them saved.

Your choices

• Play and host without signing in
• Delete saved quizzes in the quiz editor
• Sign out from the account menu
• Clear this site’s data in your browser to wipe the local board and scores

Changes

If this policy changes, we will update this page with a new date.

Contact

Privacy questions: hello@pubqu.is. More ways to reach us on the contact page.