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What we keep, why, and how to delete it.

Last updated 10 November 2026.

The short version. You can play with no account. One cookie remembers which player you are, so your streak and your atlas are still there tomorrow. We keep your games, and nothing that says who you are: no name and no email. You can delete all of it yourself, at any time, from Settings in the game. We don't sell your data. Ads on this site come from Google, and you can control them.

This policy explains what we collect when you use this site, why, and for how long. "We" means Ayden Blayne, who runs Geodar.

The cookie that remembers you

The first time you open the game, we set one cookie in your browser, called wo_pid. It holds a random ID and a signature that stops anyone forging it. It lasts up to two years, though some browsers cap that sooner, and scripts on the page can't read it. It comes from this site and only this site reads it.

The cookie is how the game knows your streak and your atlas with no sign-up. The game can't keep them without it, and we use it for nothing else.

What we keep about your games

  • Your rounds. For each country you play: where on the globe you locked, how far off each lock was, how many clues you needed and the points you scored.
  • Your days and runs. Your score for each day, the days you've finished, your streak, and how far each endless run got.
  • Your atlas. The countries you've found.
  • When and roughly where you started. The date you first played, and the country your connection came from, as two letters such as CA. Our host works that out from your IP address and passes on only the two letters. If you arrived through a link with a code on the end, we keep that code, so we can tell which links bring players.

All of it is filed under the random ID in your cookie. We don't ask for your name, your email address or anything else that says who you are. We use what we keep only to run the game, keep it fair and improve it.

Once at least 20 people have finished a day, the game shows how the crowd did, as totals such as how many played and the average score. Nobody else can see your games.

In your browser

The game also keeps a few small settings in your browser's own storage, such as whether sound is on and which look you chose. They stay on your device.

Advertising

This site uses Google AdSense to show ads. We don't place them on the globe while a round is being played.

  • Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites.
  • Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and other sites on the internet.
  • You can opt out of personalised advertising in Google Ads Settings, or opt out of some other vendors' cookies at aboutads.info.
  • If you're in the EEA, the UK or Switzerland, a Google-certified consent message asks for your choice before personalised ads are used.

Learn more in how Google uses information from sites that use its services. Advertising cookies are separate from the cookie that remembers your games.

Hosting

This site runs on Cloudflare, including its database. Like any host, Cloudflare has to handle your IP address to deliver pages and protect the service, and it does so under its own policy. That may happen outside your country. We don't keep your IP address with your games. To stop one connection flooding the game, the server counts requests per address for a few minutes, in memory only, and then forgets them.

How long we keep it

We keep your games until you delete them or the game closes, because your streak and your atlas are built from them.

Deleting your data

You can delete everything we hold about you, yourself, at any time. In the game, open Settings and choose Delete my data. It asks you to confirm, then removes your days, your runs, your streak and your atlas from our server and clears the cookie in this browser. It can't be undone, and you don't need to ask us first.

You can also ask us to do it for you, by writing to support@playgeodar.com. We hold no name or email to find you by, so we may ask you to open the game in the same browser to show it's you.

Clearing your cookies on its own makes this browser a new player, but it leaves the old games on our server with nobody able to reach them. If you want them gone, use the button first.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, including under the GDPR, UK GDPR and CCPA, you may have the right to access, correct, delete or export your data, and to object to how it's used. You can also complain to your local data protection authority. Deleting needs nothing from us: the button in Settings does it. For anything else, reach us through support@playgeodar.com.

If the GDPR applies to you: we run the game you asked to play on the basis of our legitimate interest in providing and securing it and we use personalised ads only with your consent.

We don't sell your data for money. Ads work as described above, and the ad choices shown on this site are how you control them.

Children

Geodar is for people aged 13 and over, and nothing here is directed at children. If you believe a child under 13 has been playing, the button in Settings removes their data, and you can reach us through support@playgeodar.com.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it.