Your privacy.

Ballpark It uses an essential, random browser cookie to save your game progress and personal statistics. We store guesses, scores, reference usage, completion times, and gameplay events in our database. No account, email address, or fingerprint is required.

Administrators use a separate, expiring authentication cookie. Rate limiting uses your anonymous ID or a short-lived hash of a network address for admin login protection. We do not sell personal information.

We use a private, self-hosted Umami dashboard for aggregate usage and gameplay analytics. It receives fixed acquisition labels, daily pseudonymous browser identifiers, and confirmed gameplay events. We do not send it raw IP addresses, email addresses, browser fingerprints, guesses, answers, or complete referral URLs. The dashboard retains up to 90 days of analytics. Browser identifiers are pseudonymous, not a guarantee of legal anonymity.

Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control signals opt your browser out of this analytics feed. Essential progress and score records still work. Recognized automated clients and authenticated administrator activity are excluded. The private dashboard requires a separately authorized administrator login; its access provider processes that administrator’s email for authentication.

Clearing cookies resets your browser identity but does not erase existing anonymous server records. Enable Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control to opt out of the private analytics feed. The supplied maintenance script supports deleting old events and expired rate-limit records.