Privacy Policy

The short version

• You can play everything without giving us a name, an email or a password.
• We create an anonymous account for you the first time you finish a game and submit a score, so your progress can be saved. It has no personal details in it.
• Signing in with Google is optional. It exists so your progress follows you to another device.
• We run Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity. Clarity records how you move through pages and lets us replay those sessions.
• We show no ads, run no advertising or ad-measurement tag, and sell nothing to anyone.
• You can delete your account and its data from your profile, or at weeklyarcade.games/delete-account/.

The rest of this page is the detail behind those points.

Who this covers

This policy applies to the Weekly Arcade website at weeklyarcade.games and to the Weekly Arcade apps for Android and iOS. The apps display the same website inside the app, so everything described here applies in both places. Where something is specific to the apps, it says so.

Weekly Arcade is operated from Dubai, United Arab Emirates. You can reach us at privacy@weeklyarcade.games.

Your account, and how you get one

The anonymous account

You do not sign in to play. The first time you finish a game and a score is submitted, we create an anonymous account for you automatically. It is a random identifier with no name, email or password attached, and it is what lets us store your scores, achievements and saved games.

An anonymous account lives in one browser on one device. Clearing your browsing data deletes it permanently and we cannot recover it, because there is nothing to identify you by. Signing in with Google is the only way to keep it.

We do not create an account when you merely visit, browse, or start a game. Only finishing a run does it.

Signing in with Google

Signing in is optional. It attaches your Google credential to the anonymous account you already have, so nothing is copied or migrated and your history stays intact. From Google we receive your email address, name and profile picture URL.

Your display name

If you do not choose a username we generate one for you from a fixed word list. You can set your own username, which is checked against a filter and can be changed once every 30 days. Whatever name is in effect is shown next to your scores.

What we collect

Things you give us

• Email address, name and profile picture URL, if you sign in with Google
• A username, if you choose one
• The contents of any report you submit about another player's username

Things your play produces

• Scores, leaderboard entries, and the game, time and date they belong to
• Achievements, experience points and in-game coins
• Saved game state, so you can pick a game back up
• Multiplayer ratings and records of matches you played, including your opponent and the result
• Daily streaks and play statistics

Things collected automatically

• Device type, operating system, browser and screen size
• Approximate location, derived from your IP address by our analytics providers, no more precise than a city
• Which pages and games you open, and in-game events such as starting or finishing a run
• Whether you are using the app or a browser
• Error and crash information

We do not collect precise location, contacts, photos, microphone or camera data. The apps request no such permissions.

Push notifications

If you turn notifications on, we store a device token so we can send them. Turning notifications off, or deleting your account, deletes the token. We use it only to send you notifications about the service, never to identify you elsewhere.

Analytics and session recording

We use two analytics tools, and both run on the website and inside the apps.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics records page views and in-game events, along with the device and approximate-location information described above. We use two Google Analytics properties: one is our main record of how the site is used, and the other is connected to the service we use for A/B tests. The same events go to both.

Microsoft Clarity

Microsoft Clarity records how you interact with a page - clicks, taps, scrolling and pointer movement - and lets us replay those sessions and view them as aggregate heatmaps. We use it to find broken layouts and confusing flows. Clarity masks text input by default, and we do not use it to read anything you type.

Microsoft may use Clarity data in accordance with its own privacy statement. If you would rather not be recorded, a tracker-blocking browser extension or a browser's tracking protection will stop both tools from loading.

Advertising: we do not do it

To be unambiguous, because policies of this kind are often vague about it:

• We show no advertising.
• We include no advertising SDK, ad network, or ad-measurement or remarketing tag.
• We do not collect or use an advertising identifier, and the apps do not ask for permission to track.
• We do not build advertising profiles, and we do not sell or share your data with anyone for advertising.
• We do not sell your personal information under any definition, for any purpose.

A Google Ads tag was present on the site until September 2026. It was never used for a conversion or for remarketing, and it has been removed.

Email

If you sign in with Google, we may send you occasional email about the service, such as a weekly recap of the leaderboards. We use Resend to deliver it, and your email address and display name are stored with them for that purpose. Every email has an unsubscribe link, you can turn it off in your profile settings, and deleting your account removes you from the list.

What other people can see

Leaderboards are public. When you submit a score, these become visible to anyone:

• Your display name
• Your profile picture, if you signed in with Google and have one
• Your score, rank, and the game it was for

This includes scores submitted from an anonymous account. Anonymous means we do not know who you are, not that your scores are private. If you would rather not appear on a leaderboard, do not submit a score.

In multiplayer, your display name and rating are visible to the players you are matched with.

Your email address is never shown publicly.

What is stored on your device

We use your browser's local storage and a service worker cache for:

• Preferences and settings
• Game files, so most games keep working with no connection
• Progress and scores made offline, held until they can be sent
• Remembering that you have already seen a game's intro page

This data stays on your device. Clearing your browsing data, or uninstalling the app, removes it.

Where your data is held, and who else touches it

Accounts, scores and saves are stored in Google Cloud Firestore and Firebase Authentication, and our service runs on Google Cloud Run. Data may be processed in the United States and elsewhere Google operates.

The third parties involved, and what each one gets:

• Google Firebase and Google Cloud - accounts, game data, hosting, push delivery
• Google Analytics - usage events, device and approximate-location data
• Microsoft Clarity - session recordings and interaction heatmaps
• Resend - email address and display name, to send email you have not opted out of

Each has its own privacy policy. We do not give your data to anyone else, and there is no other recipient.

Deleting your account

You can delete your account yourself, at any time, from your profile, under Settings. There is also a public page for it at weeklyarcade.games/delete-account/, including what to do if you can no longer sign in.

Deleting your account immediately and permanently removes:

• Your sign-in credential and account record
• Your email address, name and profile picture
• Your username, which is released
• Your saved games, achievements, experience and coins
• Your multiplayer ratings
• Your push notification tokens, on every device
• Your email contact record

Two things are kept, and this is deliberate:

• Leaderboard entries and multiplayer match records. Removing them would rewrite other players' rankings and match histories. They stay, but with your account gone there is nothing left to connect them to you, and they show as "Player".
• Analytics data already collected by Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity, which is not linked to your account and cannot be traced back to it by us. You can ask those providers directly to remove it.

We keep your data for as long as your account exists. Anonymous accounts that never recorded a score may be removed automatically after a period of inactivity.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:

• Access the personal data we hold about you
• Have inaccurate data corrected
• Have your data deleted
• Receive a copy of your data in a portable form
• Object to or restrict how we use it

Deletion is immediate and self-service, described above. For anything else, email privacy@weeklyarcade.games and we will respond within 30 days. We may need you to sign in to confirm the request relates to your own account.

Children

Weekly Arcade is suitable for all ages, but it is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. Because no personal details are needed to play, most children who use the site give us nothing beyond an anonymous identifier.

If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has given us personal information, email privacy@weeklyarcade.games and we will delete it.

Security

Data is transmitted over HTTPS and stored in Google Cloud with access restricted to what our service needs. We never see or store a password: sign-in is handled entirely by Google. No system is perfectly secure, and we do not claim otherwise.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy we will update the date at the top of the page. If a change materially affects what we collect or how we use it, we will say so on the site rather than only editing this page.

Contact

Questions about this policy or about your data:

Email: privacy@weeklyarcade.games