Privacy

The short version

Cram! is a free daily game. There are no accounts, no sign-in and no cookies. Your progress, streaks and stats live in your own browser. The only thing we keep on our side is an anonymous score line for the "Beat 64%" comparison, which cannot be traced back to you. We use Cloudflare's cookieless analytics to count visits. Ads will come later, and this page will say so when they do.

What stays on your device

When you play, your browser saves a few things so the game works from day to day: today's and yesterday's progress in each game (where you put each item, your rounds and times), your Rush and Snug streaks, your personal stats (days played, best scores and times, longest streaks and the like), your sound settings, a few small flags (whether you have seen the first-play hints or the "add to home screen" reminder), and a random player ID, made the first time you visit.

All of it is stored in your browser's own storage, on your device. We do not see it, and it never leaves your device except for the score line described next. Clearing your browser's site data for playcram.com erases all of it, streaks included, and there is no way for us to restore it, because we never had it.

The anonymous score line

When you finish a Rush day or solve a Snug bag, your browser sends us one small message: your random player ID, which game, the date, and your score or your solve time (for Snug, together with that day's difficulty number). We store that as one line in a database and use it for one thing: to tell you and other players how a result compares ("Beat 64%", "Faster than 64% of solvers"). While the game is new, the comparison also counts a simulated starting crowd, which fades out as real results arrive. We keep those lines so the comparison keeps working.

They contain no name, no email, no account, no IP address, no device details and no cookie. The player ID is a random string that exists only in your browser, so a line cannot be matched to a person. A peeked day, free play, a replay or an unfinished day sends nothing.

Analytics

We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to see how many people visit, which pages they open, roughly where in the world they are, what kind of device they use and how fast pages load. It is cookieless: it stores nothing in your browser, does not fingerprint you, and does not follow you across days or across sites. It gives us counts, not people.

Hosting

The site is served by Cloudflare. Like every web host, Cloudflare handles each request your browser makes (the page, the day's puzzle file, the score line) and keeps the short-lived technical logs a host keeps to run and protect a site; those are governed by Cloudflare's privacy policy. We do not use those logs to identify players.

Ads

There are no ads on Cram! today. When ads start, this section will change to say which ad network we use, what it sets in your browser and how to opt out, and the date at the top of this page will change with it.

Children

Cram! is a game for everyone, and it is not aimed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, children included: the site has no accounts, no names, no chat and no messages. If you are under 13, ask a parent before you play. If you believe a child has sent us personal information (for example by email), write to us and we will delete it.

Email

If you write to [email protected], we keep your message and your address for as long as we need them to reply and to remember what we talked about. Our mail is handled by Google (Gmail). We never add you to a list.

Your choices

Everything about your play lives in your browser, so your browser's own tools are the controls: clear the site's data to start over, or use a private window to play without saving.

If you want the score lines tied to your player ID removed from our database, send the ID (it is in your browser's storage for playcram.com, under the key cram.player) to [email protected] and we will delete them. We do not respond to "Do Not Track" signals, because we do not track you in the first place.

Where the data lives

Our servers and database run on Cloudflare's network, operated by a US company; the score lines may be stored in the United States or elsewhere on that network. We are based in the United States. If you play from elsewhere, the law where you live may give you rights over data about you; with nothing on our side that identifies you, there is little to exercise them on, but you can always write to us.

Changes to this page

When something changes in what the site does with data, this page changes with it and the date at the top moves.

Contact

[email protected]. Cram! is run by an independent developer based in Georgia, USA.