Privacy notice

What we store

• Guest play: a random guest account (a generated username) and your games, scores and streak. A sign-in cookie lets us recognise your browser.
• If you register: your email address and a salted bcrypt hash of your password (we never store the password itself), plus your chosen username.
• Gameplay: each guess (the pin coordinates, distance, points and time) so we can show results and rank leaderboards.
• Product analytics: anonymous, first-party events for things like starting a game, answering a question, viewing a result or sharing (see the full list below). These never include question text, your guesses, your email or your username - only small categorical details like device type, which page, and (if you arrived from a link with UTM parameters) the campaign source.

Cookies and local storage

We use one essential cookie (cm_token) that keeps you signed in. It is HTTP-only, not readable by scripts, and not used for advertising.

A few small, non-cookie browser storage items support features you use directly: your cookie-banner choice, which campaign/referrer first brought you here (so analytics events stay consistent for your visit), and - only if you open a friend's challenge link - which challenge you are trying to beat. None of these are used for advertising or shared with ad networks.

Analytics

By default, CricketMap India sends anonymous usage events (like "game started" or "share clicked") to our own server only - no third party ever sees them, and no cookie is required for this. See the list of events we track in our analytics documentation, or ask us for a copy.

If the site operator has enabled it, we may also use Google Analytics (GA4) for aggregate traffic-source reporting. GA4 is third-party and only loads after you explicitly accept the cookie banner shown on your first visit - it never loads if you decline, and never loads at all if the operator has not configured it.

Public information

Your username, score, accuracy and completion time appear on the leaderboards. A shared result link shows only your username, date, score and streak - never your email.

Third parties

The map tiles are loaded from an OpenStreetMap-compatible tile server. Like any website image, your browser's request tells that server your IP address and which part of the map you are viewing. Our web server and rate limiter also see your IP address; it is used only to keep the service available and secure, and is not stored in the game database.

If you share a result through WhatsApp or another app, that app's own privacy policy applies to the message.

Your choices

You can change your username in your profile. To have your account and game history deleted, or to ask what we hold about you, contact the operator of this site.