Privacy

Last updated November 2026

DevOpsdle is a game. It collects as little as it can to run, and never sells your data.

If you play without an account

Your browser gets a random identifier in a cookie so your run survives a reload. We store that run (answers, hints used, score, timing) against the identifier. It is not linked to you, and you can clear it by clearing cookies.

If you sign in with Google

We receive your Google account id, email address and name. We use them to keep your account, results and settings, and (if you subscribe) to email you when a new incident fires. We don't get access to your Gmail, contacts, Drive or anything else.

Your email and Google name are never shown publicly. If you join the leaderboard, the display name you choose appears next to your scores, times and streak.

If you buy something

Payments are handled by Paddle, our reseller and merchant of record. Paddle collects your payment details, billing address and tax information under its own privacy policy; we never see or store your card. We receive and keep a record of what you bought (the plan or incident, dates and status) and a Paddle customer id linked to your account, so we can give you access.

Reports

Issue reports are stored with the page they came from, your account if you were signed in, and an email only if you typed one. Only the maintainers read them.

Cookies

Strictly necessary cookies only: your sign-in session, the anonymous run identifier, and short-lived cookies used during Google sign-in. Theme and draft answers are kept in your browser's local storage. The checkout is provided by Paddle and may set cookies it needs to take a payment and prevent fraud.

Ads

Free accounts may see a small ad under a finished explanation and in the page footer, never during an investigation. Members see none. Where ads are shown, the ad network may receive your IP address and the page you are on; we don't give it your account details.

Security

To limit abuse we count requests per network address for a few minutes. The address is stored only as a one-way hash and deleted when the window ends.

Service providers

Hosting (Vercel), the database (Neon), sign-in (Google), email delivery (Resend) and payments (Paddle) process data on our behalf to run the site.

Your choices

Unsubscribe from any email or in your account. Leave the leaderboard any time. Delete your account from the account page: your account, results, sessions, email subscription and purchase records are deleted immediately, and any membership is cancelled. Paddle keeps its own transaction records as the law requires.