Privacy

Last updated 12 November 2026

In short: Forced Draw keeps only what it needs to run your games: your username, your games and your ratings. There are no ads, no analytics and no tracking cookies, and nothing is sold or shared. You can play as a guest without an account, and you can delete your account yourself at any time.

Who is responsible

Forced Draw is a hobby game run by one person, who is the data controller for the information below. To ask a question or use any of your rights, write to emmmetswe@gmail.com.

What is kept, and why

Your account (if you make one): your username, your password and recovery code (stored only as one-way hashes, so nobody can read them back), the profile picture you pick, and a login token for each device you're logged in on.
Your record: your Elo, wins, losses and draws in each mode, your results against each opponent, your last 30 rated games, achievements, tournament progress and medals. Your username, picture, Elo, record, rating history, achievements and medals are public: anyone can see them on your profile and the leaderboard.
Your games: the board, the cards, the moves, the nicknames of both players and the chat between the two players. Chat is only ever shown to the two players. A game, with its chat, is deleted 30 days after its last move (7 days for games between guests).
Notifications (only if you turn them on): the address your browser or phone gives us for sending you a notification. To deliver it, the notification goes through your browser's or phone's push service (for example Google, Apple or Mozilla).
On your own device: the game saves your settings, your guest id, your login and your achievements in your browser's storage. This never leaves your device except when you play online or log in. There are no tracking cookies.

No email address, real name or location is asked for. The legal basis is that this is needed to give you the game you signed up for (GDPR article 6(1)(b)).

Fair play

To keep the leaderboard fair, the owner can reset the ratings of, or block, an account that cheats. A blocked account can't log in, but you can still play as a guest.

Who else handles data

The game is hosted on Cloudflare, which stores the game data and, like any web host, processes your IP address to deliver the site and keep it safe from attacks. Forced Draw itself does not store IP addresses. The fonts are served from this site, so loading the game doesn't contact Google.

Your rights

Delete your account: open your profile, scroll to Settings and tap Delete my account. Your login, profile picture, ratings, record, match list, achievements, tournament progress and notification settings are deleted at once. Other players keep the result of games they played against you, but your name is removed from them. Your username can't be taken by anyone else for 30 days, while any of your old games can still be open.
See, copy or correct your data: almost everything is on your profile already. For anything else, write to the address above.
If you think something is wrong, you can complain to your country's data protection authority (in Sweden, IMY).

Children

If you're under 13, ask a parent or guardian before you make an account. You can always play as a guest.

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