Privacy Policy

Uniko (“Uniko”, “we”, “us”) is operated by Happy Operators. This policy explains what personal data we collect through playuniko.com (the “Service”), why, and what rights you have over it.

1. Data we collect

Account data. When you sign up, our authentication provider (Clerk) collects your email address and, if you choose to sign in with Google, basic profile information from Google. We store your display name, plan (free/premium), and whether you appear on the public leaderboard (on by default for accounts; you can turn it off in your profile at any time).

Gameplay data. We store your daily results (which question you reached, whether you won), your current and best streak, and — only for friends-room collision checks — a normalised version of the answers you submitted. We never store or reveal your literal guesses to other players; rooms only show who has already answered a question, not what they said.

Guest play. You can play without an account. We then store a random identifier in your browser's local storage so your progress stays on that device, and keep your results under that identifier. If you later create an account on the same browser, that progress moves to your account.

Payments. If you subscribe to Premium, the payment is handled by Lemon Squeezy, which acts as merchant of record and processes your payment details, billing address and tax information. We never see your card details; we only receive your subscription status and a link to manage it.

Advertising and cookies. Free players see ads served by Google AdSense. Google and its partners may use cookies and similar technologies to show ads and measure their performance, and, where you consent, to personalise them based on your visits to this and other sites. If you are in the EEA, the UK or Switzerland, we ask for your consent through a Google-certified consent message before any non-essential cookies are set, and you can change your choice at any time from the “Privacy and cookie settings” link it provides. You can also manage personalised ads at adssettings.google.com and learn how Google uses data at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. Premium players don't see ads and don't load the ad script. We don't use any other analytics or tracking tools.

2. Who processes your data

We use Clerk (authentication), Convex (database and backend hosting) and Cloudflare(website hosting) as data processors. Lemon Squeezy (payments) and Google (advertising) process data under their own privacy policies as described above. These providers may store data outside your country of residence; each maintains its own security and compliance programme. We do not sell your personal data to anyone, ever.

3. Why we process it

To run the game (track your streak, validate answers, show you tomorrow's state), to operate the public leaderboard and friends rooms you choose to join, to manage Premium subscriptions, to fund the free game with ads, and to provide customer support if you contact us. We do not use your data for automated decision-making that produces legal effects.

4. Your choices and rights

• Accounts appear on the leaderboard by default, under your display name only — hide yourself anytime from your Profile. Guests never appear.
• You can accept or reject advertising cookies in the consent message, and change your choice later.
• You can change your display name anytime from your Profile.
• You can ask us to access, correct, export or delete your personal data by emailing legal@happyoperators.com. We'll respond within the timeframe required by applicable law (for EU/UK residents, generally one month under GDPR).
• If you believe we've mishandled your data, you can lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

5. Data retention

We keep account and gameplay data for as long as your account is active. If you delete your account (email us to request this), we delete your personal data within 30 days, except where we must keep records for legal or accounting reasons.

6. Children

Uniko is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect data from them.

7. Changes to this policy

We'll post any material changes here and update the date above. Continued use of Uniko after a change means you accept the update.

8. Contact

Happy Operators — legal@happyoperators.com