Privacy Policy
Last updated: October 21, 2026
What we collect
The Big Trivia Show has no accounts and doesn't ask for any personal information. Like most websites, our server keeps standard access logs (IP address, browser type, pages requested and the time) to keep the site running and secure. Logs are deleted automatically after 14 days.
Usage statistics
To see how the site is used, we keep our own anonymous statistics. They never leave our server and aren't shared with anyone. When you load a page or use a feature (Generate, Surprise me, Reveal all, Print, or an ad-free pass), we record:
- what was used and when, such as the category and difficulty you picked;
- the website that linked you here, if any (just its domain);
- your approximate location (city, region and country), looked up from your IP address on our own server;
- an anonymous visitor ID made by scrambling your IP address and browser type with a random key that is replaced every day and never saved, so we can count visitors without being able to recognise you, link your visits across days, or work out your IP address.
Your IP address itself is not stored in these statistics, and they use no cookies. The individual records are deleted automatically after 90 days; after that we keep only daily totals, like "40 visitors from Denver on October 21". IP geolocation is provided by DB-IP.
Advertising and cookies
We show ads from Google AdSense to keep the site free. Google and its partners, as third-party vendors, use cookies to serve ads based on your previous visits to this and other websites.
- Google's use of advertising cookies lets it and its partners serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the internet.
- You can opt out of personalised advertising in Google's Ad Settings, or opt out of some third-party vendors' cookies at www.aboutads.info.
- Learn more about how Google uses information from sites that use its services.
If you are in the European Economic Area, the UK or Switzerland, you'll be asked for your consent before personalised ads are shown, and you can change your choice at any time.
Ad-free passes
If you buy an ad-free pass, payment is handled by
Stripe, which receives your payment details
and email address. We never see your card number. We set one cookie,
adfree, holding your ad-free code so this device stays ad-free; it
isn't used for tracking.
Fonts
The site's fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, which receives your IP address when your browser downloads them.
Changes
If this policy changes, we'll update it here and change the date above.