Unhinged Arcade is built so your camera never leaves your device. This policy explains exactly what that means, the small amount of data we do handle, and what you can do about it. Unhinged Arcade is run by the Unhinged Arcade team ("we", "us").
1. Your camera
- All body, face and hand tracking runs inside your browser using Google's open-source MediaPipe library. The tracking model files are downloaded from this website, not a third party.
- Video frames, images and landmark data are never uploaded to us or anyone else, and we don't record or store them.
- Some games show a snapshot of "the moment you got caught". That snapshot only exists in your browser's memory and is discarded when you leave the page.
- You can refuse camera access and play every game with the keyboard instead.
2. What we collect when you submit a score
Scores are only sent when you play in camera mode and choose a nickname. A submission contains:
- your nickname (which you choose; please don't use your real full name);
- the game, your score, how long the run took, and a few game numbers used to check the score is plausible (for example jumps, steps, poses matched, or which video you watched);
- a random run ID and the time of the run.
Nicknames and scores are public on the leaderboards. Daily leaderboards expire after 2 days. The all-time leaderboard keeps the best 1,000 scores per game, and the details of each run are deleted after about 400 days.
3. Technical data
- IP address: to stop abuse we limit how many requests one IP address can make. Your IP address is used as a short-lived rate-limit key that expires within about a minute, and it is not stored with your scores.
- Server logs: our hosting provider may keep standard request logs (such as IP address, browser type and the page requested) for security and reliability, under its own privacy policy.
4. Data stored on your device
We use your browser's local storage (not cookies) to remember your sound and controls settings, whether you've seen the welcome message, your nickname, your personal bests, and your calibration numbers (for example your left/right movement range or your neutral-face averages; numbers, never images). This stays on your device. Only the nickname is ever sent, and only when you submit a score. You can delete it at any time by clearing this site's data in your browser.
5. Cookies, analytics and ads
We don't set cookies and we don't use analytics, advertising or tracking scripts.
6. Third-party services
- Hosting: Vercel serves the website and runs our small score server.
- Database: Upstash stores leaderboard entries and rate-limit counters.
- YouTube: Straight Face plays videos in an embedded YouTube player. When that game loads a video, YouTube (Google) may collect data and set cookies under the Google Privacy Policy. YouTube never receives your camera.
These providers may process data in countries other than yours.
7. Sharing your score
The Share button uses your device's share menu or copies a link. That link contains your score and nickname, so anyone you send it to can see them.
8. Children
Unhinged Arcade is not directed at children under 13. Younger players should play with a parent or guardian, in keyboard mode or without submitting scores.
9. Your choices and rights
- Don't want anything stored? Play without submitting (skip the nickname, or use keyboard mode).
- Want a leaderboard entry removed? Email us with the nickname, game and roughly when you played. Because there are no accounts, we may not be able to verify that an entry is yours.
- Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct or delete personal data and to complain to your data-protection authority.
10. Changes
If we change how Unhinged Arcade handles data, we'll update this page and the date at the top. See also our Terms of Service.
11. Contact
Questions or requests: hello@example.com