Privacy

Updated 2026-10-09

Crosswire has no accounts and no ads, and gives players no cookies. This page says what it does keep, where, for how long, and how to ask about it.

Who is responsible

OÜ Trilevik, registry code 12337963, Rüütli 7, 51007 Tartu, Estonia. Write to privacy@playcrosswire.com about anything on this page.

What the game keeps on its server

The name you type for yourself when you start or join a room. The other players in the room see it. It is written into the record of each round you play, and into the day’s list of rooms started and joined.
The record of each round: the room code, its settings, which seat moved which control and when, how the gauges moved, and the result. This is how we see whether the game is fun and fair.
A short note from Solo when it is opened and when a shift starts and ends: counts and settings only, no name.

The game itself writes down no IP address and nothing about your device.

After 90 days, the names in these records are replaced with “Player 1”, “Player 2” and so on. The rest of the record stays, with nothing left in it that says who played.

The web server’s log

Like any web server, ours writes a line for every request: the IP address, the time, the page asked for, the browser’s description of itself, and the page that linked to it. These lines are used to find faults and stop abuse, and are deleted after 14 days.

Backups

The server is backed up every night, and no backup is kept longer than 30 days. Anything removed from the server is gone from every backup within 30 days.

Where it is kept

The server is a virtual server at Core Hosting, in a data centre in Tallinn, Estonia. The backups are kept by Hetzner in Falkenstein, Germany. Both are in the European Union.

Counting visits

To know how many people open Crosswire, the start page, Solo, the about page and this page each send one count to GoatCounter, at crosswire.goatcounter.com. GoatCounter is an analytics service run from Ireland, with its servers at Hetzner in Finland and Germany.

The count names the page by a fixed path, such as /solo, never by a room code or a name. It also carries the page’s title, your screen’s width and, if you came from another site, that site’s address.
As with any request, your browser also hands GoatCounter its IP address and its description of itself. GoatCounter uses them to work out the country, browser and system, and to recognise a repeat visit for up to 8 hours, in memory. It stores neither.
GoatCounter sets no cookies and stores nothing in your browser. Its own policy is at goatcounter.com/help/privacy.

What stays in your browser

So that you don’t have to type things twice, the game keeps a few things in this browser’s localStorage, on your device and nowhere else: your name, a key that puts you back in your seat if your connection drops, your sound and invite settings, and whether you have read Solo’s briefing. Clearing this site’s data in your browser removes them.

Everything the pages load (fonts, pictures, code) comes from playcrosswire.com itself. The only other address a page talks to is GoatCounter’s, for the count above. The only cookie the site ever sets is the owner’s login to the game’s dashboard.

Mail

A message to hello@ or privacy@playcrosswire.com is passed on by Cloudflare’s email routing to OÜ Trilevik’s inbox. We keep it for as long as we need to answer it and follow it up.

Why we keep it

To run the game, to keep it working and to make it better. That is our legitimate interest under the GDPR (Article 6(1)(f)). The records hold no more than a name you chose, and the names go after 90 days.

Your rights

You can ask to see what the records hold about you, have your name corrected or removed sooner, or object to it being kept. Write to privacy@playcrosswire.com with the name you used and roughly when you played. There are no accounts, so one name can belong to more than one person, and we may ask which room you were in. We answer within a month.

You can also complain to the Estonian Data Protection Inspectorate (Andmekaitse Inspektsioon, aki.ee).

Changes

When this page changes, the date at the top changes with it.