Updated September 14, 2026
Guest progress is saved in your browser. If you sign in, Clerk handles authentication and account information, including your email and any Google profile information you authorize. Convex stores your account identifier, game progress, results, friends, and profile choices so they can sync between devices.
A private admin dashboard shows aggregate player activity and puzzle statistics. Optional visitor reporting assigns a random browser identifier and sends recent activity times, puzzle dates, board types, guess and clue counts, and outcomes. It does not send movie guesses, names, or email addresses. If you sign in, that browser’s reported guest play is linked to your account to avoid counting the same games twice. Signing out starts a separate guest identifier. Your existing synced account results remain available to the dashboard as part of the service.
Optional visitor reporting and PostHog analytics respect the setting below and your browser’s Do Not Track signal. Guest counts represent browsers and may undercount people who opt out or overcount people using multiple browsers. Reporting uses local browser storage for the random identifier and a small retry queue; clearing browser storage removes them.
Your chosen display name, handle, avatar, shared results, and friend connections support the social game. Friends can see the results you choose to share. Accepting an invitation connects both players. Invite and party links grant access to their intended social experience, so share them only with people you want to invite. Party messages and reactions are visible to participants.
We use a separate ReelTrace PostHog project to understand game usage and improve the app. Events can include a pseudonymous account identifier, board type, scores, browser information, and actions such as viewing a leaderboard. We disable automatic click capture, session recordings, and heatmaps. Our event filter removes invitation links, URL queries, email addresses, profile names, and handles. Analytics respects your browser’s Do Not Track signal.
Vercel hosts the site, Clerk handles sign-in, Convex stores application data, and PostHog processes usage events. TMDB supplies movie information and images. Embedded YouTube trailers connect to YouTube when loaded. These services receive technical information needed to deliver their features, such as network requests and IP addresses, and may process data outside your country.
You can change profile and sharing settings in Friends, remove or block connections, and manage sign-in through your account menu. Clearing browser storage removes local progress but does not delete synced records. To request a copy or deletion of your ReelTrace account data, contact ben@popcorninbed.com from your account email. We may ask you to verify ownership. Deleting only your Clerk sign-in account does not automatically remove every saved ReelTrace record; contact us for full data deletion.
We keep account and gameplay data to provide the service until it is deleted or no longer needed. We do not sell your personal information. Questions about this notice can be sent to the contact above.