Privacy Policy

Own the Court is a free browser game. You can play everything without an account: the game gives you a random guest identity (like Baller_423) and stores your progress in your own browser. The only things that reach our servers are your nickname, an anonymous random ID, and your game results. Signing in (Google or email) is optional — it only exists so your streaks and bests follow you across devices.

The game uses your browser's localStorage — not cookies — to make the game work. This data stays on your device and is never used for advertising or tracking:

• Guest profile — a randomly generated ID, your nickname, your best solo score, and your win/loss record.
• Game saves— the state of an unfinished Solo, Pass & Play, or Beat the Bot game, so you can pick up where you left off.
• Online room ticket — the room code and seat token of an active online match, so you can reconnect if the page reloads.
• Pending score — a finished solo score queued for submission if you were offline when the game ended.
• Preferences — your theme (light/dark) and sound (mute) choices, plus your cookie/ads consent choice.

This storage is strictly functional — it exists only so the game you asked for works. You can wipe all of it at any time by clearing your browser's site data for this website.

• Leaderboard scores — when you finish a Solo Run, we store your random guest ID, nickname, players used, and completion time so you can appear on the public leaderboard. Your nickname is visible to other players; the random ID is not tied to your identity in any way.
• Online match rooms — while you play Challenge a Friend, the room code, both nicknames, and the board state live on our server so the game can sync between the two of you. Rooms are deleted automatically about two hours after the last activity.

If you sign in with Google or email (powered by Supabase Auth), we additionally store your email address and a cloud copy of your game stats — streaks, best scores, and your guest profile — so they restore on any device. The sign-in session lives in your browser's localStorage, not in cookies. We never post, email, or share anything; Google sign-in only tells us your email address. To delete your account and its cloud data, email contact@hexhoops.com and we'll remove both.

We use Vercel Analytics and Vercel Speed Insights to see anonymous, aggregated statistics such as page views and loading performance. These two do not use cookies, do not track you across other websites, and do not build a profile of you.

We also use Google Analytics 4 to understand which games people play and how they find the site. Google Analytics is different from the two above: it can set cookies and assign your browser a random identifier. We run it under Google Consent Mode with storage denied by default, so until you accept, it collects only cookieless, aggregated pings and stores nothing on your device. If you accept, it may set analytics cookies and record your IP address, device and browser type, pages visited, and approximate location derived from that IP. It is not used to identify you by name, and we do not send it your email address or any account details.

You can change or withdraw that choice at any time using the settings below, or block it entirely with Google's opt-out browser add-on.

We sometimes advertise Own the Court elsewhere on the web. To see whether those ads actually bring anyone here, the site includes a Google Ads conversion tag. If you arrive from one of our ads and it is allowed to run, it can set a cookie recording that the visit followed an ad click.

It is used only to count visits and measure whether advertising is worth continuing. It does not read anything you do inside the games, and it is never given your email address or account details.

This tag needs advertising consent, which is separate from the analytics choice above. Where consent is required by law — the EEA, the UK and Switzerland — advertising storage stays switched off until you allow it through the consent banner, so the tag records nothing until then.

The game itself sets no advertising cookies. To keep it free we show ads from Google AdSense — but only if you accept them in the consent banner.

If you accept, third-party vendors, including Google, may place and read cookies, web beacons and similar identifiers on this site, and may receive your IP address, to serve and measure ads and — where you have allowed it — to personalise them based on your previous visits here and to other sites. Google's use of advertising cookies is described in how Google uses information from partner sites, and you can turn personalised advertising off at Google Ads Settings or opt out of third-party vendor cookies at aboutads.info.

If you decline, no ads are shown and no advertising cookies are set — nothing else changes.

The games are built on a database of NBA players — names, positions, career statistics, draft position, the teams they played for and the awards they won. Under data-protection law that counts as personal data about identifiable people, so it is worth setting out plainly what we hold and why.

All of it comes from publicly published professional records: the NBA's own public statistics service, plus publicly available season-by-season team histories. We collect nothing private, nothing about anyone's personal life, and nothing that is not already published by the league itself. It covers professional on-court activity only.

We process it on the basis of legitimate interests — running a free trivia site about professional basketball. The impact on any individual is minimal, the information is already public, and it concerns public figures acting in a professional capacity. The data is refreshed from those public sources on a weekly schedule.

If you are a player, or represent one, and you want to query or object to your inclusion, email contact@hexhoops.com and we will respond. We are not affiliated with the NBA or any team.

• Change your nickname any time from the main menu — pick anything non-identifying.
• Delete local databy clearing this site's data in your browser settings. Everything listed above disappears.
• Remove a leaderboard entry — email contact@hexhoops.com and we'll delete your score and nickname from the leaderboard.

The game collects no personal information from anyone, including children. Nicknames are free-form, so please don't use your real name if you don't want it shown on the leaderboard.

If we ever change what data the game handles, we'll update this page and the date at the top.