This policy explains what data we collect when you visit or play Street Peekaboo, how we use it, and your rights. Short version: we collect anonymous gameplay analytics — never linked to your identity, never sold, never shared with advertisers. If you sign in, we additionally store your email and the times you've played. That's it.
1What we collect
If you sign in: only your email address. We send a 6-digit code to it once to verify it's really you. We do not send marketing emails.
If you sign in and play: your handle — an automatically-generated name like swift-magpie-sydney (your email is never used as your handle) — plus the time you took to find Kooka, the city you played, and the date. This is what powers the leaderboard and your game history.
Anonymous gameplay analytics (everyone, signed in or not):
A random anonymous ID stored in your browser. It is not your email and is not linked to your identity. It exists so we can tell that the same browser came back tomorrow — for example, to measure whether players return the next day. It disappears the moment you clear your browser data.
How you use the site: visit count, time since your last visit, whether you're on mobile or desktop, and roughly how long the tab is open.
How each round went: how long it took, whether you found Kooka or ran out of time, which city the street was in, and where Kooka was hidden.
Where players look: while a round is active we record where on the panorama you are looking and where you tap. We store this only as a coarse direction, not pixel coordinates, and we use it in aggregate to figure out which areas of an image draw attention and where Kooka tends to be missed.
Which buttons you click on the landing page, and whether you choose to play again after a round.
All of the above is sent to Google Analytics and is stored against the anonymous ID — never against your email or handle. Your IP address is not retained.
2Why we collect it
The anonymous analytics exist for two purposes only:
Making the game better — figuring out which streets are too hard or too easy, where Kooka should be hidden, and whether new features actually help players succeed.
Research — we use aggregated, de-identified gameplay data (for example, what kinds of places players spend their search time looking at) to advance street-level computer vision research.
We do not sell this data, share it with advertisers, share it with marketing third parties, or use it to build profiles of individual people. If we ever wanted to do any of those things, we would update this policy and notify signed-in users at least 30 days in advance, and the change would only apply to data collected after that date.
3What we don't collect
We do not collect your real name, precise location, photos, or any other personal data.
We do not track you across other websites.
We do not retain your IP address.
We do not sell or share your data with advertisers or any third party for marketing.
We do not use the anonymous ID to look you up in any other database, including our own user database.
4Shared content
When you generate a challenge link or a score card from a round, your handle (and, on score cards, your spot time and the city) is included in the content you share. Anyone you give it to can see it. We don't post anything on your behalf — sharing is always something you initiate.
5Where your data lives
Account data (your email, handle, scores, and round history) is stored on AWS servers in Sydney. Anonymous gameplay analytics are stored in Google Analytics, with a copy in our own Google Cloud account so we can run aggregate queries. Google automatically deletes analytics events after 14 months.
6Third-party services
The 360° imagery is our own — captured by us, not supplied by a third party. The only outside services your browser touches are:
Pannellum — open-source library that renders the panorama in your browser. Runs entirely on your device.
Google Fonts — Google may receive your IP when fonts load.
Google Analytics — receives the anonymous gameplay events described in section 1, with IP anonymisation and advertising features turned off.
7Your rights
Sign out any time from the leaderboard panel.
Opt out of analytics by clearing your browser storage for this site, or by using a private-browsing window. The site works the same with analytics disabled.
Delete your account and all associated data — see Contact below, subject "Delete my account".
We respond to GDPR / Australian Privacy Act requests within 30 days.
8Cookies & storage
We use a minimal set of cookies and browser storage:
Local storage — keeps you signed in across page reloads, remembers your mute preference, caches your recent round history (signed-in only) so it loads instantly, and holds the anonymous analytics ID. Cleared when you sign out or clear browser data.
Google Analytics cookies — anonymous visit counting.
9Children
Street Peekaboo is suitable for all ages, but the leaderboard requires signing in with an email. We do not knowingly accept sign-ups from children under 13. If you believe a child has signed up, contact us (see below) and we will remove the account.
10Changes to this policy
If we add monetisation (subscriptions, sponsored streets) we will update this policy and notify signed-in users by email at least 14 days before changes take effect.
11Contact
We're based in Sydney, Australia. For all enquiries — support, deletion, child sign-up reports — email support@footpath.ai from the address you signed up with.