Privacy Policy

Last updated October 28, 2026.

Link the Flick is a daily movie-chain puzzle. This page explains what we store if you sign in, what stays on your own device if you don’t, how we count visitors, and what we never collect either way.

Playing without an account

You can play the whole puzzle without signing in. Your progress and the dates you solved are kept in your own browser’s local storage and are never stored by us. Clearing your browser data deletes them, and we cannot recover them. We do keep an anonymous count of games played, described in how we count visitors below, and it is not designed to identify you.

If you sign in later, the days you solved anonymously are copied to your new account so your streak survives the switch. That is the one moment anything from local storage reaches our database, and it only happens when you choose to sign in.

What we store if you sign in

• Your email address, used to sign you in (via Google, X or a magic link we email you) and to verify it’s really you.
• Your chosen name — a globally unique handle you pick. It is shown to other players on the daily leaderboard. If you share a chain, the page you share carries it too, and anyone with that link can see it without an account. Pick something you’re happy being public.
• Your puzzle history — for each day you play, the chain you built, whether you solved it, when, and how many times. This is what your streak is counted from.

We use a database and sign-in provider to store this. Your session is kept in your browser’s local storage so you stay signed in between visits.

How we count visitors

We keep a simple count of how the site is being used, so we can tell whether it works and whether anyone is playing.

Page visits. We count page visits without anything that identifies you.

What happens in a game. If you’re signed in, games are counted against your account. If you’re not, we count you anonymously, and that count can’t follow you from day to day.

When something goes wrong

We keep error logs so we can find and fix problems. They never contain your email address or your IP address, they are used only by us, and they are deleted automatically after a few weeks.

What we don’t store

We don’t use any outside analytics or advertising company. There are no outside analytics, no tracking pixels and no ad network here. We don’t store your IP address with your account, and we make no attempt to work out where in the world you are. Our hosting and network providers do keep their own short-lived record of each request, including the address it came from — that is how any website on the internet works, and we can’t turn it off — but it isn’t ours, and we look at it only to investigate abuse of the site.

Puzzles older than 30 days are deleted. Your own puzzle history is kept for as long as your account exists, because your streak is counted from it.

Sign-in providers

If you sign in with Google or X, that provider handles your credentials directly — we never see your password. They share your email address and basic profile details with us, and we use only the email. Their own privacy policies govern what they store about that sign-in.

Third parties

Movie and actor data comes from TMDB. Searching for a film or actor sends that search term to TMDB through our server; no account information is included in that request.

We use a hosting provider, a database and sign-in provider, and a network security provider. They hold or pass on what the site needs to work, and none is sent anything about you for any other purpose.

Children

Link the Flick is not directed at children. You must be at least 13 to create an account, or 16 if you live in the European Union. If you believe a child under that age has made an account, email us and we will delete it.

Deleting your account

You can delete your account at any time from your profile menu. Deleting your account removes your profile and your whole puzzle history immediately, including your streak, and cannot be undone. Deleting Your Data walks through the steps and says exactly what goes.

Questions

Reach us at [email protected].