Sharper — Privacy Policy

Last updated 15 September 2026

Sharper is a general-knowledge trivia game. This page explains what information the app collects, why, and what it does not do.

What Sharper collects

• A display name you choose (up to 18 characters) — shown to other players on a challenge leaderboard, if you join or start a challenge. Solo play (the default "Play a round" mode and Daily Challenge) needs no name at all.
• A randomly generated player ID, created on your device when you join or start a challenge. It is not derived from your name, email, device identifiers, or any personal information, and cannot be used to identify you outside the app.
• Quiz scores and answer counts for each day of a challenge you take part in (how many questions you answered and got right, and your points total) — this is what powers the leaderboard.

What Sharper does not do

• No advertising and no ad-tracking SDKs are included in the app.
• No analytics or crash-reporting service receives any of your data.
• Your data is never sold or shared with advertisers or data brokers.
• The app does not access your contacts, photos, camera, or location.

Solo play and everyday quiz data

Your progress in solo play — questions answered, streaks, category accuracy, level — is stored only on your own device (local app storage) and is never sent to our servers. Uninstalling the app removes it.

Challenges

Starting or joining a "Challenge" sends your chosen display name, your randomly generated player ID, and your daily scores to our server so the shared leaderboard can work. This data is visible to everyone else in that same challenge (anyone with its six-character code), and only to them.

Challenge data is kept for as long as the challenge is active, and routinely cleared from our server roughly 60 days after a challenge's start date.

Where this is hosted

The challenge/leaderboard service runs on a server we operate directly, not a third-party analytics or advertising platform. As with any web service, our server records standard connection information (such as IP address and request timestamps) for security and abuse-prevention purposes (e.g. rate-limiting), in line with normal web server operation — this is not linked to your in-app display name or used for tracking.

Children's privacy

Sharper is a general-audience trivia app and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Changes to this policy

If Sharper's data practices change — for example, if advertising or in-app purchases are added in future — this page will be updated first, and the "Last updated" date above will change accordingly.

Contact

Questions about this policy or your data can be sent to brendon@dc3.co.za.