Hot Dice / Privacy
Privacy, specifically.
Hot Dice is a multiplayer dice game from Effective Current, Inc., published as uu3.dev. This page describes exactly what the game and its server handle. It is written from the code, and it names the things that are kept as well as the things that are not.
There is no account
Hot Dice has no sign-up, no login, no password, and no email address. You type a display name and you are in. That name is the only thing you tell us about yourself, and you can make it anything you like.
What the game sends while you play
To run a match, the app sends your display name, a room code, and the moves you make to the Hot Dice game server over an encrypted connection. Your display name is shown to the other players in your room — that is what it is for. Nothing else about you or your device is sent.
What stays on your device
The app remembers three things locally so a relaunch can put you back in your seat: your display name, the room code you were in, and a random player identifier the server generated for that game. Leaving a room clears the room code and the identifier. Deleting the app removes all of it.
The leaderboard, and how long it lasts
Games played through matchmaking on the website are recorded on a public leaderboard: a display name, a number of wins, and a number of games. Games played in the apps through a room code are not recorded there.
A leaderboard row is deleted automatically after 90 days without a game. It is not linked to an account, an email address, or a device, because none of those exist. If you want a row removed sooner, ask — see support — and tell us the exact display name.
Game events we record
The server records gameplay events — a game started, a turn busted, a game finished — to find bugs and understand how the game plays. These records use a random identifier generated for that single game and never include your display name. They are kept for 30 days and then deleted.
Server logs
Like almost every web server, ours writes request logs that include the IP address the request came from. These exist to diagnose outages and abuse. They roll over automatically and are not used to build a profile of you, not combined with your display name, and not shared.
What we do not do
No advertising. No ad networks. No analytics SDKs. No crash-reporting services. No attribution or marketing SDKs. No Game Center, no iCloud, no in-app purchases. No third-party code of any kind is bundled in the apps — they connect to exactly one server, ours, and nowhere else. We do not track you across other apps or websites, and the app declares this to Apple as "not used to track you." We do not sell or share data with advertisers or data brokers, because we do not collect anything to sell.
Children
Hot Dice is not directed to children and collects no personal information from anyone, so there is no children's profile to maintain. Please note that display names are visible to the other players in a room, and on the website's leaderboard, so it is worth choosing one that is not a real name.
Changes and contact
If what the game does changes, this page changes with it and the effective date above moves. Questions, corrections, and deletion requests: dallas@effectivecurrent.com.