Privacy

What is stored

• Your email address, so you can sign in.
• What you fill in yourself: display name, handle, avatar and bio.
• The fandoms you pick, which shape your feed and timeline.
• What you say you want to keep out of your feed, and what you check first when something new drops (the two onboarding questions).
• Your lists: what you watch, read, build and play, and the status you gave each item. Board games and video games sit on a list of their own. A friend can see the games you own or are playing, and nothing else about them: not the ones you want or follow, and not how often or when you play. Magic sets work differently: a friend sees the sets you put on Playing it or Following.
• Which episode you are on in a series, and when you ticked it off. A friend can see how far you are, and nothing else about it.
• The streaming services you said you have, so we can tell you where something is on.
• Your reading position in a book, and the days you logged reading for your streak. A friend can see how far you are in a book you have on Reading, and nothing else about it. The comments you wrote on a book stay pinned to a percentage; a friend can see one only once their own bookmark reaches that percentage.
• The podcast channels you follow, and where you are in an episode. Those are yours alone: no friend sees them. The notes you left in an episode stay pinned to a moment; a friend can read one only once they are at that moment in the episode themselves, or have finished it. Before that, a friend who is in the same episode can see who left a note and at which moment, not what it says.
• The nights you sat down to build, and how many bags of a set you have finished.
• Your thumbs up and down on stories, and which stories you opened, so the feed can learn and fade what you already saw.
• Your private ratings and notes on a title, and the titles and sets you flagged as must-watch or must-build. Those are yours alone: no friend sees them.
• A taste profile we work out from your thumbs, so the feed gets better at guessing.
• Your friends, and the requests between you.
• Who invited you. Redeeming an invite makes the two of you friends straight away.
• The races and pacts you start with friends, and who joined.
• The game nights you organise: the dates you proposed, who you invited, and what everyone answered. On a night someone else organises, we keep the nights you were invited to and which dates suit you and which do not. Everyone invited to a night sees that grid; that is what a date poll is. Once the date is set, we keep the games you bring, and everyone invited to that night sees what is on the table and who brings it. You can take your own game off the table again until the night.
• Your XP, level and badges. Friends you accepted can see your XP total on the ladder in Games — nothing else about how you got there.
• Your best F1RST streak, and the day you set it. When your new best passes the best of a friend you accepted, that friend gets a line in their bell with your name, their old best and your new one. You can turn that off under Share with friends on your profile; then nothing is sent.
• The rounds of F1RST you played: which round, and how far you got in it.
• The challenges you sent to a friend and the ones you received: the streak that had to be beaten, and what the other player scored against it. Both of you can see that one.
• Record events: when a friend's F1RST streak passed your best. Only you see it, as a friend beating your record — the friend who did it never sees their own side of that line. Each one is deleted after 90 days.
• Titles you shared with a friend, and titles a friend has shared with you: which title and when, never anything you typed. Only the two of you see it, and only while you are friends. Each one is deleted after 90 days.
• Feedback you send, together with the screen you were on when you sent it.

Some of it also sits on your device, so the app opens with something on screen instead of an empty one. That copy holds your name, handle, avatar and a few hundred rows of your own lists, and it refreshes itself. Your F1RST streak is kept there while you play, and your best one is reported to the server, so a new phone does not lose it. Clearing your site data removes the copy on this device, and nothing is lost that the server does not already have.

Where it lives

In a Postgres database at Supabase, in the European Union. The app itself runs on Vercel. Signing in is handled by Supabase Auth, and if you choose Continue with Google, Google knows you signed in to G33K and tells us your email address, name and profile picture. Nothing more.

Who can see it

Only friends you accepted, and only the lists you share with them. Strangers see nothing, not even that you exist. That rule lives in the database itself, not only on the screen. The admin can see account rows in order to keep the app running and to answer your feedback.

Where the content comes from

• TMDB for films and series, and their posters.
• OMDb for IMDb ratings on a title.
• Brickset for LEGO sets, and their pictures.
• Scryfall for Magic card art in the F1RST game MAG1C.
• Open Library for books, and their covers.
• Pathé for which films are in Dutch cinemas, and from when.
• YouTube for trailers, played in a no-cookie embed.
• news sites for their public feeds, their articles and the pictures with them.

When our server asks them, it asks about titles and sets, never about you. Pictures work differently, and the old version of this page got that wrong: posters, covers, card art and the images next to news stories are loaded straight from those sources by your own browser. That means they can see your IP address, the same way any website you visit can. We send them no name, no email address and no list of yours, and we ask your browser not to tell them which page you came from.

G33K AI

G33K AI first tries to answer on its own. When it is unsure, it may ask Claude, a model from Anthropic, which acts as our processor and runs in the United States. What goes there is only your question and, where needed, public film and series details from TMDB. Never your name, email address, friends, lists or account id. Anthropic does not use it to train its models. Answers are kept for a day, without anything that points to you.

To keep a limit, we count how many questions you asked today; that number is gone the next day. The admin can switch the model off entirely, and then nothing goes to Anthropic at all.

How old you have to be

You need to be 16 or over to have a G33K account. That is the age Dutch law sets for deciding about your own data. We ask you to confirm it when you sign up; we do not check it, and we would rather say that than pretend otherwise. What does hold the door is the invitation: nobody gets in without one, so there is always someone here who knows you.

Cookies

Only the ones needed to keep you signed in. No advertising cookies, no third-party tracking.

Getting your data out, or deleting it

You can take your data with you. In Profile, under Your data, there is a button that gives you a file with everything stored about you: your profile, your lists, your private ratings and notes, your thumbs, your XP and your friendships. It is JSON, so another programme can read it, and it says inside what is in it and what is not. Nothing belonging to a friend is in it, and no invite code either — a code is a key.

You can delete your account yourself, from your profile (tap your name at the top of the menu). That removes your lists, your thumbs and your friendships, and it cannot be undone.

Two things it does not reach: your email address stays on the invitation list that decides who may come in, and on the invite you used to get here. Those do not hang from your account, so deleting it leaves them behind. Ask and they go too.

Rather have it all done for you, or want the two things above gone as well? Mail support@g33k.site and it is done within a month. You can also correct anything that is wrong.

Changes

If this changes, the date at the top changes with it, and the change shows up in What’s new inside the app.