A few small values live in your browser's local storage and are never sent anywhere except to run the game: a random player id so a refresh rejoins you as the same player, the name you last used, your chosen reaction emoji, whether you muted the music or sound, and whether you've already been shown the walkthrough. Clearing your site data removes all of it.

A room is a row holding its id and status, plus the host's custom words if any. The game itself — the drawing, the guesses, the scores — lives only in the server's memory and is discarded once the last player leaves. Nothing about a finished game is written down.

We use Sentry to find out when the site breaks. In the live site it sends browser errors and a sample of performance measurements and request traces, along with a randomly generated session id (kept in your browser's session storage), your browser and version, and the page address. If an error happens, it also sends a recording of that visit from shortly before the error onwards, with all text and typing masked and images blocked. It does not receive your name, your drawings or your guesses. Nothing is sold, and there are no advertising or cross-site tracking scripts on this site.

None. The values described above use local storage, not cookies.

The game is meant to be family-friendly, but rooms are private and unmoderated — what appears in one is whatever the people in it draw and type. If a child is playing, please play with them.

There's no account to delete. Clearing your browser's site data erases everything stored on your side, and leaving a room ends the only copy of the game itself. For anything else, write to hello@sketcheese.com.

If this page changes, the date at the top changes with it. Carrying on playing after that means the new version applies.