EthnoRanker
Privacy
This page describes what EthnoRanker stores when you play and when you contribute to world rankings. It also points to Cloudflare’s Turnstile terms, which we must reference because the live site uses Turnstile’s invisible widget.
Play stays on your device
Your ranking session, exclusions, favourites, and theme preference are saved in this browser (localStorage). You can play without an account. Clearing site data on your device deletes that local copy.
Optional ranking contribution
The first time a run automatically opens Results, the game may send one anonymous contribution so we can update shared averages. That request includes:
- female or male, and Groups-only vs full list
- the ordered profile ids at finish (best to worst)
- how many comparisons you made and when the run started
- a Cloudflare Turnstile token
We do not send click-by-click history, your email, a raw IP address, or your exclusion list. After pairwise win counts are added, the ordered list is discarded. Individual rankings are not stored.
At most one accepted contribution is kept per board per hashed network per UTC calendar day.
Country
Cloudflare provides a country code from your connection (CF-IPCountry). We store that code with the aggregate, not your IP. The daily cap uses a one-way hash of your IP mixed with a secret salt, the board, and the UTC date.
Who is on the site
While the site is open, the browser may ping the API about every 30 seconds so the homepage can show how many people are here and which countries they are connecting from. That ping stores only a hashed IP and a country code, and those rows expire after about 60 seconds.
Cloudflare Turnstile
Invisible Turnstile runs when a contribution is sent, to reduce automated uploads. Cloudflare’s processing of that check is described in the Cloudflare Turnstile Privacy Addendum. That addendum is part of how we use Turnstile on this site.
Cookies and similar storage
The ranking game itself does not use advertising cookies. Turnstile may use cookies or similar storage as described in Cloudflare’s addendum. Game progress and theme use localStorage on your device.
Later features
Accounts, paid Premium, and ads are not in this version. If they are added, this page will be updated.