Temporary room.
Not a permanent profile.

What the game temporarily stores

• Your chosen display name, room membership, answers, votes, score, adult confirmation, rules version, and device session.
• Photos you upload for Spark rounds or the Round 4 wildcard.
• Private Spark requests and whether the photo owner accepted or declined.
• Basic room-health events such as joins, phase changes, photo readiness, reports, and host recovery.

What the game does not request

• No real name, email address, phone number, address, contact list, or permanent player account is required to play.
• No GPS or other precise location coordinates.
• No advertising profile and no sale of party-room data.
• Host Diagnostics never displays answer text, photo contents, private Spark choices, or location.

Cookies and this device

An essential, secure session cookie reconnects your phone to its room for up to 24 hours. A random device identifier and the current rules-acceptance version are kept in local browser storage. Neither is intended to identify you outside Crossing Sparks.

Photos, reports, and moderation

Photos are displayed anonymously on the TV. Spark reveals a player’s chosen display name only through the private connection flow. Pass stays private. A reported Spark photo is immediately hidden from the room. The private owner moderation queue may display the reported image and temporary room code so the report can be reviewed. A moderator may remove the image or store a one-way hash of the browser device identifier for a temporary 30-day block.

Beta feedback

The optional beta feedback form stores the note, category, reference code, optional room code, optional game stage, and optional reply email for up to 90 days. Feedback is visible only in the private owner dashboard and a notification copy is sent to feedback@crossingsparks.com through the configured transactional email provider. Do not submit photos, explicit content, or someone else’s personal information.

Incident alerts

Repeated technical failures, rooms that remain in one active stage for more than ten minutes, and photo safety reports may send a deduplicated alert to the private owner inbox. Alerts contain privacy-safe event totals and may include the temporary room code, game stage, route label, and status code. Alert emails never include player names, answer text, uploaded images, device identifiers, private Spark choices, raw IP addresses, or GPS coordinates.

Deletion and retention

The host can choose End Party + Erase Room to remove the room immediately. Otherwise, rooms inactive for 24 hours are queued for automatic cleanup during application maintenance. Cleanup removes photos, answers, votes, scores, display names, sessions, reports, and private Sparks. A short-lived room-code tombstone may remain for up to seven days solely to prevent an erased code from reopening. Separate anonymous game statistics are retained for up to 180 days, daily aggregate counts for up to 365 days, privacy-safe operational events and incident-alert delivery records for up to 30 days, and beta feedback for up to 90 days.

Anonymous usage analytics

Crossing Sparks counts rooms opened, games started and completed, participant and audience seats, photo uploads, Spark taps, accepted connections, reports, rejoins, host recovery, and technical failures. Automated reliability-test traffic is tagged and excluded from primary usage charts. These statistics do not contain player names, answers, photos, device identifiers, room codes, or private Spark choices.

Website traffic totals

The game website and marketing website also count page views by UTC day and approximate country. These totals are page views, not unique visitors. This first-party measurement uses no analytics cookies or persistent identifiers and stores no IP address, full URL, room code, query string, player data, or referrer. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control disable it; known bots and owner administration pages are excluded. The owner can view aggregate totals in a private dashboard. Game-site daily totals are retained for up to 365 days. Marketing-site daily totals are retained for up to 365 days and removed on subsequent recording activity. The marketing website’s existing Meta Pixel measurement is separate.

Coarse regional data

For aggregate usage reporting, Crossing Sparks stores the approximate country, region, and city supplied by the hosting network when a TV opens a room. It does not store the underlying IP address or request GPS. Network-derived location can be missing or inaccurate and is visible only in the private owner dashboard.

Your controls

You can remove your Spark photo and its votes, leave the room, report a displayed Spark photo, or ask the host to end and erase the entire party. For help, contact hello@crossingsparks.com.