Privacy notice

Last updated October 28, 2026

The short version: FindTrivia has no accounts, no ads and no analytics or tracking. Your location is rounded on your device before it is used, and is never stored on our servers. We only keep what you choose to send us through a form.

Your location

• We never ask for your location when a page loads. Your browser asks only after you tap “Use my location”. If you allowed it before, the browser may refresh it quietly on your next visit.
• Before your location is saved or sent anywhere, your browser rounds it to a grid of about one mile (0.02° of latitude and longitude). Our server only ever receives the rounded point.
• The server uses that point to find nearby games for that one request and then forgets it. It is not stored, not logged and never put in a web address.
• If you type a ZIP code or town instead, that is sent to find games. Links you share contain only the ZIP code or town, never coordinates.

What is stored on your device

To remember where you searched from, the site keeps two items in your browser's local storage. They never leave your device except as described above.

• findtrivia.location: the rounded point, the place name shown (such as “Near Hartford”), whether it came from your device or a typed ZIP or town, and when it was saved. A device location is forgotten after 30 days; a typed ZIP or town stays until you tap “Forget”.
• findtrivia.location-denied: set if you declined location access, so we never try again by ourselves.

To clear them, tap “Forget” next to “Near …” on the search box, or clear this site's data in your browser's settings.

Cookies

We only use cookies the site needs to work: an encrypted session cookie and an XSRF-TOKEN cookie that protects forms from cross-site request forgery. There are no analytics, advertising or social media cookies.

Ads

There are no ads on FindTrivia right now. If we add them, they will never change the listings, they will always be labelled, and this notice will say who serves them and how to opt out.

Maps

Maps load only when you open one. Your browser then downloads map images from OpenStreetMap's tile servers (tile.openstreetmap.org), which tells the OpenStreetMap Foundation your IP address and the area you are looking at, under the OpenStreetMap Foundation privacy policy. Every map has a list of the same places, so you never need to open one.

Submissions and messages

When you add a listing, report a change or send a message, we keep what you enter: your name, email address and phone number if you give them, the listing details and your message. We use them only to review your submission, ask you about it and tell you when it is live. Company contacts may also get a short monthly email asking whether their listings are still accurate.

• We never publish your contact details, sell them or add you to a mailing list.
• The receipt we email after a submission is a fixed message that contains nothing you typed, and we send at most one per address every 24 hours.
• To spot abuse, we store a keyed hash of your IP address with each submission, never the address itself, and delete the hash after 30 days.
• If we turn down a submission, we delete its contact details 180 days later. For approved listings we keep them so we can check the listing with you later; ask us at any time to delete them.
• The forms also use a hidden spam-trap field and limits on how often one connection can send them.

Bot checks (Cloudflare Turnstile)

We may turn on Cloudflare Turnstile on our forms to tell people from bots. When it is on, the form pages load it from Cloudflare, which processes your IP address and information about your browser to run the check, under Cloudflare's Turnstile privacy addendum. It does not run on any other page.

Email

Our emails (receipts, “your listing is live” notices and replies) are delivered by an email delivery provider, which handles your email address and the message only to deliver it.

Server logs and backups

Like most websites, our web server logs each request (IP address, time, page and browser type) for security and troubleshooting. The logs are rotated automatically: older entries are overwritten as new ones arrive, and we do not archive them or use them to profile anyone. The visitor location described above is never written to them. Our database, which includes submissions, is backed up nightly to secure off-site storage, and old backups are deleted on a rolling schedule.

Your choices and rights

You can ask what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. Use the contact form. We will reply within 30 days. FindTrivia is not aimed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect their information.

If this notice changes, the date at the top will change too.