Privacy

Last updated 31 October 2026

Daily Past is a free daily history quiz. We collect as little as possible. This page explains what happens to your data when you play.

Who is responsible

Daily Past is run by Martin Gaffron, Sweden. Questions about your data: hello@dailypast.com.

Saved in your browser

Your games, stats and streak, your sound setting and your cookie choice are saved in your own browser (local storage). They never leave your device and we can't see them. Clearing your browser data deletes them.

Google Analytics, only if you accept

If you click "Accept" in the cookie banner, we use Google Analytics to understand how many people play and how the game is used. It sets cookies (named _ga…) and sends Google:

• pages viewed, and when you finish a puzzle (puzzle number, score, win or loss) or share a result
• a random identifier for your browser, your device and browser type, and your approximate location (country or city) derived from your IP address

We have turned off advertising features, so the data is not used to show you ads. Google Ireland Ltd processes the data for us and may transfer it to the United States under the EU–US Data Privacy Framework. The data is kept for up to 14 months.

The legal basis is your consent. If you click "Decline", nothing is loaded and no cookies are set. You can change your choice at any time under Cookie settings in the game's help (the ? button); declining after accepting also removes the Google Analytics cookies.

Hosting

The site is served by Cloudflare. To deliver pages and protect the site against abuse, Cloudflare processes technical data such as your IP address for a short time. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in running a secure website.

Links to other sites

Cards link to Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, and the game links to X, Instagram, YouTube and Buy Me a Coffee. Nothing is loaded from those sites until you click a link; after that, their own privacy policies apply.

Your rights

You can ask us for access to, correction of or deletion of personal data, and object to its use, by emailing hello@dailypast.com. Because game data stays in your browser, the only data we could hold about you is in Google Analytics, and only if you accepted. You can also complain to the Swedish data protection authority, IMY.