Privacy
Effective 1 September 2026
Three Pins is a golf game you play in your browser. This page says, in plain words, what we store about you, who else sees it, and how to have it deleted. Questions and requests go to privacy@threepins.golf.
Your account
The first time you open the game, we create an anonymous account for your device — a random ID, no email, no name. That ID is what makes the Daily one attempt per player and lets your scores appear on the boards.
You can choose to attach an email address (we send a one-time code; there is no password) or sign in with Google. Then we also hold that email, and for Google, the name and email Google shares with us. That is all we ask Google for.
What we store against your account
- Your display name, which you choose and other players see on boards and in rooms.
- Scores: your Daily rounds, course records, party rounds and tournament results.
- Every shot you take in a scored round — club, aim, power, shape — so that the score can be re-played and verified on our server. This is how a score on the board is known to be real.
- Career counters (birdies, aces, longest drive and so on) and which cosmetics you have earned and equipped in the Locker.
- Who you have played with: joining a party room together is what makes someone a "friend" in the game. We store the room memberships that relationship is derived from.
- A few usage events: that the game loaded, that a Daily was started or finished, and any crash or error the game hits (the error message and where in the code it happened). These are tied to the same anonymous ID and contain no email, name, IP address or device fingerprint.
What stays on your device
Your session, career stats, Locker choices, settings and today's Daily progress are also kept in your browser's local storage so the game works offline and loads fast. We set no cookies, run no advertising, and use no third-party analytics or tracking scripts.
Who else sees data
- Supabase hosts our database, sign-in and server-side verification. Everything listed above lives there.
- Netlify serves the game itself. Like any web host it keeps ordinary server logs, which include IP addresses, under its own retention rules.
- Google, only if you choose to sign in with Google.
- OpenAI receives display names only — never scores, emails or IDs — so that offensive names can be caught automatically. A flagged name is replaced with "Player".
- Resend delivers the sign-in code emails.
We do not sell your data, and we do not share it with anyone else.
Why we use it
To run the game: leaderboards, the Daily, party rooms, verifying that scores are genuine, giving you the cosmetics you have earned, and finding and fixing crashes. Nothing else.
How long we keep it
For as long as your account exists. Scores and records are part of the boards other players see, so they stay until you ask us to remove your account.
Your choices
- Play anonymously. You never have to attach an email or Google account.
- Change your name at any time from your profile.
- See or delete your data. Email privacy@threepins.golf from the address on your account (or tell us your display name if you play anonymously). We will delete the account and everything tied to it, including your place on the boards. We reply within a few days.
Children
Three Pins is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has attached an email to an account, write to us and we will remove it.
Changes
If this page changes in a way that matters, we will update the date at the top. The current version is always at threepins.golf/privacy.html.
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