The short version
Sojourner asks for nothing and stores nothing about you on any server we control. Your settings and your scores are kept by your own browser, on your own device. Nobody — including us — can read them from anywhere else, and clearing your browser data erases them for good.
What stays on your device
The game uses your browser's local storage to remember a few things between visits:
- Your settings — difficulty, globe style, units, game mode, focus country.
- Today's result, so returning to the page shows your score rather than restarting the day.
- Which stories you have already read, so practice rounds tend to show you new ones.
This is not a cookie and it is never transmitted. It never leaves your browser.
What our host sees
The site is served by Cloudflare. Like any web host, Cloudflare's servers receive the technical details every web request carries — your IP address, the page requested, your browser and operating system version, and the time. Cloudflare uses these to deliver the page and to protect the site from attack, and retains them for a limited period. We do not build profiles from them, and we do not link them to anything else.
See Cloudflare's privacy policy for what they do as our processor.
Fonts
Sojourner loads three typefaces from Google Fonts. That request tells Google your IP address and roughly what browser you are using, as any request to any server would. Google states that it does not use Google Fonts requests to build advertising profiles. If you would rather not make that request, a content blocker will stop it and the game will fall back to the fonts already on your device.
Links out
Each place in the game cites a source — a museum, a university, a library, an encyclopedia. Following one of those links takes you to a site we do not run, under its own privacy policy.
What there is not
- No accounts, no sign-in, no email addresses collected.
- No advertising, and no advertising or analytics trackers of any kind.
- No cookies set by us.
- No sale or sharing of personal information, because none is collected.
Children
Sojourner is suitable for all ages and collects no personal information from anyone, including children.
Your choices
Because nothing about you reaches us, there is nothing for us to look up, correct or delete on your behalf. To erase everything Sojourner has kept, clear this site's data in your browser settings, or open the game in a private window.
Changes
If Sojourner adds accounts, saved streaks or subscriptions, this page will be rewritten before that happens and the date above will change. Personal information collected under this version will not be repurposed under a later one.
Contact
Questions about this page, or about the game: [your contact email].
Sojourner is made by [your name or business name].