Privacy

america.cool — An American Production. Effective July 20, 2026.

What we collect

A session cookie so your seat, coins, and deck follow you. If you consent, basic markers — birth year and gender — used for audience insight. Your email, if you claim a @handle, and the inbox you confirm if you turn on forwarding. Your calls, games, and deck builds. If you arrived through a shared deck link, a short campaign tag that identifies the post, never a person — held up to seven days and only tied to you if you consent. That’s the list.

Rough location

With consent, we note your country and region the way any website can — from the network your request arrives on. It’s coarse (state-level at best), it’s marked as a guess, it never overrides anything you tell us yourself, and we don’t store your IP address with it. No GPS, no precise location, ever.

What your calls become

Calls (cool/lame opinions) are aggregated into audience insight. Insights we share or license are aggregated and de-identified — partners see what America thinks, never who you are. We don’t sell your name, email, or contact info.

How you play

If you’ve opted into telemetry, gameplay events — games played and won, cards you skip as unfamiliar, a seat left mid-hand or timed out, and arrivals from a friend’s invite — join the same aggregated, pseudonymized signal. Under the hood your account is a rotating coded ID, never your name, email, or handle. Turn telemetry off and your play stays on your own record only.

Your submitted deck

Submitting your America 250 deck stores a permanent snapshot of your 52 picks. It’s counted, aggregated and de-identified, toward the crowd’s Verified America 250. We say all of this before you confirm. If you later delete your account, the snapshot is disconnected from you and survives only as an anonymous part of the count.

If you win the jackpot

We announce jackpot wins with the winner’s @handle only — never a name, email, or location. To deliver a handle prize we ask for an email; confirming it (one click on a single-use link) is what proves the inbox is yours before any forwarding is set up. That address is kept to run your forwarding and for nothing else.

Appearance details (sensitive information)

On the Cool Test you can choose to share appearance details — including skin tone — used to draw your card. If you’ve opted into telemetry, those details are also part of the anonymized, aggregated audience signal described above. Some privacy laws (like California’s CPRA) treat this as sensitive personal information, so three things plainly: sharing it is optional; it is used only de-identified and aggregated, never to score you or identify you; and you can limit its use at any time by turning telemetry off in settings or emailing us.

Your California (and similar) rights

Wherever you live, and specifically under the CCPA/CPRA if you’re a California resident: you can ask what we have about you (right to know), ask us to delete it, correct it, limit the use of sensitive personal information, and opt out of sharing. We don’t sell personal identifiers, and we don’t use sensitive information to infer characteristics about you beyond the de-identified aggregate use above. Exercise any of these at techdaddy@america.cool — we don’t discriminate against you for asking.

Voice (Table Talk)

Voice clips exist to be played at your table, then die: purged within 24 hours of posting; a reported clip is kept up to 72 hours for review, then deleted. We never analyze voices, build voiceprints, or use audio to identify anyone.

Photos and cards

If you add a photo to your own Face Card, it displays on your card and nothing else. We don’t run facial recognition, and we don’t keep photos you submit for card generation beyond making your card.

Payments

Payments run through Stripe. We never see or store your card number.

Cookies

One session cookie and its signature — no third-party ad trackers on user surfaces.

Deleting your stuff

You can remove cards you posted, unlink socials from your Face Card, and request account deletion at the address below. We confirm before anything permanent happens.

Kids

america.cool isn’t for children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect their information.

Contact

techdaddy@america.cool — privacy questions, image takedowns, deletion requests.