Privacy Policy

Dickle does not require an account and we do not ask you for personal information such as your name, email address, or payment details. There is no sign-in, no profile, and no user database.

We do use Vercel Web Analytics and Speed Insights to see which pages are read and how quickly they load. These are cookieless and do not track visitors across sites or build a profile of you: each page view is recorded with the page address, a coarse country, and technical details such as browser and screen size, from which Vercel derives a temporary, non-reversible identifier that is discarded within the day. We see totals, never individuals.

To make the game work, your progress (your guesses for the day, your win/loss result, your streak, and a couple of interface preferences such as light or dark edition and centimetres or inches) is saved locally in your own browser using localStorage. This data stays on your device and you can clear it at any time through your browser settings.

When you finish a puzzle, four numbers are sent to us so the reveal can tell you how the rest of the field did: the date, the country, your opening guess, and how close your best guess landed. They are added to that day's running totals and are not stored as a row about you. If you have told us which country you are from, that two-letter code is added as well, which is what makes the “how badly does your own country judge itself” figure possible. Telling us is optional, it is asked once, and declining is a complete answer.

One further thing is sent: a random string your browser makes up about itself the first time you play. Its only job is to stop the same browser being counted twice in one day. It is not derived from anything about you or your device, it is never attached to your guesses, and clearing your site data replaces it.

We store no IP addresses, no user agents, no accounts, and no per-person history. Everything on our side is a counter. There is consequently nothing we could export or correct for you as an individual, because there is no record of you as an individual to find.

Dickle is supported by advertising served through Google AdSense, a third-party advertising service provided by Google. To show ads, Google and its partners may use cookies and similar technologies.

For more information about how Google uses data when you use our site, see Google’s Privacy & Terms.

Ad units never appear during play. The game screen is kept clear until a round is finished; ad slots sit on the post-game reveal and on the reading pages, with space reserved so a slow-loading ad never shifts the layout under you.

If you are visiting from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, a consent message is shown before personalized ads are served. It is delivered by Google's own consent management platform, which is certified against the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework, and it is the mechanism that records your choice for every advertising partner at once.

You can accept, decline, or manage individual purposes and vendors, and you can change your mind at any time: the Cookie preferences link in the footer of every page reopens the same message. If you decline, non-personalized ads may be shown instead, and the game works exactly as it did before.

Where the GDPR or UK GDPR applies, the legal bases are as follows. Personalized advertising and the cookies it requires rest on your consent, given through the message described above and withdrawable at any time. Serving the site itself, keeping it secure, and measuring aggregate page performance rest on our legitimate interest in running a working website. The end-of-round figures folded into the daily totals rest on the same legitimate interest, and they are aggregated on arrival rather than stored and summed later. Your saved progress, your streak and your history are processed by us not at all: those never leave your device.

One point specific to this site, and worth being unambiguous about: we never learn, store or infer anything about your body. The game asks you to guess a published population average. Your guesses are a score against that average. They are not a health record, not special-category data, and the only thing we ever see of them is how far a few thousand anonymous guesses sat from a figure published in a urology journal.

We hold no database, so there is nothing on our side to retain. Game progress stays in your browser until you clear it. Email you send us is kept in the mailbox it arrived in for as long as it takes to answer, and correspondence about a correction is kept as a record of the change.

Google and the advertising vendors you consent to operate globally and set their own retention periods, which are described in their own policies. That processing may involve transfers outside your country, made under the safeguards those companies publish.

Depending on where you live, you have rights to access, correct, delete, port, or object to the processing of your personal data, and to withdraw consent at any time without affecting processing already carried out. Residents of California and other US states with similar laws additionally have the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information; the consent controls above are how that choice is exercised here.

Because Dickle keeps no account, no profile and no user database, most requests of this kind concern data held by Google rather than by us, and are best made through Google's own controls. Write to us anyway if you are unsure and we will point you at the right place. If you believe your data has been mishandled, you may also complain to your local data protection authority.

You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings and clear the locally stored game data at any time. Blocking cookies may affect the ads you see but will not stop you from playing the game or reading anything on the site.

Browser-level signals are respected where the ad stack supports them, including Global Privacy Control, which Google treats as an opt-out of the sale and sharing of personal information in the US states that recognise it.

Dickle presents anatomical averages drawn from published medical literature, alongside written guides on men's health and body image. It contains no explicit imagery and no sexually explicit material.

It is intended for a general adult audience, is not directed at children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Nothing on Dickle is medical advice, and the site is not a diagnostic tool. Figures published here are population averages from named studies and say nothing about any individual. See methodology for how each figure is produced and where it is weak.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the “Last updated” date at the top of this page. Continued use of the site after changes take effect means you accept the revised policy.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, email us at flaviuscojocaru19@gmail.com or visit the contact page.