The short version
- The hours calculator works in your browser. Nothing you type is sent anywhere unless you choose to join the leaderboard.
- If you join the leaderboard, we store a few numbers and game names, never your name, gamertag, email or IP address.
- The site doesn't set its own cookies and doesn't use analytics.
- The site may show ads served by Google. Google and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to show and measure those ads. You can turn off personalised ads at any time (see Advertising).
The hours calculator
Your hours, start year, game and name are used only in your browser to work out the results and draw your share card. If you copy or share the page link, it includes your hours and start year so the link shows the same result. Your name and game aren't added to the link.
The community leaderboard
Joining is optional. When you choose to add your numbers, we store:
- your total hours and, if you give them, the year you started, your first Xbox game and your most-played game (picked from a fixed list)
- the date you added them
- the country your connection comes from, as reported by our hosting provider
- a one-way code made from your connection and that day's date, used only to stop the same visitor adding too many results. It changes every day and can't be turned back into your IP address.
We show these only as combined statistics, such as rankings and percentages. Countries appear only once at least three players come from them. We don't sell or share the submissions.
Because we don't store anything that identifies you, we can't find or remove a single submission later. We may delete all leaderboard data at any time, for example after Xbox Playback ends.
Services this site relies on
- Cloudflare hosts the site and the leaderboard database. Like any web host, it processes technical data such as your IP address and browser type to deliver the pages and protect the site from abuse.
- Google Fonts provides the fonts. Your browser connects to Google's servers to download them, which shares your IP address with Google.
- If we switch on an anti-spam check for the leaderboard, it runs on Cloudflare Turnstile.
Links to Xbox pages take you to Microsoft's sites, which have their own privacy policies.
Advertising
To pay for hosting and keep the site free, we may show ads through Google AdSense. Ads are clearly separate from our content, and we don't see or control which ad you are shown.
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your previous visits to this website or other websites.
- Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the internet.
- Ad vendors may also use web beacons (small invisible images), device identifiers and your IP address to show ads, limit how often you see the same ad, measure results and prevent fraud.
- Other ad vendors or ad networks that work with Google may also serve ads here and use cookies in the same way.
Your choices. You can opt out of personalised advertising in Google's Ads Settings. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalised advertising at aboutads.info. If you opt out, you'll still see ads, but they won't be based on your interests. Blocking or deleting cookies in your browser also works.
To learn more, read how Google uses information from sites that use its services and how Google uses cookies in advertising.
Consent in the UK, EEA and Switzerland
If you visit from the United Kingdom, the European Economic Area or Switzerland, you'll be asked whether to allow cookies and personalised ads before any ad cookies are set. The consent message is provided by Google's consent management platform. You can change your choice at any time from the privacy link shown with the message or at the bottom of the page.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to ask what personal data is held about you, to have it corrected or deleted, or to object to its use. This site itself doesn't keep data that identifies you (see the leaderboard section above), so most requests concern the ad cookies, which you can manage with the options above. For anything else, contact us using the details below.
We don't sell personal information. Where the law treats personalised advertising as "sharing", you can opt out with the Ads Settings link above.
Children
This site isn't aimed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect anything from them. Ads are not targeted at children.
Changes
If we change what we collect or how ads work here, we'll update this page and the date at the top.
Contact
For privacy questions, email [email protected]. Our contact page explains what else we can help with.