Privacy

Sketyo is a daily drawing game made by one person. This page says plainly what it stores, why, and how to get rid of it.

What's stored

• Your account: email address, username, display name, and an optional avatar you upload.
• Your drawings: the strokes you draw, the image rendered from them, how long you took, and the caption if you wrote one.
• What you do in the app: likes, comments, who you follow and who you've blocked, your streak, reports you file, words you pitch and the votes you cast.
• Notifications: for each device you've turned them on for, the push address that device gave us and its timezone, so the evening reminder arrives at your 20:00. Your notification choices too.
• If you play in Discord: your Discord account id, so the next launch knows which Sketyo account is yours, and, if you made your account there, the email address Discord had already verified. Your Discord avatar is shown while the panel is open, and copied into your profile only if you have not set a picture of your own. The name Discord knows you by, your nickname in the server you played in when you have one and your display name otherwise, is stored alongside that day's record of where you played, so the channel card and the live rail name you the way Discord does; it goes when that record does. Sketyo also asks permission to set your Discord status while the panel is open. Nothing else: not your servers, not your friends, not a single message, not who is speaking. The Activity keeps no Discord access token; signing in to the website with Discord stores one, encrypted, as Discord requires.
• Where you played: launching the Activity in a channel records that channel and the day, which is what the channel card is built from. Those records are deleted a few days later, once no card can be made from them.
• Sign-in records: a hashed password, and the IP address and browser or device your session was created from. That's what keeps you signed in and lets abuse be traced; it isn't used for anything else.
• How the app gets used: counted events like opening the canvas, making a first mark, submitting, liking, following, sharing, and tapping a notification, and whether that was on the web, in Discord or in the phone app. They're recorded against your account id so the count is of people rather than of taps, and they say how long a drawing took and how long your streak is, never what you drew.
• Crashes: when the app or the server falls over, the error and where in the code it happened, tagged with your account id so a fault affecting one person can be told from one affecting everyone.

What isn't

No location, no contacts, no advertising identifiers, and nothing that follows you to other websites or apps. Nothing is sold or shared for advertising. Sketyo does not use your drawings to train machine learning models. Your strokes are never sent to the analytics or crash tools, your screen is never recorded, and nothing there is told your email address or your username: an account id is the only thing that identifies you to either of them.

Who can see your drawings

Your profile, your streak and your drawings are visible to anyone signed in. Following someone decides whose drawings fill your feed. It isn't a lock, and it never was: anyone could follow you instantly and see the same drawings. Turning on "Also share to Trending" when you submit enters that drawing on the day's Trending board. That's a contest entry, not a privacy setting: the drawing is equally visible either way.

Sharing one of your own drawings gives you a link, and that link works for anyone who has it, including people without an account. Once you've sent it somewhere, it can be forwarded like anything else on the internet, so treat sharing as showing the drawing to the world. Deleting your account removes the drawing and every image made from it, and the link stops working.

Nobody's drawing for today is visible to you until you've submitted your own, and yours is held back from them on the same terms. That's a fairness rule rather than a secret: everyone gets the same word, and drawings from earlier days are never held back. Sharing your own link is the exception: it works right away, even for today's word, because showing your own drawing is your call.

Launching the Activity in a channel posts that channel's card there, as a reply to the launch, with the drawings of everyone who played the same word in that channel. It keeps updating while people play, and the next launch can post a recap of the day before. A drawing you made on your phone never turns up in a server you didn't play in. Sharing a drawing yourself is separate: it goes through Discord's own share sheet, and sending it is your call. Sketyo installs no bot in your server and never writes a message as you. While you're drawing, the other players in the panel see a coarse 16x16 map of where your ink has gone, in the day's colours. It's never a preview of the drawing, and the strokes themselves stay on your device until you submit.

Blocking someone cuts both ways: neither of you sees the other's drawings, comments, profile or notifications, and any follow between you is dropped. It takes effect on the server, so it holds no matter which app either of you is using. The one thing it can't reach is a shared link opened without signing in, because the server can't tell who is looking. Signed in, the block holds on shared links too.

Who else touches it

The app runs on Railway, which provides hosting, the database, and image storage. Four others see a narrow slice: PostHog (EU servers) receives the counted events above, Sentry receives crashes, and Expo delivers notifications to the phone app (in a browser, your browser's own push service does). Resend sends the one-time verification and password-reset codes to your email address. None of them receives your drawings. If that list ever grows, this page gets updated before it does, not after.

Discord sees a slice only if you play there: the channel's card and recap, with the drawings of everyone who played the same word in that channel, and any drawing you choose to share. Nothing else crosses over: your feed, your archive and every drawing you didn't share stay here.

Deleting your account

Profile → Settings → Delete account, in the app or on the web. This removes your account, your drawings and their images, your comments, likes, follows, streak, the blocks you'd set, any Discord account linked to it, and the record of which channels you played in. It happens immediately and can't be undone. If you'd rather ask a human, email [email protected].

Children

Sketyo isn't intended for children under 13, and accounts aren't knowingly created for them.

Changes

When this page changes, the date at the top changes with it.