Privacy Policy
Your privacy is important to us!

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it. In order to implement this protection in the best possible way, we allow ourselves to give you an overview of the technical background of the storage of data, the administration and the use of your data in this data protection declaration.

By using the website, you confirm that you agree to the provisions of this data protection declaration and thus accept them. If you do not want to accept this data protection declaration, we ask you not to enter any personal data on this website.

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1. Subject of this data protection declaration

In this declaration you will find out how we treat personal data that becomes known to us when you use this website and specifically the quiz software.


2. Collection and Use of Data

2.1 Registration to enjoy the benefits of being a registered player

If you decide to register on quizzzz.net, all you have to do is provide your name and email address. The name can be any nickname or pseudonym. It just mustn't be in our database yet. The e-mail address, on the other hand, must exist and be valid. Because after the entry, the automatically generated password is sent there. This data is stored in a MySQLi database on our server.

As additional/optional information about your account, you can also enter your country and your gender. This data is only for statistical purposes and is only used for analysis and helps us to further develop our quiz software.

Each account also has its own profile page. You can set this to "public" (everyone can see your profile), "only your friends" or to "only me" (i.e. only you and the system administrators). And last but not least, you can switch the e-mail notifications for the newsletter or a friend request on or off.

All of the above data and configuration settings are stored in a MySQLi database on our server.

To give your profile a face, you have the option of uploading a picture as a so-called avatar. You may only upload royalty-free images or images that you own! By uploading an image, you agree that we may also use the image publicly on the entire homepage or in the quiz, especially on the high score lists.


Data storage of a registered account:

Your password is stored with one-way encryption. It cannot be decrypted. The e-mail address, on the other hand, is stored in plain text but is not visible to anyone (except the system administrators).

A database entry looks something like this:

|3|Dummy|$2y$10$JglrHjvgomMlsrXs3O.0..yiPr.MlkEAaYRHt5v1lk9PK6Au6QGRW|dummy@quizzzz.net| |en|male|1,1,1,1,1|1346350088|0|user|0|0|0| | |1| |0| |0


2.2 Support form

We collect personal data via this website if you contact us via our support form. Here you will be asked to enter your name, your e-mail address and the actual message. We ask for your name because we want to address you personally. The e-mail address so that our reply can be delivered. The actual message, because an 'empty' message doesn't make much sense.

In addition, we use a security code query, a so-called Captcha. Here, a random character string is generated, encrypted and temporarily stored in a file on the web server together with the time stamp and the encrypted IP address. The IP address is encoded with a one-way encryption and cannot be decrypted again. If the contact form is called up by any visitor, every Captcha entry is checked. If an entry is longer than 5 minutes in the past, it will be irrevocably deleted.

Such an entry could look something like this:

f528764d624db129b32c21fbca0cb8d6|ae298aa7b5fe3b34292757ded6376ff3|1514317423

Registered players only have to write the message themselves (if they are logged in).

The e-mails with all data (text, name, e-mail address, etc.) are stored on our local computer (not on the server) for some time (as long as the problem is being solved). After that (after 6 months at the latest) the e-mails will be completely deleted.


2.3 Player Analysis

Um dir eine bestmögliche Nutzerfreundlichkeit mit der Quiz Software zu bieten ist es notwendig das Spielverhalten der Nutzer zu kennen. Was wird am meisten gespielt, welche Systeme (Browser, Betriebssystem,...) nutzen die Spieler. Welche Sprache wird bevorzugt. Und so weiter. Je mehr wir wissen umso besser können wir unsere Spiele darauf optimieren.

For this it is necessary that you accept the analysis cookie. See the cookie settings below. If this cookie is not activated, this analysis data will not be recorded and will not be saved. This data is only accessible to the core team.

Important: No IP address is stored in plain text, but encoded with a one-way encryption. This cannot be decrypted again.

Such an analysis entry in our database looks something like this:

|4|8c1f448fff9634b1281a96972c348046|Guest_5307928||1649687477|1649697967|1|1;2;76;70;2|13|pc|Linux|Firefox|0

We do not use Google Analytics or similar third-party analysis tools.


3. Data transfer to third parties

We will not share or disclose your personal information with third parties except in the following cases. We only transfer your personal data to third parties if:

  • you have consented to the transfer
  • an enforceable official or court order exists


4. Cookies

Cookies are industry-standard files that are stored on your hard drive, not on the server. This data can be stored for weeks, months, even years. The information contained in our cookies is necessary for the game progress such as points, solved images, unlocked levels, etc. save. Furthermore, the access data of registered players is saved in order to remain logged in for the duration of the session.
You can prevent the storage of cookies on your hard drive by selecting "do not accept cookies" in your browser settings. How this works in detail can be found in the instructions provided by your browser manufacturer. If you do not accept cookies, this will lead to functional restrictions on the website, but especially on the quiz software.

We distinguish between 5 different cookies:

  1. Necessary cookies
  2. Analytics
  3. Marketing
  4. Sozial Media
  5. Other


Cookies so that the website, especially the quiz software, works at all. And the cookie to save these cookie settings. These cookies look something like this [Name] => Demo Content:

[cookie_settings] => {"necessary":true,"analytics":true,"marketing":true,"sozialmedia":true,"other":true}
[PHPSESSID] => 7f35feec67a06ad76066a231e767626b

These two cookies also fall into the "Necessary cookies" category:

[quizzzz_username] => Dummy
[quizzzz_userpw] => $2y$10$JglrHjvgomMlsrXs3O.0..yiPr.MlkEAaYRHt5v1lk9PK6Au6QGRW

These are optional and will only be saved if you check the box (stay logged in) on the login form.


With a single small cookie that only saves the timestamp of the last activity, the consent that the analysis data (see above) may be saved is also recognized.

[quizzzz_analytics] => 1661702684


If you accept these cookies (unless you are a VIP player) you will see Google Adsense advertisements. This gives us income that we need to cover our server costs. We ask you to accept these cookies. Thanks very much!

You can find out more about Google Adsense below.


Accepting these cookies allows us to place a Twitter and a Facebook plugin (to be seen in the footer of all pages). It allows you to easily post to Twitter and Facebook to generate ads for quizzzz.net.


Activate or deactivate the PayPal interface to enable payments in the shop.


5. Newsletter and automatic notifications by email

Every registered player has the possibility to be informed about the following information by e-mail.

  • Neuigkeiten bzw. Updates
  • Friend requests

If you activate the "News or updates" function, you will receive all information about the quiz software at irregular intervals. By activating the "friend requests" you will receive an e-mail if another registered player would like to have you as a friend.

Both functions can be activated or deactivated at any time in the configuration settings of your account.


6. Google Adsense

On the basis of your consent (Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. a EU-DS-GVO, § 165 Para. 3 S. 2 TKG 2021) this website uses Google AdSense, a service for integrating advertisements from Google Inc. , 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("Google"). Advertisements via JavaScript, which remain on Google's servers in the USA, are integrated on this website. The core of this advertising service is to select ads that match the content of the website viewed by the user as well as interest-related based on the individual profile of the user. The data processed in this context will be deleted after the purpose has been achieved in accordance with the information provided by the service provider.

Google also processes your personal data in the USA.
The service provider is obliged by corresponding contractual regulations to comply with the data protection standards of the EU and to guarantee the European level of data protection. Data processing or storage in third countries can also take place on the basis of your consent (Art. 49 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. a EU-DS-GVO), in this case this will be pointed out separately.

Google AdSense also uses cookies, which are stored on the user's computer and enable an analysis of the use of the website; in this specific case so-called "DoubleClick DART cookies" (hereinafter "Google AdSense cookies"). Google AdSense also uses so-called web beacons (also called "pixel tags"). A web beacon is an invisible electronic image, usually no larger than 1 pixel x 1 pixel, placed on a web page that is used to track the online behavior of web site visitors on the web site. These web beacons can be used to evaluate information such as visitor traffic on the website and it is possible to determine from which computer, when and from which location (country/city) the website is accessed.

You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. To do this, simply call up our consent banner and deselect the corresponding consent. Please note that the change in the Cookie Settings must be made individually for each end device.


7. PayPal

On this website we offer, among other things, payment via PayPal. The provider of this payment service is PayPal (Europe) S.à.r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg (hereinafter "PayPal").

If you use PayPal to pay, the payment details you enter will be sent to PayPal.

Your data is transmitted to PayPal on the basis of Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR (consent) and Article 6 (1) (b) GDPR (processing to fulfill a contract). You have the option to revoke your consent to data processing at any time. A revocation does not affect the effectiveness of past data processing operations.


8. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to expand or update this data protection declaration in the future.