Privacy policy
Last updated 4 November 2026.
Give it a Go collects what it needs to run your games and your account, and nothing for advertising. We never sell your information.
Who we are
Give it a Go (the website at giveitago.io and the iPhone and Android apps) is run by Jonathan Moses, doing business as Give it a Go, in the United States. Questions, requests and complaints go to hello@giveitago.io.
What we collect
Your account. Your email address, the display name other players see, your account id, and, if you choose them, a profile picture and a country. A guest account has no email.
Signing in with Apple or Google. The name and email address Apple or Google shares with us. With Apple you can hide your email, and we then see only Apple's relay address.
What you do here. Your games (every move, including bot games sent from the phone app), ratings, lesson progress, puzzle results, streaks, tournament entries, chat messages in games and tournament rooms, the players you block, and reports you file about other players.
Membership. If you join on this site, Stripe takes your payment and keeps your card details; we never see or store them. We keep the Stripe customer id and the subscription's status and dates. If you join in the app, Apple or Google takes your payment, and we never see your card there either. We keep the store's record of the purchase: which store, its id, the plan, its status and dates.
The phone app. A push token, only once you allow notifications, so we can tell you when it is your move.
We do not collect your location, contacts, or browsing history, and there is no advertising in Give it a Go: no advertising networks, and no tracking across other companies' apps or websites.
How we use it
To run the service: sign you in, pair and play your games, keep your rating and progress, run tournaments, deliver messages and notifications, take membership payments, keep players safe (reviewing reports, stopping cheating and abuse), and answer you when you write to us.
Measuring the site
Cloudflare Web Analytics counts page views and page speed without cookies and without identifying you. We also count steps of the first-visit welcome (for example, how many visitors finished the demo game) as anonymous totals, with no account, IP address or cookie attached. The phone app has no analytics.
Cookies and storage on your device
We use a sign-in cookie to keep you signed in and a tz cookie so dates show in your time zone. Your browser also keeps your theme, your tutorial progress and your rating on your device. If you are not signed in, Google's sign-in script may show its one-tap prompt, and Google's own privacy policy covers that script. We use no advertising or tracking cookies.
What other players can see
Your display name, picture, country, rating and tournament rank; your games, which anyone can watch live and review afterwards; and your chat messages, to the people in that game or room. Your email address is never shown.
Who processes it for us
Cloudflare (hosting, storage, email delivery, analytics), Neon (the database), Stripe (payments), Apple and Google (sign-in, push notifications and purchases in the app), and Expo (push notification delivery for the app). They handle data only to provide their service to us. We share information with others only if the law requires it, or to protect players or the service from harm.
How long we keep it
As long as your account exists. Finished games stay in the game record, because they are also the other player's games; once you delete your account they show you as “Deleted player”. Reports are kept as long as we need them to keep players safe.
Your choices and rights
You can change your picture and country on your profile at any time. To get a copy of your data or correct it, email hello@giveitago.io from the address on your account; we answer within 30 days.
Deleting your account. You can delete your account yourself, at once: on the site from your profile, in the app under Me, then Settings, or on the delete your account page. You can also email hello@giveitago.io and we delete it within 30 days. Deleting removes your email, name, picture, country, sign-ins, friends, notifications, push tokens, rating, progress, streaks, puzzle scores and puzzle comments, cancels a membership paid through this site at once, and tells Apple to end our access if you signed in with Apple. A subscription bought in the app is not cancelled: cancel it in your App Store or Google Play settings, or the store keeps charging you. Games in progress are resigned and you leave tournaments that haven't finished. Your finished games stay, as “Deleted player”, with no name, picture, country or rating; a finished game's record on the game server, its move list and SGF file, may still show the name you played under. Stripe, Apple and Google keep their own payment records, as the law requires, and we keep the store's record of a purchase with your account taken off it.
Depending on where you live (for example California or the European Union), you may have further rights, such as to object to processing or to complain to a regulator, and we honour them.
Children
Give it a Go is not for children under 13. If we learn that a child under 13 has an account, we delete it. A parent who thinks this has happened can write to hello@giveitago.io.
Security
Everything travels over HTTPS, passwords are stored only as salted hashes, and access to the data is limited to the person who runs the service. No system is perfectly secure; if a breach affects you, we will tell you.
Changes
We post any change here with a new date, and announce important changes on the site before they take effect. The terms of service cover the rest of using Give it a Go.