Terms & Privacy

By using RoadGuessr you agree to these terms and to the privacy policy below. Anyone can play as a guest; ranked games need an account, and you must be at least 13 to create one.

Be kind and play fair: no offensive usernames or nicknames, harassment or cheating, no bots or scraping, no attacks on the site or the game server, and no copying the game into another site. One account per person. Room hosts can remove players, and we may rename, block or delete anyone who breaks these rules.

In ranked matches, cheating includes tools or browser extensions that reveal the location, image-recognition software, someone else helping you, and losing on purpose to push a friend's Elo. Players can report an opponent after a match. We may ban a cheating account from ranked and remove it from the leaderboards; bans are often handed out some time after the matches in question, and a person decides every one. Leaving a ranked match after it has been found but before the first round costs 5 Elo and a short break from the ranked queue, which grows if it happens again within a day.

You create an account by signing in with Google. You choose a username and a flag; the username can change once every 30 days. You are responsible for what happens under your account. You can delete it at any time from the account menu, and it is gone for good. Your username, flag, Elo, rank, badges (including past seasons') and ranked match history (including each round's guesses) are public: anyone can see them on your profile and the leaderboards. Ranked is played in seasons: when a season ends, everyone's Elo moves a quarter of the way back to 900, and the best badge you reached in it stays on your profile as that season's badge.

Street View and the map come from Google. Using them means you also accept the Google Maps/Google Earth Additional Terms of Service (https://maps.google.com/help/terms_maps/) and the Google Privacy Policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy).

The game, its design and code belong to RoadGuessr; the imagery belongs to Google and the map data to the sources listed on our About page. If you think something here infringes your copyright, email [email protected].

The game is free and provided "as is", without warranties. As far as the law allows, we are not liable for any loss caused by using it.

These terms are governed by the laws of Türkiye; consumers keep the mandatory protections of their own country. We may update these terms, and the date above shows the current version. If one part turns out to be invalid, the rest still applies.

RoadGuessr is run by an individual based in Türkiye, who is responsible for your data. Contact: [email protected].

• If you create an account: the ID Google gives your Google account, the username and flag you choose, and your sign-in sessions. Google also tells us your email address and name when you sign in, but we do not keep them. Kept until you delete your account.
• Ranked matches: who played, each round's guesses on the map, scores, how many seconds each guess took, the result and the Elo change. Shown publicly on both players' profiles and used to compute the leaderboards and to check for cheating. Kept until you delete your account; after that the match stays in your opponent's history as a "deleted account", with nothing linking it to you. Unranked duels are not stored.
• Reports: when a player reports an opponent, we keep who reported whom, for which match, the reason and the note written. Only our moderators see them; the reported player is never told who reported them. Kept until the account they concern is deleted.
• Leaving a ranked match before it starts: when it happened and the Elo change, to apply the fine and the queue break. Not shown publicly. Kept until you delete your account.
• While you wait for a ranked match, the game server uses your IP address, in memory only, so that two players on the same network are matched against each other only when nobody else is searching. It is not stored.
• Room games: your nickname, guesses and scores. They are kept only in the game server's memory and deleted 30 minutes after the room was last used.
• Visit statistics from Umami, which uses no cookies, stores nothing that identifies you and respects Do Not Track.
• Emails you send us, only to answer them.

To spot cheating we look at statistics from ranked matches, such as how often and how fast a player guesses almost perfectly. This only flags a player for review; a person decides every ban.

No real names, no email addresses, no location, and we never sell data.

Your settings, game history, daily streak and room seat are saved in your browser's local storage. They never reach us, and you can delete them by clearing this site's data.

Google (sign-in, Street View, the map and ads), Cloudflare (hosting and security), Railway (our game server), Neon (the account database, in Frankfurt, Germany), OpenFreeMap (map tiles) and Umami (statistics) receive your IP address or, for Railway and Neon, your account data, and handle it under their own privacy policies, sometimes outside your country, such as in the US.

RoadGuessr is free because of ads. They are served by Google AdSense and only appear on menus and between games, never during a round. Google and its partners may use cookies and your IP address to show ads, measure them and prevent fraud; see how Google uses data from partner sites at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland you are asked first, and ads are only personalised with your consent. You can change your choice at any time through the privacy settings link on the page, or turn off personalised ads for your Google account at https://adssettings.google.com.

We set one cookie of our own, and only when you sign in: a session cookie that keeps you signed in. It is strictly necessary for your account, so it needs no consent; signing out or deleting your account removes it. Google (for sign-in, ads, Street View and security) and Cloudflare (for security) may set their own. Where the law requires it, ad cookies are only used after you agree in the consent banner.

Under KVKK and the GDPR you can ask what we hold about you, have it corrected or deleted, and complain to a data protection authority. You can delete your account yourself at any time from the account menu; everything tied to it is deleted at once. For anything else write to [email protected]; we answer within 30 days. The game is for a general audience and is not aimed at children. Deleting your account also removes your Elo history and the reports made about you.

If any of this changes, for example when ranked match history is added, this page will be updated first.