Privacy Policy

Last updated: 2026-10-31

This policy explains what The Daily Lowball ("we," "us") collects when you use this site. We're a small indie site running daily car-price guessing games. We don't sell your email address, account or game history to anyone.

Playing without an account

You can play without signing up. The first time you finish a rated game, we set a cookie ("go_player") holding a random ID, so we can keep your guesses, results and Dealer Rating together. It isn't used for anything else, and it isn't shared. Your Dealer Rating appears on the public leaderboard under a generated name like "Guest 48213".

We also note which site or link brought you here, to understand where our players come from.

If you create an account

We store your email address, the leaderboard name you choose, and your password (only as a secure hash, never the password itself). If you sign in with Google, we receive your email address from Google; we don't get your Google password. Anything you played as a guest in the same browser is moved to your account when you sign up or log in.

We only email you about your account, when you ask: a password reset link, a link to confirm a new email address, and a notice to your old address once it's changed. These emails are sent through Resend, which gets the address and the message, nothing else.

Your games and Dealer Rating

For the daily games and Higher or Lower, we store each guess, its result and your Dealer Rating changes, so your games work on every device and the leaderboard is fair. Your leaderboard name, Dealer Rating and number of games played are public. Past days you play from the archive are kept only in your own browser and are never sent to us, except that we count finished games anonymously (see below).

Anonymous game counts

When you finish a game, including a past day from the archive, your browser sends a one-line count to us: which kind of game, the score, and a random ID stored only in your browser. It isn't linked to your account or your Dealer Rating. We use it to understand whether people come back the next day. Clearing this site's storage in your browser resets the ID.

Where the cars come from

Car photos, descriptions and sale prices come from publicly listed, already-finished auctions on Bring a Trailer. We aren't affiliated with Bring a Trailer. Some cars are sent in by players and dealerships.

If you submit a sale

When you send us a sale, we keep what you send with it (the car's details, photos and proof of sale) with your account. We use it to check the sale and, if we accept it, to show the car, its photos and price in our games. Your proof of sale is only seen by us, and we delete it 30 days after reviewing your sale.

Your garage and profile

Your profile shows your leaderboard name, country flag, when you started playing, your game stats and your luckiest license plates. If you add cars to your garage, their details and photos show there too, for anyone to see. If you pick one as your profile picture, it shows beside your name on your profile, and on the leaderboards once we've checked it. Photos you upload are stripped of their location data first, but anything in the picture itself (license plates, house numbers, people) is public, so crop it out. We may remove anything reported to us.

AI

The cars, photos, sale prices and car descriptions are real data from real, finished sales, not made by AI. We don't send your guesses, your account or anything else about you to an AI service, or use them to train AI.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to understand overall traffic (for example, which games are popular).

Advertising

We may show ads to help keep the site running. Ad partners such as Google may use cookies or similar technology to show ads and measure how they perform, including ads based on your visits to this and other sites. We don't give ad partners your email address, account or game history.

You can turn off personalized ads from Google in Google's ad settings, read how Google uses information from sites that use its services, or block cookies in your browser.

Deleting your data

You can delete your account from Settings. That removes your email, leaderboard name, password, Dealer Rating and game history, and your garage with its photos, and takes you off the leaderboard. To clear guest data, delete this site's cookies in your browser.

Children

This site isn't directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect data from them.

Changes

If this policy changes in a meaningful way, we'll update the date at the top of this page.

Contact

Questions about this policy? Ask us on our Discord.