Privacy, minus the boring bits
Effective November 11, 2026. If anything changes, we'll update this page and the date.
The 10-second version
- We keep your email, when you gave it, and whether you ticked "send me future quizzes". That's the whole list.
- Your taps stay in your browser. We only add them to anonymous totals, like a tally on a bathroom wall with no names.
- We never sell or share your email. Not for money, not for snacks.
What we collect (all of it, promise)
- Email + timestamp + consent flag. You give us the email to unlock your result. The consent flag is just whether you ticked the optional box. It's stored on its own and never linked to your answers, score or tier.
- Anonymous counters. How many people tapped each card, how many scores land in each range, and how many people took the quiz. To score you fairly, your browser sends the cards you saw and tapped. We use that list once to work out your score and add +1 to the totals, then toss it. There's no email, name or account attached, and we never store the list.
No names, phone numbers, locations, contacts, payment details, accounts or passwords. We genuinely don't want them.
Why we collect it
- Your email: it unlocks your result. We may email you about future quizzes. If you ticked the box, we may also send new quizzes and tool updates. Not into it? Just ask us to take you off (see below).
- The anonymous totals: so we can tell you how you stack up (your percentile) and see which cards get the most love.
What we never do
- We never sell, rent, trade or share your email. It doesn't go to advertisers, data brokers or mailing-list companies.
- We never connect your email to what you tapped.
- There are no ad trackers, no analytics pixels and no third-party cookies. Nobody's peeking.
Who helps us run it
The site lives on Cloudflare, which handles hosting, security and our little database. Cloudflare processes requests for us, including your IP address for security and rate limiting, and keeps the email table safe. Data can pass through data centers outside your country. Cloudflare's own privacy policy covers their part. Nobody else gets your data.
Cookies and storage
- Age check: after you tap "I'm 18+", your browser remembers it (local storage) so we don't card you on every page.
- Your taps: kept in your browser tab (session storage) and gone when you close it.
- Preview only: before launch, one cookie lets our testers into the private preview. The public site doesn't use it.
That's it. No advertising cookies, no tracking cookies.
How long we keep it
Your email stays until you ask us to remove it, or until we retire the quiz mailing list, whichever comes first. The anonymous totals don't identify anyone, so we may keep those.
Want off the list?
Email us at hello@howkinky.com and we'll remove you. No hard feelings, no "are you sure?" maze. The same address works for any other privacy question.
Your rights (the official-sounding bit)
Wherever you live, you can ask us to show, fix or delete the email we hold, and you can stop our emails any time.
- US residents (including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, Utah, Texas and other states with privacy laws): you can find out what we hold, delete it and correct it, and we won't treat you differently for asking. We don't sell or "share" personal information for cross-context advertising, and we don't profile you.
- UK and EU (GDPR): we use your email to give you your result. If you tick the box, we also rely on your consent to send future quizzes, and you can withdraw it any time. You can also access, correct, erase, restrict, object to and port your data, and complain to your local data protection authority.
Email us and we'll sort it within 30 days, usually much faster.
Grown-ups only
This quiz is for adults 18+. If you're under 18, please leave. We don't knowingly collect anything from minors, and if we find out we have, we delete it.