Privacy and your data
You don’t need an account to create or take a Knowsy quiz. This page explains how this version handles your data.
Optional usage measurement
If you opt in using the footer preference, we count quiz creation, completed submissions, scorecard download requests and sharing actions. These events don’t include a name, email address, IP address or device fingerprint. A sharing count does not prove publication on another platform. Turning the preference off stops future optional measurement; deleting your quiz also removes its associated events. Payment records are kept separately to manage access and accounting.
What do we store?
Quiz titles, questions, options, correct answers, names or nicknames, optional recipient names, and participants’ answers are stored in PostgreSQL. We don’t ask for your real name, phone number, date of birth or street address. Please don’t put sensitive personal information in questions or titles.
Your owner key
A private key stored in your browser lets you manage your quiz. The server stores only a hash of that key. Anyone with your key or owner-key backup can manage and delete your quiz. If you clear your device’s data without a backup, access cannot be recovered.
Quiz and result links
Anyone with a quiz link can see its questions. Correct answers are revealed after a submission is complete. Anyone with a result link can see that participant’s nickname, score and answers. Share these links only with people you want to see them. Quizzes and results are marked not to be indexed by search engines; this is not password protection.
Retention and deletion
Access to quizzes and their results expires after 90 days. Expired records are physically deleted by the server’s Knowsy maintenance command. Owners can delete a quiz sooner from its management page, which also deletes all associated results. Scheduled maintenance must be configured separately for production.
Browser storage
Drafts, quiz ownership and appearance preferences are stored on your device. Quiz progress is saved for the browser session. This data is not used for advertising. This version of Knowsy does not run advertising or third-party visitor analytics.
Payments
When paid features are enabled, Dodo processes payments. Knowsy does not store card details. The only additional contact information our payment flow asks for is an email address. The provider may still require payment or verification details. No payment can be taken until payment setup is complete.
Before launch
This is a local development version. Before a public launch, the operator must complete the data controller’s legal name, contact channel, service-provider details, international transfer information and privacy request procedure.