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Privacy Policy

Last updated September 29, 2026

This policy explains how Dumblit, Inc. ("Dumblit", "we") handles information in the You Got Bars game at dumblit.com/games/yougotbars and any app version of it (the "Game").

1. What stays on your device

The Game saves the following in your browser's local storage on your device:

• your settings
• the Instagram handle(s) you enter
• your crew word list
• scores, ratings and recent runs
• which rhyme words you've already been dealt, so they don't repeat
• that you passed the age check and agreed to our Terms, with the date. We don't save your birth year.

Recordings are made on your device and kept in memory until you save, share or submit them. None of this is sent to Dumblit unless you submit a run (section 5). The Game also saves a random device code, used to count one vote per device (section 5), and which runs you voted for. You can erase it at any time:

• Rankings → Reset clears scores and runs.
• Clearing this site's data in your browser settings erases everything.

2. Camera and microphone

With recording on, the Game uses your camera and microphone to make your video. Your browser (or your phone, in the Dumblit app) asks your permission first. The video is built on your device. With recording off, the camera isn't used. The microphone is still used if the auto judge is on (see below).

3. Third parties that receive data

• Speech recognition (auto judge). If "Auto judge" is on, the Game uses your browser's built-in speech recognition. To do that, your browser may send your microphone audio to its maker's servers: Google for Chrome, Apple for Safari. In the Dumblit app it's Apple's speech recognition, which may run on your device or on Apple's servers. They process it under their own privacy policies. Dumblit never receives that audio or the transcript. Turn "Auto judge" off to avoid this. You can rate yourself instead.
• Datamuse (crew words). If you add a crew word the Game doesn't know, it asks the Datamuse rhyme service (api.datamuse.com) for rhymes. Only that word is sent, along with your IP address, as with any web request.
• Google Fonts. The Game loads its fonts from Google Fonts, which receives your IP address and browser details.
• Hosting. dumblit.com is hosted on Microsoft Azure. Like any website, the server sees standard request information (IP address, browser type, the pages and files requested) in its logs.
• Apps you share to. When you tap Share or Post to Instagram, your device hands the video to the app you choose. From then on that app's terms and privacy policy apply.

4. If you post and tag us

If you post a run on Instagram and tag or Collab with @yougotbarsofficial or @dumblitstudios, we can see your public handle and post. If we feature you, we may message you on Instagram. We use that information to credit you, feature you and run the promotion, as described in the Official Feature Rules. We may also use your public post, including your handle, voice and likeness, in Dumblit's marketing and advertising, including paid ads. See section 4 of the Terms of Use. That isn't a "sale" of your information. It's the license you give us when you post. We keep records of feature permissions for as long as the repost is up, plus a reasonable time after. We keep signed releases for as long as we use the recording.

5. If you submit a run to the gallery

Submitting is optional and only for players who are 18 or older. When you tap Submit, the Game uploads to Dumblit:

• the video of your run
• the Instagram handle on it
• the beat, bars, word level and score, and when you submitted it

Your run then appears publicly in the gallery and leaderboard at dumblit.com/games/yougotbars/gallery, with your handle. Anyone can watch it, share its link and vote on it. Dumblit can repost it and use it in marketing and advertising under section 4 of the Terms of Use, and can hide or remove any run at any time.

To keep voting fair and stop abuse, we store a scrambled (hashed) form of your device code and IP address with each submission, vote and report. We can't turn those back into the original code or address, and we use them only to limit votes to one per device per run and to rate-limit abuse.

Players you block in the gallery are remembered on your device only. Blocking also sends Dumblit an anonymous report on the run you blocked from, like the Report button does.

Submitted runs are stored on Microsoft Azure in the United States. We keep a run until you ask us to remove it or we remove it. To take a run down, email studios@dumblitinc.com from the Instagram account on the run, or with a link to it, and we'll remove it from the gallery. Copies other people already shared may stay where they shared them.

6. Children

The Game is not for children under 13. We ask for a birth year before the first round. Under 13, the Game won't start, and we don't store the birth year. If you believe a child under 13 has sent us information, email studios@dumblitinc.com and we'll delete it. Players aged 13 to 17 need a parent's or guardian's permission to play and to post. Submitting runs to the gallery is for players 18 and older only.

7. We don't sell or share your information

Dumblit does not sell your personal information. It does not "share" it for cross-context behavioral advertising, as those terms are defined in California law. The Game has no ads, analytics or tracking pixels. Voting uses only the random device code described in section 5.

8. Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:

• know what personal information we hold about you
• have it deleted or corrected
• not be discriminated against for using these rights

Most Game data is only on your device, and you control it. For anything we hold, such as submitted runs, feature permissions or messages, email studios@dumblitinc.com. We'll respond within 45 days.

9. Security

The Game is served over HTTPS. Data saved on your device is only as secure as your device, so use a screen lock.

10. Changes

If we change this policy, we'll update the date above. If the change is material, the Game will ask you to agree again.

11. Contact

Dumblit, Inc. · studios@dumblitinc.com