Privacy

FaveIQ is a set of short daily Afrobeats quiz games, like the Fan Five (five questions every day). It is open to everyone aged 18 or over: you can play the Fan Five as a guest, with no sign-up, or make an account. This page explains what we keep about you, why, who can see it and for how long.

The short version

• You can play the Fan Five as a guest, with no sign-up. We don't ask for your name, email or phone number, and guest accounts are deleted after a while (usually 30 days after their last game).
• If you make an account, we keep your email, your username, the artists you follow, your fanbase and your scores.
• Your username and scores (Fan IQ, Culture IQ and Afrobeats IQ) are public on your profile. Don't use your real name as your username.
• Once leaderboards open, signed-in players also see your username, fanbase, weekly points and ranks, and your winners' badges, unless you choose Hidden player in Settings.
• We check that you are 18 or over, but we never keep your birth month or year.
• Share cards aren't switched on yet. When they are, the cards you make will be public to anyone with the link.
• No ads, no tracking cookies, and we never sell your data.
• You can delete your account at any time in Settings.
• Questions? Email ukpakaemmanuel@gmail.com.

Who we are

FaveIQ is run by Emmanuel Ukpaka. He decides how your data is used and is responsible for keeping it safe (the law calls this the “data controller”). On this page, “we” means Emmanuel and FaveIQ. You can reach him at ukpakaemmanuel@gmail.com.

What we collect

You don't have to give us anything to look around. To play, you must answer the age question. Anyone who passes it can play today's Fan Five as a guest, with no sign-up. Guests play the Fan Five only, and guest accounts are deleted after a while (see How long we keep it). To keep your results for good, get a Fan IQ, and play the Jukebox, the daily Workout and Fanbase Wars, you need an account, made with an email address (or a Google account, where we offer Google sign-in). To finish setting up an account you choose a username, the artists you follow and a fanbase.

If you play as a guest

• A guest account: a random code (not your name) that links your games together. It is saved in a sign-in cookie on your device and in our database. We only make it once you have passed the age check.
• The date you passed the age check, and that you are 18 or over. Never your birth month or year (see Your age).
• If you joined with an invite link from the Fan Five pilot (our invite-only test, which ended on 24 October 2026): which invite you used. When Emmanuel made your invite, he wrote a private note of who it was for, so he could count how many invited fans came back. Only Emmanuel can see these notes. They are deleted 30 days after the pilot ended.
• Your answers, when you played and how long each answer took, your scores and streak, whether you shared a result and how you first shared a Fan Five (link, image or copy), and any question you report (with the note you add, if any).
• Once share cards are switched on, the share cards you make: a fixed copy of what each one shows, the username on it if you chose to show it, and when you made it and shared it.
• Your streak: which days you played, which of those a streak freeze covered, and your current and longest streak.
• If you start making an account but don't enter the code we email you: the email address you typed stays with your guest account, unconfirmed, until the guest account is deleted. Resend also keeps a record of the code email (see below).

If you create an account

• Your email address, to send you sign-in codes.
• If you sign in with Google: Google sends us your name, profile photo link and Google ID. Our sign-in service (Supabase) saves them and updates them each time you sign in with Google. We don't use them or show them to anyone. They are deleted when you delete your account.
• Your username, the artists you follow, and your fanbase (the fan group you picked, or Neutral).
• Your skill scores, and a history of how each answer changed them, until you delete your account. We work out your Fan IQ, Culture IQ and Afrobeats IQ from these.
• When you started and finished setting up your account.
• Your daily Workout: the games it picked for you each day and which of them you played. Like your answers and streak, it is part of your gameplay. The games you pick yourself in the Jukebox are kept like your other answers.
• The weekly points you earn (from Monday 26 October 2026, when Fanbase Wars starts) and the fanbase you play for each week, a fanbase change you've asked for, and the badges you earn: a winners' badge for each week your fanbase wins, and streak milestones.
• For the leaderboards: a copy of each Fan IQ and your Culture IQ (worked out from your skill scores), whether you chose to appear as Hidden player, and the reactions you give to a week's results.
• If our fair-play check flags one of your rounds: a record of the flag (the round, how many answers it measured, how long they took on our server and on your device, how many were right, and whether a person has cleared or upheld it), and whether your account is under review, suspended from the boards (with a reason code) or waiting for a new username we asked you to choose.
• Everything we keep for guests (see above). If you make an account from a guest account, it keeps the same ID, so your guest results stay with you.

Everyone

Our sign-in service (Supabase) records the IP address (the address of your internet connection) and the browser for each sign-in. It keeps these for as long as the account or guest account exists. Supabase and our host (Vercel) also keep short server logs, for up to 7 days, to keep FaveIQ secure and working.

Why we use it, and the law that allows it

• To run the games and your account: signing you in, sending your codes, keeping your answers, scores, ratings and streak, working out your weekly points and Fanbase Wars, showing the leaderboards, your badges and reaction counts, picking questions at your level, showing your profile, making and showing the share cards you ask for, moving a guest result you chose to move, and deleting your account when you ask. We need this to give you the service you asked for (the law calls this “contract”).
• To check you are 18 or over: our legitimate interest in keeping an adults-only game for adults.
• To keep FaveIQ safe and working: sign-in records, server logs, error reports and backups. This is our legitimate interest in running a secure service.
• To fix bad questions and find out whether the games work: the questions you report, the pilot's invite notes, how many fans come back and share (and whether by link, image or copied text), how long setting up takes, and overall totals such as how many fans got a question right. This is our legitimate interest in improving FaveIQ.
• If you have a staff role: your email address is recorded next to the content changes you make (such as questions, facts, imports and daily challenges), so we can see who changed what. Other staff can see it in our change log. If your editor or owner role ends, we note the date: for 14 days after it, your Fan Fives don't earn weekly points and you aren't counted in Fanbase Wars, because you may have seen those days' answers. This is our legitimate interest in being accountable for what FaveIQ shows, and in keeping Fanbase Wars fair.
• To check rounds for unfair play from answer timings and right answers, and to hide a flagged account from the boards until a person checks it: our legitimate interest in fair competition and in protecting other players.
• To answer you when you use your rights (below): because the law requires it (“legal obligation”).

Your right to object: where we rely on our legitimate interests, you can object by emailing ukpakaemmanuel@gmail.com. We will stop unless we have a strong reason to carry on, such as keeping the service secure.

We don't use your data for ads. If we ever want to use it for something new, such as analytics, we will ask you first.

Automatic scores

Your skill scores, Fan IQs, Culture IQ and Afrobeats IQ are worked out automatically, by a formula, from your answers (whether you were right, and how hard each question was). We use them to pick questions at your level and to show your scores on your profile. They are game scores only: they have no legal effect on you and don't affect anything similarly important, such as money, work or access to services. Your weekly points, each fanbase's weekly score and the leaderboard ranks are worked out the same way, by fixed rules, from the rounds you play. If you think a score is wrong, email us and a person will check it.

We check rounds for signs of unfair play using answer timings. A flagged account is hidden from the boards until a person checks it, usually within 48 hours. Your games and scores still work. If your account is still under review when a week's results are worked out, you aren't counted in that week's final standings.

Leaderboards and Fanbase Wars

• Fanbase Wars starts on Monday 26 October 2026. From then, each week (Monday to Sunday, Lagos time), your Fan Five and your first 3 Workout games of each day earn weekly points: your best 5 days added up. Fanbases compete on their most active members' average. Only accounts take part: guests' games don't earn weekly points.
• Leaderboards open on a date we show in the app at least a week before. From then, signed-in players can see the weekly points boards (everyone, and each fanbase), a Fan IQ board for each artist (players who follow that artist, once their Fan IQ is settled), the Culture IQ board, and Top fans on artist pages. Each row shows a username (linking to that profile), a fanbase, the points or IQ, and the rank. The boards are only for signed-in players, and we ask search engines not to list them.
• Show me on boards is on unless you turn it off in Settings. Off, you appear as “Hidden player”, with no name or link, but with your rank and points, and you still count for your fanbase. Your winners' badges are hidden too.
• A winners' badge (for example “Season 3 winners · Wizkid FC”) is earned when your fanbase wins a week and you were one of its active members, which means you were in that fanbase all week, played on at least 3 days and scored at least 1,000 points. Signed-in players see it on your profile, unless you chose Hidden player. It stays there even if you later change fanbase.
• Reactions: you can give Respect or GG to any fanbase's result for last week, and Next week to your own. Only the number of each reaction is shown, never who gave it.
• Staff accounts and anyone under 18 never appear on a board, and can't react.

Who can see your data

Your profile at /u/your-username is public. Anyone with the link can see your username, your fanbase, your Culture IQ and Afrobeats IQ, and your Fan IQ (with skill scores) for each artist you have played. It never shows your email, your age or your real name, so don't use your real name as your username. For now, we ask search engines not to list profiles, but anyone with the link can still open yours.

Your streak, the calendar of the days you played and your Workouts are not public, except the streak number in a Fan Five result you choose to share: only you see them, when you're signed in.

Share cards

Share cards aren't switched on yet. For now, Share on a Fan Five result gives you a short text to post or paste: the challenge number, your score, your squares, your streak (if you have one) and a link to FaveIQ. It never holds the questions or answers, and we don't make a page or picture for it. When we switch share cards on, this is how they will work.

When you tap Share, we make a share card: a picture of your result with its own page, which anyone with the link can see. Before anything is made, the Share button or panel shows the switches that apply and says who can see the card. A card is fixed on the day you made it: it keeps those numbers even if your scores change, and sharing again never adds anything to a card you already shared (showing more makes a new card with a new link). Cards never show a photo of an artist, your email, your age or your real name.

• A Fan Five card shows the challenge number and date, your score and which squares you got right, never the questions or answers. It shows your streak on the day you made it, unless you turn off “Show my streak”. Its colour is your fanbase's, so it shows which fanbase you support.
• A Fan IQ or Culture IQ card shows the score, its skill scores and the date. It shows your username only if you turn on “Show my username”, which starts off. If you change your username, it disappears from every card you made. A Fan IQ card also names your fanbase.
• A Fanbase Wars card shows a finished week's fanbase ranks, and highlights “Your fanbase”. While few people play it shows no scores or member counts, and it never names a player.
• When you paste a card's link into an app like X or WhatsApp, that app fetches the card to build a preview, and it and the people you send it to can keep copies under their own terms. We can't delete those copies.

Signed-in players can see each fanbase's weekly score and rank, how many active members it has, and how many of each reaction its result got. These are totals: they don't name anyone. While few people play, though, a fanbase's score can be the average of just two players' weekly points.

Once leaderboards open, signed-in players can also see your username, fanbase, weekly points and ranks, your Fan IQ and Culture IQ ranks (including Top fans on artist pages), and your winners' badges on your profile, unless you choose Hidden player in Settings (see Leaderboards and Fanbase Wars). Before then, none of this is shown to anyone else. Streak badges are only ever shown to you.

What others can still work out:

• Hidden player isn't full anonymity in a small fanbase. On a fanbase board with only a few players, someone who knows which fanbase you play for may work out which Hidden player row is yours, and see your weekly points.
• If you are named on a board and then disappear from it while your profile still works, others may guess that your account is being checked or is suspended from the boards. We never say so anywhere public, and a check usually ends within 48 hours.

Everything else, such as your email, your invite and your sign-in records, is private. Only Emmanuel and the services listed below can see it.

Who handles your data for us

• Supabase: our database and sign-in, in London.
• Vercel: runs the website. Our code runs in London, but pages can pass through Vercel servers near you, which also keep copies of share card images for up to an hour.
• Sentry: error reports, and speed timings for about 1 in 10 visits (not switched on yet; when it is, this is all it gets). They say what went wrong and where in our code, the type of browser and device, and which pages and requests were involved. In those page addresses, usernames, invite codes and round numbers are replaced by placeholders, and anything after a ? is removed. They don't include your account details, cookies or what you typed. Kept for up to 90 days.
• Resend: delivers our sign-in and sign-up code emails, from its servers in Ireland, and keeps a record of each one (the address and the message) for up to 30 days.
• GitHub: stores our daily database backups, in the US (once we switch backups on).

Our contact inbox (ukpakaemmanuel@gmail.com) is a Gmail account. So Google holds the emails you send us and our replies, including any copy of your data we send you, under Google's own terms and privacy policy. Google doesn't work for us under a data protection contract there.

Most of these companies are based in the US, or use staff and suppliers there, so your data may be handled outside the country you live in, including in the UK, the EU and the US. Where the law needs a safeguard for sending your data to another country, we rely on the one in that company's data protection terms, such as the UK's International Data Transfer Addendum or the UK–US “data bridge”. Email us for details or a copy.

If you choose Continue with Google, Google shares your email, name, profile photo link and Google ID with us, and knows you signed in to FaveIQ. Google's own privacy policy covers what Google does with your data.

We never sell your data or share it for targeted advertising. Apart from your public profile and the cards you choose to share, we only share it with the services above, so they can run FaveIQ for us, or if the law requires it.

How long we keep it

• A guest account that hasn't passed the age check: deleted after a day.
• A guest account that joined with a pilot invite link: deleted 30 days after the pilot ended (ask us if you'd like the date). Then the invite notes are deleted and every invite link is replaced. If you added an email and entered its code, it became an account and is kept.
• Any other guest account, which includes every guest who starts playing from our home page: deleted 30 days after its last game, or 30 days after it was made if it never played. A job that runs every night does this, so it can take up to a day longer.
• An account that hasn't played any round (the placement test counts, but results moved in from a guest don't): deleted a day after sign-up if it hasn't passed the age check, or 30 days after sign-up if setting up was never finished. This doesn't apply to accounts that joined with a pilot invite, to our team's accounts, or to accounts made before we added account set-up that never started it.
• Any other account: kept until you delete it.
• Your streak days and Workouts are kept with the rest of your gameplay until your account (or guest account) is deleted, and go with it.
• Share cards (once they're switched on): 90 days after you made them, or until you delete them, whichever comes first. A guest account's cards also go when the guest account is deleted (see above). Our host's copies of a card's images can last up to an hour after you delete or change the card.
• Your weekly points for each week (your points on each day, your best-5 total and the fanbase you played for) are deleted about 4 weeks after that week's results are worked out, or sooner if you delete your account. Each fanbase's final weekly score and rank are totals that name no one, and are kept. A fanbase change you've asked for is cleared once it takes effect or you cancel it. Your badges are kept until you delete your account.
• Your reactions are deleted when the next week's results are worked out; only the number of each reaction is kept, with the fanbase's result. The copies of your Fan IQs and Culture IQ, and your Show me on boards choice, go with your account.
• Fair play: a flag a person clears is deleted 90 days after it was cleared, by a job that runs every night (so within about 91 days); a flag a person upholds is kept until your account is deleted. A flag nobody has checked yet stays on record, with its timings, until a person reviews it or your account is deleted. A review hold ends when a person checks the flag, or on its own once every flag still waiting to be checked is 14 days old. A record of each fair-play decision, suspension or username change we make (your account's ID, the flag, and a reason code, never your username) is kept for good, even after your account is deleted, so we can account for what we did. Only Emmanuel can see it.
• Sign-in records go with the account or guest account. Server logs are kept for up to 7 days, error reports for up to 90 days, and records of code emails for up to 30 days.
• When an account or guest account is deleted, its rounds (scores and timings), answers and question reports stay in our records without the account, and are used only for overall totals (for example, how many fans got a question right). Any note written on a report is deleted. Rounds played with a pilot invite stay linked to that invite until the invite notes are deleted, 30 days after the pilot ended.
• We back up the game database once a day and keep each backup for up to 90 days, only to restore FaveIQ if something breaks. So something deleted, including report notes and invite notes, can stay in a backup for up to 90 days. Backups don't include email addresses, except staff email addresses recorded next to the content changes they made.

Cookies

All of these are needed for the site to work, so we don't ask before setting them.

• sb-… sign-in cookies keep you (or your guest account) signed in. They last up to 400 days unless you sign out. They hold your account ID and the keys that show you are signed in. If you have an account, they also hold your email address. With Google, they also hold the name, photo link and Google ID Google sent and, for a while after you sign in, a Google access key (we never use it, and it stops working after about an hour). If you typed an email address as a guest and haven't entered its code yet, that address is in them too.
• When you ask for a sign-in code, add an email or use Google, extra sb-…-code-verifier cookies hold a random check value (nothing about you). They are removed when you sign out, and never last longer than the sign-in cookies.
• fanfive_age_block is set after an answer that doesn't pass the age check, and stops the age check on that browser for 24 hours.
• fiq_merge is set only when you choose to move a guest's results into your account while signing in. It lasts 15 minutes, so we can move them once you're in.

We don't use advertising or tracking cookies. Analytics tools (which track how people use a site) are switched off.

Your age

FaveIQ is for adults (18 and over) for now.

• Before you first play, we ask for the month and year you were born. As a guest, and with email sign-up, we ask before any account is made. If Google sign-in makes your account, it is made first and we ask straight after: it can't play until you answer, and it is deleted a day later if you never do.
• We use your answer once to check your age, then throw it away. We only keep the date you passed the check and the fact that you are 18 or over.
• The invite page from the pilot asks only for your birth year. A year alone can't tell us whether you have had your birthday yet, so it only lets in people who turn 19 or older this year.
• If your answer doesn't pass the check, we tell you, and you can't try again on that browser for 24 hours (the fanfive_age_block cookie). We don't keep your answer. A guest account or new account on that browser that hadn't passed the check is deleted, straight away or within two days (our team's accounts are only signed out).

Moving guest results into your account

If you play as a guest and then sign in to an account you already have, you can choose to move this device's Fan Five results, streak, pilot invite (if it has one) and share cards into the account. Nothing moves unless you tick the box when you sign in: it always starts unticked. The account keeps everything it already had, and the guest account is then deleted with its sign-in records.

Your rights and choices

• Delete your account: go to Settings and tap Delete my account. It is deleted from the live service straight away, and from our backups within 90 days. Your rounds, answers and reports stay in our records without your account, and are used only for overall totals (see How long we keep it).
• Share cards (once they're switched on): delete any card, or all of them at once, or hide the streak or username on a card, in Settings. A guest deletes a card, or hides its streak, from its Fan Five result. Anyone, including a person named on a card, can email a card's link to ukpakaemmanuel@gmail.com to have it removed. We can't delete copies that people or other apps already hold.
• See your data or get a copy: email ukpakaemmanuel@gmail.com from the email address on your account. We only send it to that address, and only when you write from it, so no one else can get your data. The copy comes in a common file format that you can read or use elsewhere.
• Correct it: if something we hold is wrong, or your username shows your real name, email us and we will fix or change it.
• Leaderboards: turn off Show me on boards in Settings to appear as Hidden player, with your winners' badges hidden. You can also object to the fair-play check by emailing us; we would then take your account off the boards, which also stops the check, and your games and scores would still work. If you think a flag or suspension is a mistake, email us and a person will look at it again.
• Limit or object: you can ask us to pause using your data while we check something, or object to the uses based on our legitimate interests (see above).
• Guest accounts: a guest account isn't linked to your name, and usually not to an email. If you joined with a pilot invite, message the person who sent it or email us, and we will delete that invite's guest accounts or send you their data. We usually can't find other guest accounts, such as one started from our home page, from a message, so they are deleted automatically 30 days after their last game.
• Staff: if you have a staff role, your email address stays in our change log next to the content changes you made, even after you delete your account.
• Using these rights is free, and we reply within one month.
• Complain: if you are unhappy with how we use your data, please tell us first. You can also complain to the data protection regulator where you live: in the UK, the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint); in Nigeria, the Nigeria Data Protection Commission (ndpc.gov.ng); in Ghana, the Data Protection Commission (dataprotection.org.gh). In the US, you can contact your state attorney general.

Changes to this page

If we change how we use your data, we will update this page and the date at the top. For a big change, we will tell you in the app before it applies.

We don't track you across other websites, and we don't let other companies do that through FaveIQ, so a browser's “Do Not Track” signal has nothing to switch off here.

Contact us

For any question about your data, or to use any of your rights, email ukpakaemmanuel@gmail.com. We will reply within one month.

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