License and Privacy Policy

By using the Pokemon Guess Who service, you agree to and acknowledge ALL of the following terms, licenses, and copyrights:

Pokemon Guess Who Service Basic Disclaimer (part of the MIT license)

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Pokemon Guess Who Service Privacy Policy

We do not collect personal information from the user to the greatest extent reasonably possible to provide the Pokemon Guess Who service. The most variable information we collect is dependent on what the user enters into the chat box. If a message is entered into the chat box, it is stored in a database for the sole purpose of providing the chat feature of the Pokemon Guess Who service. The message is not used for any other purpose, and is not shared with any third parties. It may be accessible to anyone who has the game's link.

Do not enter any personally-identifiable information into the chat box. Any information entered into the chat box is done so at the user's own risk, and may be accessible to anyone or deleted unpredictably. We are not responsible for any information entered into the chat box, and we do not guarantee that it will be kept private or secure. We collect basic information about the game in order to store the track of it server-side. This is essential to the functioning of the game, and is not used for any other purpose.

We automatically clean up any games that have not had a recent move in the last 24 hours. Additionally, we will delete any games that have lasted more than 7 days unconditionally. This will delete any chat messages and game information. If you need to delete information before that time, you may attempt to contact us via the email described in the "Contact" section of this website's main page.

Depending on server-side systems, we may log some information about the source IP address of connections and about the HTTP/HTTPS requests made to our server. We also use the Cloudflare service; please read their privacy policy to understand what this entails.

We may use cookies, local storage, session storage, and similar systems to provide the service, but we do not use them to track users (beyond allowing the game to remember your role as Red, Blue or a Spectator) or collect personal information.

We do not use any third-party analytics or advertising services (although Cloudflare might).


This project relies heavily on the PokeAPI. The images and Pokedex content are covered by their license, which I have reproduced here on 6/22/2023. We do not host any images from the PokeAPI (although we may directly provide some of the Pokemon metadata), and we do not claim ownership of any of the images or content from the PokeAPI. We do not claim ownership of any of the Pokemon names, images, or content.

Please check the license link for the most up-to-date version of the license.

The PokeAPI License

Copyright (c) © 2013–2023 Paul Hallett and PokéAPI contributors (https://github.com/PokeAPI/pokeapi#contributing). Pokémon and Pokémon character names are trademarks of Nintendo.

All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

Neither the name of PokéAPI nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.