How your answers are used

This is a game. Please don't rely on your results as fact or advice.

The short version: your first name and your date of birth are never sent to us. Your device uses your date of birth only to work out whether you are 18 or over today, and then forgets it. Your answers are sent to our server so they can be checked and your reading written, and from there to the AI service that does that work. We do not store your answers or your reading on our side, but the AI service keeps its own copy for up to 30 days, and your finished result stays on your device for 30 days. Each of these, and the few short records we and our hosting keep, is explained below.

Who runs this game

Three Questions is run by David Hutton, a sole trader in the United Kingdom, who is the controller of any personal data the game handles. You can reach us about anything on this page at privacy@davidhutton.uk.

What happens to what you type

Your first name

Your first name stays on your device. It is used only on the page and on the share card your device makes, and it is never sent to us.

Your date of birth

The first screen asks for your date of birth. Your device uses it to work out one thing: whether you are 18 or over today. Your date of birth is never sent to us or to anyone else, and it is not stored: the boxes are emptied as soon as it has been read. Only that one fact is kept, for this game. It goes to our server with your first answer, and your pass (below) holds it, so that every part of your reading suits it. Every new game asks for your date of birth again.

Your three answers

Each answer is sent securely to our server when you press Next (or Finish, on the last question) on it, and again only if you change it, for a quick check that it gives enough reasons. When an answer passes, our server starts writing that part of your reading straight away, while you carry on. Once your colour and animal answers have both passed, it also starts writing the part that puts those two together. Your water answer is checked in the same way. If you are 18 or over, nothing is written from it unless you say so at the end (see "Your water answer" below). If you are under 18, its reading is written as soon as it passes, like the other two. We do not store your answers or your reading, and we do not write them to our logs. Each part of your reading comes straight back to your browser.

An AI writes your reading from your answers. It also writes the short notes that ask for more when an answer is too thin. To check your answers and write your reading, our server sends your answers to Anthropic, the company that provides the AI models, which acts on our behalf under its data processing terms. At the time of writing, Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 checks each answer and writes each part of your reading, and Claude Opus 5.5 writes the part that puts your answers together, and the one line in it that adds your water answer (if you are 18 or over, only when you agree to that reading; if either fails, Claude Sonnet 5.5 writes it instead). Claude Sonnet 5.5 also runs the checks on each part of your reading described below. For customers in the United Kingdom, Anthropic's terms name Anthropic Ireland, Limited as the company we deal with. Anthropic says it stores data in the United States and may process it in other countries where it or its service providers work, so your answers leave the United Kingdom. The safeguard we rely on for that is the UK Addendum to the standard contractual clauses, which is part of Anthropic's data processing terms; Anthropic lists where it works on its page Where are your servers located?. Anthropic keeps what it receives through its API as its own policy states: at the time of writing, it says it deletes API inputs and outputs within 30 days, and keeps anything flagged under its usage policies for up to 2 years.

No decision about you is made from your answers, except whether an answer has enough in it to carry on, and you can always add more and try again.

Your colour and animal readings, and the part that puts those two together, are written to suit players of any age. Before you see each of them, a word check on our server and a separate AI check read it for anything unsuitable. If a check finds a problem, that part is written again once. If the check finds a problem again, you see plain lines in place of the ones it found. If you are under 18, every part of your reading, the water one included, is written and checked in this way, on rules made for young players.

While you play, your browser holds a pass from our server, signed so it cannot be changed, which lets each part of your reading be written only once and only for an answer that passed its check. It holds a random number for this game, whether you are 18 or over (the one fact from your date of birth), when the game started, when the pass runs out (30 minutes later) and a scrambled fingerprint of each answer that passed (never the answer itself). It also holds a short scrambled tag of each answer judged too thin, so the same words are not checked twice, and never the answer itself. When a pass runs out, or has used all its checks, our server can swap it for a fresh one without another bot check, for up to two hours after it ran out. A fresh pass also holds the random number of the game it came from. If you are 18 or over and press "Yes, read it" at the end, the pass holds which version of that wording you agreed to and when. It never holds your name. We do not store the pass, and your browser forgets it when you leave the page. If you press "Yes, read it", we keep a short record of that, described under "Your water answer".

Your water answer

This part gives away the game's surprise, so you may want to read it after you play.

At the end, the game shows what each question was really asking. If you are 18 or over, the water question was really asking about your view of your own sexuality, so a reading of your water answer is a reading about your sex life. Before anything is written from your water answer, the game asks you. You see one sentence, written as if you were saying it, that says that you are happy for Three Questions to use your water answer, with your other two, for a frank reading about your sex life, never explicit. Under it, one line says how to change your mind: "Clear my result" removes it from this device. Then come two buttons of the same size, "Yes, read it" and "Keep it to myself". You get the water reading only if you press "Yes, read it". Pressing it is how you agree.

The reading is frank: it talks about sex and how you are in bed plainly, as friends might, about your style, such as your pace, your mood and energy, how adventurous you are, and who leads. It is never explicit. It never describes bodies or anything people do, it never guesses who you are attracted to, and it makes no hidden jokes. Before you see it, a separate AI check, also run through Anthropic, reads the water reading, and the one line about it in the part that puts your answers together, for anything of that kind. If it finds one, that part is written again once, and if it finds one again, you see plain lines in place of the ones it found. The second writing is told what the check found, so that it can leave it out.

If you press "Yes, read it", your water answer is sent to Anthropic again to write the water part of your reading. It is also sent with your other two answers, and the part already written from those two, to write one line that adds your water answer to that part. Your pass then records your agreement as described above, and in a game for someone 18 or over our server will not write anything from your water answer without it. Our server also keeps a short record that you agreed: a scrambled form of this game's random number, which version of the wording you agreed to, and when. It never holds your name, your answers, your reading or your IP address, and it is deleted after 30 days. We keep it so that we can show the water reading was written only after someone agreed to it.

Your share card shows your water part like the other two: its type name and its headline, a short line from your water reading. It starts switched on, and one switch takes it off before you share. At the time of writing, the card also shows what each question was really asking.

If you press "Keep it to myself", your water answer is never used for a reading. The part that puts your answers together is written from your colour and animal answers only, and the water part is left off your results and your share card. If you close the page without choosing, nothing more is sent, nothing is read from your water answer and no result is saved on your device.

If you are under 18, the game does not ask at the end. Your water question was really asking how you see love: for the people, pets and things you care about. That reading is written and checked so that it is never about sex or romance. It is written as soon as your water answer passes its check, like your other two, with one line that adds it to the part that puts your answers together. No agreement is asked for and none is recorded.

Before the end, your water answer is sent, like your other two, for the check described above, when you press Finish on it, again only if you change it, and again if the game has to repeat its checks after something goes wrong. That check looks only at whether you gave enough reasons. It is not told what the question is really asking, and it is not asked to read anything into your answer.

Changing your mind: until you press "Yes, read it", closing the page or pressing "Keep it to myself" means no reading is ever written from your water answer. Once your reading is written, we hold none of your answers and none of your reading on our side to delete; the short record of your agreement holds neither, and it goes after 30 days. "Clear my result" removes your reading from your device, and Anthropic's copy is deleted as its policy states (above).

Your result

Your finished result, with your first name and your reading, is kept in your own browser's storage on this device for 30 days, so it is still there if you reload or come back. It never holds your answers as you typed them, but your reading can repeat some of your own words. We can't see it, but anyone who uses this browser on this device can, until you clear it or the 30 days are up. To remove it sooner, press "Clear my result", or clear this site's data in your browser. "Play it on someone else" removes it too. It also records whether the game was for someone 18 or over or under 18, so that it shows the right readings, but never your date of birth.

Anonymous counts

We keep a few counts that cannot identify anyone: how many readings were written and how many answer checks were made each day (so we can cap the daily totals), and how many players got each type, counted apart for players under 18 and players 18 or over (for the "where you stand" figures; a water type is counted only once its reading is written). For a short while we also keep a scrambled record of each part of a game already used, so that no part can be used twice. For each game we also keep a count of how many answer checks it has used, and for each bot check passed, how many times its pass has been swapped for a fresh one, so that no game can use too many. Each count is kept under a scrambled form of the game's random number. Each of these records and counts is deleted soon after the game's pass has run out, and at the latest by our daily clear-out, so none is kept more than about a day after the game ends. None of these include your name, your answers, your reading or your IP address. The one other record, kept only if you press "Yes, read it", is described under "Your water answer".

If you sign up for news of new games

When the sign-up is open, you can choose at the end of the game to leave your email address to hear when David Hutton releases a new game. The box starts unticked. We store your address only if you tick it, send the form, and then press the button in the one confirmation email we send. Until you press that button we do not store your address ourselves: the link in that email carries it in sealed form, and it stops working after 48 hours. The email service that sends the confirmation, Resend (below), keeps its own copy of the email it sent, as its own terms state.

What we keep, and nothing more: your email address, the site you signed up on (threequestions.co.uk), the time you confirmed, and which version of the sign-up wording you agreed to. It is never joined to your answers, your reading or your first name. When you press the confirming button we also keep a scrambled record of that one link, never your address, so it cannot be used a second time. That record is cleared when someone next confirms a sign-up, once the link would have run out (48 hours after the email) and a few minutes more have passed.

Why: to send you one email each time there is a new game or release from David Hutton, and for nothing else. Our reason is your consent, which you can withdraw at any time.

Who sends it: the emails come from our projects address at davidhutton.uk, one list for David Hutton's new games and releases. They are sent through Resend, an email delivery service run by Plus Five Five, Inc., which processes data in the United States on our behalf.

How long, and how to leave: we keep it until you unsubscribe. Every email has a one-click unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing deletes your details straight away. You can also write to us at privacy@davidhutton.uk and we will delete them.

Hosting and the bot check

The game is hosted by Cloudflare, which handles your connection (including your IP address) to deliver the page and keep it safe. To stop automated abuse, Cloudflare also briefly counts requests from each connection, and the game uses Cloudflare Turnstile, a bot check that runs in your browser before your first answer (or a sign-up) is sent. Turnstile looks at signals such as your IP address and browser details to tell people from bots. It runs in managed mode without pre-clearance, so it does not set a cookie for this game. Cloudflare describes how Turnstile handles data in its Turnstile Privacy Addendum.

Cloudflare also keeps a short technical record of each request to our server, which can include your IP address, for up to 7 days at the time of writing. Our own entries in it say only which part of the game was asked for and how it went: never your name, your answers or your reading.

The game has no analytics of its own, no advertising and no tracking cookies. Cloudflare offers the sites it hosts a measuring tool, Cloudflare Web Analytics, and at the time of writing it is switched on for this site's domain. It works by adding a small script from another Cloudflare address to each page, and our pages only let their own scripts and the bot check run, so your browser blocks that script and it measures nothing on your device.

Our reason for using your answers

The law asks us to say what our reason is for each use of your data. You choose to play and to send your answers, and you can stop at any time by closing the page before you finish.

Checking your answers, writing your colour and animal readings, and writing the part that puts those two together: our reason is our legitimate interests (UK GDPR Article 6(1)(f)). Our interest is running the game you chose to play, in the way you would expect it to work, and we have weighed it against yours: each answer is sent only for that, we store none of your answers or readings on our side, and nothing is decided about you beyond whether an answer can carry on. Anyone may play, so some players may be children. The law asks us to take extra care of a child's interests, and we have: these parts are written to suit any age, each is checked before it is shown, and none of your answers or readings is kept on our side. A game for a player under 18 never asks them to sign up or to pay, and carries no links to David Hutton's work beyond the small credit at the foot of each page. Working out from your date of birth whether you are 18 or over, and sending that one fact with your first answer, rests on it too: our interest is giving every player a game that suits their age. You have the right to object to this. Because we hold nothing on our side that names you, the simplest way to object is to stop playing by closing the page, or you can write to us.

This next part gives away the game's surprise. Writing the reading of your water answer, and the one line that adds it to the part that puts your answers together: our reason is your consent (Article 6(1)(a)), and because that reading is about your sex life, your explicit consent (Article 9(2)(a)). You give it by pressing "Yes, read it" at the end. The game asks only when the date of birth you gave says you are 18 or over. This reading is only for people aged 18 or over, and no part of the game is meant to rest on a child's consent. You can say no by pressing "Keep it to myself". If you are under 18, the reading of your water answer, and the one line that adds it to the part that puts your answers together, rest on our legitimate interests, like your other readings: nothing in them is about your sex life, and no part of your game asks for your consent. Keeping the short record that you agreed: so that we can show you did, as the law requires of us (Article 6(1)(c)).

Your IP address, the bot check, the request limits and Cloudflare's short records: our legitimate interests in keeping the game safe and working for everyone (Article 6(1)(f)). If you sign up for news of new games, our reason for keeping your address is your consent, given by ticking the box and confirming by email.

Who can play

Anyone can play Three Questions. The first screen asks for your date of birth, and your device uses it only to work out whether you are 18 or over today. Your date of birth is never sent or kept, and every new game asks for it again. If you are under 18, please give your real date of birth.

This part gives away some of the game's surprise, so you may want to read it after you play.

One reading is only for people aged 18 or over: the reading of your water answer, which is about your sex life. The game offers it only when the date of birth given says 18 or over, and only if the player presses "Yes, read it" at the end. Players under 18 get a game written for them all the way through: the same three questions, readings that suit their age, and a water reading about how they see love, with nothing about sex in it. Everything else in the game is written to suit players of any age.

Your rights

You have the right to ask for a copy of your personal data, to have it corrected or erased, to restrict or object to how it is used, to take it elsewhere, and to withdraw your consent at any time. Unless you have signed up for news of new games, we hold nothing on our side that names you or holds your answers: the short record of a "Yes, read it" holds only a scrambled number, so we usually cannot find anything that is yours. Please write to us anyway and we will help.

If you are unhappy with how we have handled your data, please complain to us first at privacy@davidhutton.uk. We will acknowledge a complaint within 30 days and reply to any request within one month. You can also complain to the Information Commission, the UK data protection regulator, at ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint.

Changes

If this page changes, the new version will be posted here. Draft of 22 October 2026, updated the same day for the sign-up, on 23 October 2026 for the launch of the game, and on 26 October 2026 for the date of birth on the first screen, which gives players under 18 a game written for them.