YouTube API Services

Song Arena uses YouTube API Services. By using Song Arena, you are also subject to the Google Privacy Policy.

Song Arena may access, store, and refresh YouTube API data needed to create and play song battles, including YouTube video IDs, video URLs, video titles, channel names, channel IDs, durations, view counts, thumbnails, and whether a video is still available through YouTube API Services.

Song Arena uses this YouTube data to display embedded YouTube videos, build battles, match catalog songs to videos, show video metadata, and refresh stored YouTube data for YouTube API policy compliance.

Google Sign-In

If you sign in with Google, Song Arena may store your Google account ID, Google display name, and profile image so your games, stats, leaderboard scores, reports, review decisions, and account notifications can be tied to your account.

Song Arena also stores any Song Arena display name, initials-avatar choice, interface preferences, and game defaults that you save on your profile. Previous Song Arena display names may be retained privately for account integrity and moderation.

Notifications And Review Messages

Song Arena stores messages sent to your account, publication and deletion review decisions, reviewer notes, announcement read status, and message timestamps so you can receive and manage these communications while signed in.

Published Content

If you publish a game, Song Arena may publicly display its title, included content and publisher name. Song Arena may also display your Song Arena name and best score on game leaderboards.

Public Quiz Results

For public quizzes, Song Arena stores whether each question was answered correctly on a player's first recorded attempt. These results are used to show aggregate scores and the percentage of players who got each question right. Signed-in results are linked to an account. Guest results are included only when the guest opts in; they are linked to a random browser ID, not a name.

If you create a friend challenge, anyone with its link can compare your first recorded right/wrong results with their own after finishing the quiz. The link does not show your submitted answer text.

Cookies And Local Storage

Song Arena uses strictly necessary first-party cookies for Google sign-in. A temporary authentication-state cookie lasts for up to 10 minutes, and the login session cookie lasts for up to 30 days. These cookies are marked HttpOnly, Secure, and SameSite=Lax.

If a guest opts in to public quiz statistics or creates a friend challenge, Song Arena sets a separate first-party browser-ID cookie for up to one year. It is HttpOnly, SameSite=Lax, and Secure on HTTPS. Guests can play public quizzes without this cookie; clearing site data removes it and may cause a later attempt to count as a new guest browser.

Song Arena also uses browser local storage to retain information such as private drafts, ongoing battle progress, guest usage counters, and interface preferences on your device. Clearing site data in your browser may remove this information.

YouTube embedded players and Google services may store or access cookies or similar technologies according to the Google Privacy Policy.

Contact And Removal Requests

If you use the contact form, Song Arena stores your email address, request type, subject, message, account ID, display name, and submission time so the request can be reviewed, answered, and handled.

Storage And Sharing

Song Arena stores data using Cloudflare services. For generated catalog games, Song Arena may use the coarse country code Cloudflare derives from the current request to avoid selecting YouTube videos that are unavailable in that country. Song Arena does not store this country code on the user's profile.

Song Arena does not sell personal information. Use the contact form for questions or content-removal requests.