WHAT WE KEEP ON FILE
This page tells you what Fifth Copy knows about you, why, and for how long. It also tells you how to have it deleted.
- FORM
- LAW 25
- UPDATED
- 2026-11-12
- QUESTIONS
- ASK YOUR TEACHER
What we collect
Fifth Copy never asks for your email, your real name, your birth date or your school.
Most students play as guests. Here is what the game keeps about you.
- A guest number, kept in a cookie in your browser.
- Your typist name. Guests get one at random, like Sparrow-482.
- Your race results: speed, accuracy, rank and time.
- The keys you type during a race, with their timing.
- The look of your 3D clerk and your settings, like language and theme.
- Your device's address on the Internet (IP), when it talks to our servers.
- Your profile picture, only if you add one.
- If you create an account: your username and a scrambled form of your password and recovery code. We never keep the password itself.
- If you sign in with GitHub, Discord or Google: your account number with that service.
- If a teacher gives you a code to reset your password: a scrambled form of the code, and which teacher gave it.
Why we collect it
We keep only what the game needs to work.
We sell nothing. We show no ads. We send nothing to a service that measures visits.
- Your guest number links your results and settings to you, without a password.
- Your typist name helps players tell each other apart in a lobby.
- Your account lets you sign in and find your results on any computer.
- Your results feed your history, your stats and the rankings.
- Your keys feed the per-key stats and help us spot cheating.
- Your IP address helps us find errors and abuse.
- Your clerk and your settings only show what you chose.
How long we keep it
We keep nothing longer than needed. Here is how long we keep each thing.
The automatic deletion of guests and keys is coming soon.
- Inactive guest account: it will be deleted after 12 months with no race, sign-in or settings change.
- Account (username, GitHub, Discord or Google): kept until you delete it, or your school asks us to.
- Keys typed during a race: they will be deleted 30 days after the race.
- Server logs and IP addresses: 30 days.
- Lobbies: 24 hours after they close.
- Live race rooms: 1 hour after the last activity.
- Backup copies: 14 days, then they are replaced.
- Cookies in your browser: 1 year at most.
Who sees your picture
A profile picture is optional. If you add one, only you and the players who share a lobby or a race with you see it. After a race, they can still see it for 24 hours.
Their browser may keep the copy it was shown, even after that.
A filter checks every new picture on our server. Your picture is never sent anywhere else to be checked.
The person in charge looks at your picture only if it is held for review or reported. They look to decide, and never copy it.
A refused picture is deleted right away.
BACK TO THE TOP ↑Delete my data
You can ask us to delete all your data. Ask your teacher or your school office. They pass your request to the person in charge.
You do not have to give an email or any other information. You get an answer within 30 days.
Soon, you will also be able to delete your data yourself in your settings.
After the deletion, a copy stays in the backups for 14 days at most. Then it is gone.
BACK TO THE TOP ↑Who is responsible
The person in charge of your personal information is Jimmy Razafindretsa. He is a student at Cégep de Sorel-Tracy, and he builds and runs Fifth Copy.
Do you have a question or a complaint? Ask your teacher or your school office. They pass it on to the person in charge.
Every request gets an answer within 30 days.
BACK TO THE TOP ↑Other services we use
Fifth Copy runs on the servers of Railway, a hosting company. Your data is kept in the United States, in the San Francisco region, so outside Québec.
You can sign in with GitHub, Discord or Google. They only get what your own sign-in sends them. We only read your account number, your name and your picture, never your email.
These services are for people 13 or older. If you are younger, use a username or play as a guest.
We share nothing with other companies for advertising.
BACK TO THE TOP ↑Rules (terms of use)
These rules say how to play well with others. They apply to you, with or without an account.
RULES UPDATED · 2026-11-12
What these rules are
Fifth Copy is a free typing race game for classrooms. It is a student project run by Jimmy Razafindretsa, a student at Cégep de Sorel-Tracy.
These rules apply to everyone who plays, with or without an account. The teacher who hosts a race helps apply them in their room.
Your school's own code of conduct still applies when you play in class. There is no chat in Fifth Copy, so your name, your picture and the way you race are what others see.
Usernames
Pick a name you would be fine showing on the classroom projector. A filter checks names in French and English, but it does not catch everything.
- No insults, slurs, hate, threats or sexual words, in any language or spelling.
- No references to drugs, alcohol or violence.
- Do not pretend to be a teacher, a classmate or someone else.
- Do not use your full real name or anyone else's.
- No personal details: no address, phone number, email, school ID or social media handle.
Profile pictures
Only you and the players who share a lobby or a race with you see your picture, for 24 hours after the race. It must be fine for a classroom.
A filter checks every new picture. Some pictures are held for review, and everyone sees the default portrait until a person checks them.
A refused picture is deleted and your previous picture stays. You will see why, and how to ask for another look.
- No nudity, sexual content, violence, weapons, drugs or hate symbols.
- No photo of another person without their permission.
- No visible personal details, like a name, address or school ID.
- Better yet, do not use a photo of your face. A drawing or an object works fine.
Fair play
Type every key yourself. The server checks speed and rhythm, and a race that looks automated is marked as under review.
A race under review does not count in stats or rankings. Being flagged is not proof of cheating, and you can ask for a review.
- No scripts, bots, macros, auto-typers or tricks to paste text.
- Do not play on someone else's account or let others play on yours.
- Do not try to break, slow down or overload the game.
- If you find a bug, tell your teacher instead of using it.
What happens if a rule is broken
The answer fits what happened. A first small mistake usually means a change, not a punishment.
Serious problems, like threats or sexual content, are removed right away. Your teacher or school may be told so they can help.
- The teacher can remove you from their lobby.
- A bad username is replaced by a random typist name.
- A bad picture is deleted.
- A cheated race stays out of stats and rankings.
- Repeated or serious problems can lead to your account being deleted.
If you think a decision is wrong
Ask your teacher or your school office to contact the person in charge. Fifth Copy never asks for your email to do this.
Say which username, which race or picture, and why you think the decision is wrong. You get an answer through the same person within 30 days.
The game as it is
Fifth Copy is a free student project. It can have bugs, be unavailable at times, change or stop.
Keep your recovery code safe. Without it, a lost password means a lost account, because there is no email to reset it.
As far as the law allows, the project is not responsible for lost stats, lost accounts or a game that is down. Nothing here takes away rights the law gives you.
Changes to these rules
These rules can change. The date of the last change is shown on this page.
How your personal information is handled is explained in the other sections of this page.