Privacy · Game Night

Game Night is a small, invite-only games app for friends and family. This page explains, in plain words, what we keep, who can see it, and how to delete it. We don't show ads, we don't sell or share your information for marketing, and we don't use tracking or analytics cookies (our cookies keep you signed in, remember your settings, and help keep the rankings fair).

What we keep

Your sign-in: the email address on the Google account or Apple ID you use to sign in. That is the only part of the sign-in Game Night reads. If you choose Apple's “Hide My Email”, the address we get is Apple's forwarding address, not your own (Game Night doesn't send email to players). The sign-in service also keeps Google's or Apple's own record of that sign-in, which can include the name (and, from Google, the picture) they send. We do not copy those onto your profile. If you sign in with Apple, we also keep the permission Apple gives Game Night, so that deleting your account can hand it back to Apple. Your profile is the @username and avatar you choose, and other players are not shown your email. Guests who join a game or a party in the room get a private guest account instead (a stand-in address that isn't a real mailbox).
Your profile: your @username, avatar, and color. After you change your @username, the old one is kept for 30 days so nobody else can take it and pretend to be you. We also keep when you last had the app open (for the “online now” dot), your privacy choices, and your age group: 13–17 or 18+. We ask your date of birth once and do not store that date. If you are 13–17 we store the day you turn 18. That day is your date of birth plus 18 years, so the calendar date can be worked out from it. We use it only to lift the under-18 settings on that day. Other players are not shown your age or that day.
Your games: the games you play, including moves, cards, dice, guesses, times, and results, whether you play alone, against the computer, with a friend, in a race, or in a party. That includes daily games (your result for the day) and practice games you play while signed in. Words you type in a game, such as a guess or a made-up “fact” in Straight Face, are kept for that game.
Drawings: if you draw in Scribblitz for a friend, for your friends on the daily, or at a party, we keep the drawing and the word it was for. A report on a drawing is kept too, including the reason and any note.
Friends: your friends, friend requests, the players you've blocked (they are not told), and your friend link. A friend link works for 7 days. Anyone with the link can open it while it works.
Invites: if someone invited you, we note who, or which invite code you used, so the Game Night team can see how people joined. You can see who joined with your link, under Friends › Add friend. Other players cannot see who invited you. A sign-up that stops at Google's or Apple's screen holds one of the inviter's places for about 30 minutes, then that half-made account is removed and the place is free again.
Compare and rankings: the numbers behind Stats (scores, times, how often you play). If you and a friend both leave “Friends can compare stats with me” on, which is the starting position, that friend can see those numbers next to theirs. Either of you can turn it off in Settings › Privacy. Rankings keep your placings for the month. Your name is not put on a board until you choose Friends or Everyone in Settings › Privacy. Friends shows your name to your friends. Everyone can show your name on the Everyone boards, to adults, in the top 10. Until you choose, and if you choose Off, your name is not on the boards. Players under 18 can choose Friends or Off, not Everyone, and their scores stay off the older opt-in leaderboards.
Notifications: if you turn them on, the address your browser gives us to deliver them, which kinds you want, and a list of your recent notifications (kept 30 days).
Reports you send: a Know Way! question, a Straight Face fake, a Cross Patch clue, a Scribblitz drawing, or a player. We keep what you reported, your reason, any note, and who sent it. Only we see player reports, and the player is never told who reported them. If a player is reported, we look at the reports about them and the games they've played lately.
Rankings reports: if you report a result on a rankings board, which board and month, what that row showed you, your reason, any note you add, and when. We work out whose result it was ourselves, so you never learn who a “Game Night player” is. Only we see it, and the player is never told. We look at the reported player's dailies that month and the phones they share with other accounts. Deleting your account deletes the reports you sent and any about you.
If we act on an account: when we change a @username that breaks the name rules, pause or close an account for breaking the rules, or take a player's results off the rankings (a day, a month, or until we let them back) or take back a title, we keep a short note of it: the @username it had, what we did, why and when (and, for a pause, until when). Only we see it. We keep it after the account is closed, so we remember why. A @username we took away can't be used again. A paused account is told why and until when.
Fair play: so one person can't climb the rankings with two accounts, while you have the app open we note, at most a few times a day, which device you're on (a random number kept in a cookie on that device, never anything else about it) and a scrambled form of your internet address (never the address itself). We keep each note 60 days. Only we see it, and only to check whether two accounts often share a device or network. Deleting your account deletes it.
Feedback: if you send feedback, your message, what it's about, the game you picked and who sent it. For “Something's broken”, also the app's version, your kind of device (such as “iPhone”) and the screen you came from, to help us find the problem. If you add a screenshot, a smaller copy of it, with anything hidden inside the picture (such as where a photo was taken) left out. Only we see it, and deleting your account deletes it, screenshots too.
Settings you choose to sync between your devices.
Which games are played: when you start and finish a game, which kind (for example against the computer, a daily, or with friends), the options you chose (such as the level or the timer), and how far it got. The rows are tied to your account until you delete it. The pages we use to decide what to improve show totals only (“212 Chess games this week”), not your name. It's our own record: no analytics company or tracker sees it. The same goes for which rules and help screens you open (such as a game's How to play) and whether your device shows Game Night light or dark, and with fewer animations. Deleting your account takes your name off those rows and keeps the counts.
Slowing repeated tries: for things like wrong room codes or a lot of new accounts from one place, we keep a short signature of the internet address the call came from, not the address itself, and not your name. It is not shown to anyone.

Some things stay only on your device and never reach us: games against the computer while you play them (only the result is sent, for your stats), solo Sudoku in progress, Know Way! practice games played while signed out, and similar.

Who can see what

There is no public list of players. A phone cannot download everyone's names from the database. Another person sees your @username and avatar when you are friends; when you are in a game, race, or party together (a guest who joined that party in the room sees the names of people there); when they search and you can be found (the starting position for adults; you can switch this to friend link only, and players under 18 are always friend-link only, so they do not appear in search); when they open a friend link you shared, while that link still works (that page can be opened without signing in); and on rankings, only as the rankings choice above allows.
Your friends can see when you're online if you both leave that on in Settings › Privacy. They can see your record against them. A friend sees how you did on a daily only after they have finished that day's game themselves: a score, a time, or a color pattern, not the secret word, the answers, or the cards. While they are still playing, they are not shown your result (a few dailies may show only how many friends have finished). If Compare is on for both of you, they can see the stats numbers described above.
The people in a game with you see that game: your moves, and a secret word or a card once the game's rules allow it. A drawing you make is shown to the friend you drew it for. At a party, the people in that party see the drawing and the words the game shows them, including a guest who joined in the room. In Scribblitz, other people see a near miss only as “close”, not the letters you typed, and a guess the word filter calls unkind is not shown to them. Straight Face refuses an unkind made-up fact before anyone else can see it. Other games can still show the people in that game the words you typed.
Older leaderboards (a few games that still use an opt-in list) show your scores only if you switch them on in Settings. Rankings work as described above, which is separate from that switch.
Other players cannot see your email address, your age group, the day you turn 18, your blocks, or your notifications.

Who helps us run it

Supabase stores the data and handles sign-in.
Vercel runs the website.
Google signs you in, if you choose Google, and Apple, if you choose Apple.
Your phone or browser maker (for example Apple or Google) delivers notifications, if you turn them on.

They process information only to provide these services. Connections are encrypted.

Keeping and deleting

We keep your information while you have an account. You can delete your account at any time in Settings › Account › Delete my account. That erases your sign-in, profile, friends, blocks, notifications, settings, drawings, the reports you sent, your rankings and badges, and the note of who invited you. People you invited keep their own accounts. Games you played with other people stay in their history, shown as “Deleted player”. The counts of which games were played keep those games with no name attached. While you have an account, the in-app notification list is kept for 30 days. Deleting the account removes it straight away. If you signed in with Apple, deleting also tells Apple to stop Game Night's Sign in with Apple.

Can't sign in, or want a copy of your information? Email jtcampbell399@gmail.com and we'll help.

Ages 13 and up

Game Night is for ages 13 and up. We ask your date of birth once, when you first sign in or join as a guest. If you're under 13, we don't create an account (and erase one already made, including the invite), so we don't keep information about children. We keep your age group, and for ages 13 to 17 the day you turn 18, so those players can get extra protective settings. Parents: if you think your child under 13 has an account, email jtcampbell399@gmail.com and we'll delete it.

Players aged 13 to 17 get these settings automatically, until their 18th birthday: they don't appear in player search, they add friends only with friend links or QR codes (not by @username), only their friends can challenge them, and their scores stay off the leaderboards. They can still choose Friends or Off for rankings. Other players are never told anyone's age, and anyone can choose the same friend-link and friends-only settings in Settings › Privacy.

Changes and questions

If this policy changes, we'll update the date at the top. See also the Terms of Use. Questions? Email jtcampbell399@gmail.com or see Help & support.