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Privacy Policy
The short version. PartyBox needs no account. You pick a name and an avatar; we tie your progress to a random ID stored on your device. We measure anonymous usage to improve the games. PartyBox is free and shows ads. Google Analytics and personalised ads run only if you accept them; if you decline, ads are non-personalised. You can delete everything we hold about your device from your Profile page. We do not sell your data.
1. Who we are
PartyBox is a collection of multiplayer party and card games, available as a website and as an app. Questions about this policy, a data request, or anything else: email arcspaninfra@gmail.com, WhatsApp +91 90012 90623, or use the feedback link in the app.
2. What we collect
| Data | Why | Where it lives |
|---|---|---|
| Name and avatar you choose (not verified; please don't use your real name if you'd rather not) | Shown to other players in your room | On your device; copied into any room you join |
| Random device ID (a UUID we generate, not your advertising ID or hardware ID) | Recognises you as the same player between visits; keys your progress and usage records | On your device and in our database |
| Progress: XP, badges, per-game wins and games played | Profile and ranked play | On your device and in our database |
| Room and gameplay data: who is in a room, cards, answers, bids, confessions and clues you type, emoji reactions | Running the game | Our database, visible to everyone in that room |
| Voice clips: only when you hold the "Hold to talk" button, up to 15 seconds each | Played to the other players in your room | Our database, until it is auto-deleted (see Retention) |
| Usage records: only if you tap Accept on the consent banner. Events such as app opened, session start and length, game started or finished, which game, when; plus whether you use the app or the website, your operating system, app version, first and last seen, and session count | Understanding which games are used and fixing problems | Our database, linked to your device ID |
| Google Analytics for Firebase data and ad personalisation data: only if you tap Accept on the consent banner. Non-personalised ads are shown either way; they may still use cookies or device identifiers for frequency capping, fraud prevention and measurement. | Aggregate analytics; showing ads | Google (see Section 4) |
| Your choice on the consent banner | To remember it | On your device |
We do not collect your precise location, contacts, email address, phone number, or payment details. The microphone is used only while you hold the talk button, and only after your browser or phone asks your permission.
3. Consent and your choices
- Google Analytics and personalised ads are off until you accept. Declining still shows ads, but not personalised ones, and every game stays fully playable.
- You can change your mind any time: use "Analytics & ads choice" at the bottom of the home screen or in Profile.
- Usage records (Section 2) are also off until you accept. If you decline, we only add one to an anonymous daily count of people who declined, with nothing that identifies you. You can erase existing records with "Delete my data".
- Denying microphone permission only disables voice.
4. Who else sees your data
- Other players in your room see your name, avatar, moves, reactions, anything you type into a game, and your voice clips. Room data is not private to individual players: treat it as visible to anyone who has the room code. Don't put personal information in names, confessions or voice.
- Google (Firebase / Cloud Firestore) hosts our database. Data may be processed on servers outside India.
- Vercel hosts the website and sees standard request data such as your IP address.
- Google Analytics for Firebase, only if you accept.
- Firebase Crashlytics (Android app only) receives crash and error reports: the error, the screen you were on, and device model and OS version. It is used only to fix bugs.
- Google AdMob (in the Android app) and Google AdSense (on the website). Ads are personalised only if you accept; otherwise Google serves non-personalised ads. Ad providers may use identifiers or cookies to measure ads and prevent fraud.
Fonts are hosted by us; no font requests go to Google. We do not sell personal data.
5. Retention
- Rooms (players, game state, actions, reactions, voice clips) are deleted when the host ends the game, and otherwise by a daily cleanup once they are more than 24 hours old, so they are gone within about one to two days.
- Profile, progress and usage records are kept until you delete them with "Delete my data", or we remove them.
- On your device the data stays until you clear your browser or app storage or use "Delete my data".
6. Deleting your data
Open Profile → Privacy → Delete my data. This erases your synced profile, XP, per-game stats, usage records, and everything stored on that device. Because we identify you only by that random device ID, we cannot look up your data by name or by any other detail. If you can't reach the Profile page, message us and we will help. Rooms you were in disappear on their own as described above.
7. Your rights
Depending on where you live (for example under India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, or the EU/UK GDPR) you may have the right to access, correct or erase your data, withdraw consent, and complain to a regulator. Contact us using the details above and we will respond within a reasonable time. Withdrawing consent does not affect processing done before you withdrew it.
8. Children
PartyBox is for a general audience and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect data from children under 13; if you believe a child has given us data, contact us and we will delete it. If you are under 18, please use PartyBox with the knowledge and permission of a parent or guardian.
9. Security
Connections to our servers use HTTPS. No system is perfectly secure, and we can't guarantee absolute security. Please don't share sensitive information in any game.
10. Credits
Some trivia questions are adapted from the Open Trivia Database and are used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence.
11. Changes
If we change this policy in a meaningful way, we will update the date at the top and, where the change matters to your consent, ask again.