Privacy

Read the Room · last updated 6 September 2026

Read the Room has no accounts, no sign-in and no advertising. It does not ask for your location, camera, microphone, contacts, photos or files, and it contains no third-party advertising or analytics SDKs. The one piece of personal data we hold is an email address, and only if you typed one into the waitlist form yourself.

What stays on your device

The television app keeps a few small settings in its own local storage. These never leave the device and are not readable by us:

which picture cards this television has already shown, so a card is not repeated;
whether the sound is muted;
whether the how-to-play screen has been seen;
on a phone, a random seat token so that a dropped connection can rejoin the same game.

Uninstalling the app, or clearing the browser's data, removes all of it.

What a game room holds, and for how long

Playing a networked game creates a temporary room on our server, addressed by a four-character code shown on the television. While the room is open it holds only what the game needs:

the game in progress — the board or the running order of cards, whose turn it is, what has been revealed;
random seat tokens, which identify a seat rather than a person;
in Code Talk, the one-word clues players type, so the television can show them.

A room deletes itself three hours after its last activity, and everything in it goes with it. Nothing is archived, backed up, or used for anything else. Rooms are not searchable and are not linked to each other or to you.

The waitlist

The app is not released yet. On our website you can give us an email address to be told when it is. That is the only place we ask for one, and giving it is entirely optional — nothing in the app asks for an address, and nothing in the app requires one.

If you do give us one, then:

we store the address and the date you gave it, and nothing else — no name, no IP address, no browser or device details, no record of where you came from;
it is used for one email, on the day the app is available, and for nothing else;
it is never sold, shared, rented, or passed to any other company for their own use;
it is not linked to anything you do in the app — the app never sees it, and there is nothing in a game that could be matched to it.

The list is stored on Cloudflare with the rest of this service. To be taken off it, write to privacy@readtheroom.party and the address is deleted. The email we send will also carry a one-click unsubscribe link, and once the app is out the list has done its job and is deleted.

What we count

We record a small number of events so we know which games get played and whether they finish. Nothing in this identifies a person or a device:

Recorded	Example
The event	a room was created; a game started; a game ended
Which game and word pack	`code-talk`, `en-core`
How it ended, how long it took, how many turns	`red:all-found`, 680 seconds, 26 turns
Approximate location	country and continent, plus the datacentre that served the request

The approximate location is derived by our hosting provider from the network connection. We do not store IP addresses, and we keep no identifier that would let these events be tied together, to a device, or to you. There is no way for us to reconstruct who played a game.

What we never do

No accounts, profiles, names or phone numbers. The only personal data we hold is a waitlist email address you chose to give us, described above.
No advertising, and no advertising or attribution SDKs.
No third-party analytics, crash reporting or tracking SDKs.
No tracking across other apps or websites.
We do not sell or share personal data. There is none to sell.

Who else is involved

The app is hosted on Cloudflare, which serves the pages, the pictures and the music, and runs the temporary game rooms. Cloudflare processes network requests on our behalf as our hosting provider. No other company receives anything.

Children

Read the Room is a party game for a general audience. It is not directed at children, and because it has no accounts and collects no personal data it does not knowingly collect anything from anyone, of any age.

Your choices

There are no accounts, so there is no account to delete. If you joined the waitlist, you can ask for that address to be removed at any time, or ask for a copy of what is held against it, which is the address and the date; write to privacy@readtheroom.party. To remove everything the app has kept on your device, uninstall it or clear the browser data for this site. To end a game room immediately, close the app — the room expires on its own shortly afterwards.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. Material changes will also be reflected in the app's Data safety information on Google Play.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be sent to privacy@readtheroom.party.