Game Ring — Privacy Policy

Effective date: August 3, 2026

Game Ring is a couch multiplayer party game published by Proliferaite LLC. Everyone plays on their own phone over the local network. There are no accounts, no sign-in, and no game servers: your phones talk directly to each other over your own Wi-Fi or hotspot.

What stays between your phones (gameplay)

The name and emoji you pick, your answers, votes, and scores are shared directly with the other phones in your Game Ring over your local network — never with us. Game content a host streams during play (for example expansion-pack pictures) is held in the other players' memory for the round and discarded. Your name, emoji, and settings are stored only on your device; uninstalling the app deletes them.

Microphone (pairing chirp only)

Game Ring can join a game by listening for a short sound ("chirp") played by the host's phone. When you tap Join by sound, the microphone is used on-device, in the moment, solely to decode that chirp — which contains only the host's local network address and a join code. No audio is recorded, stored, or transmitted anywhere, and the microphone is not used at any other time.

What is collected automatically (diagnostics)

To find and fix crashes, the app uses Google Firebase Crashlytics and Firebase Analytics. When the app runs, Google's SDKs may collect:

• Crash logs and stack traces
• Diagnostics: device model, operating system version, app version
• Anonymized identifiers (such as a Firebase installation ID) used to count installs and de-duplicate crash reports

This information is used solely to keep the app working and is processed by Google LLC on our behalf. It is encrypted in transit, retained by Google for a limited period, and then deleted. We do not sell it.

Advertising (optional, host's phone only)

Game Ring shows at most one optional rewarded ad, and only on the phone hosting the game: the host can choose to watch an ad at the results screen to unlock bonus content for the whole group. Players who join a game are never shown ads. Ads are served by Google AdMob, which may process device information and, with your consent where required, an advertising identifier to serve and measure ads. In the European Economic Area and the UK you will be asked for consent before any ad is requested, and you can decline. You can also reset or delete your advertising identifier in your device settings at any time. For details see How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.

Purchases

Optional expansion packs are one-time purchases processed entirely by Apple's App Store or Google Play. We never see your payment details. A record of what you own is kept by the store (for restoring purchases) and on your device.

Children

Game Ring is suitable for a general audience. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children. Gameplay data stays between the phones at your table, and the only data that reaches third parties is the anonymous diagnostics and — only if the host opts in — the ad-serving data described above.

Data deletion

Everything you create in the app lives on your device: uninstalling the app deletes it. Diagnostic data held by Google expires automatically. Purchase records follow your store account. For any request or question, contact us at the address below.

Changes

We will post any changes to this policy at this URL and update the effective date above.