Privacy policy

Last updated: 14 November 2026

Couch Party is designed to need as little information about you as possible. There are no accounts, and we do not ask for your real name, email address or phone number.

Who we are

Couch Party (couchparty.co.uk) is run by Kain, an individual based in the UK. For anything about this policy or your information, email thelastbusiness23@gmail.com.

What we use and why

• Your nickname and avatar. You type a nickname when you join a room. It is shown to the other players in that room. Please use a nickname rather than your full name.
• What you do in a game. Your answers, guesses, drawings and scores are sent to the room so the game can work. Other players in the room can see them.
• An anonymous ID. When you open a room, your browser is given a random ID so the game can tell players apart and let you rejoin. It is not linked to your name or any other account.
• Technical information. Like every website, our hosting provider receives your IP address and basic browser details in order to deliver the pages and keep the service secure.

We use this information only to run the games (our legitimate interest in providing the service you asked for). We do not sell it and we do not use it to build a profile of you.

How long it is kept

Rooms are temporary. A room and everything in it (nicknames, answers, drawings, scores) can be deleted once it has been unused for six hours, and is removed by our regular clean-up after that. The host can also delete a room straight away by starting a fresh one. The anonymous ID stays in your browser until you clear your site data.

Storage on your device

Couch Party does not use advertising or tracking cookies. It keeps a few small items in your browser’s local storage so that the site works: your last nickname, the last room you were in, your sound on/off choice, the anonymous ID, and a saved copy of the site’s files so it opens quickly. You can remove these at any time by clearing the site’s data in your browser.

Who else handles the information

The site and its database are hosted on Google Firebase (Google Ireland Limited / Google LLC). Game data is stored in Google’s data centre in Belgium. Google acts on our behalf to store and deliver this data and may process technical information outside the UK under its standard safeguards. See Firebase’s privacy information.

Advertising

Couch Party does not show adverts at the moment. If that changes, this policy will be updated first, and you will be asked for your consent before any advertising cookies are used.

Children

Couch Party is a family game and does not knowingly collect personal information from children. Players only need a nickname. If you are a parent or guardian and think a child has shared personal information in a room, contact us and we will delete that room.

Your rights

Under UK data protection law you can ask for a copy of your information, ask us to correct or delete it, or object to how it is used. Because we hold so little, and it is tied only to a nickname and a room code, the quickest way is to email us with the room code. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ico.org.uk).

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new date.