Privacy Policy
Last updated: May 23, 2026
Introduction
Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy explains what Game Night Central collects when you create an account, play games, use the shop, send feedback, open a support ticket, or use communication features on our website.
Age Requirement
Game Night Central is intended for users who are at least 13 years old. Do not use the service or create an account if you are under 13. If we learn that we collected personal information from a child under 13, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.
Information We Collect
Account information: We may collect your user ID, display name, email address, profile photo URL from your sign-in provider, authentication provider, account creation time, last-seen time, guest/account status, and account settings.
Gameplay and profile data: We store information needed to run the service, such as lobby participation, game activity, scores, progression, shop inventory, virtual currency balances, selected preset avatars or cosmetics, membership status, trial status, friends, blocks, and similar product data.
Messages, feedback, and tickets: Users cannot upload files or custom media, but they may submit text through direct messages, feedback forms, problem reports, contact forms, and tester applications. We store those submissions so we can provide the service, moderate safety issues, respond to support requests, and improve the games.
Session and device data: We may collect session records, device type, browser information, pages visited, timestamps, cookie consent choices, IP-derived country information, and similar log data.
Payment-related data: Purchases are processed by Paddle as our Merchant of Record. We may store transaction references, customer or subscription identifiers, membership status, purchased package or item information, and fulfillment records. We do not directly store full payment card details.
How We Use Information
We use the information we collect to:
- Provide, operate, secure, and maintain the website, games, lobbies, accounts, shop, and memberships;
- Save gameplay progress, virtual items, purchases, settings, and account preferences;
- Respond to support tickets, feedback, tester applications, and problem reports;
- Monitor direct messages and reports for safety, abuse prevention, fraud prevention, and Terms of Use enforcement;
- Analyze usage and improve gameplay, performance, reliability, and product design;
- Send service-related messages, support replies, account notices, and product updates where permitted;
- Comply with legal obligations and protect the rights, safety, and security of users and the service.
Chat and Safety Review
Direct messages are stored for safety and product functionality. Automated systems may scan messages to detect severe Terms of Use violations, including harassment, threats, grooming, or other abuse. Flagged, reported, or safety-relevant messages may be reviewed by human administrators.
Third-Party Services
We use third-party services that may collect or process information under their own privacy policies:
- Firebase and Google Cloud: Authentication, database, hosting, analytics, cloud functions, and related infrastructure.
- Paddle: Payment processing, fraud prevention, tax handling, subscriptions, refunds, and buyer support. Paddle acts as Merchant of Record. See Paddle's Privacy Policy.
- Google Analytics: Site and gameplay analytics, subject to your cookie consent choices where required.
- Google AdSense: Advertising and ad measurement. We request advertising consent where required and may show non-personalized ads when personalized advertising consent is not granted.
- Microsoft Clarity: Product analytics such as session replay and heatmap information, subject to your analytics consent choices where required.
- ipapi: IP-derived country lookup used to understand broad location context and support product, pricing, compliance, or analytics behavior.
- AliExpress and other affiliate partners: Affiliate links may place tracking cookies after you click them so purchases can be attributed to our referral.
Advertising and Cookies
We use essential cookies and local storage for sign-in, sessions, security, lobby functionality, preferences, and checkout behavior. Analytics and advertising cookies are controlled through our cookie consent banner where consent is required.
- Essential storage is required for core account, lobby, game, security, and checkout features.
- Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use the service and improve it.
- Advertising cookies help Google AdSense deliver and measure ads.
- You may withdraw consent by clearing your browser storage or reopening cookie settings where available.
If we serve users in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland with Google advertising, Google may require a Google-certified consent management platform. Our cookie banner is intended to collect consent, but advertising compliance may also depend on Google AdSense and consent platform configuration outside this page.
Data Storage and Transfers
Our database and service infrastructure may store and process data in the United States. If you access Game Night Central from outside the United States, your information may be transferred to, stored in, and processed in the United States or other locations where our service providers operate.
Your Choices and Requests
You may contact us to request help accessing, correcting, or deleting your account information, support tickets, or personal data where applicable. Some records may need to be retained for security, fraud prevention, dispute resolution, payment, tax, or legal reasons.
To make a privacy request, use our Contact page and include enough information for us to identify your account.
Security
We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect personal information. No method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Changes are effective when posted on this page unless a later effective date is stated.