Privacy Policy
Effective 2026-10-21.
The short version
JoinUs is a party game. You join a room with a code, pick a name and a face, and play. We do not ask for your email address, a password, or your real name to do that. We keep what the games need to work and nothing else about you. We do not track you, and we never sell your information.
Who we are
JoinUs is made and operated by an individual in British Columbia, Canada.
- Email: [email protected]
- Mail: JoinUs, 56-8570 204 St, Langley, BC V2Y 0T9, Canada
"We" and "us" mean JoinUs. "The app" means JoinUs on a phone or in a web browser.
What we collect, and why
- An anonymous ID, made the first time you open the app. Random, with nothing personal attached. It is how the game knows which seat is yours when you close the app or lose signal.
- Your nickname and your character, both of which you choose. Your nickname is what the room sees.
- What you make in the games - the stories, drawings, answers, guesses, moves and scores. This is the game itself.
- Room records - the code, who hosted, when you joined, when you were last seen.
- An identifier from Google or Apple, only if you sign in. Signing in is optional. It lets your character follow you to a new phone and links the support-the-dev subscription to your account. We don't store your name, email or anything else from your Google or Apple account.
- Ordinary request records kept by our hosts, including your IP address and the time of the request.
What we do not do
- We do not measure what you tap. There is no analytics in the app.
- We do not follow you across other apps or websites, and iOS will never show you a JoinUs prompt asking to track you, because we never ask.
- We do not sell your information, and we share it only with the providers below.
Advertising
JoinUs shows ads, and a subscription removes them - for you and for everyone in any room you open.
The ads are non-personalized: chosen by where they sit, not by a profile of you. Google serves them (AdMob on a phone, AdSense in a browser) and receives your IP address and general information about your device to choose an ad, show it, and count it. Google and its partners use cookies and device identifiers to do that. They are not used to build an advertising profile of you. What Google holds about you generally is at g.co/adsettings.
Where the law requires a choice - the UK, the European Economic Area and Switzerland - Google's own consent form asks you the first time an ad would appear. Saying no costs you nothing.
Nothing you write, draw or type in a game is ever sent to an advertiser.
Paying for the ad-free version
The subscription is sold on iPhone; there is no way to buy it in a browser. Apple takes the payment - we never see your card number or your billing address. RevenueCat confirms the purchase to us and tells us which account it belongs to, so the app knows to turn ads off.
Who else handles your information
| Who | What they do |
|---|---|
| Supabase | Runs our database and the sign-in system |
| Cloudflare | Serves this website and the web app |
| Apple / Google | Sign-in, advertising, and payment |
| RevenueCat | Confirms subscription purchases |
Our database is in Canada, and that is where what you make in the games lives. Some of the services above are not: RevenueCat is in the United States, Cloudflare serves this site from a network of machines around the world, and Apple and Google handle sign-in, advertising and payment on their own. Information those four hold may be available to courts and authorities where they operate.
How long we keep it
Stories, drawings, game records and rooms are kept with no expiry. There is no automatic clean-up today, and we would rather say so than imply your words disappear on a schedule. If you want something you made removed, write to [email protected].
Deleting your account
If you signed in, the app's menu has Delete account, and it works immediately.
It deletes your account and the sign-in link. It does not delete what you wrote and drew in games you played - those rounds belong to everyone who was in the room, and removing one player's half of a story would take the game apart for the others. If you want your content removed as well, write to us.
If you never signed in, deleting the app or clearing the site's data ends that anonymous identity for good.
Your rights
You can ask us what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, and ask us to delete it, wherever you live. Write to [email protected] and we answer within 30 days. Tell us your code - it is in the app, under your account, and it looks like ABCD-EFGH. We hold no name and no email to look you up by, so without it we cannot tell which account is yours.
We are in Canada, so Canadian law is what obliges us - British Columbia's Personal Information Protection Act and PIPEDA. If our answer does not satisfy you, you can complain to the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia (oipc.bc.ca) or the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (priv.gc.ca). If you are in the UK or the European Economic Area, your own data protection authority will take a complaint as well.
Children
JoinUs is for players 13 and older. It is not built for, marketed to, or directed at children under 13. If we learn that a child under 13 has given us information, we delete it. If you believe that has happened, write to [email protected].
Keeping it safe
Everything travels encrypted, and the server checks that a request belongs to the player making it. No service is perfectly secure, and we do not claim otherwise.
This website
The page you are reading is static. It has no database and no account, sets no cookies to follow you, runs no analytics, and shows no ads.
Changes
If this policy changes, the effective date at the top changes with it, and the previous version stops applying from that date. If a change is significant, the app will say so rather than leaving you to notice.