Privacy notice

Overview

Airtime Games is free. We don’t run analytics, we don’t track you, and we don’t sell anyone’s data. When you play anonymously, the only thing we know about you is a random ID we use to remember which games are yours. If you sign in with Google, we get your email, name, and profile picture, which we use to keep you signed in. We won’t email you unless you’ve separately opted in to occasional product updates. The only outside companies we work with are Google, Vercel, and Resend, who help us run the service.

Who we are

This notice is provided by Dean Stokes Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales, which operates Airtime Games at airtime.games. We are the “data controller” for the personal data described below.

For any privacy question or data request, email us at support@airtime.games.

Registered office: 3rd Floor, 86–90 Paul Street, London EC2A 4NE, United Kingdom. Please send any correspondence by email rather than post; we’ll respond faster.

We are registered with the UK Information Commissioner’s Office.

What we collect, and why

Always (every player)

When you load Airtime Games, even before you sign in, we generate an anonymous random ID for your browser. This ID isn’t derived from anything personal about you. We use it to remember which games are yours when you come back later.

Linked to that ID, we store:

• The games you create or join
• Counters that prevent spam game creation
• Your gameplay, including rides logged, bingo cells ticked, and challenge cards revealed and completed
• The display name you typed when joining a game (whatever you chose, this can be different in every game)
• Your live online/offline state in each game

Lawful basis: legitimate interests. We need this data to run the service.

If you sign in with Google (optional and additive)

Signing in is opt-in. Anonymous play works without it. If you do sign in, Google passes us:

• Your email address
• Your display name from your Google profile
• A link to your profile photo (we don’t copy or cache the image; your browser fetches it directly from Google when shown)

We use this data to keep you signed in across reloads, recover your access if you switch device, and (only if you’ve separately opted in) send occasional product update emails.

Lawful basis: contract. We use this data to provide the signed-in account experience you asked for when you signed in.

Your gameplay name vs your account name

The display name you use inside a game is whatever you type when joining. It’s not bound to your Google name. You can sign in with one email and still play as “Thrill Seeker.” Other players in your game see the gameplay name you chose, not your email.

Who we share data with

We use three third-party services that process data on our behalf. All are bound by formal Data Processing Agreements.

Google handles authentication and our database.

Vercel hosts the website.

Resend delivers our emails. If you’ve opted in to marketing emails, we share your email address with Resend so they can send and track delivery of those emails on our behalf. We also share your email address with Resend when we need to send you a service email (for example, a confirmation that you’ve deleted your account).

These providers may log technical information such as IP addresses to keep the service secure and prevent abuse. We don’t access this data ourselves; it’s handled under their own data processing terms.

We don’t share data with anyone else. We don’t sell it, we don’t trade it, and we don’t combine it with data from other sources to build profiles.

International data transfers

Our database is hosted in the EU. Our providers may process some technical metadata in other regions, including the United States, under their own Data Processing Addenda. They maintain appropriate safeguards, such as Standard Contractual Clauses and the EU-US Data Privacy Framework where relevant, to protect data transferred outside the UK and EEA.

How long we keep data

When you delete your account, your sign-in data and the data linked to your account are removed.

Marketing emails

By default, we don’t email you. Signing in is for authentication, not for marketing.

The first time you sign in, you’ll see a separate prompt asking whether you want occasional product update emails. Your choice is recorded explicitly and is editable any time on the account page.

If you opt in, we may email you about new games, major feature launches, or occasional events. Every email includes an unsubscribe link.

Lawful basis: consent (under UK GDPR and PECR). You can withdraw at any time on the account page or by clicking “unsubscribe” in any email.

Service emails are sent without requiring consent because they’re necessary for the account relationship. These include security incident notifications, account-deletion confirmations, and material changes to terms.

Cookies and browser storage

We do not set any cookies on the airtime.games domain. No analytics cookies, no tracking, no marketing pixels.

We do use some browser storage to make the app work. For example, this keeps you signed in across reloads, remembers your most recent game so we can take you back to it, and pre-fills the name you last used. These are strictly necessary for the service to function.

When you sign in with Google, the popup window briefly navigates to a Google-controlled domain. Google may set its own cookies on that domain during the sign-in handshake. Those cookies are governed by Google’s privacy policy, not ours.

What we don’t do

Currently, we don’t:

• Show ads
• Run analytics or use tracking pixels
• Collect location data beyond what our providers infer from your IP for security purposes
• Access your device’s contacts, photos, microphone, camera, or other sensors
• Take payments
• Sell or share personal data beyond the named processors above

This privacy notice will be updated if any of that changes.

Privacy of your games

Your games are private to the people you play with. Other people can’t see them, search for them, or access the codes. Codes can only be used once, by people you share them with directly.

Children

Airtime Games is not directed at children under 13. We don’t knowingly collect personal data from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided us with personal data, please contact us and we’ll delete it.

Your rights

Under UK GDPR you have the right to:

• Access the personal data we hold about you
• Correct inaccurate data. You can change your gameplay name in any game, and your Google profile details are editable in your Google account.
• Delete your account and the data linked to it via the account page → “Delete my account”
• Receive a copy of the data tied to your account in a machine-readable format. This applies while you have an account; once you’ve deleted it, there’s nothing remaining linked to you to provide.
• Object to processing, withdraw consent for marketing emails, or ask us to restrict how we process your data in certain circumstances
• Lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk

To exercise any of these rights, email us at the address above. We will respond within one month.

Changes to this notice

We update this notice when our practices change. The “last updated” date at the top tells you when we last revised it. For material changes (for example, if we start collecting new types of data or working with new processors), we’ll let you know in the app before the change takes effect.

Contact us

For any privacy question, data request, or complaint, email us at support@airtime.games.

You can also contact the ICO at ico.org.uk or 0303 123 1113.