Who we are
couchslop (couchslop.com) is run by Couchslop LLC, a company based in Georgia, USA. "We" and "us" on this page means Couchslop LLC. Questions about this policy go to nick@couchslop.com.
When you play
The game runs in the browser on the TV. Our server passes messages between the TV and the phones and keeps a list of open rooms: each room's code, and for each seat the name typed on the phone, a random player id and the game being played. That list lives in the server's memory while the room is open. A copy is written to our server's disk every 30 seconds so a game survives us restarting the server; rooms older than ten minutes are dropped from it.
Use any name you like. It's shown on the TV and on the other phones in the room, and, if the room is in streamer mode, to whoever is watching the stream.
Your browser also keeps a few things on your own device, using local storage and session storage: settings such as sound on or off, whether you've seen a tutorial, which room and seat to rejoin if your phone drops, and on the TV, a record of tonight's games and the names of people who played on that screen before. This stays on your device. We can't see it, and clearing your browser's site data removes it.
Drawings and reviews
At the end of a game your phone may offer you a face to draw and a review form. Both are optional, and both forms say they may be shown in public.
- Drawings are kept and may appear on the wall on our homepage. A drawing isn't linked to your name.
- Reviews keep your star rating, what you wrote, the name you typed, the room code and your role in that game. Reviews with four or five stars may be shown on our site under your first name only.
- An email address in a review is optional. It's never shown. If your review had four or five stars, we may send you one thank-you note, and we use it to reply if you told us something went wrong.
Nothing is checked by hand before it appears. Ask us and we'll take it down.
Email lists
The sign-up forms on our pages keep your email address, which list you joined, the page you joined from and when. There are three lists, and each form says which one it is:
- Expedition: one email when the first Expedition Pack adventure ships.
- News: new games on the shelf, a few emails a year at most.
- Office: a free round of the Office Edition for your team, sent and answered by Nick, who makes the game. Your address isn't added to the news list.
Every email has an unsubscribe link that removes your address from every list. We don't share these lists with anyone except the service that delivers the mail.
At events
When a business runs one of our games at an event, your phone may ask for your email before you play, and the card names the business. If you enter it, we keep your address and when you entered it, and give that list to the business. What they send you after that is up to them, under their own privacy policy, and their emails will have their own unsubscribe link. You can always tap Skip and play anyway.
We delete our copy within 30 days of the event, keeping only how many people played and signed up.
Purchases
Payments are handled by Stripe. Your card details go to Stripe and never reach us. Stripe tells us what was bought, the name and email address on the order, and whether it was paid.
For a party edition, we also keep what you tell us about the party (its name, who it's for, the date) and email you its private links. For an Expedition Pack pre-order, we use your email to send the adventures as they ship and to tell you if a date moves. We keep order records as long as we need them for refunds, accounting and tax.
Party and stream trivia boards
On a party edition's board, guests write trivia questions, and each question keeps the name its writer gave. On a streamer's board, viewers do the same and the streamer's moderators approve them. The organizer or moderators can see the questions before the game, and they're shown on the TV, with the writer's name, when they come up in play. A streamer's board also keeps the channel name it was made for.
Twitch chat
If a streamer connects a Twitch channel, our server reads that channel's public chat, anonymously, to count votes typed as "!1", "!2" and so on. We count the votes and discard the messages. We never post to chat and don't store anyone's messages.
How we count visits
We count page views, which site sent you here (the site's name only, not the full address), and clicks on a few buttons, like "Buy". We don't use cookies or store an id in your browser for this.
To count each visitor once a day, our server mixes your IP address and browser type with a random value that changes daily and keeps only the scrambled result. Your IP address isn't stored with it. These counts, with that scrambled id, are sent to PostHog, the analytics service we use, so we can read them. The server also uses your IP address, in memory, to stop one address flooding a form, and our hosting provider keeps standard request logs.
Who else handles your data
| Service | What for | What it sees |
|---|---|---|
| Railway | Hosts the website and our server | Everything on this page that we store |
| Stripe | Takes payments | Your order and payment details |
| Resend | Delivers our email | Your email address and the message |
| PostHog | Visit and click counts | The page or button, the referring site and the scrambled daily id |
These services are in the United States. We share data with them only so they can do the job listed, and we don't share it with anyone else unless the law requires us to.
How long we keep it
- Rooms: until the room closes, plus at most ten minutes on disk.
- Email addresses: until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete them.
- Emails left at an event: up to 30 days after the event.
- Reviews and drawings: until you ask us to delete them, or we take them down.
- Trivia boards: as long as the board exists. Ask us and we'll delete it.
- Orders: as long as we need them for refunds, accounting and tax.
Your choices and rights
Write to nick@couchslop.com and we'll tell you what we hold about you, correct it, or delete it, within 30 days. Tell us the email address you used, or for a review or drawing, roughly when and in which room. You don't need to give a reason. Depending on where you live, including California and the European Union, the law may give you these rights too; you have them here wherever you live.
We don't sell personal information or share it for advertising. We don't make automated decisions about you.
Children
The games are made for groups of friends and families. Joining a room needs only a nickname. Our sign-up forms, reviews and purchases are not meant for children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect personal information from them. If you think a child has given us an email address or other details, write to us and we'll delete it.
Security
The site is served over HTTPS. Admin access to stored data needs a secret key, and we keep what we store to what's on this page. No system is perfectly secure, so if we ever learn of a breach that affects you, we'll tell you by email if we have your address.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. If a change affects how we use an email address you've given us, we'll write to you before it takes effect.