Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 2026

Buzzy Party (“we”, “our”, or “us”) is owned and operated by Mahmoud Hamed (“the Studio”). This Privacy Policy explains how information is collected, used, processed, and shared when you access or use Buzzy Party and any related games, applications, websites, and affiliated online services operated by us (collectively, the “Services” or “App”).

1. Information We Collect

Depending on how you use our Services, we may collect and process the following categories of information:

A. Contact & Identity Information

• Name & Display Name: Provided during account registration, profile setup, or retrieved from your social login provider.
• Email Address: Used for account creation, login authentication, security verifications, customer support, and essential service alerts (may be retrieved from Apple Sign-In or Google Sign-In).
• Phone Number: Collected for multi-factor authentication, account verification, login recovery, or customer support purposes.
• Device Contacts: With your explicit consent, we may access your device's contact list or hashed identifiers thereof to help you find and connect with friends across our games and Services.
• Third-Party Authentication Data: When you authenticate using Apple, Google, or other third-party providers, we receive your basic authentication tokens and public profile information necessary to maintain your account.

B. User Content & Media

• Profile Images and Photos: Uploaded via device camera or photo library and stored on secure cloud storage to display your profile in multiplayer rooms, clubs, and leaderboards.
• Voice Records & Audio Communications: Captured via your device microphone during live multiplayer gameplay and voice chat. Audio is transmitted in real time and stored temporarily on secure cloud storage solely for gameplay delivery and safety/anti-abuse moderation, after which it is automatically purged.
• Custom Content: Custom stickers, user-submitted trivia questions, club names, chat messages, and gameplay interactions.
• Safety & Moderation Logs: User reports, chat filter flags, ban records, and behavioral telemetry used to enforce community guidelines, prevent cheating, and protect users.

C. Gameplay, Social & Studio Ecosystem Data

• Multiplayer & Social Activity: Match history, answer reaction times, buzzer scores, ranks, achievements, quest progress, friend lists, club memberships, and vault contributions.
• Cross-App Profile Identifiers: Studio-wide user identifiers, cross-game achievements, loyalty points, and unlocked items shared across our portfolio of applications.

D. Device, Telemetry & Technical Identifiers

• Device Identifiers & Hardware Attributes: Unique device identifiers (IDFV/Android ID), operating system version, hardware specifications, IP address, and network state used for anti-cheat verification, fraud prevention, and device-level security.
• Push Notification Tokens: Apple Push Notification service (APNs) and Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) tokens to deliver game invites, club alerts, chat notices, and daily question reminders.
• Usage & Diagnostic Data: Interaction metrics, crash logs (Firebase Crashlytics), performance benchmarks, and session durations.

E. Location & Advertising Data

• Coarse Location: We do not collect precise GPS coordinates. We and our analytics/ad partners (e.g., Firebase, Google AdMob) infer coarse location (such as country or city level) from your IP address for regional localization, analytics, and advertising.
• Advertising Attribution: Ad impressions, interactions, and attribution metrics collected via Google AdMob in accordance with applicable platform policies.

2. How We Use Your Information

We process the collected data for legitimate operational and business purposes, including:

• Operating, maintaining, and delivering multiplayer trivia games, live rooms, clubs, and voice communication.
• Enforcing our Terms of Use, investigating abuse reports, detecting cheat engines/exploits, and maintaining a non-toxic community.
• Powering Affiliated Services & Cross-App Features across our studio games.
• Analyzing technical performance, resolving software bugs, and optimizing server infrastructure (via Firebase Analytics and Crashlytics).
• Delivering localized and relevant in-game advertising (via Google AdMob).
• Responding to customer support inquiries and communicating important security or administrative notices.

3. Affiliated Services, Cross-App Features & Studio Ecosystem

Cross-app data processing includes:

• Unified Account & Single Sign-On (SSO): Allowing you to use your existing credentials, profile, and display name seamlessly across all of our games and applications.
• Cross-Game Friend Discovery & Social Graph: Enabling you to find your friends, club members, and recent opponents across our entire game portfolio.
• Cross-Game Rewards & Studio Loyalty: Granting cross-promotional rewards, shared quest bonuses, and studio-wide achievement badges.
• Studio-Wide Security & Anti-Cheat: Synchronizing safety blacklists and anti-cheat telemetry to protect all studio games from bad actors, harassment, and malicious exploits.
• Internal Game Recommendations: Recommending other studio games tailored to your gameplay preferences without selling your data to external third parties.

4. Tracking & Advertising

Certain information (such as Contact Info, Usage Data, User Content, and Advertising Data) may be used for cross-app and cross-website tracking for advertising and measurement purposes, where permitted by applicable law and subject to any consent or choices required by applicable law or platform policies.

Tracking is performed strictly where permitted by applicable laws and platform policies, including Apple’s App Tracking Transparency (ATT) framework and Google Play policies. You can manage or revoke tracking permissions directly in your device system settings at any time.

5. Data Linked to Your Identity

The following data categories may be collected and linked to your user identity:

• Contact Information (Name, Email Address, Phone Number, Contacts, Social Logins)
• User Content (Profile Images, Voice Notes, Messages, Custom Content)
• Gameplay & Cross-App Profile Data
• Usage Data & Identifiers
• Advertising Data

6. Third-Party Infrastructure & Service Providers

We partner with enterprise-grade third-party infrastructure and service providers who process data in accordance with their respective security and privacy standards:

• Cloud Hosting & Storage: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Firebase, and secure cloud storage for server operations, database management, and media delivery.
• Analytics & Performance: Firebase Analytics and Firebase Crashlytics for real-time telemetry and crash diagnostics.
• Advertising: Google AdMob for in-app ad monetization.
• Payment Processing: Apple In-App Purchases (App Store) and Google Play Billing. We do not store, process, or have access to your credit card or financial payment details.

7. Data Sharing & Disclosures

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal data to third parties. Information is disclosed only under the following circumstances:

• Affiliated Applications & Studio Services: Shared across our network of games and applications as outlined in Section 3.
• Trusted Service Providers: Shared with third-party vendors strictly necessary to host, operate, secure, and maintain the Services.
• Legal & Regulatory Compliance: When required by law, subpoena, court order, or governmental authority.
• Protection of Rights & Safety: When necessary to investigate fraud, enforce our Terms of Use, protect the security of our Services, or prevent harm to users.
• Business Transfers & Corporate Reorganization: In the event of a merger, acquisition, studio reorganization, asset sale, or bankruptcy, user data may be transferred as a business asset to the acquiring entity, subject to this Privacy Policy. Any such transfer will remain subject to applicable privacy and data-protection laws.

8. Data Security, Enterprise Cloud & Cyber Incident Disclaimer

We implement commercial, organizational, and technical security measures—including SSL/TLS encryption in transit, restricted database access, and enterprise cloud infrastructure—to safeguard your information.

Disclaimer on Cyber Risks: While we take reasonable measures designed to protect personal information, no method of transmission, storage, or processing is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

9. Data Retention & Account Deletion

We retain data only as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes set forth in this Privacy Policy:

• Temporary Audio & Voice Notes: Automatically purged from cloud storage shortly after live game session completion.
• Account & Gameplay Profiles: Retained while your account remains active.
• Safety & Moderation Logs: Retained for as long as reasonably necessary for security, fraud and anti-cheat enforcement, dispute resolution, legal compliance, and protection of our rights.
• Account Deletion: You can delete your account directly in the App under Settings > Delete Account or by visiting our Account Deletion Page. Following account deletion, we delete or de-identify personal information from our active systems, subject to information we are required or permitted to retain under applicable law, including for fraud prevention, security, dispute resolution, legal compliance, or enforcement of our Terms.

10. Children’s Privacy

Buzzy Party is intended for users who meet the minimum age required to use the Services under the laws applicable to them, and in any event not younger than 13 unless otherwise permitted by applicable law with the required parental consent. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we discover that personal data from a child under 13 has been collected without verifiable parental consent, we will promptly delete that data. Parents or guardians may contact us at support@buzzyparty.com to request immediate data removal.

11. Your Rights & Choices

Depending on your jurisdiction, you have the right to:

• Request access to the personal data we hold about you.
• Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information.
• Request complete deletion of your account and personal data.
• Opt out of personalized advertising via your device operating system settings.
• Depending on your jurisdiction, you may also have the right to object to or restrict certain processing, withdraw consent where processing is based on consent, request portability of certain personal information, and lodge a complaint with the applicable data protection authority.

To exercise your rights, please use the in-app settings, visit our Account Deletion Page, or contact us at support@buzzyparty.com.

12. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to update or modify this Privacy Policy at any time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated “Last updated” revision date. Continued use of our Services following any modifications signifies your acceptance of the revised policy.

13. Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact our Data Protection representative at:
Email: support@buzzyparty.com