Privacy Policy

Effective September 17, 2026 · Last updated October 5, 2026

Good Call Trivia ("Good Call", "we", "us") is a live trivia game played on a TV with phones as buzzers, at goodcalltrivia.com and in the Good Call apps for Fire TV and tablets. It is run by an individual, not a company, for friends and family. This page says what we collect, why, and what we do with it — in plain language, because there isn't much.

The short version

Players don't need an account. A name and a team is all it takes to play.
Hosts sign in with Google so we know whose room is whose. We get your name, email address and profile picture from Google, and nothing else.
On the Main Stage (our always-on public room) you can also sign in with Google or with a link we email you, so your name, face and leaderboard standing follow you to any phone. Optional; guests play without it. You can download or delete that account yourself from your phone.
We keep game data — names, teams, scores, all-time records — so the game works and the leaderboard means something.
We don't sell anything, don't run ads, and don't share your information with anyone except the people in your own game.

What we collect

If you host a game (sign in with Google): your Google account's name, email address and profile picture, and a Google account ID. We use these to create and remember your room, show your name on the host dashboard, and tell your room apart from everyone else's. We do not read your Gmail, contacts, calendar, or anything else in your Google account — the sign-in only asks for basic profile information.

If you play: the player name you type (or pick), the avatar and colour you choose, your team's name, your answers, your scores, streaks and rank, and — if you choose to set one — a 4-digit PIN so your name and all-time points are remembered for next time. The PIN is a convenience for a game night, not a security credential; don't reuse a PIN you use anywhere else.

If you sign in on the Main Stage (Google or an emailed link, from your phone's profile sheet): your email address (and, with Google, your Google account ID), the public name you choose, the face and colour you pick, your points on the Today and This week boards (points, sessions played, when you last played), and any question or name you flag. Your email is never shown; the boards show only your name, face and points. It is used only to sign you in: with Google, the sign-in asks for basic profile information only; with an emailed link, we send a one-time link to that address (good for 15 minutes) and keep nothing else. Google and email sign-ins with the same address are one account. Delete my account removes the address along with everything else.

If you send chat or reactions: what you send is shown to your team (team chat) or to the whole room and on the TV (room chat and reactions) during that night.

From your device: a random device ID stored in your browser or app so we can keep you on your team if you reconnect, your saved server address (in the TV and tablet apps), and the usual technical information any web server sees — IP address, browser or app version, and timestamps — which we use to run the service and fix problems.

What we don't collect

No payment information, no location, no contacts, no microphone or camera, no advertising identifiers, and no third-party analytics or tracking. There are no ads.

How we use it

To run the game: put you on a team, score answers, show standings and a podium on the TV, keep all-time records, and let a host run a night. To keep the service working: diagnose problems and stop abuse. That's all. We don't use your information for marketing and we don't build profiles.

Who can see it

The people in your game. Team names, player names, avatars, scores, streaks and room chat are shown on the TV and on every phone in the room — that is the game.
The host of your room can see the same standings, plus which devices are connected, and can rename or remove teams and players from the night.
Us, when running the service or fixing a problem.
Our hosting provider. The hosted version runs on servers provided by Render (render.com) in the United States, which stores the data on our behalf and does not use it for its own purposes.
Google, for sign-in only, under Google's own privacy policy.

Nobody else. We never sell or rent personal information.

Google sign-in, specifically

Good Call's use of information received from Google APIs follows the Google API Services User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements. We request only the basic profile scopes (openid, email, profile) and use that data solely to identify you as the host of your room or as your Main Stage player account. You can revoke Good Call's access at any time at myaccount.google.com/permissions.

Cookies and local storage

We use a session cookie to keep a host signed in, another to keep a Main Stage player signed in, and your browser's local storage to remember your device ID, whether you've set a PIN, and settings like "big buttons". No advertising or cross-site cookies.

How long we keep it

Chat and reactions: only for the night; they're not saved.
A night's game (teams, answers, scores): kept while the night is running and until the host clears it or starts the next one.
All-time records (player name, avatar, points, nights played): kept so the leaderboard works, until the host deletes the player or you ask us to.
Host accounts: kept while you use Good Call to host. You can delete yours from the host page at any time.
Main Stage player accounts: kept until you delete them from your phone (below). Board points roll off after the day or the week they were scored in. Question flags are filed under a one-way hash of your account, not your name, and are kept until the question is reviewed.
Server logs: a short period, for troubleshooting.

Your choices

Play without a PIN and nothing about you is kept beyond that night.
Ask the host to delete your name from the all-time records (Host dashboard → Admin).
Delete your host account or player record.
Download or delete your Main Stage account from your phone, in one tap.
Revoke Google access at the link above.

Delete your account or your data

You can have anything we hold about you removed.

Host account (Google sign-in): open the host page, go to Settings → Setup → Your data, and choose Delete my venue. After you type DELETE, we remove the account, venue, settings, game records, player list, linked TVs, custom questions, and custom-category artwork from the active service. Artwork uploaded for a built-in pack is shared machine-wide and is not part of the venue export or deletion. Export my data there downloads a ZIP first if you want a copy.
Player record (a name with a PIN): email help@goodcalltrivia.com with the player name and the venue (or room code) you play at, or ask your host — the host dashboard's Admin page deletes a player in one tap.
Just your data, keeping the account: say so in the email — for example "clear my scores but keep my host account" — and we remove only that.

Operator-created disk snapshots or backups may keep an older copy after deletion until that snapshot or backup is deleted or expires under the operator's retention process.

For requests that still need email, we act within 30 days, usually the same week, and reply when it's done. Guests who play without a PIN don't need to ask: nothing about them is kept past that night. To stop Google sharing your details with us in future, also revoke access at myaccount.google.com/permissions.

Your Main Stage account: download or delete it yourself

A Main Stage player account is yours to take away without asking us. On your phone, tap your face in the corner to open your profile. Under Signed in with Google (or Signed in with email):

Download my data saves a small JSON file with everything the account holds: your email, your Google account ID if you used Google, how you signed in, chosen name, face and colour, when you joined and last played, and your current Today / This week board row.
Delete my account removes the account, every sign-in on it, your board row and the name flags you raised, immediately and for good. Every phone signed in as you goes back to being a guest, and you can keep playing as one. A ban the operator placed on the account stays on record so deleting isn't a way around it.

Guests on the Main Stage (a Player 314-style name, no sign-in) have nothing on an account; their board row is tied to the phone and rolls off with the week. If you'd rather we did it, email help@goodcalltrivia.com from the address you signed in with.

Children

Good Call is a family game and children may play. Players don't create accounts or provide contact details — a first name or nickname is enough, and we suggest exactly that. Hosting (signing in with Google) is for adults. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us beyond a player name, email us and we'll remove it.

Security

The hosted service uses HTTPS. Access to the server is limited to us and our hosting provider. That said, this is a home-grown game, not a bank: please don't put anything sensitive in a team name, a player name, or chat.

Changes

If this policy changes, we'll update the date at the top and, for anything significant, say so on the sign-in page.

Contact

Questions, deletion requests, anything at all: help@goodcalltrivia.com.