Privacy
Last updated November 1, 2026. Betcha is a party game: one screen (the TV) and everybody's phones. Here is what is saved when you use it, why, and what you can do about it.
The short version
- Playing needs no account. You type a nickname and pick a buddy.
- Hosting needs an account (email and password).
- We save the games: who played (nicknames), each question, and what everybody answered, wagered and won, so we can make the questions and the game better.
- We note what kind of device you use and roughly where in the world you are (country, region, city), never your exact location or address.
- We do not sell your information, and we do not show ads.
What we save
| What | Details | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Your account | Email address and a password (kept scrambled, so even we cannot read it). When you signed up, from what kind of device, and the approximate place. | To let you host, and to keep accounts safe. |
| Sign-ins | When and how you signed in (password, or a phone signing in a TV), the kind of device, browser, rough place, language, time zone and screen size. | Security, and to understand how Betcha is used (TV, phone, computer). |
| Games | The room, the host, the nicknames and buddies, the questions asked, every answer (the numbers typed), wagers and bets, the money won and the final places. | To run the game, and to improve the questions: which are too easy, too hard, or confusing. |
| Visits | Which page opened, where the visitor came from (the website or campaign link), the kind of device and browser, language, time zone, screen size, and whether this device has been here before. | To see how people find and use Betcha. |
| A random ID | A random number kept in your browser (no name, no email). It lets us tell a returning device from a new one, and ties a game to a device. In the EU, UK and Switzerland this is only kept if you say yes. | Counting visitors and understanding devices. |
| Connection and error notes | When a phone drops out of a game, comes back, or is taken out of a lobby, and what went wrong when a page hit an error (the message, which kind of page, the kind of browser). The room code and the phone's random ID, never a name or an email. | To find and fix problems like a player being dropped from a game. |
| A short visitor code | A scrambled short code made from the network address (IP address). The address itself is not saved, and the code cannot be turned back into it. | To count the same visitor once, and to spot abuse. |
Nicknames and answers are shown to the other players in the room during the game. Please do not use your real full name or put personal information in a nickname.
Who handles it
Betcha runs on Cloudflare (hosting, and the rough place a connection comes from) and keeps its data with Supabase (the database and sign-in). They handle the information for us and under their own privacy terms. When you create an account, Cloudflare also runs a quiet check (called Turnstile) to tell people from robots; it looks at how your browser behaves, under Cloudflare's own privacy terms. We do not sell it or share it for advertising. We may share a funny or interesting answer, without your name, in things we publish about the game.
Your choices
- The random ID: choose "No thanks" in the note on the front page or the join screen, or use the button below at any time. Where the law lets us simply tell you (everywhere except the EU, the UK, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein), a visitor who just carries on is counted as OK and is not asked again on that device. In those countries we ask first, and keep nothing until you say yes. The game works exactly the same either way.
- Your account: you can ask us to see, correct or delete your account and the games saved under it.
- Game answers: they are saved with a nickname, not your name. Ask us and we will remove the games from a room or an account.
To ask, write to hello@betcha.cc.
How long
We keep game and visit information for as long as it helps us run and improve Betcha, and delete an account when you ask. Every night we also copy the saved information to a separate backup store, in case something goes wrong with the main one. We keep the last 30 nightly copies and one copy for each of the last 12 months, so an account you ask us to delete is gone from the backups within about a year, as the old copies are cleared.
Children
Betcha is made for families and groups. Hosts must be 18 or older. Players are asked only for a nickname; we do not ask any player for their name, email or age.
Changes
If this changes in a way that matters, the date at the top changes and the note on the front page will say so.