Privacy Policy — Beef
Last updated: July 29, 2026
Beef ("we", "the app") is a free party game for friend groups playing in the same room, in person. This policy explains the little bit of data the app touches and what happens to it.
What we collect
- An anonymous device ID. When you open the app, it silently creates an anonymous identity (via our backend provider, Supabase) so the app can recognize your phone if you rejoin a room. It is not a name, email, or account — there's no sign-up, ever.
- The display name you type. Just for that game — shown to the other players in the room so votes make sense ("who picked who").
- The room code you create or join.
- Your votes during the game (who you voted for each round).
- Basic game state — which round you're on, the question shown, and the tallies needed to show results.
That's the entire list. Nothing else is collected.
Why we collect it
Only to run the game you're playing, live, with the friends in your room: matching your phone to your seat in the room, showing your name to others in the room, counting votes, and showing results. Nothing is used for advertising, profiling, or analytics.
How long it lives
This is the important part: rooms and everything in them are permanently deleted about 4 hours after the room goes quiet (no activity). This happens automatically on our server — display names, votes, room codes, all of it, gone. There is no archive, backup copy, or history kept beyond that window. We designed the app so there's nothing left to lose.
Where it's stored
On Supabase, a hosted database provider, on servers located in the EU (Frankfurt, Germany). We don't run our own servers and don't move this data anywhere else.
What we never do
- No accounts, no sign-up, no password, no email collected.
- No location tracking.
- No access to your contacts, photos, camera, or microphone.
- No analytics or tracking SDKs of any kind.
- No advertising, and no ad networks.
- We never sell or share your data with any third party. Supabase hosts the database on our behalf and never sees or uses it for anything else.
Your choices
- You can leave a room any time with the leave button — your data purges itself on the normal schedule regardless.
- Because there's no account, there's nothing to "delete my account" — closing the app and letting a room go quiet is enough; the 4-hour purge does the rest automatically.
- If you want a room's data gone sooner, contact us (below) with the room code and roughly when you played, and we'll delete it by hand.
Children
Beef is rated 16+ and is not directed at children. We don't knowingly collect data from children, and the game content itself (an "edgy" question level) is written for a mature, in-person friend group.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, we'll update the "Last updated" date above and post the new version at the same link. Since there are no accounts or emails on file, we have no way to notify you individually.
Contact
Questions about this policy or your data: use the contact form on our support page — messages go straight to the developer.