Privacy Policy
Last updated: November 3, 2026
The Reel Deal is a free party game for movie nights, played in a web browser or as a Discord Activity. It's a small hobby project with no accounts, no ads and no tracking. This page explains the little data it handles.
What the game handles
- Your display name. On the website you type it. Inside Discord, if you allow sign-in, the game reads your Discord username and display name to fill it in. It does not read your email, servers, friends or messages.
- What happens in a lobby. Your cards, calls, votes, scores, chat messages, pinned video links and trope suggestions.
- Small settings in your browser. Your name, your seat in the current lobby (so a refresh doesn't kick you out), your chosen skin, and whether sound and vibration are on. These stay on your device in local storage.
How long it's kept
Lobby data lives only in the server's memory. It is not written to a database, and it is erased when the lobby closes or the server restarts, which happens often. Nothing is kept between movie nights. The settings in your browser stay until you clear your browser data.
Who else sees it
- Other players in your lobby see your name, your plays, your chat and your suggestions. That's the game.
- Hosting. The game runs on Render, whose servers keep standard technical logs such as IP addresses and request times.
- Discord. Inside Discord, sign-in and the Activity itself go through Discord, under Discord's Privacy Policy.
- Movie runtime lookups. When the host looks up a movie's runtime, the title they type is sent to Wikidata, TVMaze or The Movie Database (TMDB). No player information is sent with it.
- Videos and streams. YouTube or Twitch players shown in the game are run by those services under their own privacy policies.
- Trope suggestions. If the game's owner turns it on, each suggestion (the trope, its description and your name) is also posted to the owner's private Discord channel so ideas aren't lost.
The game never sells data, never shows ads and uses no analytics or tracking cookies.
Children
The game is meant for people old enough to use Discord under its terms (13 or older in most countries).
Your choices
Use any name you like. Leave a lobby to remove yourself from it, and clear your browser's site data to remove the saved settings. To ask anything about this policy, contact the game's owner on Discord at tokentrevor.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top will change with it.