Privacy Policy

The short version

• You never need an account to play or to buy. Hosts can buy Fateen Plus or games through the App Store or Google Play, and free games can show ads from Google, through its AdMob service.
• If you choose, you can sign in with Apple, Google or a code sent to your email, or link your devices, to keep what you bought on every device. You can delete that account at any time in the app.
• You decide whether ads may use your device’s advertising identifier: on iPhone and iPad when iOS asks, and on Android in your device’s ad settings. Where the law calls for it, such as in Europe, Google’s consent form also asks before ads use your data.
• The name and emoji you pick are shown to the people in your room, and on the public leaderboards with your country and points unless you turn that off in your profile. Rooms are deleted automatically.
• The app sends us anonymous usage and crash data so we can improve it. You can turn this off in your profile. On this website and in the game in your browser, visitors in Europe are asked first, and nothing is measured unless they accept.
• Fateen Cards, our card games app, works the same way: see Fateen Cards.
• In Discord, Fateen signs you in with your Discord account, and keeps only its ID with the player you play as: see Fateen in Discord.
• We never sell or rent your information.

Who we are

Fateen (“we”, “us”) makes the Fateen app and Fateen Cards, and runs fateengame.com and fateencards.com. For anything about your privacy, email support@fateengame.com.

Fateen Cards

This policy covers Fateen Cards, our card games app, and its website, fateencards.com, too. You play under a name and emoji you pick, with a random profile ID and a secret key that the app makes and keeps on your device; there’s no account or email. At a table for people, the others at it see your name and emoji, how many cards you hold and play, and a play’s cards only if someone doubts it, never the rest of your hand: our server deals each game and keeps its hands only while it’s played. It keeps a record of each finished game (the game, who sat at the table and where each finished) so your profile can show how many you’ve played and won; games against the app’s bots are counted the same way. People you add as friends see your name, emoji and whether you’re playing. Staff can replace a name that shouldn’t be shown with a stand-in. Fateen Cards has no purchases or ads.

Its usage and crash data, its cookie banner and fateencards.com’s records of its page work exactly as described below for Fateen and fateengame.com: anonymous, grouped by a random install ID, measured in Europe only once you accept, and stopped by Share usage data in its profile. They’re kept apart from Fateen’s. To have your Fateen Cards profile, friends and game records deleted, email us.

What the app keeps on your device

Your player profile: the name and emoji avatar you choose, and a random player ID the app creates the first time you open it. The app also remembers your language and keeps copies of question images so they load quickly. All of this stays on your device until you create or join a room.

Playing in your browser works the same way: the browser keeps your profile, language and a random install ID in its storage for this site, and you can clear them at any time in its settings. A browser that’s on an account also keeps its secret for it there.

What we receive when you play

• Your profile, when you create or join a room. We receive your player ID, name and avatar so everyone in the room can see who’s playing and which team they’re on.
• What happens in the room. Team names, the categories and lifelines chosen, the questions played, who the host awarded points to, and the score.
• Rooms are temporary. A room, with its list of players, is deleted automatically after it has been idle for at most 12 hours, or a few minutes after the host ends it.
• Finished games. When a game ends we keep a record of it for statistics and to improve the question bank: the team names, the scores, the questions that were played, how many players were on each team and the language. These records don’t include player names or player IDs.
• Leaderboards. When a game you played on a team counts for the leaderboards, we keep your player ID with your name, emoji, the country your connection came from (as our network provider infers it, never your precise location), the points and wins it gave you, and which game they came from. The leaderboards show your name, emoji, country and points to anyone using the app or visiting fateengame.com, where this week’s top players are public, for the week, the month and all time. To stay off them, turn off “Appear on leaderboards” in your profile: you keep scoring, and nobody sees you. Before a name shows there, we check it against lists of words we don’t allow, and our moderation service reads it for what it means; a name that breaks the rules shows as “Player” and a number instead, and you keep your place.
• Notifications. If you allow notifications, the app sends us the address Apple or Google gives your device for them (in the browser, the address your browser’s own push service gives it), with a random device ID the app makes, the app’s language and version, the country your connection came from, and the kinds of notifications you chose (new categories, the leaderboards, offers). We use them only to send you those notifications, and never join them to your name or player ID. Offers stay off until you turn them on. Turn notifications off in your profile or in your device’s settings and we delete this.
• Announcements. The app asks us for the announcements to show you, sending its language and version, your device’s time zone, a random ID it makes for announcements, and what it has kept on your device: the day you first opened it, how long since your last visit, and how many games you’ve finished and in which game modes. If you have a wallet, it sends its token too, and we read whether you have Fateen Plus, are signed in and have bought anything. We use this only to pick which announcements you get, and keep none of it. If you’re signed in, we keep which announcements you’ve seen, closed or tapped with your account, so they show the same on all your devices; it’s deleted with your account. Which announcements you see, tap or close is counted with the usage data below, if you share it.

Reports

If you report a question, we receive the question, the reason you chose, any note you write and the app’s language. Question reports aren’t linked to your name or player ID. Our editors use them to fix questions.

If you report a name on the leaderboards, we receive the reported player’s ID and name, the reason you chose, any note you write, the app’s language and your player ID, so each person’s report on a name counts once. Our team uses them to take names off the leaderboards that break the rules; the reported player isn’t told who reported them. Please don’t put personal information in a note.

Purchases

Hosts can buy Fateen Plus or games in the app. The store takes the payment, Apple on iPhone and iPad and Google Play on Android: we never see your Apple ID or Google account, your name, email address or payment details.

To give you what you bought, the app keeps a random wallet ID, and a secret that proves the wallet is yours, in your device’s secure storage. For each purchase, the store tells us the product, when it was bought, the price and currency, the store’s country and its transaction or order IDs, and later any renewal, refund or cancellation. The wallet holds your Fateen Plus status, your games and a record of how they were used. When you host a room, we note your player ID with the wallet, so our support team can find your purchases from your name on the leaderboards; other players never see your wallet. The app shows the wallet ID as a support code, so we can help if something goes wrong. The app also sends the store’s record of Fateen Plus bought with your Apple ID or Google account, so Plus bought on another device, or restored, counts here too.

Accounts

Accounts are optional, and only hosts ever need one: to keep Fateen Plus and games when they change phones, or to use them on another device, such as in the browser. Playing, joining a room and buying never ask you to sign in.

• Signing in. With Sign in with Apple, we receive an identifier Apple makes for you and Fateen, and the email address you chose to share, which can be an address Apple hides your own behind. With Google, we receive your Google account’s identifier and email address. With an email code, we receive the email address you type, and email it a 6-digit code that works for 10 minutes. We never receive a password, and we don’t use your email for anything but signing you in and answering you if you write to us.
• Linking a device. A device that shows a link code sends its name as the device describes itself (such as “iPhone 16 Pro” or “Safari on Mac”); the device that approves the code sees that name before it does. Codes work once, for 10 minutes.
• What the account holds. Your wallet, as described in Purchases, joined with the wallets of the devices that join it; your player profile, so every device plays as you; the ways you sign in; and each signed-in device’s name, when it was added and when it was last used, so you can see them in the app and sign out one you’ve lost. When a device with a wallet of its own joins, what it held comes along, and its wallet ID keeps leading to your account, so its purchases and renewals still count.
• Deleting it. Profile › Delete account, in the app or in the browser, deletes the account on every device: its wallet and what it held, its sign-ins and its devices. If you signed in with Apple, we also tell Apple to revoke Fateen’s access. A subscription keeps renewing until you cancel it in your App Store or Google Play settings, since the store takes the payment.

Fateen in Discord

You can also play Fateen as an Activity in a Discord voice channel. It’s the game in your browser, run inside Discord, and what this policy says about the game in your browser applies to it, with these differences:

• Signing in with Discord. Each time you open it, the Activity asks Discord to sign you in; the first time, Discord asks whether you allow it. Discord then tells us your Discord account’s ID, username and display name, never your email address, messages, voice, friends or servers. We keep only the account’s ID, with the Fateen player you play as: your name, which starts as your Discord display name, the emoji you pick and whether you appear on the leaderboards, so you’re the same player on every device you open the Activity on, and the changes you make in your profile there are kept with it. The sign-in also gives the Activity a token to open Discord’s own dialogs, such as inviting friends: our server passes it on and doesn’t keep it.
• Your call. Everyone who opens the Activity in a call plays in one room. To let only them in, we ask Discord which accounts have the Activity open in the call and remember its answer for 15 seconds, and we keep which room the call plays in for 12 hours after it was last asked for.
• Through Discord. The Activity’s page and its connections to us pass through Discord, which handles what it sees of them under Discord’s privacy policy.
• Usage data and cookies work as in the browser, and the events say they came from Discord.
• No purchases, accounts, ads or notifications in the Activity.
• Deleting it. To have your Discord player, its scores and its link to your Discord account deleted, email us with your Discord username or your name in the game. You can also remove Fateen under Authorized Apps in Discord’s settings, which stops it signing you in.

Ads

Free games can show ads from Google, through its AdMob service. Ads play only on the host’s device: a full-screen ad after the results of a free game, and a video the host can choose to watch to earn a game. Guests never see ads, and neither do Fateen Plus members or hosts playing a game they paid for.

Google’s ad code runs in the app to choose, show and measure ads and to prevent ad fraud. It receives your IP address and the approximate location it indicates; your device’s model, operating system, language, time zone, screen and network; the app’s name and version; an identifier for the app on your device; which ads were shown, watched or tapped; and reports of crashes and slowdowns in its own code. It doesn’t receive your name, your player ID, your wallet or the usage data described below. When the host watches an ad to earn a game, the app gives Google a random code for that ad, which Google sends back to us to confirm it was watched; the code says nothing about who watched.

Google can also receive your device’s advertising identifier, which it uses to make ads more relevant to you across apps and to measure them. On iPhone and iPad, iOS asks whether Fateen may track you, and Google receives it only if you allow it; you can change your choice at any time in Settings › Privacy & Security › Tracking. On Android, it receives it unless you’ve deleted your advertising ID or opted out of ads personalization in your device’s settings (Settings › Privacy › Ads, or Settings › Google › Ads). In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, and wherever else the law calls for it, the app shows Google’s consent form before ads use your data, and you can change your answer at any time in your profile, under Ad privacy choices. Google handles ad data under Google’s privacy policy; How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services explains how, and how to control it.

Technical information

Like any online service, our servers see technical details of each connection: your IP address, the time, and the app and system versions your device sends. We use them to run the service, keep it secure and stop abuse, such as someone flooding the service with rooms. Server logs are rotated automatically, and we don’t use them to build profiles of players.

Usage and crash data

To learn what works and what gets in the way, the app sends us anonymous usage data: the screens you open; actions such as creating or joining a room, sharing an invite or opening the store, and how long they took; the error codes of anything that didn’t go through; and the crash, freeze and performance reports your phone’s operating system gives the app. Our server adds its own record of rooms and games, such as how many players joined and how a game ended. In the browser, the game sends the errors its scripts run into instead of the system’s crash reports, and notes which website or campaign sent you to it: a campaign’s tags in its address, or the website by name only (such as google.com), never the address of the page. While it's open, the game, in the app or in the browser, also tells us every half minute which screen it's on, so we can see how many people are playing right now; this isn't stored. While you're in a room, it tells us on the room's own connection, so our team can see which player in the room it comes from: your name there, with the screen you're on, the app's and system's versions, your device and where your visit came from. That link isn't stored either: it lasts while you're in the room, and is gone when your visit ends.

This data is grouped by a random install ID that the app makes, which isn’t your player ID. Each event also carries the app and operating system versions, the device model, the app’s language and the country our network provider works out from your connection. We don’t keep your IP address with it, and what we keep never includes your name, your player ID or anything you type. We use it only to improve Fateen and, as described in Ad measurement, to tell Google which of our ads brought players; we don’t share it with anyone else.

To stop it, turn off Share usage data in your profile: the app stops sending it and deletes what it hasn’t sent yet. Deleting the app also resets the install ID. In the browser, that switch and Cookie settings are the same choice, and in Europe the game sends none of this until you accept.

What we don’t do

• No tracking by us: we don’t combine what you do in Fateen with data from other companies. Ads use your advertising identifier only with your permission.
• No third-party analytics code in the app. The only third-party ad code is Google’s.
• No selling, renting or trading of personal information.
• No access to your location, contacts, photos, camera or microphone.
• No email address, phone number or real name required.

This website

fateengame.com doesn’t use cookies to track you, and it loads no third-party scripts, fonts or images, except that the game in your browser loads Apple’s sign-in script when you open its sign-in options (signing in with Google opens Google’s own page, in a window of its own). Our network provider, Cloudflare, may set a strictly necessary cookie to protect the site from attacks. When we need to stop automated abuse, the game in your browser may show Cloudflare Turnstile, a check that a person is playing, once per browser a month.

So we can see how many people read it, how they find it and what helps, each page of this website tells us which page it is when it opens, how long it stays on your screen, whether you follow a link to an app store or to the game, its language, and the website or campaign that sent you here: a campaign’s tags in the page’s address, or the sending website by name only (such as google.com), never the address of its page. Our network provider adds the country, and our server notes your browser’s name, your system and the kind of device (phone, tablet or computer). To tell one visitor from another without storing anything that names you on your device, our server combines your IP address and browser name with a secret that changes every day, keeps only the result, and forgets the secret after two days, so no one can work back to you or link your visits across days. Your IP address isn’t kept, and invite and promo codes are never sent. We keep these records of the pages for up to 25 months, like the usage data above. For the length of a visit, the page keeps where it came from in your browser’s storage for this tab, so the next page knows; it’s gone when you close the tab. If your browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track, the pages send nothing, and in Europe they send nothing until you accept, as described below.

Ad measurement

We advertise Fateen on Google. When you arrive from one of our Google ads, the page’s address carries a click ID that Google adds to it. If you allow ad measurement (in Europe, only once you accept it; elsewhere, unless you turn it off in Cookie settings), we keep that click ID with your visit, and with the game’s install ID if you go on to play in your browser, for up to 100 days, and tell Google when your visit goes on to tap an app store badge, open or join a room, or play a game, with the time it happened. Google uses this to count which of our ads work. We don’t send Google your name, your IP address or anything you type, and we tell Google not to use it to personalize ads. Ad measurement needs usage measurement: without one, there’s no visit to tie the click to.

When you follow this website’s link to the App Store or Google Play, the link says which website or campaign sent you, so the store can count downloads by it. The Android app reads that from Google Play the first time it opens; if one of our Google ads sent you and you’re not in Europe, it sends the click ID with the usage data, and we tell Google about the install and your first games the same way. On iPhone and iPad, the app asks Apple once whether one of our Apple Search Ads campaigns led to the download; Apple answers with the campaign, never who you are, and that’s all the app keeps. In the apps, Share usage data in your profile stops all of this.

Cookies

On this website and in the game in your browser, we keep only what they need to work, unless you agree to more. If you’re in the European Union, the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland (or our network provider can’t tell where you are), a banner asks first, and neither the website nor the game measures anything until you accept. Rejecting is as easy as accepting, and either way the site works the same. Elsewhere, the measuring is on unless you turn it off.

• Necessary, always on. A cookie, fateen_consent, that remembers your answer for 13 months; in the game, your profile, settings and room in the browser’s storage, as described in On your device; and Cloudflare’s cookie that protects the site from attacks.
• Usage measurement, only if you allow it. In the game, the random install ID and the usage and crash data described in Usage and crash data, with the screen that’s open right now; on the website, the pages you open, for how long, and where your visit came from, as described in This website.
• Ad measurement, only if you allow it. If one of our ads brought you, the ad’s click ID, kept with your visit and reported to Google when your visit goes on to get or play Fateen, as described in Ad measurement. It needs usage measurement.

You can change your answer at any time from Cookie settings at the bottom of every page, or with Share usage data in the game’s profile. When you take it back, the game deletes the usage data it hasn’t sent yet. We count how many people accept and reject the banner each day, without anything that says who.

Service providers

We use a small number of providers to run Fateen, and they process data only to provide their service to us:

• Our hosting provider, whose servers run the game and store the question bank.
• Cloudflare, which delivers the website and the game’s connections and protects them from attacks, including with Turnstile in the browser game.
• Anthropic, whose AI, Claude, reads each new name before it shows on the leaderboards, to keep offensive names off them. It receives the name alone, never who plays under it, and doesn’t use it to train its models.
• Apple, which distributes the app for iPhone and iPad and takes payment for purchases in it. If you’ve chosen to share analytics with app developers in your device settings, Apple may share crash reports and usage statistics with us, without identifying you.
• Google, which distributes the Android app through Google Play and takes payment for purchases in it. Google Play may share crash reports and usage statistics with us, without identifying you.
• Google Ads, where we advertise Fateen: it receives the click IDs and goals described in Ad measurement, and tells us what our ads cost and how many people they reached, by campaign and day.
• Apple, for App Store Connect’s statistics: how often the app was seen and downloaded in the App Store, by country and by the website or campaign that led there, without identifying anyone.
• Apple and Google, for signing in, if you choose Sign in with Apple or Google: they confirm who you are to us.
• Our email provider, which delivers sign-in codes to the email address you give.
• Discord, which runs Fateen’s Activity in its voice channels, signs its players in and tells us who has it open in a call, as described in Fateen in Discord.

Google, which shows ads in free games through AdMob, handles ad data for its own purposes too, under its own privacy policy, as described in Ads.

How long we keep data

• Your profile on your device: until you change it or delete the app.
• Rooms and their players: deleted automatically, at most 12 hours after the last activity.
• Finished game records: as long as they help us improve questions. They contain no player names or IDs.
• Leaderboard scores: for as long as you play. Weekly and monthly boards start over, while the all-time board keeps adding up. Ask us and we delete them.
• Notification registrations: until you turn notifications off, or Apple or Google tell us the app was deleted from the device.
• Question reports: kept with the question’s history while it’s in our question bank.
• Name reports: kept while the reported player is on the leaderboards, and deleted with their scores.
• Purchases and wallets: as long as you might use what you bought, and as long as the law requires us to keep records of sales.
• Your player in Discord, with your Discord account’s ID: until you ask us to delete it. Who has the Activity open in a call: 15 seconds. The room a call plays in: 12 hours after it was last asked for.
• Accounts, their sign-ins and devices: until you delete the account. A device you sign out is removed from it straight away. Sign-in codes and link codes: deleted once used or expired.
• Ad data: kept by Google under its own privacy policy. The codes that confirm a rewarded ad was watched: two days.
• Usage and crash data, and this website’s records of its pages: individual events for up to 25 months, and an install ID until it has gone unused that long. After that we keep only daily totals, which can’t be traced to a device.
• Ad click IDs: 100 days after the click, the time Google takes conversions for them.
• Your cookie answer: 13 months in your browser, then the banner asks again. The daily counts of answers say nothing about who gave them.
• Server logs: overwritten automatically as new logs are written.

Your choices and rights

You can change your name, avatar and language at any time from your profile in the app, and turn usage and crash data, and appearing on the leaderboards, off or on there too. You can stop ads from using your advertising identifier in Settings › Privacy & Security › Tracking on iPhone and iPad, or by deleting it in your ad settings on Android, and Fateen Plus removes ads altogether. Deleting the app removes what it stored on your device, though iOS may keep its keychain secrets, such as your wallet’s, so a reinstall keeps what you bought.

We process information to provide the game you ask for, and, where the law calls it that, for our legitimate interests in keeping Fateen secure and improving its questions. Where the law asks for your consent to measure how you use the website and the game in your browser, as in Europe, we measure only with it, and you can withdraw it at any time from Cookie settings. Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct or delete personal information, or to object to how we use it. If you signed in, you can delete your account from your profile. Otherwise we usually can’t tell which data is yours; if you contact us with details such as a room code, your support code, or your name as it appears on the leaderboards, we’ll do our best to help. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.

Children

Fateen is a family game. It doesn’t ask anyone for a real name, phone number or location, never requires an email address (signing in is optional, for hosts), and names in the game can be nicknames. We don’t knowingly collect personal information from children. If you think a child has shared personal information with us, for example in a report, email us and we’ll delete it.

Changes to this policy

If we change how Fateen handles information, we’ll update this page and the date at the top. We’ll point out significant changes in the app or on this website.