Privacy policy

Family Room collects nothing about you. There is no account to create, no server to send anything to, no analytics, and no tracking of any kind.

Last updated 14 November 2026. Applies to the Family Room app on iPhone, iPad and Apple TV, and to this website.

What the app collects

Nothing. The app has no account system, contains no analytics or advertising frameworks, no crash reporting service and no third-party SDKs. It does not ask for your contacts, your photos, your location or your identity, and it has no way to identify you or your device.

What stays on your device

The display name and emoji you choose, which games you have installed, and your app settings. These are stored on your own device by iOS and are not transmitted anywhere except as described below.

What is sent between devices while you play

To play together, the devices in the room exchange what the game needs: the display names and emoji of the players, and the moves and game state of the game you are playing. This travels directly between the devices over your local Wi-Fi network, or over a direct device-to-device connection when there is no network. It does not pass through any server and it does not leave the room.

There is no server component to this app. The host's device coordinates the game. When the game ends, nothing is kept beyond your own device's local game history.

Games you import

Game bundles you import are files on your own device. They run in a sandboxed web view with no network access whatsoever — an imported game cannot send anything anywhere, including to me. Nothing about which games you install or play is reported.

Children

Because nothing is collected from anyone, nothing is collected from children. There is no sign-up, no profile, no chat with strangers and no way to be contacted by anyone who is not in the room with you.

Apple

Downloading the app from the App Store is a transaction between you and Apple, under Apple's privacy policy, not mine. Apple may give me anonymous aggregate statistics about downloads; I cannot identify anyone from those and receive nothing else.

This website

This site sets no cookies, loads nothing from third parties, and runs no analytics or tracking scripts. The web server that serves it keeps ordinary access logs, which are not used to build any profile and are not shared.

Changes, and how to reach me

If this policy ever changes, the updated date above changes with it. Questions about privacy: chriskon149@gmail.com.