GameReady

Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 17, 2026

GameReady ("we", "us", "the app") is a mobile app that helps you and your friends coordinate gaming sessions — sending quick pings ("Yo!"), availability updates ("Vibes"), and organizing guilds and raids. This policy explains what information the app collects, why, and how you can remove it.

Information we collect

When you create an account and use GameReady, we collect:

• Email address — used to create and secure your account, verify it's really you, and let you reset your password. It is never shown to other users.
• Password — stored by our authentication provider (Google Firebase) in encrypted/hashed form. We never see or store it ourselves.
• Sign in with Google (optional) — if you choose "Continue with Google", Google shares your Google account's email address and an account identifier with our authentication provider (Google Firebase) so you can sign in. We do not receive your Google password, and GameReady does not access anything else in your Google account (no contacts, files or calendar). You still pick your own username.
• Username — chosen by you, visible to other users so friends can find and add you.
• Friends list — who you've connected with in the app.
• Online/offline status — whether the app is currently open, shown to your friends.
• Messages you send to friends — the content of a Yo!, a Vibe (e.g. "Play tonight?"), or a reply (e.g. "On my way"). These are short, preset or near-preset messages, not free-form chat, and are only ever visible to the sender and the recipient.
• Squad membership — a small group of your friends you've chosen (or who've asked and been approved) for quick "who's around" pings. Only visible to you and the Squad's owner.
• Guild and raid information — guilds you create or join, your role, and scheduling choices you make within them.
• Status you choose to share — an optional "what you're playing" tag and a Ready / Busy / Can't play indicator, both visible to your friends and guildmates, both set by you and easy to clear.
• Avatar selection — which of the app's built-in avatar images you've picked. GameReady does not access your camera or photo library.
• App preferences — things like whether sound effects and notifications are turned on, and your chosen notification sound.
• Push notification token — a device identifier issued by Apple/Google's push services (via Expo) that lets us deliver a notification when a friend pings you and the app is closed. This token is not linked to your identity outside the app.
• Blocking — who you've chosen to block. Only visible to you; it's used to stop a blocked person's requests and messages from reaching you.
• Purchases — when you buy Premium through Google Play, Google Play gives the app a purchase token. Our server checks that token with Google to confirm the purchase is real, then stores which pass you bought, when, the price and currency, the purchase token, and when your Premium ends — linked to your account. We never see or store your card or payment details.
• Discord links (optional, guild leaders) — a guild leader can add a Discord invite link, which is shown to that guild's members, and can connect a Discord channel webhook. The webhook address is stored on our server only and is never shown in the app.
• Reports — if you report another user, we collect the reported user's identity and the reason you give. A report is write-only from the app's side: once submitted, nobody — including you — can read it back through the app. We review reports directly, outside the app.

We do not collect your precise location, contacts, photos, or browsing activity outside the app, and GameReady contains no third-party advertising or analytics trackers today.

How we use this information

• To operate core features: accounts, friends, presence, messaging between friends, guilds and raids.
• To deliver push notifications for things a friend sent you.
• To keep the service secure and prevent abuse (e.g. rate-limiting how often you can message the same person).
• To verify Premium purchases and know when your Premium ends.

We do not sell your information, and we do not use it for advertising.

Who we share it with

• Other users — only what's needed for the app to work: your username to friends, your online status to friends, and the content of a message to the specific friend it was sent to.
• Service providers — Google Firebase (accounts, database, hosting, notification delivery infrastructure) and Expo (push notification delivery). They process data on our behalf and don't use it for their own purposes.
• Google Play — Premium is sold through Google Play, which handles the payment. We send Google the purchase token to verify a purchase; we do not receive or store your payment card details.
• Discord (only if your guild leader connects it) — when a guild has a Discord channel connected, a raid card is posted to that channel and kept up to date: the raid's name, time and note, and the usernames and roles (tank/healer/DPS) of the guild members who signed up for it. Anything posted to Discord is also covered by Discord's privacy policy. The leader can disconnect the channel at any time.

We do not share your information with advertisers or data brokers.

How long we keep it, and deleting your data

We keep your account information for as long as your account exists. A message between two friends (a Yo!, a Vibe, or a reply) is stored until it's replaced by the next message of that same type between the same two people — there is no searchable, permanent message history, but a given message can persist until overwritten this way.

You can delete your account and its data at any time, directly in the app (Settings → Delete Account) — this takes effect immediately, no waiting period. See Delete My Account for exactly what's removed. A report you filed about someone, or one filed about you, is kept regardless of either account being deleted later — that's what lets moderation stay meaningful even after an account is gone.

Children's privacy

GameReady is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from children under 13. If you believe a child has created an account, contact us using the details below and we will remove it.

Security

Access to your data is protected by account authentication and server-side rules that restrict who can read or write what — for example, only you and a specific friend can see a message between you. No method of transmission or storage is 100% secure, but we take reasonable steps to protect your information.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, we'll update the date at the top of this page. Significant changes will be communicated in the app.

Contact us

Questions about this policy or your data: kasperhagensen@hotmail.com