Buzz: Party Games privacy policy

Last updated October 25, 2026

Buzz: Party Games is a party game app: word games and trivia, hosted by a robot. There are no accounts, ads or tracking. This page explains what the app does with what you say, and the usage log that helps the developer improve the game.

Your voice stays on your phone

During a round the app listens through the microphone and turns speech into text with Apple's speech recognition, on the phone. On some older iPhones, Apple may process it on its servers under Apple's privacy policy. Audio is never sent to us or anyone else.

The optional voice check in two-player games builds a voiceprint of each player on the phone, so the referee can tell who said a word. It's kept in memory for that game only and never leaves the phone.

Online AI (only if you allow it)

The app asks before using online AI, and you can turn it off any time in Settings. When it's on:

• The text of clues and guesses, the card's words, and the game's moments are sent to our server and on to OpenRouter, which passes them to Google's Gemini models, to write the referee's comments and to play as your AI partner.
• The referee's and partners' lines are sent to ElevenLabs to be spoken in their voices. Clips of those lines are kept on our server so a line said before plays again without a new request.
• The name you give for Faker is sent within the partners' lines that say it, to ElevenLabs to be spoken, and those clips are kept on our server like any other line. Other player names are never sent.

Our server is hosted by Railway in the United States. It keeps a short request log (which endpoint, whether it worked, how long it took, and the IP address it came from, which Railway records) and a daily spend count per install. OpenRouter, Google and ElevenLabs handle the text under their own privacy policies.

With online AI off, the referee uses built-in lines and the phone's own voice, and nothing you say is sent for the AI. The usage log below has its own switch.

The usage log

To see how the game is played and make it better, the app sends the developer a log of each game, unless you turn it off in Settings → Privacy (“Help improve Buzz: Party Games”):

• When the app opens, which mode is played, how each round goes (cards won, buzzkills, skips, overrules, score, length), and when a game ends.
• The cards played and, for each one, the text of what was said on it (clues and guesses, as the phone's speech recognition wrote it down), the AI partner's clues and guesses, and the referee's lines.
• When the subscribe screen is shown, a subscription is bought (and which plan), the phone was offline, or a call to our server failed.
• The app's build number and whether it came from the App Store or TestFlight.

It's kept with a scrambled form of the install ID below, never your name, the audio, or your device's identifiers. Only the developer can see it. It's stored on our server for 90 days, then deleted. Anything said aloud during a round can end up in it, so if you'd rather not, turn it off before playing.

The install ID

The app makes up a random ID when it's installed and sends it with each request, so the server can limit how much one phone uses each day and count how many phones play. It isn't linked to you, your device's identifiers, or anything else.

Subscriptions

Buzz Pro is bought through Apple. Apple handles the payment; we never see your payment details or Apple ID. The app asks the App Store whether this phone has an active subscription, and counts the day's free games on the phone.

Stored on your phone

Settings and your best team score are saved on the phone; usage events wait there in memory until they're sent. The name you give for Faker is saved on the phone so you don't have to type it again; other player names are forgotten when the app closes. Deleting the app removes everything.

Children

Buzz: Party Games isn't directed at children under 13 and doesn't knowingly collect their personal information.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, this page will show the new date. Questions: natengall@gmail.com.