The short version
- We do not have accounts, and we never ask you to make one.
- We do not collect your name, email address, or location.
- We do not use advertising, analytics, or tracking of any kind.
- We do not sell or share personal information. There is nothing to sell.
- Player names, ages and scores stay on your device.
What stays on your device
When you set up a show you type each player's first name and, optionally, an age. The app uses the age only to choose age-appropriate questions. Those names, those ages, and your Hall of Fame scores are stored only on your device, using the operating system's own app storage. They are not transmitted to us, and deleting the app deletes them.
Spoken answers
If you tap the microphone to say an answer out loud, your phone turns what you said into a number using the speech recognition built into iOS. This happens entirely on the device. The audio is never uploaded, and neither is the text it produces.
- No audio leaves your phone. We never receive it, no server processes it, and it is not sent to OpenAI or anyone else. You can check this yourself: turn on Airplane Mode and dictation still works.
- Nothing is stored. The recognised number becomes your guess for that round and the audio is discarded.
- You never have to use it. Every question can be answered by typing, and the app works completely without the microphone. iOS will ask your permission before the microphone is used at all, and you can refuse or revoke it in Settings at any time.
AI-written questions
Custom topics are the only feature that uses the network. If you ask for fresh AI-written questions, the app sends the youngest player's age and the chosen topic (for example "Space Junk") to our service, which uses OpenAI to write questions. No names and no scores are sent — only an age and a topic. Generated question text may be converted to speech so the announcer can read it aloud; only the question text is sent, never anything about the players.
Third parties
We do not use any analytics, attribution, crash-reporting or advertising SDK.
Purchases
If you buy the Family Pass, the purchase is handled entirely by Apple, and subscription management (including cancelling) happens in your Apple account settings. We receive only the anonymous receipt information needed to know whether the pass is active. We never see your card, your address, or your Apple ID.
Children
Hot Seat is designed for families and is meant to be played with children present. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children. The app has no accounts, no chat, no social features, no user-generated content shared with anyone else, and no advertising. The ages you enter are used only to pick questions and never leave your device.
Your choices
- Don't want the microphone used? Don't grant permission, or revoke it in iOS Settings. Everything remains playable by typing.
- Don't want anything sent anywhere? Skip custom topics. The bundled game — every question, spoken answers, the announcer, the Hall of Fame — works with no connection at all. (You get 3 custom topics free before the pass is ever mentioned.)
- Want your data gone? Delete the app. Everything the app stored goes with it, because it is all local.
Changes
If this policy changes we will update this page and the date at the top.
Contact
Questions about this policy: hello@commonwealth-systems.com. Something else on your mind? See the support page.