Privacy
Follow Suit is a place to play card games with friends. We collect as little as that requires, and nothing more.
Playing without an account
You can play everything without signing up. Your display name, settings, saved rule presets, play statistics, and unfinished solitaire deals are stored in your own browser's local storage, on your device. While you are in an online game, our server holds the game's state (cards, seats, scores) so everyone at the table sees the same game; game rooms are deleted within about a day of going quiet.
If you create an account
Accounts exist so your name, saved rule presets, and play statistics can follow you between devices. When you create one we store:
- Your email address, used only to sign you in and identify your account.
- A cryptographic hash of your password (we never store the password itself).
- The synced data above: display name, rule presets, and play statistics.
- While you are signed in, the results of your online Spades and Hearts games: who won, the scores, bids and the like, recorded against your account for your stats and the leaderboards. Friends and any group you join can see them; a switch on the account screen hides you from the global board.
If you sign in with Google, Google tells us your email address and name; we use them the same way and receive no other information from your Google account.
Your friends can see which game you are in and whether you are in a lobby or playing, and whether you are open to invites. While you appear offline they see none of it.
If you play through Steam, Steam tells us your Steam id and, when your account is made, your Steam name, which becomes your starting username and display name. We check which Follow Suit DLC your Steam account owns. When you ask to find Steam friends who play, we read your Steam friends list for that check and keep nothing from it but the friendships you add.
What we don't do
- No advertising, and no advertising trackers.
- No third-party analytics, and no watching individual players.
- No selling, renting, or sharing of your information with anyone.
- No tracking cookies. We don't use cookies at all.
Anonymous counts
To understand what to build, we keep a few simple tallies on our own server: how many online games start and finish, how many purchases begin and complete, and how many visits and online players come from a phone rather than a computer, and the most people seen playing at one time in each hour. These are totals only, tied to no one; they set no cookies and never leave our server. Solitaire and games against bots run on your device, and we count nothing from them.
Crash reports
If the game hits a bug, a technical crash report is sent to our error-tracking service (Sentry) so we can fix it: the error message, where in the code it happened, your browser type, and the page it happened on. Crash reports contain no gameplay tracking, nothing you typed, and no account information.
Deleting your data
Local data can be cleared through your browser at any time. You can delete your account from the account screen. That removes the account, its username, its friends and everything synced to it at once, and it cannot be undone. Your name comes off the game records too; the games themselves stay, anonymous. Payment records stay with our payment processor, Stripe, as the law requires. If you would rather we did it, email followsuit.games@gmail.com from the account's address.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will appear at this address with a new effective date.