Privacy Policy

Downing Draft is designed to collect as little as possible. There are no accounts and no logins. You play as a fictional Prime Minister of your own naming — we do not ask you for your real name, email address or any other personal contact information to play or share. This policy covers both the Downing Draft website and the Downing Draft Android app.

What we collect

• Game results. When you finish a game, we send a summary of that game to our server and store it, so that short share links work and to power game statistics and future leaderboards. The summary contains your in-game choices and outcome — the name you gave your Prime Minister and party, your cabinet picks, priorities and final scores. These names are part of your game and are entirely of your choosing; please do not enter real personal details into them. Stored results are private by default and are not shown publicly.
• Anonymous usage analytics (website only). On the website we use PostHog to understand how the game is used in aggregate (for example, how many people start a game or share a result). Analytics run in a cookieless mode: we do not store cookies or other identifiers on your device for analytics, and we do not track you across sessions or websites. The Android app does not include analytics.
• Advertising identifiers (Android app only). The Android app shows adverts to free users, supplied by Google AdMob. To do this, the app may access your device's advertising identifier and share it with Google for ad delivery, measurement, and fraud prevention. If you purchase the Parliament Pass, ads are switched off and this no longer applies.
• Purchase information (Android app only). If you buy the Parliament Pass, our payments provider (RevenueCat) and Google Play process your purchase and retain a record of it, so your entitlement can be restored if you reinstall the app or switch devices. We do not see or store your payment card details — these are handled entirely by Google Play.

We do not collect your precise location, contacts, or photos. The website contains no advertising identifiers or tracking beyond what's described below; the Android app's use of advertising identifiers is limited to serving ads as described above.

Advertising

Website. To keep the Downing Draft website free to play, we show a small number of adverts supplied by Google AdSense. To serve these, Google and its partners may set cookies or use similar device identifiers and may process technical data such as your IP address. Where ads are personalised, this information can be used to show adverts more relevant to you.

If you are in the UK or the European Economic Area, you will be asked for your choice before any non-essential advertising cookies are used, via a consent banner provided through Google's certified Consent Management Platform. You can change or withdraw that choice at any time. If you decline, you may still see adverts, but they will be non-personalised.

Android app. To keep the free version of the app supported, it shows adverts supplied by Google AdMob — a small banner on the results screen, an occasional full-screen advert when starting a new game, and an optional advert you can choose to watch in exchange for an extra re-roll. Watching the optional advert is always your choice and never required to play. If you are in the UK or the EEA, the app will ask for your consent before showing personalised ads, using Google's certified consent tool. If you buy the Parliament Pass, none of these adverts are shown.

Google's use of advertising data is governed by Google's Privacy & Terms, and you can review or control personalised advertising in your Google Ad Settings (website) or your device's advertising ID settings (Android app).

Cookies

Our analytics run in a cookieless mode and set no cookies. The only non-essential cookies come from advertising on the website — and in the UK and EEA those are set only after you consent via the banner described above. The Android app does not use cookies, but may use your device's advertising identifier as described above.

Service providers

• Neon: the database that stores completed game results for share links and statistics.
• Railway: hosting and serving the website and the results API.
• PostHog: anonymous, aggregate product analytics (website only).
• Google AdSense: serves the adverts that keep the website free, and provides the consent banner shown to UK and EEA visitors (website only).
• Google AdMob: serves the adverts that keep the Android app free, and provides the consent tool shown to UK and EEA users of the app.
• RevenueCat: processes and verifies your Parliament Pass purchase and manages your entitlement across devices (Android app only).

These providers may process technical information such as IP addresses transiently in order to deliver and secure the service, in line with their own policies. Data is transmitted over an encrypted (HTTPS) connection.

Retention and deleting your data

Stored game results are kept so that share links continue to work. If you would like a result deleted, send the share link (or its short code) to contact@downingdraft.com and we will remove the corresponding record. As there are no accounts, the share link is what lets us locate your data.

Purchase records for the Parliament Pass are retained by Google Play and RevenueCat in line with their own retention policies, so that your entitlement continues to work; we do not separately store your payment details.

Your rights

We do not hold personal data that identifies you, such as your real name or email. For any privacy question, or to request deletion of a stored result, contact us at contact@downingdraft.com.

Children

The game is intended for a general audience and does not knowingly collect personal data from anyone, including children.

Changes

We may update this policy from time to time. Material changes will be reflected by the date at the top of this page.