Privacy

Read the updated Games and mobile-app privacy policy, including Friends, treks, Apple sign-in and local reminders.

What this release uses

EverestBuzz Network LLC uses your email for secure sign-in. When Google sign-in is connected, we also store Google’s account identifier to recognize your account; we do not store your Google password or access your inbox or contacts. We store your account creation date, optional email-update choice, verified game rewards, and cosmetic purchases. Successful email and Google sign-ins are recorded privately with the method and time for up to 90 days. Limited sign-in notices, containing your verified email, method and time, go to the site owner for account administration. They do not subscribe you to marketing. Private tables use a chosen display name; your email is never shown to other players.

An essential, secure HttpOnly session cookie keeps you signed in for up to 30 days. Sign-in links expire after 15 minutes and can be used once. Privacy preferences are stored in your browser. Hashed request identifiers limit abuse and are deleted after their rate-limit window, by daily cleanup.

Temporary online Guest Pass

Adults may enter an email to create a24-hour guest session and play with friends without waiting for an email. The address is unverified and is not proof of identity or an account login. It stays private, is not subscribed to marketing, and is deleted by daily cleanup within48 hours. Guest passes do not earn account stars; names and game snapshots can remain until their table expires. You can export or delete the pass from My account. Use the same browser to return; another device creates a separate guest seat.

Optional analytics

If you enable usage analytics in Privacy choices, we count page visits by day and section. These aggregate counts contain no email, player identity, card moves, or fingerprint. Counts are kept for 90 days. Rejecting analytics does not stop you playing.

Email and advertising

Game-update emails are optional and can be switched off in Account. No advertising scripts, sponsor pixels, affiliate embeds, or personalised ads are enabled in this release. Browser caches are used for delivery, not to identify you.

EverestBuzz Games app

The EverestBuzz Games app at /play is for adults 18 and over, and you must sign in to use it. You can sign in with a six-digit code sent to your email or with Google. For the code we keep your email address and a keyed, unreadable fingerprint of the code, with its expiry time and its number of wrong tries. The code expires after 10 minutes, works once and stops working after five wrong tries; expired codes are removed by daily cleanup. For Google sign-in we keep a temporary marker, for up to 10 minutes, that brings you back to the app; daily cleanup removes it.

In the app we store, with your account: the name, country, city and age range you enter, a phone number only if you choose to give one (we do not verify it yet), the language you choose (also kept on your device), your time zone, the times your profile was created and updated, your daily star claims with their dates and times, and your streak. Stars have no cash value.

The daily trek and collection save your chosen route, stop, streak, missed-day choice, porter saves, earned Mohar and Mani balances, reward history, owned appearances, equipped looks, and app settings. Mohar and Mani are earned here and unlock appearances only; purchases are unavailable. Free chips (Gotti) are separate, unlimited practice counters with no cash value, transfers or prizes. For chip tables we keep your declared US state and use Cloudflare’s current coarse connection-based country and region to decide availability; this is not phone GPS and can be inaccurate. Missing or conflicting regions keep chip tables unavailable. Practice chip balances, hands and completed actions are saved so reconnecting or repeating a request cannot award a second result. Replay receipts retain at most the newest 500 actions per account, for up to 90 days; older receipts are deleted, and account export includes every retained receipt. These records are included in account export and removed with account deletion. Music and effects are served as local app files and start after interaction; daily notifications are not sent by this version.

The app also records three optional choices, each with the time you made it and the version of this notice: (1) occasional game news and marketing messages; (2) using counts without names to help improve the games; (3) a note that you are happy for game moves, without your name or contact details, to help train computer players and our tools. They are off until you turn them on. The one exception is the game-update email choice you may already have made on this website: it carries over to choice (1), and changing it in the app or on the website changes both. In this version we only record choices (2) and (3): nothing extra is counted or collected because of them yet, and we will update this notice and ask again before that changes. You can change each choice in Me at any time.

The email service (Resend) delivers your sign-in code, Cloudflare provides hosting and the security check, and Google handles Google sign-in if you choose it; they process the data needed to do that. We do not sell your information and we do not give it to any other business or partner. Under-18s may not use the app. You can download your data or delete your account, profile and stars in Me.

Chat in the app is for signed-in adults only: friends chat and one Community room, text only. Messages are deleted after 30 days. An automatic filter holds back phone numbers, links, email addresses, money and betting talk and listed words. The site owner is the only moderator and can read messages that are reported or held by the filter, including private friend messages. Chat is included in data export and deleted with your account.

Service providers and control

Cloudflare hosts the site and database and provides the Turnstile anti-abuse check. Resend delivers sign-in emails when configured. Enquiries you send through the enquiry form (name, email, topic and message) are delivered to EverestBuzz’s Google Workspace (Google Sheets and Gmail) so we can reply; they are not used for marketing. These providers may process connection and delivery data under their own policies. No card details or payments are collected.

Callbreak, Jhyap and the three new house-game tables expire after 24 hours of inactivity. Marriage tables expire 24 hours after creation. Temporary Marriage seat credentials stay in private server storage and are cleared by daily cleanup, within 48 hours of registration. Account information and reward history remain while your account is active. Download or delete your account from Account; any table alias already in an active game expires with the table. Infrastructure backups and provider records follow their retention policies.

Accounts and online play in this release are for adults 18 and over. For privacy requests or questions: admin@everestbuzz.com.