Privacy Policy

Mahjongg Circle helps a mahjong group plan its Mahj days, keep score and keep its standings. This page says plainly what the app keeps, why, and how to make it go away.

What we keep

• Your email address, so we can send you a sign-in code. There is no password. If you also use Bunco Circle, the two apps share this sign-in, but each keeps its own profile, groups, scores and subscription.
• Your name, so your circle knows who you are.
• Your phone number, if you give it. It is optional. It matches you to your name if your organizer added you by number, and your organizer uses it to text you about Mahj from their own phone.
• What your circle records: the roster your organizer types in (names, and phone numbers and hosting addresses if they are added), Mahj days, who is hosting, who said they’re coming, who was there, whether dues were paid, who was asked to sub, and who sat at which table. For each game: who called Mahj, what the hand was worth, who threw the winning tile or whether it was self-picked, whether it was jokerless, who saved it, and everyone’s points. Also your group’s prizes and standings, and any notes your organizer or a host writes.
• Your settings, such as your text size and whether reminders are on.
• Whether you subscribe: your plan (monthly or yearly), whether it is active, and when it renews.

Your subscription

Saying “I’m in” and keeping score are always free. The live scoreboard, standings, the winners log and stats are a subscription, which on an iPhone you buy through Apple. It is separate from Bunco Circle’s subscription. Apple takes the payment; we never see your card or bank details. The app gives our subscription service, RevenueCat, your account number (not your name or email), and RevenueCat checks with Apple what you bought, so the app knows to unlock. You can change or cancel your subscription any time in your iPhone’s Settings, under your name, then Subscriptions.

On an Android phone you buy it through Google Play instead. Google takes the payment; we never see your card or bank details. The app gives RevenueCat your account number (not your name or email), and RevenueCat checks with Google Play what you bought, so the app knows to unlock. You can change or cancel it any time in the Play Store app: tap your profile picture, then Payments & subscriptions, then Subscriptions.

What we don’t do

• We don’t sell your information or share it with advertisers.
• We don’t track you across other apps or websites. The app and this website have no advertising or analytics tools, and the website uses no cookies. The only counting is RevenueCat’s: from its purchase records, it tells us how many people subscribe.
• We don’t collect your location. “Open in Maps” just hands an address to your maps app.
• We don’t send text messages. Any text from the app is one your organizer sends from their own phone.
• Scores are points only. The app records your group’s prizes and dues as notes. It never handles the group’s money.

Who can see it

Only the people in your circle can see your circle’s roster (with any phone numbers and addresses on it), schedule and scores. Your organizer and co-organizers can change them, and they can see who in the circle subscribes, but not your plan or how you pay.

Outside your circle, people see only this: someone with your circle’s invite link sees the circle’s name and the organizer’s name, and once they sign in, the roster names that haven’t joined yet, so they can pick their own. A sub your organizer texts sees the circle’s name, the organizer’s name, and that Mahj day’s date, time, host and address.

Anyone who has your circle’s invite link can join it, and then sees what the circle sees, so share the link only with your group.

Where it is kept

Your information is stored with our database provider, Supabase, on servers in the United States, and is sent to and from the app over encrypted connections. Sign-in codes are emailed through our email service, Resend. Subscription records are also kept by RevenueCat. If you use Mahjongg Circle in your web browser at gamenightcircle.com/mahjongg, your sign-in is kept in your own browser, and our web host, Vercel, keeps short-lived technical records of each visit, such as your internet address. Reminders are scheduled on your own phone. These companies handle your information only to run their service for us, and must protect it at least as well as this policy does.

How long we keep it

We keep your account while you have it, and your circle’s records for as long as the circle exists. When you delete your account, or an organizer deletes a circle, it is removed from our database straight away. Copies in our database provider’s routine backups last only until those backups are replaced. RevenueCat keeps its record of your purchases under your account number only; email us to have it removed.

Deleting your account

Open the app, go to Me (or Settings, if you aren’t in a group yet), and tap Delete my account. Your Mahjongg Circle account, with your phone number and settings, and your Mahjongg subscription record are deleted straight away. One Game Night Circle sign-in works in all our apps, but each app keeps its own account, and this deletes only Mahjongg Circle’s. Your login and email address are deleted too, unless you still have an account in another Game Night Circle app, such as Bunco Circle; that account isn’t touched.

No longer have the app? Sign in at gamenightcircle.com/mahjongg in any web browser and tap Me, then Delete my account. Or email support@gamenightcircle.com from the address you sign in with, and we will delete your account within 30 days and write back when it is done.

Your name stays on each circle’s list with the Mahj days you played, so everyone else’s scores stay right, and so does any hosting address on your roster entry or on Mahj days you hosted. Your organizer can take your name and address off, or email us and we’ll remove them. A sample group you made from “Take a look first” is deleted too. If you run a circle, hand it to someone else first (or delete it) from the app.

If you subscribe, deleting your account does not stop Apple or Google from billing you. Cancel the subscription first: on an iPhone in Settings, under your name, then Subscriptions; on Android in the Play Store app, under Payments & subscriptions, then Subscriptions.

Deleting a circle (in Organize → Group settings) deletes everything in it.

Children

Mahjongg Circle is for adults and is not directed at children under 13. We don’t knowingly collect information from them.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes we will update this page and the date at the top. Questions: support@gamenightcircle.com.