Privacy policy
Effective 7 November 2026
Pawnch is made by William Visser (the Netherlands). This policy says what the app and its game server store about you. Contact: info@thewillonline.nl.
The short version
- You need no account, e-mail address or phone number. You only type a name.
- We do not track you, show ads, or use analytics or third-party advertising software.
- We do not collect your location, contacts, photos, microphone or camera.
- You can delete your Profile in the app.
What the server stores
- Your Profile: the name you type (1 to 24 characters), a random player id, the date it was made, the drawn avatar you pick from the ones in the app, and your pose and colour.
- Sign-in tokens: a random secret is kept on your phone. The server keeps only a one-way hash of it, the kind of device (for example "iPhone"), and when it was made and last used.
- Groups: the name and colour of a Group, its members, an invite code, and the game forms (Spelvormen) that members make, with the id of their maker.
- Safety: the players you blocked, and the reports players made (who reported whom, the reason, the time and the names then), so we can act on abuse.
- Games: the state of games that are running, so you can continue them after a lost connection, the results of finished games (who won and the ranking), and dice statistics per player.
Emoji, preset chat phrases and stickers during a game are only passed on to the other players and are not stored. Pawnch has no free-text chat and no voice chat.
Technical data
The server sees your IP address while you are connected. It keeps it in memory only, to limit abuse (for example too many new Profiles from one address), and does not write it to its database or logs. The game server runs on Cloudflare (Cloudflare, Inc.) as our hosting provider: its database is kept in the European Union, and Cloudflare carries the network traffic and may process your IP address to protect its network, under its own privacy policy and data processing terms.
On your phone the app stores your token, name, player id, settings and a copy of your home screen. That data stays on your phone until you delete your Profile or the app.
Who sees what
Other players in your Groups and games see your name, avatar, colour and results. Players outside your Groups and games do not see you. We do not sell or share your data and we do not use it for advertising.
Keeping and deleting data
We keep your Profile as long as you use it. You can delete it in the app (Settings, About & safety, Delete profile). Then we remove your name, avatar, sign-in tokens, blocks, statistics and Group memberships from the server, and you leave your running games (a computer player takes your seat as "Deleted player"). Finished games stay in the score list of your Group as "Deleted player". Reports about you stay, without your name, so we keep our evidence of abuse. If you cannot use the app, email us and we delete it for you. Stopped games are removed at once. Games nobody played in for 24 hours stop by themselves.
Children
Pawnch is not made for children under 13. We do not ask for or knowingly collect personal data from them. If you think a child made a Profile, email us and we remove it.
Your rights
You can ask what we store about you, ask us to correct or delete it, or complain to a data protection authority (in the Netherlands: the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens). Write to info@thewillonline.nl.
Changes
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