FELT
Privacy Policy
Last updated October 10, 2026
The short version. Felt keeps track of home poker games: who played, who bought in for how much, and who owes whom.
We store what's needed to do that and nothing more. We don't run ads, we don't sell your information, and Felt never handles money.
What Felt collects
- Your account. When you sign in with Google, we receive your name, email address and profile photo. If you sign in with an email link, we receive your email address.
- Your profile. The name you choose, a photo if you upload one, and, only if you add them, your phone number and payment usernames (like Venmo).
- Games. For games you host or play in: names as entered at the table, RSVPs, buy-ins, add-ons, cash-outs, payment methods, requests, credit balances, notes the host writes, and which cardrooms you belong to.
- Keeping you signed in. A cookie that remembers your sign-in, plus a few small preferences saved on your device (for example, tips you've dismissed). These aren't used for tracking or advertising.
- How the app is used. Felt records which screens you open and which buttons you tap, along with your device type and screen size. This shows us what's confusing and what to improve. It never includes what you type, and it stays with Felt: no outside analytics company receives it.
- Error reports. When something breaks, Felt sends us a technical description of the error and the screen it happened on, so we can fix it.
- Invitations and game emails. When a host invites you, we use your email address to send the invitation. If a host types an email address that isn't on Felt, we use it only to send that invitation and keep it with the game's invite record, where only Felt can read it. After you answer a game, we may email you if the host changes its date or time, and we email hosts and managers when someone answers their game.
- Feedback you send. What you write, plus your name, email and the screen you sent it from, so we can reply and follow up.
- Standard server logs. Like any website, our hosting provider briefly records technical details of requests, such as IP address and browser type, to run and secure the service.
Who can see what
- Games are shared by link. Anyone with a game's link can open it and see its title, date, players and amounts. Hosts can hide individual amounts from players during a live game, but treat a game link like the game itself and share it only with your group.
- Your name and photo are visible to people you play with and to members of cardrooms you belong to.
- Your payment usernames are shown to players in games you host, so they can pay you.
- Your phone number is never shown to anyone.
- Your email address is never shown to other players. If you ask a host to link a seat to your account, they see a shortened version (like j•••@gmail.com).
- Hosts never see an invited person's email address. A host who invites someone by typing an email address sees only a shortened version of it (like al***@gmail.com) in the game's invite list.
- The person who runs Felt can access account and game data to operate the service, fix problems and prevent abuse.
What Felt doesn't do
- We don't sell or rent your information, and we don't share it for advertising.
- We don't use advertising trackers or outside analytics services. The usage records described above are kept by Felt alone.
- We don't process payments. Payment buttons open Venmo or another app you choose, and what happens there is covered by that company's privacy policy.
Services Felt relies on
These companies process data on Felt's behalf, only to provide the service:
- Google Firebase: stores accounts and game data, handles sign-in, and sends sign-in emails.
- Resend: sends the emails Felt sends on your behalf (invitations, RSVP and schedule-change messages, and feedback alerts to the person who runs Felt).
- Vercel: hosts the website.
- Cloudflare: manages the joinfelt.app domain.
- jsDelivr: supplies the code that draws QR codes, loaded only when a QR code is shown.
Keeping and deleting your data
We keep usage records and error reports for up to 13 months, then delete them automatically. We keep everything else while your account exists. To delete your account, email support@joinfelt.app from the address you sign in with. We'll delete your account and profile.
Games are shared records that other players rely on to settle up. When you delete your account, your seat in past games stays in those games under the name you played as, no longer connected to your account.
You can also email us to get a copy of your information or to correct it.
Age
Felt is for adults. You must be 18 or older, or the age of majority where you live, to use it.
Changes
If we change this policy, we'll update the date at the top. If a change affects how your information is shared, we'll tell you in the app first.
Contact
Questions or requests: support@joinfelt.app