Privacy

The short version

BRAP is a song-guessing game. There are no accounts, no ads, no analytics trackers and nothing is sold to anyone. We keep what the game needs to keep a score: the name you play under, an email address if you choose to give one, and how each game went.

What we store

• A player key. A random identifier made on your device (a cookie in a browser, a keychain entry in the app). It is how your games, scores and badges are yours. It is not your Apple ID, your phone's advertising identifier, or anything that identifies you outside BRAP.
• The name you type — any name you like — and, only if you enter it, an email address, used to send challenges you ask us to send and to tell you when someone takes up yours.
• How you played: which songs were dealt, what you guessed, how much of each song you heard, your score, and the time. These make the board, the records and the badges.
• Email addresses you challenge. When you challenge friends, we store their addresses to send the invitation and to show you whether they played. We send nothing else to them.

The microphone and your voice

Voice control is optional and off until you turn it on. When it is on, the app listens for “stop” and for your guess. Speech is turned into text by the speech-recognition service built into your device and browser (Apple's on iPhone and Safari, Google's in Chrome); BRAP receives the words, never the audio, and does not store recordings.

Where the music comes from

Song previews, artwork and titles come from Apple's iTunes Search API. Every song links to Apple Music. BRAP streams the 30-second previews Apple provides and does not copy or redistribute them. Your searches for themes are sent to Apple to find songs; nothing about you goes with them.

Who can see what

The name you play under, your scores, badges and records are visible to other players on the board and on your profile page. Email addresses are never shown to other players.

Keeping and deleting

Game history is kept so the board stays honest until you ask for it to go. You can delete everything yourself — this browser's games, or everything under your email address — on the Delete your data page, or in the app under Settings → Delete my data. Or write to the address below with the name you played under and we will delete it.

Who we are

BRAP is made by Loadout (loadout.ca), Ottawa, Canada. Questions about privacy: hello@loadout.ca. See also the support page.