Privacy

HouseClock, the desktop application, is built to be private by default. Concretely:

• It collects nothing. There are no accounts, no sign-in, and no telemetry. It does not track how you use it.
• It transmits nothing. Your structures, events, players, and results are never sent anywhere. It runs offline.
• It stores everything locally. All your data is saved on the computer the app runs on, and nowhere else. Player names and phone numbers never leave that machine.

The only time the app touches the internet is if you manually download it or check for an update. Running an event never does.

This website is held to the same standard. It has no analytics, no advertising, no third-party scripts, and no tracking cookies. We don't know who you are when you read it.

The one exception is the forms. When you use the contact, venue licensing, or waitlist form, we handle only what you type in:

• Contact and venue forms: your name, email, role, any venue details you add, and your message.
• Waitlist: your email address.

Those details are emailed to us so we can reply or, for the waitlist, notify you once when the app is available. We do not store them in a database — they live in our inbox like any email you would send us, and we use them only to respond to you.

To stop automated abuse of the forms, the server briefly holds your IP address in memory to count recent submissions. It is not written to disk and is discarded shortly after.

Like any website, ours is served by a hosting provider (Vercel) that keeps standard operational request logs for security and reliability. We do not use those logs to build a profile of you.

We don't sell or rent your information, and we don't share it for advertising. Delivering a message you send us necessarily involves our hosting provider and the email service that carries the message — nothing beyond what's required to get your note to us and our reply back to you.

If you would rather not share anything, simply don't submit a form — nothing else on the site asks for your data. If you have written to us and want your message deleted, email us and we'll remove it.

Questions about privacy? Write to houseclock@hotstackpoker.com. See also our Terms.