Privacy Policy

Downing Draft is designed to collect as little as possible. There are no accounts and no logins. You play as a fictional Prime Minister of your own naming — we do not ask you for your real name, email address or any other personal contact information to play or share. This policy covers the Downing Draft website and the Downing Draft Android and iOS apps.

What we collect

• Game results. When you finish a game, we send a summary of that game to our server and store it, so that short share links work, results can be checked, game statistics can be produced and the moderated leaderboard can operate. The summary contains your in-game choices and outcome — the name you gave your Prime Minister and party, your cabinet picks, priorities and final scores. These names are part of your game and are entirely of your choosing; please do not enter real personal details into them.
• Public leaderboard. Results completed after the leaderboard notice was introduced are reviewed and may be considered for the public all-time Top 25. A public row may show its rank, a moderated Prime Minister name, a moderated party name, tenure, signature policy, game mode and cabinet era. We may reject or hide a result, or replace a submitted display name, including by starring out part of it. Approved results outside the current Top 25 are not displayed but may be retained so that the table can be recalculated. Results collected before the notice was introduced remain private unless we provide a separate submission process.
• Local game preferences. The website and apps may remember your five most recently completed fictional Prime Minister and party names and your ten best runs on the current device or browser. Downing Draft does not sync this local data between devices. It may be included in a device backup managed by your operating system and may be lost if you clear storage or remove the app.
• Usage analytics (website only, with your permission). If you choose "Allow", we use PostHog to understand journeys through the website — for example, repeat visits in the same browser, games started and completed, and which app-promotion placement was selected. PostHog stores a random browser identifier in local storage so visits from that browser can be counted over time. We do not send fictional Prime Minister or party names, cabinet choices, the contents of result links, precise location or advertising identifiers to PostHog. Automatic click capture and session recording are disabled. The apps do not include PostHog analytics.
• Advertising identifiers (app only). The Android and iOS apps show adverts to free users, supplied by Google AdMob. To do this, the app may access your device's advertising identifier and share it with Google for ad delivery, measurement, and fraud prevention. On iOS, this is subject to your Apple tracking permission and privacy choices. If you purchase the Parliament Pass, ads are switched off and this no longer applies.
• Purchase information (app only). If you buy the Parliament Pass, our payments provider (RevenueCat) and the relevant app store process your purchase and retain a record of it, so your entitlement can be restored if you reinstall the app or switch devices. We do not see or store your payment card details - these are handled entirely by the relevant app store.

We do not collect your precise location, contacts, or photos. The website contains no advertising identifiers or tracking beyond what's described below; the apps' use of advertising identifiers is limited to serving ads as described above.

Advertising

Website. The website does not currently show programmatic advertising. If that changes, this policy and the website's consent controls will be updated before advertising cookies or similar identifiers are activated.

Apps. To keep the free version of the Android and iOS apps supported, they show adverts supplied by Google AdMob — small banners on the results and leaderboard screens, an occasional full-screen advert when starting a new game, and optional adverts you can choose to watch in exchange for an extra re-roll, historic access or another Daily Briefing attempt. These optional adverts are never required for your first attempt or the core game. If you are in the UK or the EEA, the app will ask for your consent before showing personalised ads, using Google's certified consent tool. On iOS, Apple's tracking permission is requested only if you choose to allow more relevant ads. If you buy the Parliament Pass, none of these adverts are shown.

Google's use of advertising data is governed by Google's Privacy & Terms, and you can review or control personalised advertising through your device's advertising ID or tracking settings.

Cookies

The website does not currently use analytics or advertising cookies. If you allow website analytics, PostHog uses local storage rather than a cookie to retain its random browser identifier and analytics state. We also store your analytics choice so we do not ask on every visit. Declining analytics prevents PostHog from starting. The apps do not use cookies, but may use your device's advertising identifier for AdMob as described above.

Service providers

• Neon: the database that stores completed game results for share links and statistics.
• Railway: hosting and serving the website and the results API.
• PostHog: consented product analytics for the website only.
• Google AdMob: serves the adverts that keep the Android and iOS apps free, and provides the consent tool shown to UK and EEA users of the apps.
• RevenueCat: processes and verifies your Parliament Pass purchase and manages your entitlement across app devices.

These providers may process technical information such as IP addresses transiently in order to deliver and secure the service, in line with their own policies. Data is transmitted over an encrypted (HTTPS) connection.

Retention and deleting your data

Stored game results are kept so that share links continue to work and the approved leaderboard can be recalculated. If you would like a result deleted, send the share link (or its short code) to contact@downingdraft.com and we will remove the corresponding record unless we need to retain limited information for security, legal or abuse-prevention reasons. As there are no accounts, the share link is what lets us locate your data.

Purchase records for the Parliament Pass are retained by the relevant app store and RevenueCat in line with their own retention policies, so that your entitlement continues to work; we do not separately store your payment details.

You can change your website analytics choice at any time through "Analytics choices" in the footer. Withdrawing stops future analytics collection and resets the analytics identity held in your browser. You can also contact us at contact@downingdraft.com about deletion of analytics data.

Your rights

We do not ask for your real name or email in order to play, but user-entered names may still contain personal information. We rely on our legitimate interests in operating, securing and improving the game, providing result links, validating competitive results and maintaining a moderated Top 25. You can object to this use or request deletion of a stored result by contacting contact@downingdraft.com.

Children

The game is intended for a general audience. Players should not enter a real name or other personal information into the fictional identity fields. Public results are limited to a moderated Top 25, and submitted display names can be rejected, hidden or replaced before publication. A parent or guardian can contact us using the address above about a child's result.

Changes

We may update this policy from time to time. Material changes will be reflected by the date at the top of this page.