UK and EU
If you are in the UK or the EU
Last updated October 9, 2026
This page adds to the Privacy page for people in the United Kingdom, the European Union and the wider European Economic Area. It says who is responsible for your data, the legal reasons it is used, the rights you have, and your rights when you buy.
Who is responsible
Media Yard LLC, PO Box 73, Pennsauken, NJ 08110, United States, decides how and why the data described on the Privacy page is used (in the law's words, it is the controller). Contact for anything about your data: support@alibitown.com. We are a small company and have not appointed a data protection officer.
Why data is used, and the legal reason
| What | Why | Legal reason |
|---|---|---|
| Your key and what it opens; a reference to the payment | To give you what you bought and take it back if it is refunded | Our contract with you |
| Your town, saved with a key | So it survives a new phone or a cleared browser | Our contract with you |
| A phone room: first names, place name, alibis, votes | To give each phone its own part while the room is open | Our contract with you |
| Alibis and the place name, sent to the AI model | To write the live townsfolk's lines, when you seat them | Our contract with you |
| An email address you type, and a fingerprint of it | To send a key where you asked, and send it again if it is lost | Our contract with you (your request) |
| A town page | To show your town to people you send the link to | Your consent: you make it, and can take it down at any time |
| Daily tallies of what is played; Cloudflare's count of visits | To know whether the game is used and where visitors come from | Our legitimate interest in running and improving the game, done without cookies and without identifying you |
| A scrambled, one-day mark of your internet address | To cap how many rooms, emails and AI calls one visitor can cause in a day | Our legitimate interest in keeping the game from being abused |
We make no decisions about you by automated means, and we do not build a profile of you.
How long it is kept
- Daily tallies: 120 days.
- The one-day mark of your internet address: until the end of that day.
- A phone room: two hours after it goes quiet, or at once when the host closes it.
- A town page: until you take it down, or we do.
- A town saved with a key: until you ask us to delete it, or a refund leaves the key opening nothing, when it is deleted at once.
- The key, what it opens, and the fingerprint of an email address: until you ask us to delete them, or we stop offering the game.
- What is in your browser: until you clear it. See Cookies and storage.
Your rights over your data
You can ask us to tell you what we hold about you and give you a copy; to correct it; to delete it; to stop or limit using it; to hand it to you in a form you can take elsewhere; and you can object to anything we do on the basis of our legitimate interest. Where something rests on your consent, you can withdraw it at any time.
To use any of these, write to support@alibitown.com. We hold very little that says who you are, so we may need your key, your room code or your town page's link to find what is yours. We will not ask for more than we need, and there is no charge.
You can also complain to your data protection authority: in the UK, the Information Commissioner's Office; in the EU, the authority where you live, listed by the European Data Protection Board. We would be glad of the chance to put it right first.
Data leaving the UK and the EU
We are in the United States and so are the companies that handle data for us, listed on the Sub-processors page. Where the law requires a safeguard for that, we rely on the ones those companies provide in their data processing terms, such as the standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission and the UK's addendum to them.
Your rights as a buyer
- Cancelling. You have 14 days from buying to change your mind and be refunded in full. We do not ask you to give that up in order to start playing. See Refunds.
- If it is faulty. Digital content must be as described, fit for its purpose and of satisfactory quality. If a season is not, you are entitled to have it put right or, if it can't be, to money back. Nothing in our Terms limits these rights.
- Price and tax. Prices are shown in US dollars. Stripe, the seller of record, adds any tax that applies where you are and shows the total before you pay.
- Disputes. Write to us first at support@alibitown.com. Our Terms are governed by the law of New Jersey, but if you are a consumer in the UK or the EU you keep the protection of the mandatory rules of the country you live in, and may bring a claim in its courts.