What we store
Garba Beat privacy notice · last updated 10 October 2026
Garba Beat is a free rhythm game. You can play without an account. This page explains what is kept, where, who can see it and how to remove it.
If you play without an account
Your progress (scores, credits, outfits and settings) is saved only in your browser on this device. Nothing about you is sent to us. Clearing your browser data removes it.
If you create a Garba ID
We never ask for your email, phone number, real name, age, location or contacts. Your account is a random ID plus a recovery code that only you hold.
| What | Why | Who can see it |
|---|---|---|
| Your @name and friend code | So friends can find and add you | Anyone who types your exact @name or code, and your friends |
| Display name (the name in your profile, optional) | Shown to friends instead of your @name | Your friends |
| Your active dancer’s look | So you appear in your friends’ circle | Your friends |
| Best scores and stars, and your best score each week | To compare with friends and for the leaderboards | You and your friends. Your @name and scores also appear on the global leaderboards unless you switch that off (Friends & account → Account) |
| Group scores from songs you danced together | For the group leaderboards | Everyone. Players who switched off the global leaderboards appear as “a dancer” |
| Game save (credits, purchases, outfits, badges, Navratri colours) | To restore your progress on another device | Only you |
| Your friends list, blocks and any reports you make | To run friends, blocking and safety | Friends list: you and each friend. Blocks: only you. Reports: only the game’s owner |
| Scores or coin totals the game turned away as impossible, with your account ID | To keep the leaderboards fair | Only us. Deleted after 60 days, or straight away if you delete your account |
| A log of account and safety actions: creating or deleting a Garba ID, changing your name (not the new name), friend requests, blocks, reports and rooms opened, with account IDs | To keep players safe and investigate misuse | Only us. Kept 90 days; your ID is removed from it when you delete your account |
| Error reports when the game breaks: the error message, file, line, game version and browser family (no name, no IP address) | To find and fix bugs | Only us. Kept 30 days. Sent whether or not you have a Garba ID |
| While the game is open, a check-in about once a minute: a random ID for that visit (not kept on your phone), which screen or song you’re on, whether it’s the website or the app, the game version and language. If you have a Garba ID, your account ID is added | To see how many people are playing and keep the service running smoothly | Only us. Kept 90 days, and taken off your account straight away if you delete it. Without a Garba ID nothing in it identifies you |
| Rooms you open or join to dance together, and who you invited | To run the room and its invites | The friends in that room. Rooms are deleted after a day |
| Your recovery code (stored scrambled, as a password) | To sign you in | Nobody can read it, not even us |
When you dance together, your phone sends your hits, misses and score to the friends in the room while the song plays. These messages pass through Supabase and are not stored.
There is no chat, no advertising, no analytics and no tracking. Your data is never sold or shared for marketing.
Where it’s kept
- Supabase stores accounts and saves in a database in London, UK.
- Vercel hosts the website.
- Fonts come from Google Fonts, and the online and QR features load small code libraries from jsDelivr and cdnjs.
Like any website, these services see your device’s IP address when you connect and may keep it briefly in security logs. We don’t use it to identify you.
Why we’re allowed to use it
We use this information only to provide the features you choose: saving progress, friends and score comparisons. Under UK data protection law this is our legitimate interest in running the game you asked to use, with the privacy settings kept as high as possible by default.
Children
Garba Beat is made for all ages and is designed to be safe by default: no personal details, no chat, no profiles beyond an @name and scores on the leaderboards (which you can switch off), no location, and friends only when both people agree. If you are under 13, please ask a parent or carer before creating a Garba ID.
Keeping it safe
- Every player can only read or change their own save. Friends see only the items listed above.
- You can block anyone, which removes them from your friends and stops them finding or adding you.
- You can report an offensive name or dancer. Reports are reviewed, and offensive names are removed.
How long we keep it, and your choices
- Your data is kept until you delete your account.
- See your data: open Friends & account → Account → Download my data to get everything we hold about you as a file.
- Delete: in the game, open Friends & account → Account → Delete my account. This removes your @name, save, scores, friends and blocks straight away. Reports you made are kept without your name.
- See or copy your data: your full save is on your device; use Settings → Back up or move your progress → Show my save to copy it.
- Sign out on a device at any time. Your progress stays on that device as a guest.
You can ask about, correct or delete your data at any time using the options above. You also have the right to complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk.
If this notice changes, the date at the top will change too.
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