Privacy Policy

Covers the Short Straw: Who Pays app and this website. Effective 1 September 2026.

Nothing leaves this phone.

No account, no analytics, nothing about your dinner leaves this phone. Rounds aren’t stored.

What Short Straw collects

Nothing. Short Straw is made by Rainforest (“we”), and we don’t collect, receive or store any personal data from it. There is no account to create and no sign-in. The app contains no analytics, advertising, tracking or crash-reporting tools, and we share nothing with third parties because we have nothing to share.

What stays on your phone

A few settings are saved on your device so the app remembers them between launches: haptics, sound, currency, list mode, the last mode you played, how the bill is split, and whether you’ve opened the app before. They never leave the device, and deleting the app deletes them.

Players, names you type into Closest Call, guesses and bill amounts exist only while a round is on screen. They are never written to storage.

The app reads your phone’s region and language settings to pick a sensible currency and language. That happens on the device.

Sharing a result

If you tap Share, the app makes an image of the result and hands it to your phone’s share sheet. Where it goes from there is your choice, and the privacy policy of whichever app you send it to applies. We don’t receive a copy.

App stores

You download Short Straw from Apple’s App Store or Google Play, each run under its owner’s own privacy policy. Apple and Google may give developers anonymous, aggregated statistics, such as download counts and crash rates, from people who have chosen to share them. None of it identifies you to us.

Children

Short Straw collects nothing from anyone, so it collects nothing from children.

This website

This site sets no cookies, runs no analytics and loads nothing from third parties. Like any web server, ours keeps basic request logs (IP address, time and page requested) to keep the site running and secure.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new effective date.

Contact

Questions about privacy: developer@rainforest911.com.