Privacy notice
Last updated 15 November 2026
The short version. To use Front Room Bingo you sign in with your email address. Your players, tickets, settings and winners are saved to your account, so they're there on any device you sign in on. When you add a player, their name is sent to our voice provider, ElevenLabs, to be recorded in the caller's voice. We don't sell or share your information, and there are no adverts, tracking or analytics cookies.
Who we are
Front Room Bingo is made and run by Jonathan Butler in the United Kingdom. For the information described in this notice, Jonathan Butler is the data controller. You can contact us at bingo@jonb.me.uk.
What we collect and why
| What | Why |
|---|---|
| Your email address, when you're invited or sign in | To know who's allowed to play, to email you sign-in links and invitations, and to keep your account. |
| Your saved games: the names of your players and the tickets linked to them, your event and game names, settings, the game in progress and tonight's winners | So your games are saved and there on every device you sign in on. You choose what goes in them. |
| Sign-in records: when you last signed in and played | To keep you signed in, and to sign you out of every device if your access ends. |
| Your email address, if you join the waiting list | Only to tell you when sign-up opens. |
| Technical details every website receives, such as your IP address and browser type | To deliver the site, keep it secure and stop misuse, such as too many sign-in attempts. |
| Anything you write in an email to us | To reply to you. |
Some things stay on your own device and are never sent to us: background photos you choose, and voice recordings once they've been made.
Who else handles it
We use two service providers. They handle information on our behalf, under contract, and only to run the service:
- Cloudflare hosts the website, stores accounts and saved games, and sends our sign-in and invitation emails. Its handling of information is described in its privacy policy.
- ElevenLabs makes the caller's voice, which is computer-generated. When you add a player or change your game's name, that name is sent to ElevenLabs inside a fixed sentence such as "Grandad!" or "Welcome to Front Room Bingo!", and the recording comes back to your device. Nothing else about the person is sent. ElevenLabs may keep the text it's sent, in line with its own privacy policy.
Both are based in, or process information in, the United States as well as elsewhere. Where information goes outside the UK, it's protected by the safeguards UK law requires, such as the UK's data bridge with the United States or standard contract terms. You don't have to use full names: a first name or nickname works just as well.
We never sell your information or use it for advertising.
Our legal basis
For your account and saved games, we rely on contract: we need them to provide the service you've signed up for. For the names of other people you add as players, the name recordings you ask for, keeping the site secure, and the waiting list, we rely on legitimate interests. We've weighed these against everyone's privacy and kept the information involved to the minimum needed.
Other people's names
If you add other people as players, please only add people who'd be happy to be included, and use first names or nicknames where you can. Children can play bingo, but we ask hosts not to add anything more than a first name for a child. The sign-in is for the host, not for players.
Cookies and similar technologies
Front Room Bingo only stores what's needed to make the site work for you:
- a sign-in cookie, so you stay signed in on that device for up to six months;
- a copy of your games and settings in your browser's storage, so the game works even when the internet drops;
- a saved copy of the site and its voice recordings, for the same reason.
These are strictly necessary for the service you've asked for, so we don't ask for consent to use them. We don't use advertising, tracking or analytics cookies. If that ever changes, we'll update this notice and ask first where the law requires it.
How long we keep information
- Your account and saved games: while you have access to Front Room Bingo. If your access ends, we delete your saved games within 90 days. You can delete them yourself at any time in Settings → About → Delete my account data.
- Sign-in links: they stop working after 30 minutes and are deleted within a day.
- Sign-in records: up to six months after you last used them.
- The waiting list: until sign-up opens and we've told you, or until you ask us to remove you.
- On your device: until you delete your account data, or clear it in your browser's settings.
- Cloudflare and ElevenLabs: for the periods set out in their own policies.
- Emails to us: for as long as we need them to deal with your message.
Your rights
You have the right to ask for a copy of the personal information we hold about you, to have it corrected or deleted, to object to how we use it, and to take it elsewhere. You can see and change your saved games yourself in the app, and delete them, from our server and your device, in Settings → About → Delete my account data. For anything else, including removing your email address entirely, email bingo@jonb.me.uk and we'll respond within one month.
If someone has added your name as a player and you'd like it removed, ask them, or contact us.
If you're unhappy with how we've handled your information, please tell us first so we can put it right. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint or on 0303 123 1113.
Changes to this notice
If we change how Front Room Bingo uses information, we'll update this page and the date at the top.