Privacy Policy

Award Party is the award-show prediction service at awardparty.app, operated by Jose Tapizquent. We help people create private prediction parties, invite friends, vote, and follow a live leaderboard.

Questions about this policy: email hello@awardparty.app or use the contact form after you sign in.

When you create an account, Clerk (our authentication provider) collects sign-in details such as your email address and name. We store a matching user record (email, name, username, and profile image URL) so the app can show parties, invites, and scores.

If you create or join a party, we store party details, participants, votes, optional party chat, invitations, waitlist interest, and feedback or contact messages you send. Party owners can hide member emails from other guests. We do not ask for information we do not need to run those features.

We generate invite codes, recap share links, unsubscribe tokens, and similar product records so parties, emails, and public recap pages work. Installing Award Party as a web app (PWA) uses the same account and first-party storage; it does not add a separate advertising product.

Essential cookies and similar storage keep the product working: Clerk session cookies for sign-in, Cloudflare Turnstile on sign-in and sign-up, the NEXT_LOCALE cookie for your language, and the ap_analytics_consent cookie that stores your analytics choice.

On join-related pages we may set a first-party cookie named ap_visitor_id so we can tell unique join attempts apart when a free party is full. It is not used for advertising.

If you accept analytics, we may also set a first-party cookie named ap_announcement_campaign after you open a tagged announcement email link, so we can see whether that email led to creating a party. We do not set that cookie unless you have accepted analytics.

You can change your analytics choice later on the Cookie Policy. Rejecting analytics does not sign you out or reset your language.

When you Accept analytics or Essential cookies only, we store that choice, the time, and the document version (the date at the top of this page). If you are signed in we attach it to your account. If a join visitor cookie is already present we may store that id too.

If you accept, we load PostHog in your browser. PostHog may set cookies, record pageviews and product events, identify your account (user id, email, and name), and record a session replay of your visit. Replay is masked for passwords and other sensitive profile fields.

If you reject or have not chosen yet, we do not initialize PostHog, do not identify you to PostHog, and do not start session replay. We do not use advertising pixels or other analytics tools besides PostHog.

Party Pass purchases are processed by Stripe on Stripe Checkout. Card details are entered on Stripe, not on Award Party. We store server-side payment records such as checkout session and payment intent identifiers so we can unlock the party. We do not store full card numbers. Refunds are described in the Refund Policy.

We send transactional email through Resend, including invites, ballot reminders, announcements you can unsubscribe from, and copies of contact or feedback messages. Sender addresses use awardparty.app (for example, notification addresses). Marketing announcements include an unsubscribe link.

We use this information to run accounts and parties, send the emails you request or that the product needs, process Party Pass payments, prevent abuse, improve the product, and respond to feedback or support requests. We do not sell your personal information.

We use companies that process data for us: Clerk (authentication), Neon (Postgres database), Stripe (payments), Resend (email), PostHog (analytics and session replay after you accept), Cloudflare (Turnstile bot checks on auth pages), The Movie Database (TMDB) for nominee artwork, and our hosting provider.

Those providers process data on our instructions to deliver Award Party. They have their own practices for the data they receive. Some of them are in the United States.

We keep account, party, vote, chat, payment, support, and consent-choice records while they are needed to run the service and for a reasonable period afterward. If you delete your account, we remove the Award Party records we control that are tied to that account, except where we must keep a limited record (for example, a payment identifier needed for bookkeeping).

You can update your profile from Manage account in the app. You can unsubscribe from announcement emails. You can accept or reject PostHog analytics on the Cookie Policy.

You can delete your account from Manage account, or email hello@awardparty.app and ask us to delete it. Account deletion removes the user record we store and related party data we control. Hosts who want a party removed can also contact us.

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to ask for a copy of the personal information we hold about you, to correct it, or to delete it. California residents can also ask us to confirm that we do not sell or share personal information for cross-context advertising — we do not. Email hello@awardparty.app to make a request. We may need to verify that the request comes from the account holder.

Award Party is not directed at children under 13. If you believe a child has created an account, email hello@awardparty.app and we will delete it.

We may update this page when the product changes. The date at the top is the latest revision. Continued use of Award Party after an update means the revised description applies.

Email hello@awardparty.app or send a message from the contact form. Award Party is operated by Jose Tapizquent at awardparty.app.