Privacy policy
Last updated: 9 November 2026
This page explains what data Garba (garba.top) collects and why. There is no sign-up: no phone number, e-mail or password is asked for.
1. What is kept
- The name you type (it can be a nickname).
- A device ID — a random code kept in your browser, so the game recognises you and keeps your seat.
- Your IP address and device details (e.g. phone model, system and browser version).
- Game activity: rooms, moves, deal results, play coins, quick reactions, times.
- Suggestions: the text you send, your name in the game, language and device (and your email if you signed in with Google). Only the admin sees them; if the admin answers, you see the answer in the game (📣 → 💡).
- Notifications (if you turn them on): the notification address your browser or phone gives us and your language — to send friends' invites, the daily bonus and news. Turn them off in your profile at any time.
- Friends: your friend code and friends list. Your friends see your name in the game, whether you are online and at which table.
- Your play-coin account: balance, daily bonus and ad rewards (how long each ad took from asking to the reward, and the pause from one ad to the next — to catch scripts that claim it without an ad), results of this week and last week: coins won, deals played and won (for the leaderboard); the coin history (the last 300 changes: when, how much, what for — seen by you and the admin).
- 🏆 Cups: who signed up, the tables, the wins and places, the prizes; the champion's name is shown in the cups list, with a 🏆 badge by it for a week.
- 📊 Your answers to polls (in the news): to count one vote per player. Other players see only the overall result — nobody sees who chose what.
- ✏️ Earlier names: when you change your name, your earlier names (the last 30, with when they were used) are kept — to keep order and help players. Only the admin sees them; they're deleted with the account.
- ⛔ Bans: if the admin bans a player — when, for how long, why, and his devices and Google id (so a new account can't get round it); removed once the ban ends.
- 🧑⚖️ Moderators: moderators chosen by the admin answer 💡 suggestions and 🚩 reports — like the admin, they see a player's page (name, coins, games, chat messages, notes), may turn chat / voice off and ban for a time. Each of their actions is logged under their name.
- 📝 Admin notes: the admin may leave a short note on an account (e.g. a broken rule, a rude message) — to keep order. Only the admin sees them; they're deleted with the account.
2. Why
To run the game, to prevent abuse (remove players who break the rules), and for overall statistics to improve the game (how many play, and when). The data is not sold or used for ads, and there are no third-party analytics.
3. Voice
Voice chat goes directly from browser to browser (WebRTC); the game doesn't record or keep it. The one exception: when a player reports another player's voice (tap the seat → «🚩 Report his voice»), his phone sends the admin the last ~30 seconds it heard from that player along with the report (that sound is held for a while only on the reporter's phone, and only while that player's mic is on). The admin keeps it for 30 days to handle the report, then it is deleted. For breaking the rules the admin may turn a player's voice off. Google's STUN server is used to set up the connection — it sees your IP address. When a direct connection isn't possible (on some mobile networks), the voice goes through our server: it is encrypted, and the server can't hear or record it.
4. Sign in with Google and ads
If you sign in with Google (optional), we keep your Google account ID, email address and name — so your coins are kept on any device. Your email is never shown to anyone; the leaderboard shows only your name in the game. We never see your password.
The "Watch an ad" button shows an ad from Yandex (Yandex Advertising Network) or Google (AdSense). They may use cookies and device details for ads — see Yandex's policy and Google's policy. Ads are shown only when you tap the button.
🎬 Videos from local advertisers (served by the game itself, only when you tap): we count who watched a video to the end and when — to give the coins and keep the daily limit. The advertiser gets only totals (views, players, clicks on their link) — never your names or who you are.
🎟 Bonus codes: we keep which account used which code and when — so a code pays only once. Only the admin sees it.
Yandex Metrica counts visits to the site (how many people came, from which country, on which device). It uses cookies; what you do on the screen isn't recorded — see Metrica's terms.
5. On your phone
Your name, device ID, language, sound setting and recent rooms are kept in your browser. Clearing your browser data removes them.
6. Where and how long
Table chat messages are seen only by the players at that table and are deleted with the room (a table keeps only its last 50); each player's own last 200 messages are kept for the admin for 30 days (to handle complaints and broken rules), and deleted with the account; a reported message is kept for the admin (with the names of its writer and of who reported it) — the last 1000 reports; for swearing or bullying the admin may close a player's chat. Data is kept on a DigitalOcean server. Empty rooms are deleted after about 1 hour (their deals are kept 7 days for the admin). A deal can be shared with a link: whoever opens it sees that deal with the names of the players at the table (closed cards stay hidden); the link works while the deal is kept; game statistics are deleted after 12 months. Deals played only by people (the cards, the bidding and the coins — without names, devices or IPs) are used to improve the game's bots. A message with a phone number or a messenger (WhatsApp, Telegram, «личка») is shown as *** and sent to the admin as it was written (coins must not be sold). The coins each account won or lost in each deal are kept with the game statistics — to find coins passed from one player to another on purpose.
7. Your rights and deleting your account
You can delete your account yourself: in the game (on the website or in the Android app) 👤 Profile → "Delete my account" at the bottom. Your coins, history, name, friends, notification subscription and Google link (email) are deleted right away; the shared log of deals (who played which card) deletes itself after 7 days. Only a short note stays for the admin: your name in the game, when the account was deleted and how many coins it had (no email). So that coins can't be collected by deleting and re-creating an account, a one-way coded trace of the device and the Google account is kept for 30 days: a new account from them in that time starts with the coins the deleted one had (at most 10,000), and today's bonus, gift and ad views count as already used. You can also ask by email to see or delete your data: support@garba.top. The game is meant for people aged 21 and over (21+).