Privacy policy
Clear rules for team data.
Halftime is a workplace game product. Some activity is meant to be shared with your team, but we keep the product data we collect narrow and practical.
Last updated: 11 May 2026
Team-visible by design
Names, profiles, scores, prompt answers, and participation can be visible to teammates and team admins.
Limited product data
We collect what Halftime needs to run teams, games, leaderboards, notifications, and billing.
No ad profiles
We do not sell personal information or use your product data to build advertising profiles.
Contact us anytime
Email hello@halftime.coffee for privacy requests, corrections, deletion, or export questions.
Account information
Name, email address, profile image, authentication records, and basic profile details from Google or Microsoft if you choose those sign-in methods.
Team information
Team names, membership, invitations, roles, team settings, departments, company accounts, and admin activity.
Game and activity data
Game participation, scores, streaks, timestamps, leaderboards, weekly champion history, joke ratings, and team statistics.
Content you submit
Prompt responses, game submissions, live-session answers, feedback messages, support requests, and other information you choose to enter.
Billing information
Stripe customer IDs, subscription status, plan, billing interval, and payment metadata. We do not store full card numbers.
Technical information
IP address, browser and device information, request logs, error logs, cookies, and similar records used for security, debugging, analytics, and reliability.
This Privacy Policy describes how Firebell House Pty Ltd (ACN 696 044 283) ("we", "us", "our") collects, uses, discloses, and protects personal information when you use Halftime at halftime.coffee and related services (the "Service").
1. How we use information
We use personal information to:
- provide, maintain, secure, and improve the Service;
- authenticate users and manage accounts, teams, roles, and invitations;
- run games, live sessions, leaderboards, prompts, jokes, records, and statistics;
- send transactional email and optional Slack, Teams, or email notifications;
- process payments, subscriptions, refunds, and billing support;
- respond to feedback, support, legal, privacy, or security requests;
- debug errors, prevent abuse, and protect the Service; and
- understand aggregate product and marketing performance.
We do not sell personal information. We do not use product activity inside Halftime to build advertising profiles.
2. Visibility inside teams
Halftime is collaborative. When you join a team, your name, profile image, scores, ranks, prompt responses, game participation, streaks, and other relevant team activity may be visible to teammates, team administrators, and company administrators. This is part of how the Service works.
3. Third-party services
We use service providers only as needed to operate, secure, deliver, measure, and bill for the Service. These providers may process personal information on our behalf.
Stripe
Payment processing and billing portal.
Google / Microsoft
Optional OAuth sign-in and basic profile information.
Resend
Transactional email such as sign-in codes, invitations, and account notifications.
Neon
PostgreSQL database hosting.
Vercel
Application hosting, deployment, and first-party analytics.
Cloudflare
Content delivery, real-time infrastructure, and file storage.
Upstash
Rate limiting, caching, and background job delivery.
Sentry
Error monitoring and debugging when configured.
Slack / Microsoft Teams
Optional team notifications when a team admin connects an integration.
Google Analytics / Google Ads
Marketing measurement when configured on public pages.
We may also disclose information if required by law, court order, government request, or to protect our rights, users, or the security of the Service.
4. Cookies, analytics, and marketing measurement
We use essential first-party cookies to keep you signed in and remember preferences. These are required for the Service to function.
We use Vercel Analytics for privacy-respecting product and page analytics. If configured, we may also use Google Analytics and Google Ads conversion measurement on public marketing pages to understand site usage and ad performance. You can block non-essential cookies through your browser settings or Google's analytics opt-out tools.
5. Storage, security, and location
Production data may be processed and stored outside your country, including in the United States. We use reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal information, including HTTPS/TLS in transit, managed infrastructure, access controls, and secure authentication practices.
No online service can guarantee absolute security. If a data breach affects personal information, we will notify affected users and regulators where required by applicable law, including the Australian Notifiable Data Breaches scheme where it applies.
6. Retention and deletion
We keep account, team, billing, and activity data for as long as needed to provide the Service, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, prevent abuse, and maintain business records. If you delete your account or ask us to delete personal information, we will delete or de-identify active records within a reasonable period unless we need to retain them for legal, security, tax, billing, or legitimate business reasons.
Deleted data may remain in backups, logs, or archives for a limited period before being overwritten or removed through normal retention cycles. Aggregated or de-identified information may be retained indefinitely.
7. Your rights
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, object to processing of, or export your personal information. California residents may also have rights to know, delete, opt out of sale or sharing, and not be discriminated against for exercising privacy rights. We do not sell personal information.
Australian privacy law also gives individuals rights around access and correction of personal information. You may contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner if you believe your privacy rights have been breached.
8. Children's privacy
Halftime is designed for workplace teams and is not directed to children. You must be at least 16 to use the Service. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 16, we will delete it promptly.
9. Changes
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post the updated version on this page and update the "Last updated" date. If changes are material, we will provide additional notice where reasonably appropriate.
10. Contact
For privacy questions or requests, email hello@halftime.coffee.
- Entity: Firebell House Pty Ltd (ACN 696 044 283)
- Registered in Victoria, Australia