Privacy Policy

What we collect

• Your Discord account basics when you log in: your Discord ID, username, display name, avatar, and the email address on your Discord account.
• Your Steam ID, only if you choose to link Steam. When you import your library, Beacon reads your game list and playtime from Steam in the moment to show you suggestions. It only saves the games you choose to add.
• What you create on Beacon: posts, applications and their notes, tags, favorited games, and any Discord invite or join info you add to a group.
• Small bits of data in your browser: a login cookie to keep you signed in, and your notification settings, which stay on your device.

How it's used

Only to run Beacon: showing groups, handling applications, connecting accepted players, suggesting tags and games, and sending the notifications you turn on. Nothing is used for advertising, and nothing is sold or rented to anyone.

Who can see what

• Anyone can see public posts, and the display name and avatar of the host.
• Link-only posts are only visible to people with the group link.
• Hosts see the display name, avatar, and note of people who apply to their groups.
• Your Discord and Steam profiles are only shown to people you're in a group with: the host, and players the host accepted.
• A group's Discord invite and join info are only shown to the host and accepted players.

Services Beacon relies on

Beacon uses a few outside services to work. They handle data under their own privacy policies:

• Supabase stores Beacon's database and handles logins.
• Vercel hosts the website.
• Discord is used to log in.
• Steam is used if you link your Steam account.
• IGDB (by Twitch) provides game names and cover art. Your personal info is never sent to it.

How long it's kept

Groups disappear from Beacon 24 hours after they end, and are deleted for good 30 days after that, along with their applications and tags. Your account info stays until you ask for it to be deleted.

Your choices

• You can unlink Steam anytime from the Games page.
• You can remove favorited games anytime.
• To delete your account and everything tied to it, or to get a copy of your data, email support@beacon-lfg.com.

Age

Beacon is for people 13 and older, the same as Discord. If you believe someone under 13 has an account, email support@beacon-lfg.com and it will be removed.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top will change too. Big changes will be pointed out on the site.

Contact

Questions or problems? Email support@beacon-lfg.com. See also the Terms of Service.