Which permissions does the Android app use?
| Permission | What it’s for | When you’re asked |
|---|---|---|
Internet access · android. | Online games, signing in, cloud saves, alerts and new versions of the game’s files | Never. Android grants it when you install the app. |
Network status · android. | Checking whether you’re connected, so the app can tell you when you’re offline | Never. Android grants it when you install the app. |
Notifications · android. | Alerts such as your turn, a pause request, a final call or a game invite | On Android 13 and later, after you tap to turn alerts on |
Keep awake · android. | Letting an alert or a game update finish arriving while the screen is off | Never. Android grants it when you install the app. |
Push messages · com. | Receiving alerts through Firebase Cloud Messaging, Google’s push service | Never. Android grants it when you install the app. |
App-only messages · com. | Keeping messages between the app’s own parts private: no other app can hold it | Never. Android grants it when you install the app. |
Advertising ID · com. | Nothing in Rent Party reads it today. It’s declared because our team’s apps may show ads from an ad network in a later version. | Never. Android grants it when you install the app. |
Microphone · android. | Recording a voice question, a message to the team or a trade offer, up to 2 minutes at a time | The first time you press Start in the recording sheet |
Audio settings · android. | Letting the app set up your phone’s audio for the microphone while you record: the voice mode and echo cancelling that make a recording clear. It changes nothing when you’re not recording. | Never. Android grants it when you install the app, so there’s no prompt. |
Before each version of the app goes to Google Play, we check this list against the permissions inside the built app.
About the advertising ID: the only promotions in Rent Party are for our own other apps, and they’re picked without it. If Rent Party ever shows ads from an ad network, the privacy page will say so first.
When does Rent Party use the microphone?
Only after you press the mic and then Start. The recording sheet tells you why before your phone or browser asks. Rent Party lets go of the microphone the moment the recording stops or the sheet closes, so a microphone you’ve allowed stays unused the rest of the time. On Android, the app asks for the microphone (RECORD_AUDIO) at that moment and never at install. Its other audio permission, MODIFY_AUDIO_SETTINGS, only lets the app set up your phone’s audio while a recording runs. Android grants it when you install the app, so it never asks.
Say no, and you type instead.
The Android app doesn’t use a browser’s speech recognition, so what you say there reaches only our server, our own email and file service and Groq, and the words Groq heard go to Anthropic to become your draft. A recording is deleted within 24 hours; what happens to a voice recording has the rest.
Which permissions doesn’t it use?
The app doesn’t ask for your camera, location, contacts, photos or files, text messages or call history; your saved games live in the app’s own storage, which needs no permission.
What does the website ask for?
Two things. In a browser, Rent Party asks to show notifications once you tap to turn alerts on, and to use the microphone the first time you press Start to record, never before you’ve pressed one of them. The site tells your browser to block the camera and location on every page, so it can’t ask for them.
What happens if you say no?
The game plays the same. That holds for every prompt you can refuse, whether it’s for notifications or the microphone, and whether you’re in the Android app or in a browser. Without notifications, alerts still reach your inbox in Rent Party and arrive by email if email alerts are on. Without the microphone, you type. To allow notifications later, turn alerts on again in Rent Party’s notification settings. If your phone or browser has stopped asking, allow notifications or the microphone for Rent Party in its own settings.
How do you change a permission?
To stop alerts, turn them off in Rent Party’s notification settings, or switch off notifications for Rent Party in your phone’s or browser’s settings. Turning alerts off inside Rent Party keeps this device on file, so switching them back on won’t ask again. Signing out removes this device’s alerts.
To stop Rent Party from using the microphone, switch it off for Rent Party in your phone’s or browser’s settings; press Start after that and the recording sheet tells you where to allow it again.
How do you reach us?
Write to us from the Help page.