Privacy policy
Last updated 29 September 2026
Tuba Wars is a free game demo you play in your browser at tubawars.com. We do not run accounts, ads or analytics, and we never sell or share anything about you. The only thing we keep about you is what you give us to join the waitlist, described below. This policy follows the UK GDPR.
The waitlist
If you join the waitlist we store:
- Your email address, the date and time you joined, and where you came from (for example "youtube", taken from the link you followed).
- Your choices: that you asked to join, and whether you also turned on notifications.
We use your email for one thing: to tell you when the full game is out. We do not store your IP address with it. Our server briefly counts sign-ups from each connection, using a scrambled (hashed) version of the address that is forgotten after ten minutes, to stop spam.
Notifications
If you click Allow notifications and your browser agrees, your browser gives us a notification address (a "push subscription"). It identifies your browser to its push service, not you. We store it, linked to your email, so we can send you one notification when the full game is out. The notification is delivered by your browser's push service: Google (Chrome, Edge, Android), Mozilla (Firefox) or Apple (Safari). They see the notification, not your email.
Why we are allowed to
Your consent. You gave it by typing your email and clicking Join the waitlist, and, for notifications, by clicking Allow notifications. You can take it back at any time.
How long we keep it
Until you remove yourself, or until three months after the full game is released, when we delete the whole list.
How to be removed
- Email: go to tubawars.com/unsubscribe.html, type your email and click Remove my email. It is deleted straight away, with any notification address linked to it.
- Notifications only: on the same page click Turn off notifications, or block notifications for tubawars.com in your browser settings.
Your rights
You can ask to see, correct or delete what we hold about you, or object to how we use it. If you are unhappy with how we handle your data you can complain to the UK Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.
What is stored on your computer
The game keeps its own settings (for example the options in the pause menu) and a copy of the game files in your browser's storage, so it loads faster next time. If you turn on notifications, your browser also keeps a small background script from tubawars.com that shows the notification. We set no cookies. You can delete all of it by clearing this site's data in your browser.
What other services see
- Cloudflare hosts the site and stores the waitlist for us. Like any web host it handles your IP address and browser details to deliver the pages. Cloudflare may process data outside the UK, under its standard contractual safeguards; see Cloudflare's privacy policy.
- Google Fonts serves the page's typeface, so Google sees the request, under Google's privacy policy.
- The subscriber count is read by our server from YouTube's public channel page. Nothing about you is sent to YouTube for it. After you join the waitlist we send you to our YouTube channel, under Google's privacy policy.
- If we later use an email service to send the release email, we will name it here before we give it the list.
Contact
Questions or requests: message us through our YouTube channel, @tubawars, or use the removal page.