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This policy explains what Slot Hounds keeps about you, why, and what you can do about it. If anything here is unclear, email us at contact@slothounds.com.

Who are we?

Slot Hounds is operated by And Beyond Apps, LLC (“we” or “us”). You can reach us at contact@slothounds.com (see Contact).

What do we collect?

When you create an account:

  • Your username. You use it to sign in. It isn't shown on public pages unless you choose to show it.
  • How you want your name shown: an anonymous hound number (the default), your username, or your first name and last initial. We keep a first name and last initial only while you've chosen that option, and never a full name.
  • When you joined and when you confirmed you're 21 or older.
  • Your passkeys: the public part of each passkey, the name you gave it, and when it was added and last used. Your face, fingerprint and device PIN never leave your device, and we never see them.
  • Your recovery codes, kept only in a scrambled, keyed form: we can check a code you type in, but the codes themselves are never stored.
  • Your account standing: whether you're a new or trusted member, and whether the account is active or suspended.

When you contribute:

  • Floor reports: the game, the casino, whether you saw it or it's gone, any note you add, and the date and time you sent it.
  • Photos. Before we save a photo we resize it and remove all the hidden information it carried, including its location (GPS) and camera details. We don't keep the original file.
  • Game and machine details you confirm, such as bonus features and progressives.
  • Your watchlist and release alerts.
  • Reports you make about other members' contributions or usernames (“Report this”), with the reason you picked.
  • Your spots: the game, the casino, the date, and if you add them, the floor zone and bank number. Checklists of a floor section you walk. Photos you send for an unknown game, until an admin approves or rejects them.
  • Your badges, and how many games you've spotted.
  • If you share your list: that you agreed, the level you chose, the date, and which version of the notice you saw.

When you use the site:

  • A few essential cookies (see What cookies do we use?).
  • To stop abuse such as mass sign-ups, we turn your network address into a scrambled code that changes each day. We never store your network (IP) address itself.
  • Our web server keeps no access logs, and the site's own logs don't record network addresses.

If you turn on alerts: the alert topic name you enter on your account page, and a record of which alerts we've sent you so you don't get the same one twice.

If you email us: your email address and your message, in our inbox.

What don't we collect?

The site never asks for your email address, phone number or full name, and your account has no place to store them. We don't collect your precise location, we don't store network (IP) addresses, and we don't use advertising trackers or analytics cookies.

What's public?

  • Your contributions: floor reports (the casino, the game, the date and any note), photos, and the details you confirm.
  • The name you chose to show next to them. That's an anonymous hound number unless you pick your username or your first name and last initial.

Your list is private unless you choose to share it. If you do, it is visible to anyone, signed in or not, under the name you chose to show. You pick one of two levels: games and badges only, or also where and when (the casino and the date). Spots from the last 7 days never appear on your public page, at either level, and the public totals count only games you first spotted more than 7 days ago. Shared games are listed alphabetically. Your hound page never shows the dates you earned badges, and it lists a badge only starting 7 days after the day you earned it (Las Vegas time). Only a shared list has a public hound page; if you don't share, no page about you is public. Photos you send for an unknown game are never public: only you and the admins can see them. The wanted board shows only how many hounds hunt a game, never who. Before sharing starts, we record that you agreed, the date, and which version of the notice you saw, and we ask you again if the notice changes.

The pack feed on the home page shows confirmed spots without a name: the game, the casino and the day, only from the last 7 days. If you share your list, the badges you earn also appear in the pack feed under the name you chose to show, with the day you earned them, but only starting 7 days after the day you earned them (Las Vegas time), which also holds for the badges on your public hound page. The feed shows spots only from the last 7 days, so a badge never appears while spots from the days you earned it are shown.

Keep in mind that your floor reports show which casinos you visited and on which days. Even under the anonymous hound number, all your reports carry the same number, so they can be seen together. Your username (unless you show it), passkeys, recovery codes, hunting list, release alerts and alert topic are never public.

How do we use it?

  • To run and secure the site.
  • To show your contributions under the name you chose.
  • To prevent abuse, spam and fake reports.
  • To keep the listings accurate.
  • To send the alerts you asked for.
  • To answer your emails.

AI tools help process public information and site content; account details are not sent to AI providers. Photos you send for an unknown game are the one exception: they are shared with an AI service provider and used only to suggest which game it is. An admin always decides, and approved or rejected photos are deleted.

Who do we share it with?

We never sell your information, and we never use it for advertising.

A small number of service providers help us run Slot Hounds: infrastructure (hosting, storage, backups and email), AI services, and notifications. We give each of them only what it needs to provide its service. Namecheap hosts the site and its stored data in the United States. Our admins reach the admin pages over a private network (Tailscale), which carries no member data beyond the admins' own use of the site. If you turn on alerts, the alert text (such as a game and casino name, and a link to the game's page) and your topic name pass through a third-party push notification service to reach your phone. Anyone who knows your topic name can subscribe to it, so pick a long, random one.

We may share information if the law requires it, or to protect the safety of our members, the public or the site. If Slot Hounds ever passes to a new owner, your information would go with it, and this policy would still apply to it.

How does Slot Hounds use YouTube?

Slot Hounds uses YouTube API Services to read public information about videos. It never accesses anyone's Google or YouTube account. Our pages show text and a link, not embedded videos, so YouTube and Google don't place cookies or collect information through Slot Hounds; if you follow a link to YouTube, YouTube's own terms and policies apply there. Google's Privacy Policy is at https://policies.google.com/privacy.

How long do we keep it?

  • Sign-in sessions end 30 days after you last use the site, and after 90 days at most.
  • The scrambled network codes we use against abuse are kept for 24 hours. A cleanup that runs every hour then deletes them, and they're never copied into backups.
  • If you start signing up but don't finish, what you typed is deleted within a day.
  • One-time setup and recovery links stop working after 24 hours (30 minutes for a link opened with a recovery code) and are then deleted.
  • Our admin log, a record of what admins do on the site that can name the account an action was about, is kept for 1 year.
  • Your account details are kept until you delete your account (see What are your choices?).
  • Contributions are kept until they're removed. When you delete your account, your floor reports, their notes, your photos and the details you confirmed stay on the site, credited to “a former hound.” Email us to ask for a specific photo to be removed.
  • We keep a copy of the database each day for 30 days, so deleted information can stay in a backup until that copy is replaced. Backup copies of photos are kept until we remove them; email us and we'll remove a deleted photo from the backups too.
  • When you delete your account, your checklists, badges, sharing choice and wanted-digest record are deleted. The games you sent in stay, credited to “a former hound.”
  • Reports you make about others are kept in our moderation records.
  • Emails to us are kept for as long as we need them to handle your request.

What are your choices?

  • Download your data. “Download my data” on your account page gives you one file with:
    • your username
    • when you joined
    • when you confirmed you're 21 or older
    • your trust level
    • your alert topic
    • how your name shows
    • your hound number
    • your first name, if you chose to show it
    • your last initial, if you chose to show it
    • the date your break from alerts ends, if you took one
    • your floor reports, with their notes
    • a list of your photos with their size, date and status (not the image files)
    • the game details you confirmed
    • the machine details you confirmed at each casino
    • your watchlist
    • your release alerts
    • the floor sections you walked
    • your badges and when you earned them
    • the games you sent in for a check (not the image files)
    • whether you share your list, and when you agreed
    • your passkeys' names and when each was added and last used
  • Delete your account from your account page. This deletes your passkeys, sessions, recovery codes, setup links, watchlist, release alerts, alert history and alert topic, your first name and last initial, and your 21+ confirmation, and replaces your username. What's left is a bare record with no name and no way to sign in (it keeps when the account was made, its trust level, its old hound number and moderation settings, none of them shown) so that your floor reports, their notes, your photos and the details you confirmed can stay, credited to “a former hound.” Reports you made about other members' contributions or usernames stay in our moderation records.
  • Delete a photo. While your account exists, you can delete any of your photos from “Your photos” on your account page. It leaves the site right away.
  • Turn alerts on or off. Enter or clear your alert topic on your account page. You can also turn alerts off for single items on your watchlist.
  • Stop sharing your list. Stop sharing your list at any time on your account page. It takes effect right away.
  • Take a break. Take a break for 30 or 90 days. It pauses every alert, and alerts that come during a break are dropped, not saved for later. It also hides your own badge progress.
  • Change how your name shows at any time on your account page. The change also relabels your past reports and photos.
  • Anything else. Email contact@slothounds.com, for example to correct something, to have a report or photo removed, or for help with a download or a deletion. We may ask you to show the account is yours, for example by signing in, before we act.

What cookies do we use?

Only the essential cookies below, so there's no cookie banner. We don't use advertising, analytics or third-party cookies, and our pages load no fonts, scripts or images from other companies.

  • __Host-sh_session: Keeps you signed in. How long: Up to 90 days. You're signed out after 30 days without a visit, or when you sign out.
  • __Host-sh_csrf or sh_csrf: Stops other websites from sending forms in your name while you're signed out. The second name is used on our plain (non-HTTPS) address. How long: Until you close your browser.
  • sh_age: Remembers that you confirmed you're 21 or older. How long: 30 days.
  • flash: Shows a one-time message, such as “Saved,” after you do something. How long: 15 seconds.

Is Slot Hounds for children?

No. Slot Hounds is for adults 21 and over. We don't knowingly collect information from anyone younger, and if we learn an account belongs to someone under 21, we delete it.

What if I live in Nevada or another state with a privacy law?

Nevada: we don't sell covered information as Nevada law defines it. You can still send an opt-out request to contact@slothounds.com, and we'll record it.

Other states: wherever you live, you can ask to see, correct or delete your information by emailing us. We honor these requests where practical, whether or not a law requires it.

How do we protect it?

We use reasonable safeguards for a site of our size, including secure connections and passkeys instead of passwords. No website is perfectly secure, so we can't promise nothing will ever go wrong. If a problem affects your information, we'll say so on the site.

Will this policy change?

If we change it, we'll update the effective date at the top of this page. If a change is significant, we'll also announce it on the site.