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Last updated: October 21, 2026 · Applies to the WingHUD open beta (winghud.com and the WingHUD Windows application)

WingHUD is currently an open beta: anyone can register, and it's free of charge. This policy explains what we collect during the beta, why, who we share it with, and the rights you have over it.

1. Who is responsible for your data (Controller)

WingHUD is currently operated by Guy Almog as an individual developer, pre-incorporation - there is not yet a registered company behind the product while it's in beta. You can reach the controller directly at guy@winghud.com for any privacy question or request. If WingHUD is later operated by a registered business entity, this policy will be updated to reflect that and you'll be notified via the email on file.

2. What we collect, and why (Purposes)

DataCollected whenPurpose
Name, email, country, favorite games You submitted the signup form this site had during the closed beta (it has been removed; we no longer collect this) To review invitations to the closed beta, to tell you once WingHUD opened to everyone, and to understand interest by title/region
How you reached the site (a link tag if you followed one, or the referring page, plus the page you landed on), and whether you used a phone, tablet or computer You submitted the closed-beta signup form (now removed), using data recorded in your browser's local storage on that visit. The device type was read from the standard information your browser sent with the form (its user agent); only "phone", "tablet" or "computer" was kept, not that information itself To help us evaluate where beta testers came from (e.g. a specific video or post) and on what kind of device - stored first-party only, no third-party analytics or advertising identifiers involved
Clicks on the download link in an invitation email (one we sent, or one a friend sent you from the app): when you clicked, your country (looked up from your IP address, which isn't kept), and your browser, operating system and device type (phone, tablet or computer) You click the link in an invitation email; it goes through winghud.com/go/… and then on to the Microsoft Store To see whether our invitations work and where people get stuck before installing. Kept 180 days; how many times you clicked and when you first did stay with your invitation
When you click to install WingHUD on this site (the Microsoft Store button or the direct download): how you reached the site (a link tag if you followed one, the referring page and the page you landed on, as recorded in your browser's local storage), the page you clicked on, a party code if you came from a friend's party link, whether you used a phone, tablet or computer, your country (looked up from your IP address), and a scrambled form of your network address (a one-way hash with a secret only our server has - the IP address itself isn't kept) You click a Microsoft Store or download button on this site To see which links and pages bring new players. When WingHUD first starts on a PC on the same network within 48 hours, that click is linked to the install (and, once you sign in, to your account) as how you probably found WingHUD. Clicks are deleted after 30 days; a linked one is kept with the install record
A random install identifier the app creates, the app version, your Windows version, and your country (looked up from your IP address, which isn't kept) Automatically, once, the first time the WingHUD app starts, before you sign in. No account, email or name is involved. When you sign in, the identifier is linked to your account To see whether installs succeed and whether people get from installing to signing in. Kept 180 days; once linked, it's kept with your account (as how you joined the beta) and deleted with it
Email, first/last name, username, password (stored hashed by our auth provider) - or, if you sign in with Google, the email address and basic profile name Google shares with us (no password is stored in that case) You register an account inside the WingHUD desktop app, with a password or by signing in with Google To create and authenticate your account
Your chat messages, screenshots/area captures, and voice recordings You use WingHUD's assistant while playing To generate the AI response you asked for - sent to our AI providers (OpenAI; for voice, Deepgram for speech-to-text and Cartesia for spoken replies) per-request to answer your question
Short rolling buffer of recent gameplay screenshots ("Last Scene") Automatically, only if you've turned on this optional, off-by-default feature, while a known game is running Lets you ask about a moment that just happened - kept only in memory on your own PC until you actually trigger a question (only those frames are sent to our AI provider); the rest are discarded automatically
Detected game name (from running processes on your PC) Automatically, while WingHUD is running, if the setting is on To tailor responses to the game you're currently playing
Your PC's hardware and connected peripherals - components (CPU, GPU, RAM, storage, motherboard/BIOS, OS version), monitors (model, resolution, refresh rate), audio devices, game controllers, and the makers of connected peripherals plus recognized gaming/peripheral software (for example Logitech G HUB) Only when you click the PC Analyzer widget to scan your rig - read locally on your PC at that moment, nothing is scanned in the background Sent to our AI provider (OpenAI) as context for that one request, so WingHUD can advise on bottlenecks, upgrades, and whether a specific game will run well on your setup
A game WingHUD didn't detect: the program's file name (never its folder or anything else from your PC), its product name and window title, the game's name, your app version and Windows build Only when you confirm it: if WingHUD thinks you're playing a game it didn't detect, it asks under an answer, and this is sent when you click "Yes, that's right" So WingHUD can detect that game for you right away (kept on your PC) and, once a few players confirm the same game, for everyone. To notice the game in the first place, a small extra AI request (OpenAI) reads your latest messages next to the normal answer, only while no game is detected
Installed games on your PC - their names, which launcher each comes from (Steam, Epic, GOG, Battle.net, Riot, EA, Ubisoft, Xbox), and roughly when each was last played. No file paths and no file contents are collected Automatically at startup, at most once a day, if the 'Detect installed games' setting is on (default on) - read from your launchers' own game lists and game config folders on your PC Stored with your profile (Supabase, EU region) so WingHUD can tailor advice to the games you own, and so we can see which games testers own. Turn it off in Settings > General > 'Detect installed games'; turning it off deletes it
Hardware summary - your PC's processor, graphics card and its memory, RAM, system or laptop model, motherboard and BIOS version, storage type, main display's resolution and refresh rate, Windows version, and the scan date. The rest of the full scan (other monitors, peripherals, software) is not kept with your account Only when you run Scan My PC in the Hardware Advisor widget (or Re-scan now in Settings) Stored with your profile (Supabase, EU region) and included with your questions to our AI provider so answers about settings and performance fit your PC, until you delete it in Settings > Data & privacy > Hardware profile
Live match data (your hero, items, and score - never your chat or voice messages) via Dota 2's own Game State Integration (GSI) feed Automatically, only while playing Dota 2 with this optional feature on (default on), sent directly from Dota 2 to WingHUD on your own PC To give WingHUD live match context so its advice reflects what's actually happening in your game
A screenshot of your Dota 2 draft screen (the hero pick/ban grid), plus what WingHUD's ban detector read from it — only the Dota 2 game screen, only during the pick/ban phase, nothing else on your PC (WingHUD only sends the image when it captured the Dota 2 window itself; otherwise it sends only the detector’s results) Only during the beta, and only while this temporary diagnostic is switched on from our side; captured when you use the Dota 2 draft widget before a hero is locked in A short-term debugging measure to fix WingHUD sometimes missing which heroes are banned. Stored in a private bucket on our servers (Supabase, EU region), tied to your account, and deleted when you delete your account. We switch it off once we’ve gathered enough
Your Steam account ID and, if you connect Steam inside WingHUD (optional), your public Steam profile and recent match history for supported games (currently Dota 2): roles, heroes and results of roughly your last 100 matches Only if you sign into Steam inside WingHUD; you can disconnect at any time from the same place To personalize advice with your own play history. Player data from Steam. Disconnecting Steam deletes the collected match data from our servers
Player memory/profile (playstyle, preferences, per-game notes accumulated over time) Built up automatically from your conversations with WingHUD To personalize future answers without you re-explaining context every session - this profile is kept on your own PC, alongside your chat history - the separate server-side memory facts are described in the next row
Memory facts - short, dated notes about you as a player (for example which hero you main, what you're currently working on, what WingHUD advised and how it went), extracted from your conversations Automatically, whenever a conversation is summarized - during a long chat, or when you close one WingHUD remembers things you tell it about yourself and your games so advice fits you; it doesn't keep health, body or other sensitive details, and you can delete any of it. Stored on our servers (Supabase, EU region), tied to your account, so WingHUD can recall relevant past sessions the next time you ask about something related. Deleting a chat from the History sidebar also deletes the facts learned from it; deleting your account deletes all of them. Only facts about you and your own decisions are kept - never general game information - and they are never merged with any third-party stats profile
Links you paste in chat - the web address, and what WingHUD read from the page When you paste a link into a chat To answer you about that page. WingHUD's server opens the page once, only if the site allows automated readers, and gives a short summary of it to the AI; when a page can't be read, WingHUD tells you so. What it read is kept for one hour so follow-up questions work, then deleted. If the link is your own game profile and WingHUD can confirm it's yours (it matches the game account WingHUD already knows, for example your Dota 2 account), WingHUD also keeps a few steady facts from it (your rank, main heroes, hours played) with your memory facts, a dated copy of the profile's numbers, and the link so you can refresh it - shown as "Remembered" under the answer with Undo, and listed in Settings > Games > Profiles you've shared. Other players' profiles and any other page are never kept. Steam profiles are read only when you say they're your own
Chat history Every conversation you have with WingHUD So you can revisit past answers - the full browsable transcript is stored locally on your own PC. During the beta, the prompts you send and WingHUD's replies are also logged on our servers for quality and abuse review (see the next row), and the memory facts described above are kept server-side
Prompts and replies (the text of your messages and WingHUD's answers) - beta only Every request, during the beta Logged on our servers (Supabase, EU region) so we can review answer quality and investigate abuse during the beta. Automatically deleted after 30 days, and deleted immediately if you delete your account. This is a temporary beta measure
Shared replies - a question you asked, WingHUD's answer to it, the game, and the date. Never your name, username or email Only when you click Share on a reply in WingHUD Published as a public page at winghud.com/s/… that anyone with the link can open, so you can show the answer to others. The question is published exactly as you wrote it, so leave out anything personal. Stored on our servers (Supabase, EU region) and tied to your account so you can manage it; we also count how many times each page is opened. Pages can appear in search engines, and are listed at winghud.com/s/ and linked from other shared replies about the same game, except when the answer used your own game data (for example your match history): those pages are kept out of search engines and out of those lists. Remove a link from the Share window or from Settings > Data & privacy > Shared links; deleting your account removes all of them. We may take down a shared page that is reported to us or breaks our Terms of Service
Friends & party - your display name, your avatar image if you upload one, your friend code, who can add you, whether your friends see what you're playing, your friends list, friend requests you send and receive, and the players you've blocked or muted When you use Friends & party (your display name starts as "Player" and four random characters; you can change it, and get a new friend code, in Settings > Friends & party) So you can add friends and play together. Your display name and avatar are shown to your friends, to people you send a request to or play in a party with, and on invite pages you share (an avatar is stored as a small picture anyone with its link can open; you can remove it in Settings > Friends & party). Your email and username are never shown to other players. Stored on our servers (Supabase, EU region) and deleted with your account; friend requests expire after 14 days
Online status - whether you're online or away (and, for an automatic Away, since when), the game you're playing (unless you turn off "Show what I'm playing"), and whether you're in a party and how big it is About once a minute while WingHUD is running and Friends & party is on Shown to your friends and to the members of your party. You show as offline when you close WingHUD, sign out or set your status to Offline or Invisible (Invisible still shows you to the party you're in), or about two and a half minutes after WingHUD stops checking in. Only your current status is kept
Party chat - the messages you send in a party, notes like who joined or left, and the wingman's answers given in the party When you chat in a party Delivered to the party's members. Stored on our servers (Supabase, EU region) while the party exists and deleted 24 hours after it ends. A party ends when everyone has left; a member who's offline for 10 minutes is taken out of the party
Party pictures - a screenshot, area capture or Last Scene clip you choose to share in a party Only when you add one to a party message and press Send - a capture taken in the party room waits for you and is never posted on its own Delivered to the party's members. Stored on our servers (Supabase, EU region) in private storage that only the party's members can open, and deleted with the party chat, 24 hours after the party ends. Shared pictures show whatever was on your screen, so check them before you send. If a member asks @wingman about a picture, it is sent to our AI provider (OpenAI) with the question
Asking the wingman in a party - your question and the party's last 10 messages, which can include other members' messages When you (or another member) write @wingman in a party, or hold the mic key in the party room to ask aloud Sent to our AI provider (OpenAI) together with your own game context, so the wingman can answer in the context of the conversation. The answer is posted to the party for everyone and counts toward the asker's allowance. If the asker has "Play the wingman's replies out loud to the party" on (the default), the spoken answer is also played in the party's voice room, where anyone can stop it for themselves
Party voice - your microphone audio while you talk in a party (not while you're muted, or with push-to-talk until you hold the key), plus when you joined and left the party's voice Only while you're in a party's voice room Your audio is relayed live through LiveKit (see below) to the other members and is never recorded or stored, by us or by LiveKit. We keep only when each member joined and left a party's voice, to measure usage and cost, for 180 days
Party invite links and codes - a link (winghud.com/p/…) or code (WING-P-…) you share When you copy or send a party invite Anyone with the link can open the invite page and see your display name, the game the party is playing, and the members' initials. Invites stop working after 7 days or when the party ends
Friend invites by email - a friend's email address you type in Friends > Invite to WingHUD Only when you send an invite Your friend's email is used only to send that invite (an email from WingHUD in your display name, with your party link if you're in a party) and to link their account to yours if they register with that address. If the address already has a WingHUD account, they get your friend code instead and no invite is created. When your friend registers, we record that you invited them with their new account and send them a friend request from you. To enforce the invite limits we keep a scrambled (hashed) form of the address with your account for 180 days
Player reports - the reason you chose, your optional note, both players' display names, and, if you're in a party with the player you report, that party's last 30 messages, including any pictures in them When you report a player in Friends or in a party Sent to our support team so we can review it, and if it breaks our Terms of Service, end the party or suspend the account. If someone reports you, the report contains your display name and those party messages and pictures. Reports are deleted after 90 days; reports you sent are also deleted with your account
Usage/cost telemetry (token counts, estimated cost, feature used, model used, timestamps) Every request you make To operate the beta responsibly - monitor real per-user cost, enforce session limits, and detect abuse
Your PC's time zone (for example "Europe/Berlin") Automatically, when the app checks your usage; if your PC's time zone changes, it's updated at most once a day So your daily and weekly beta allowance resets at midnight your time, and the app can show reset times in your local time. Kept with your account and deleted with it
Basic product analytics events, error reports While using the app or this website To find and fix bugs, and understand which features are actually used
Standard web data (IP address, browser, approximate location, pages visited) via Google Analytics Browsing this website To understand traffic to the marketing site - see "Analytics & cookies" below
Only if you allow Advertising cookies on this website: which WingHUD ad in ChatGPT (if any) brought you here, a random browser ID, and whether you clicked to install WingHUD (the Microsoft Store button or the direct download), via OpenAI's ads pixel Browsing this website and clicking to install WingHUD To measure whether our ads in ChatGPT lead to installs - see "Analytics & cookies" below
Your WingHUD app settings — hotkeys, chosen narrator voice, playback speed, selected microphone and speaker names, feature toggles, widget layout, and language. Saved credentials (any tokens, keys, or passwords) are removed before anything is sent, and your chats, screenshots, and voice recordings are never included. Automatically while you use WingHUD — at sign-in, shortly after you change a setting, and when you close the app Stored with your profile (Supabase, EU region) so we can reproduce and troubleshoot issues from your actual setup (for example, how voice playback is configured) without asking you to read your settings back to us. Only the most recent snapshot is kept, and it's deleted when you delete your account.

3. Who we share data with (Sub-processors)

We may replace or add providers as the beta evolves; this list is kept current and the "Last updated" date changes when it does.

We don't sell your data. It's shared only with the following service providers, strictly to run WingHUD:

OpenAI, Deepgram, Cartesia, ElevenLabs, LiveKit, Anthropic, Google (for Google sign-in and the Gemini-based detection above), Valve, and Purelymail are primarily US companies, so using them can involve transferring your data outside the EU. This is done under their Standard Contractual Clauses, the standard EU-approved safeguard for this kind of transfer. The country lookup (ipwho.is) may also process your request outside the EU; only your IP address is sent, and only the resulting country is stored.

Each of these providers processes data only as needed to perform their specific function for us, under their own data processing terms. During the beta, WingHUD may collect and internally review your chat content - your messages and WingHUD's replies - for internal quality review, troubleshooting, and model training purposes, including having our own AI-assisted review tooling (built on Anthropic's Claude models) read past conversations to identify issues and suggest improvements. This use is strictly internal: it is never used for commercial purposes, marketing, or advertising, and this content is never sold or shared with third parties for those purposes.

4. Legal basis for processing

During this beta, everything described in this policy is processed based on your consent to take part as a beta tester - you actively agreed to these terms inside the app before you could use your account. A more detailed, per-category legal basis will be added before any future paid launch.

5. Analytics & cookies

This website uses Google Analytics (gtag.js) to understand visits and traffic sources. No analytics or advertising cookies are set until you choose: a consent banner lets you accept or reject them, and the site uses Google Consent Mode v2 so Google's tags respect your choice — no Google tag is loaded at all until you allow it. If you allow Advertising, OpenAI's ads pixel also loads, to measure whether a visit from one of our ads in ChatGPT leads to a click to install WingHUD (see "OpenAI (ads measurement)" above). Rejecting does not limit the site. You can change or withdraw your choice any time via Cookie settings in the footer. Full details — every cookie, its purpose and lifetime — are on the Cookie policy page. The WingHUD desktop application itself does not use advertising cookies or third-party trackers.

6. How long we keep your data (Retention)

7. Your rights

If you're in the EU/EEA or UK you have rights under the GDPR (or UK GDPR); testers elsewhere get the same rights from us as a matter of policy, including the right to:

To exercise any of these, email guy@winghud.com.

8. Security

We take reasonable technical measures to protect your data - for example, your local session token is encrypted at rest on your PC, and our database access is locked down with row-level security so only your own account can read your own data. No online service can guarantee perfect security, but we treat this seriously, especially while handling account credentials and chat content.

9. Children

WingHUD is not intended for anyone under 16, and account registration requires agreeing to our Terms of Service. If you believe a child has provided us data without appropriate consent, contact us and we will remove it.

10. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as the product evolves, especially moving from the free open beta into a later paid phase. Material changes will be reflected here with an updated "Last updated" date, and where appropriate we'll also notify you by email.

11. Contact

Questions about this policy or your data: guy@winghud.com.