Privacy

Last updated 11 August 2026

DisDubs is a dubbing game that runs inside Discord. It records voices, so it is worth being plain about what that means. This page describes every piece of data the service handles. It is operated by GridIron Duels LLC, who you can reach at admin@gridiron-duels.com.

The short version

While a take is rolling, a bot records the people who have a part in the scene, on a separate track each.
We get your Discord user ID, display name and avatar. Nothing else, and no email.
There are no analytics, no advertising, no trackers, and nothing is sold or shared.
Recordings live on one server. Raw takes are deleted about 2 hours after the session ends, finished dubs after 6 hours (30 days in a Studio Pro server).
Email us and we will delete your recordings on request.

What we collect

Voice recordings

When someone starts a take, a bot in your voice channel records the people who have been given a part, on a separate track per person. If you have not been cast, nothing you say is written down or kept.

The bot does still listen to everyone in the channel while a take is rolling, and it has to: that is what drives the "we can hear you" level meter in the Activity, so you can check your microphone reaches us before agreeing to read a part. Audio from people without a part is measured for loudness as it arrives and then discarded. It is never written to disk, never sliced into a take, and never part of a finished dub.

Recording only happens while a take is rolling. The bot is visible in the channel member list the whole time it is connected, and the Activity shows a red indicator while tape is running.

Your Discord account

When you open the Activity, Discord asks you to authorise it with the identify scope. That gives us three things: your Discord user ID, your display name, and the URL of your avatar image. We do not request your email address, your message history, your server list, or anything else, and we cannot read any of it.

What we do not collect

No analytics or telemetry. No advertising identifiers. No cookies for tracking. The Activity stores a single flag in your browser (dubs.onboarded.v1) to remember that you have already read the explanation screen; it contains no personal data and never leaves your device.

How it is used

Recorded audio is cut into one clip per line of the scene, and the clips you select are mixed onto the video to produce the finished dub. Your name and avatar are shown to the other people in your session so everyone can see who is playing which part. That is the entirety of it. Your voice is not used to train anything, is not analysed, and is not used to identify you anywhere else.

Where it is stored, and for how long

Audio files and finished renders are stored on the server that runs DisDubs, hosted in the United States by Hetzner. Session state, meaning who is in the room and who is cast as whom, is held only in memory and is gone when the server restarts.

The raw recording of each performer, the separate track the bot captured of your voice, is deleted about 2 hours after the session it belongs to ends. Those tracks are only usable while a session is open, and nothing in DisDubs can reach one once it closes, so they are swept shortly afterwards. A session that runs long keeps its own tracks for as long as it is open; the clock starts when it finishes. The finished dub the session rendered is deleted 6 hours after it is created, so download anything you want to keep. That window is meant to cover the session itself and watching it back later the same day; it is not somewhere to store a dub. Finished dubs are not published anywhere; they are served over an unlisted link to the people in the session, and anyone with that link can view the file until it is deleted. A dub someone has reported is kept beyond the 6 hours until the report has been dealt with, because otherwise the complaint would outlive the thing it is about. In a server with an active Studio Pro subscription, finished dubs are kept for 30 days instead, in that server's clip library. If the subscription ends, dubs made under it are kept for at least 7 days from when they were made rather than being deleted at once, and then fall under the 6-hour rule.

Scene packs uploaded to a server are kept for as long as they are being played. An upload that no session has used for 6 months is deleted to reclaim the space. Uploads in a server with an active Studio subscription, uploads covered by purchased Scene Pack slots, and anything under review are kept regardless.

Who else sees it

Recordings are not sold, shared, or handed to any third party. The only external service involved is Discord itself, which carries the voice audio and provides the sign-in. Their handling of it is covered by Discord's privacy policy. The server is hosted by Hetzner, who provide the machine but do not process the data for any purpose of their own.

One exception, and it is us. The person who runs DisDubs can see the list of finished dubs and play them back, in order to act on reports and remove material that breaks the rules: sexual content, harassment, and anything illegal. This is moderation, not browsing: it exists so that a report can be answered and the offending file actually deleted, since a dub's link keeps working for anyone who has it until the file is gone. Nothing is listened to for any other purpose, and the same 6-hour deletion applies, except to a dub that has been reported, which is held until the report is closed.

If you report something, we keep what you wrote, your Discord username and id, and which scene or dub you were reporting, so the report can be acted on and so we can tell repeat problems apart from one-off ones. Reports are kept after the recording itself is deleted, because a record of a decision outlasts the thing it was about. Your report is not shown to the person you reported.

We would disclose data if legally compelled to, and would tell you unless prohibited from doing so.

Your choices

Do not be recorded. Leave the voice channel, or ask the host not to start a take. Muting yourself in Discord also means nothing is captured from you.
Delete your recordings. Email admin@gridiron-duels.com with your Discord username and we will delete everything associated with you.
Ask what we hold. Same address. We will tell you, and send you a copy.
Remove the bot. A server administrator can kick it at any time, which stops any further recording in that server immediately.

If you are in the UK, EU, or another region with equivalent law, these are your rights of access, erasure, and objection. The lawful basis for recording is consent, given by joining a session while the bot is present and visible.

Children

DisDubs is not for children under 13, or under the minimum age of digital consent in your country if that is higher. Discord requires the same. We do not knowingly keep recordings of children; tell us and we will delete them.

Security

Traffic is encrypted in transit. Files are stored on a server that only the operator can log in to. This is a small hobby project rather than a company with a security team, and it would be wrong to imply otherwise, so do not record anything you would be upset to lose or to have seen.

Changes

If this policy changes in a way that matters, the date at the top changes and we will say so in the Activity. Continuing to use DisDubs after that means you accept the new version.

Contact

admin@gridiron-duels.com for deletion requests, questions, or anything else about this page.