Privacy

Last updated 5 September 2026

There is no account, no advertising identifier and no ad network. Practice against the bots plays with the network switched off. An online room shares only what the table needs to see. The one thing that leaves the phone on its own is anonymous usage data that tells us whether the game works — and you can switch that off inside the app.

What stays on your device

A practice game in progress, the name, avatar and colour you pick, your settings, whether you have seen the intro, and a short list of past games with your result in each. All of it is written to your phone's own storage and never sent anywhere. Deleting the app deletes all of it.

Online rooms

When you host or join a room, the room server receives the display name and avatar you chose for it, the chips you buy in with, and the actions you take in the game. Your cards are dealt on the server and sent only to you; nobody else at the table, and nobody watching, receives them. Chat messages and emoji reactions are relayed to the people in the room and are not stored beyond it.

The room, its ledger and the last two hundred hand summaries are held for the length of the game and deleted a day after the last activity. The server runs on Cloudflare in the United States. Nothing about a room is attached to an account, because there is none.

What the usage data contains — and what it never does

We use PostHog to see whether the game works: how many people finish the intro, how many start a table, which game they pick, how many players sit down, and how many hands get played. It runs in our own PostHog organisation.

No player name, no room code, no cards and no chat is ever sent. An event says that a six-seat Omaha hand ended for a pot of 340 — never who was playing it. The one thing you type that the app can send is the feedback box in the rating prompt, and only when you choose to send it.

Two things are switched off deliberately, for the same reason. Autocapture would record taps together with the text inside them, which is your friends' names. Session replay would record the screen, which in this app is a table of named people playing cards. Neither is on.

Crashes are reported, with the stack trace, because a rules engine fails silently and that is the only way we hear about it.

Alongside the events, PostHog receives the ordinary technical context an app sends: device model, operating system version, app version, locale and time zone, and the IP address the request came from. It also generates a random identifier for the installation, held on your device. It is not the advertising identifier — the app never asks for that one.

Switching it off

Open Settings & privacy on the home screen and turn off Share anonymous usage data. Collection stops immediately, and anything queued but not yet sent is dropped rather than sent afterwards. The game is unaffected.

Chips, not money

The chips in the game have no cash value. The app never takes a payment for chips, never pays anything out, and never moves money between players. The ledger and the settle-up screen are a record of play chips; what, if anything, players agree between themselves afterwards is outside the app and outside this policy.

Who else is involved

PostHog, for the product analytics described above, hosted in the United States, acting as our processor. Cloudflare, which runs the room server for online play. Apple and Google handle the app's distribution. Nobody else receives anything, and we do not sell data or share it with advertisers.

Children

The game simulates card play with chips and is rated for older players in the app stores for that reason. Nothing collected identifies anybody, child or adult, and the switch above turns even that off.

Purchases

The app has nothing to buy today. If a paid feature is added, the transaction will be handled entirely by Apple or Google; we would never see payment details, only that a purchase succeeded.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date above changes with it. Material changes will be described in the app's release notes.

Contact

Questions about this policy: hello@opensoftlabs.org.