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Privacy Policy

For the iPhone, iPad and Mac app · Effective date: 16 October 2026

This is an earlier version of the policy, kept for the record. It was in effect from about 17:31 UTC on 16 October 2026 until about 19:01 UTC the same day. Read the current Privacy Policy, or see every version.

The Grandpa's Checkers app for iPhone, iPad and Mac (the "app") is made by William Termini (ABN 47 283 458 067), Australia ("we", "us"). There are no accounts, no device identifiers, no tracking, and no third-party code for analytics or anything else in the app. We never sell information about you.

1. Kept on your device

• Your settings, such as sound, move hints, chat, the computer's strength and whether to help improve the computer.
• Your record: how many games you've won, lost and drawn.
• A game against the computer in progress, so it is still there if the app is closed.
• A resume token while you play online: a random code that lets you back into a game after a dropped connection. It identifies the game session, not you.

None of this leaves your device except the token, which goes to our server to resume your game. Deleting the app deletes all of it.

2. Playing the computer

The computer plays on your device; a game against it needs no connection. When one ends, its moves, the computer's level, the colours, who went first, the result and how it ended are sent to us anonymously to help improve the computer, with the kind of app and its version. No name, IP address, device identifier, session or time of day is stored with them, only the date. This is on unless you turn it off: on iPhone under Options ▸ Help Improve the Computer, and on iPad and Mac in Settings, under Computer.

3. Playing online

When you choose Play Online, the app connects to our server, which holds the following in memory only, never on disk:

• the game in progress, your resume token, a random label for your session, your chat setting and when you were last active;
• your IP address while you are connected, to stop any one network from overloading the game; and
• the country your connection comes from, shown to your opponent. It is looked up from your IP address in a database on our own server, with no request to anyone else, and is never more precise than the country (IP Geolocation by DB-IP).

Players are shown only as Red and White. Chat is a fixed list of phrases; nothing you type is ever sent. A short list of the last 100 finished games (the result, the number of moves, and the labels the players were shown under) is kept in memory to check that matches work, and is lost when the server restarts. The server keeps counts of games played, which contain nothing about any player.

When it opens, the app also asks our server for its current settings (whether online play is open). Like any website, our server keeps access logs of the requests it receives, with the IP address they came from; they are used only to run and protect the service and are deleted within 14 days.

4. Apple

Apple handles your download and any App Store purchase under its own privacy policy. If you have chosen to share crash reports and usage data with app developers in your device's settings, Apple may pass us anonymous crash reports and statistics; you can turn that off in Settings ▸ Privacy & Security ▸ Analytics & Improvements.

5. Why we may use it, and who else sees it

The personal information involved is your IP address and what is linked to it while you play online, and your email if you write to us. We use it because we have a legitimate interest in running the game, keeping it secure, and answering you (GDPR Article 6(1)(f)). No one else handles it apart from the company that hosts our server and our email provider, and we disclose it only if the law requires us to. Our server and these providers are outside the European Union; where the GDPR applies, such transfers rely on the safeguards it allows.

6. Children

The app asks no one, children included, for personal information: there are no accounts and nothing to sign up for.

7. Your rights

Depending on where you live (for example under the GDPR, the Australian Privacy Act or the CCPA), you may have the right to access, correct or delete information about you, to object to its use, and to complain to your local data protection authority. We hold almost nothing that identifies you, but you are welcome to ask and we will answer within a month. We don't sell or share personal information, as those terms are used in US state privacy laws.

8. Changes and contact

We may update this policy; the date above shows the latest version. Questions, requests or complaints: privacy@termini.me.

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