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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 19:27 UTC on 16 October 2026 until about 20:23 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"), reachable at privacy@termini.me. There are no accounts, no device identifiers, no tracking, and no third-party code for analytics or anything else in the app.

1. Kept on your device

Your settings, such as sound, move hints and chat.
Your record of games 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 session, not you.

Only the token leaves your device, to resume your game. Deleting the app deletes all of it. The computer plays on your device, and your games against it are never sent to us or anyone else.

2. Playing online

When the app opens it asks our server for its current settings, and when you choose Play Online it connects to our server, which holds 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).

The server also keeps anonymous counts of games played, which contain nothing about any player, and access logs with the IP address of each request, used only to run and protect the service and deleted within 14 days.

3. Why, and who else handles it

We use your IP address and what is linked to it, and your email if you write to us, under our legitimate interest in running the game, keeping it secure and answering you (GDPR Article 6(1)(f)). Only the company that hosts our server and our email provider handle it, and we disclose it only if the law requires. They are outside the European Union; where the GDPR applies, transfers rely on the safeguards it allows. Apple handles your download under its own privacy policy, and passes us anonymous crash reports only if you have chosen to share them with developers.

4. Children

The app asks no one, children included, for personal information.

5. 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 US state privacy laws use those terms.

6. Changes and contact

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