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Privacy Policy

For the iPad app · Effective date: 18 October 2026

This is an earlier version of the policy, kept for the record. It was in effect from about 02:10 UTC on 19 October 2026 until about 02:28 UTC the same day. One sentence has been taken out, as marked. Read the current Privacy Policy, or see every version.

The Grandpa's Checkers app for iPad (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: a random code our server gives the app, kept on your device and sent each time the app connects, so you can get back into a game after a dropped connection. It identifies a session, not you, and does not last: once the app has been disconnected for a short while the session expires, and the server issues a new token the next time it connects.

Of these, only the token and your chat setting are sent to our server. 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. Our game server

When the app opens, it fetches its current settings from our website and connects to our game server, so it can show whether anyone is around and offer you an online game. It sends the version of the protocol it speaks (one number, the same for every copy of the app), your resume token and your chat setting. While you play the computer it tells the server only that you are open to an online game, so you can be offered one; your game itself stays on your device. In an online game it sends your moves and the set phrases you choose, which are passed to your opponent. None of this carries a name, an account or a device identifier, so it is not linked to who you are.

While you are connected, the server holds in memory only:

• 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, 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).

Online games are not saved: their moves are held in memory for the game and never written to disk. What the server does write to disk is:

• anonymous counts of games played (how many, which side won and how many moves they took), with nothing about who played;
• one family member's game history. If you play the site owner's grandfather online, a result record of that game is kept for his family: when it started and ended, the colour he played, who won and how, and how many moves it lasted. It keeps no moves and nothing about you: no IP address, country, session or label; and
• logs with IP addresses: access logs with the address of each request, and the security logs of addresses refused or blocked for failed logins to the server. They are used only to run and protect the service, and every log is 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

[One sentence about who the app is for has been taken out of this copy: it described the app in words we no longer use.] There are no accounts, and we collect no personal information from anyone, children included, beyond the connection details described above, which are handled the same way for everyone.

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.

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