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Privacy Policy history
Every version of the privacy policy for the app, newest first, with what changed in each. When the policy changes, the app shows you the new one and asks you to take a look before it next connects to our game server.
The versions dated 16 to 19 and 28 October 2026 were published while the app was being prepared for its first release, so several share a date; they are numbered in the order they were published.
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30 October 2026 Current
Online play in the app is for players 14 and over, or the higher age your App Store country sets, as on the website; if Apple cannot tell your age, the app asks the year you were born and keeps only whether you are old enough.
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29 October 2026
Your country is shown to your opponent only if you choose to show it, and you can choose a country yourself instead.
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28 October 2026 (4)
We now say that your chat setting is shown to your opponent, that the app's connection names its version and whether it runs on iOS or macOS, how long our proxy keeps its count of connections, that we may retain emails, what the companies that host our server and our email do with it, and that where the law requires it the app asks Apple whether you are 13 or over.
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28 October 2026 (3)
We now say that the app also asks you to agree to our Online Terms of Use and keeps which version you agreed to, and that it counts how often you open it and play, to know when to ask whether you would like to rate it.
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28 October 2026 (2)
Now for the app on any Apple device, not the iPad alone; and as the app no longer offers Not Now, the line about it is gone.
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28 October 2026 (1)
The 28 October change as first published, for the iPhone and iPad app, before the policy named Apple devices and before the line about Not Now was taken out. Nothing the app sends changed, so the app did not ask again.
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27 October 2026
We now say that the app goes on checking our website for a newer policy after Not Now, that deleting the app stops it contacting us, and what game results are used for.
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19 October 2026 (3)
We now say how long we keep things, how to complain, that the app is not directed to children under 13, and that it asks before it connects.
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19 October 2026 (2)
The 19 October changes as first published, before the policy listed the record of your acknowledgement kept on your device, said that opening our pages from the app is a visit to our website, mentioned block lists beside the security logs, and named the rights to a copy and to restrict use. Nothing the app sends changed, so the app did not ask again.
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19 October 2026 (1)
Most of the 19 October changes, published before the lines saying that the app asks you to acknowledge this policy before it connects, and that earlier versions are listed here.
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18 October 2026 (3)
Game results described in general terms: when a game was played, which side won, how it ended and how many moves it took, with nothing about who played.
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18 October 2026 (2)
We now say more plainly what the app sends when it connects, and that every log is deleted within 14 days.
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18 October 2026 (1)
Explains what the app sends to our game server when it opens and what the server writes to disk, including the result records kept of games played against the site owner's grandfather.
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16 October 2026 (4)
Now for the iPad app only, as version 1.0 is for iPad.
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16 October 2026 (3)
Shorter, in six sections instead of eight, with our contact address at the top.
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16 October 2026 (2)
Games against the computer are no longer sent to us, so the setting to help improve the computer is gone.
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16 October 2026 (1)
The first version, for the iPhone, iPad and Mac app.