Privacy policy

We never ask for your email address, phone number, real name, address, contacts, photos, camera or microphone. Google’s ad software, described under Ads and consent below, estimates a general location from your IP address.

On your phone

Your settings, the name you chose, your last choice on the Play the computer sheet, your lesson progress and a count of the rated games finished on this phone (the ad rule reads it) stay on your phone. Games against the computer and the lessons run on your phone, need no account, and send us nothing.

Your account

The first time you play online, at a rated table or a friends table, the app makes a guest account. There is no signup form. The account holds:

• a random account id, which says nothing about you;
• a fingerprint (a hash) of the secret key kept on your phone, so our server knows your phone again. We never keep the key itself;
• the name you chose, 16 characters at most;
• your rating and your record: rated games, wins and losses;
• the players you blocked;
• when the account was made and when it was last used.

Where the app offers it, you can sign in with Google, or with Apple on an iPhone, so your account follows you to another phone. Google or Apple then sends our server a token. We check it and keep only the account number inside it (Google’s or Apple’s own random id for you), and the name of the phone’s system, Android or iOS. We do not keep your email address, your name or your photo, and we never post anything for you.

Online games

For every online game we keep the moves, the deal seal and its seeds, the rules, the result, the scores, the name and rating at each seat, and the change in rating. That record lets the app check every deal after the game, keeps ratings honest, and fills the history on your profile. We keep finished games while the game runs, because they are part of the other players’ records too.

The other players at a table see your name and rating. The leaderboard is open to anyone with the app: once you have played 5 rated games, your name, rating, games and wins can appear in its top 50. If you would rather not be recognized, choose a name that says nothing about you.

Table chat

We keep the lines you send at an online table, and any line the app refused, for 30 days, then delete them. If someone reports a message or a player, we keep that table’s chat until we have reviewed the report. A report holds who made it, who it is about, the reason and the message. We use chat for nothing but reviewing reports. The app refuses links, numbers and handles, and masks rude words. After a review we may mute an account’s chat or stop it from playing online, and the account holds that until it ends.

Your IP address

Our server sees your IP address when your phone connects. We use it to stop floods, such as hundreds of new accounts from one network in a day. We do not store it with your account. When an address goes over one of those limits, the server’s log notes the address and the limit, at most once a day.

Game statistics

The server notes when an online game starts and ends: the kind of table, the rules, the players’ ratings, the result, the scores and the number of deals. Each note carries the account id of one player at the table, and we keep them for a year. We use these notes to count games and to improve the game.

The app itself sends us no notes on how you use it, and no crash reports. The only software in the app that sends data anywhere else is Google’s ad software, described next.

Ads and consent

Euchre March is free, and it shows ads from Google AdMob. An ad appears only after a rated online game, when you leave its result. Ads never show during a hand.

Google’s ad software is part of the app wherever you play, so what follows applies to everyone who installs it. To show ads, the app uses the Google Mobile Ads SDK, Google’s ad software. It collects the following and shares it with Google:

• your phone’s advertising ID and app set ID;
• your IP address, which Google uses to estimate your general location;
• how you use the app, such as when it opens and which ads you see and tap;
• diagnostics, such as crash logs and how the ad software performs.

Google uses this for advertising, for analytics and to prevent fraud. It is sent encrypted. Google explains how it uses information from apps that show its ads at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

Your choices. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, the app asks you first, with Google’s consent form, before it shows ads. You can refuse personalized ads, and the game works exactly the same. On an iPhone, Apple’s prompt then asks whether the app may track you, and you can say no. You can change your choice at any time in your profile (the round button at the top right of Home), then Settings, then Ad privacy, where the app shows it. Where a US state privacy law lets you opt out of ads based on your data, you make that choice in the same place. On Android, open the phone’s Settings, then Privacy (or Google), then Ads, to reset or delete your advertising ID. On an iPhone, open Settings, then Privacy & Security, then Tracking, to stop the app, or every app, from tracking you. Google’s own ad settings are at myadcenter.google.com.

Euchre March sells nothing. There are no in-app purchases.

Who else sees your data

We do not sell or rent your data, and our server shares nothing with anyone. The app itself sends Google the data listed under Ads and consent, for advertising, under Google’s own privacy policy; some US state laws call that sharing, and you can opt out as described there. Our server runs on a machine we rent and run ourselves. We copy its database every hour and every day, and keep the copies on that machine for at most five days. Google and Apple run their own sign-in screens under their own privacy policies.

This website

euchremarch.com sets no cookies and runs no analytics or ads. The score keeper keeps its score in your own browser’s storage, on your device, and keeps a copy of its page there so it opens with no connection; nothing is sent to us. Cloudflare serves the site and, like any web host, sees your IP address to send you the pages.

Deleting your account

We keep your account until you delete it. In the app, open your profile (the round button at the top right of Home), then Settings, tap Delete account at the bottom, then tap it again to confirm. Without the app, see Delete your account, which also lists what stays. You cannot undo a deletion.

Deleting your account does not delete what Google’s ad software collected: Google holds that, not us, and it is not tied to your account. Use Google’s controls under Ads and consent above.

Age

Euchre March is not directed at anyone under 18.

Changes

When we change this policy we change the date at the top, and we say so in the app if the change matters.

Contact

Write to [email protected] with any question about this page, or to ask what we hold about your account.