Deckla

Privacy Policy

Nothing about you reaches us.

The Deckla app has no accounts, no analytics, no advertising identifier and no server of ours. What the app saves stays on your device and in your own iCloud, where we cannot read it, and nothing about you is shared with anybody else.

Effective 29 October 2026 · Applies to Deckla for iPhone and iPad, and to deckla.app

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Who we are

Deckla is made by DevScape.io LLC ("we", "us"). For the purposes of the UK and EU General Data Protection Regulation we are the data controller for the limited processing described here.

Write to us at DevScape.io LLC, 5511 Parkcrest Drive, Suite 103, Austin, TX 78731, United States — or at support@devscape.io, which is read sooner.

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The short version

Four sentences, and the rest of this page is the detail behind them.

We hold no data about you

There is no Deckla account and no Deckla server. We operate no database in which you appear, and we receive no analytics, crash reports or usage data from the app.

Your saves are yours

Matches, statistics and settings sync through your private iCloud database, inside your own Apple Account. We cannot read it, and neither can anyone we could hand it to.

Nothing is shared with other players

Every game is played against the app, on your device. Nobody else sees your name, your games or your record.

Apple handles the money

Deckla Pro is bought from Apple, not from us. We never see your payment details, billing address or Apple Account.

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What Deckla stores

All of it is written by the app, on your device, and mirrored to your own iCloud if you are signed in.

Play

  • Saved matches — the deal and the moves played, so a match can be resumed.
  • Statistics — games played, games won, best score and streaks, per game.
  • Settings — your card deck, opponent difficulty, house rules and haptics.

Your name

  • The name you type under You, if you type one. It is whatever you enter, it is kept only in the app's settings on that device, and nobody else sees it. Deckla does not read it from your Apple Account, your contacts or your device name.

Purchases

  • Whether Pro is unlocked, and when the free trial started, so the app knows what to show you.

The purchase itself is a record in your Apple Account. Deckla checks it with Apple's StoreKit on the device; nothing about it is sent to us.

What is not in the app at all

  • No email address, phone number or postal address.
  • No location, contacts, photos, calendar or health data.
  • No chat, no messaging, no profile visible to strangers.

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What leaves your device, and where it goes

Deckla makes no network request to any server we run, because there isn't one. It talks to Apple, and only to Apple. Here is every route out.

iCloud sync — your own private database

Signed in to iCloud, your saves, statistics and settings mirror to a private CloudKit database inside your Apple Account, so they follow you between your iPhone and iPad. The container is ours; the database is yours. Apple's design means the developer of an app cannot read a user's private database, and we have never had access to yours.

Signed out of iCloud, all of it stays on the one device and the app plays exactly the same. Apple's own privacy policy governs iCloud: apple.com/legal/privacy.

Game Center — optional, and Apple's

Signing in to Game Center is Apple's prompt, not ours, and declining it costs you nothing: every game plays the same and your record is kept on the device and in your own iCloud either way. Signed in, Deckla reports how far along each achievement you are — a number between 0 and 100 per achievement, worked out from games you have already finished. It does not read your Game Center friends list.

That exchange is between you and Apple. We never see your Game Center account: what reaches us is the same aggregate report every developer gets, which says how many players earned an achievement and nothing about which ones.

Signed out of Game Center, achievements simply wait: sign in later and the whole back catalogue is reported at once.

Notifications

Two different things, and only the first involves the network:

  • iCloud updates arrive as silent CloudKit pushes through Apple's servers, so a save made on your other device can appear on this one. They carry no message and put nothing on your lock screen.
  • Reminders — about a game you left half-played, and before a free trial ends — are scheduled on the device by the app itself, and never leave it. If you decline notification permission, nothing about Deckla changes except that you don't get them.

Buying Deckla Pro

Pro is a one-time purchase handled entirely by Apple's App Store. Apple is the seller and the merchant of record. We receive sales reports from Apple that are aggregated and anonymous — units and revenue by territory, never a list of who bought it.

Refunds are Apple's to give, not ours: reportaproblem.apple.com.

This website — visit counts, not visitors

Everything above is about the app. The deckla.app website is different in one way: it counts visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics, so we can see which pages are read and roughly where from. It sets no cookies, uses no local storage and does not fingerprint your browser, and what we see is totals — page views, referring sites, countries, browser types — never a record of any one person.

Cloudflare hosts the site and processes the request on our behalf; its policy is at cloudflare.com/privacypolicy. The invitation page, deckla.app/i, runs no analytics at all. Blocking the script costs you nothing on the site.

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What we never do

  • No tracking. No advertising identifier, no IDFA prompt, no measurement of you across other apps or websites — which is also why Deckla never shows App Tracking Transparency's permission dialog.
  • No analytics or crash SDK. There is no analytics, advertising or crash-reporting framework in the app — nothing beyond Apple's own frameworks, which are the operating system, and no code in it that makes an HTTP request.
  • No advertising. None today, and none planned; if that ever changed it would be a new version, described here and in the release notes before it shipped.
  • No sale or sharing of personal information as those terms are defined under the California Consumer Privacy Act, and no cross-context behavioural advertising. We have nothing to sell and no one to sell it to.
  • No profiling and no automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.

Deckla's App Store privacy manifest declares no tracking and no collected data types. Its one API-access declaration covers reading and writing your own settings on your own device.

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Why we may process it

For players in the UK and the European Economic Area, GDPR asks us to name a lawful basis for each purpose. Ours are short, because the processing is.

  • Running the game and syncing your saves — Art. 6(1)(b), performance of the contract you enter into when you download and use the app.
  • Honouring a purchase and a trial — Art. 6(1)(b), and Art. 6(1)(c) where tax or consumer law requires Apple to keep records of the sale.
  • Counting visits to the website — Art. 6(1)(f), our legitimate interest in knowing which pages people read, served by aggregate counts that identify nobody.

We do not rely on consent for any of it, because none of it is optional marketing; and legitimate interests covers only the website's visit counts, never anything in the app. Notification permission is a separate, revocable choice you make in iOS, not a lawful basis.

International transfers. The app transfers nothing to us, because we receive nothing. The website's visit counts are processed by Cloudflare, which relies on the EU Standard Contractual Clauses and the EU–US Data Privacy Framework for transfers out of the UK and EEA. Where your data sits in iCloud, Apple decides the region and Apple's own transfer safeguards apply.

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Keeping it, and getting rid of it

How long it is kept

For as long as you keep the app, and no longer. We run no retention schedule because we hold nothing to retain — everything described above sits in your storage, under your control, and goes when you say so.

Deleting everything

  1. On the device — deleting Deckla removes its local saves, statistics and settings.
  2. In iCloud — Settings → [your name] → iCloud → Manage Account Storage, then Deckla, then delete its data.

A purchase is not deleted by any of this, and should not be: it lives in your Apple Account so that Restore purchases works if you come back.

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Your rights

Under GDPR, the UK GDPR, the CCPA and comparable laws you have rights of access, correction, deletion, portability, restriction and objection, and a right not to be discriminated against for exercising them.

Deckla is an unusual case for these, and we would rather be plain about it than impressive: we cannot answer an access or deletion request with your data, because we do not have any. There is no account for us to look you up in. In practice:

  • Access and portability — everything Deckla holds about you is visible in the app, on your device, right now.
  • Correction — change your name and settings in the app at any time.
  • Deletion — the three steps in §7 delete all of it, and no copy survives with us.

Write to us anyway if something here does not match what you find, or if you believe we hold something we say we do not — we would want to know. Players in the UK may complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk); players in the EEA may complain to their national supervisory authority.

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Children

Deckla is not directed to children. It is not submitted to the App Store's Kids Category, and we ask that it is not used by anyone under 13, or under the age at which they can agree to this on their own in their country, whichever is higher.

We knowingly collect nothing from anyone of any age, so there is no children's data for us to hold. If you believe a child has been playing in a way that concerns you, write to us and we will help you remove the data from the device and the iCloud account it sits in.

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Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the effective date at the top changes with it, and any change to what Deckla stores or sends will be described in the App Store release notes for the version that introduces it. Material changes will be surfaced in the app itself before they take effect.

Previous versions are in the site's public repository history, so you can see exactly what changed and when.

Contact

Questions about privacy, or anything on this page: support@devscape.io. A person reads it.

See also the Terms of Use, which cover the licence, the purchase and the parts Apple requires us to say.