Privacy policy

Clever Checkers · last updated 26 October 2026

In short

• No account, no sign-up, no ads, no purchases.
• No code or services from other companies inside the game: no advertising or analytics kits.
• We never receive a child's name, photo, contacts, location or anything that says who they are.
• We receive anonymous statistics about how the game is played. They are on from the start; a parent can switch them off at any time and can delete them.

What the game keeps

For each player: an optional name, a picture chosen from a fixed set, the rating, and the games played (opponent, result, moves, time).

On the device: all of it.

On our server: the same, except the name, which is never sent. The players are stored under a random code made on the device, so that a family's devices can share them and they can be restored after a reinstall. The code is not tied to a person, an Apple account or an address; our server does not store or log the network address of the device.

In your iCloud (the App Store app only, when the device is signed in to iCloud): the random code and the players' names, so that a reinstall or your other devices get the players back. That storage belongs to your Apple account; we cannot read it.

Anonymous statistics

To see how the game is played and where it should get better, the game sends us events such as: a game started or ended, against which friend, the result, the moves, how long it took, which screens and buttons were used, and errors. With them come the game's version, the kind of device, its system version, screen size, language, region and time zone, and the game's settings (the rules, sound, how many players).

Events are marked with two random codes made on the device, one for the install and one for each player (the same one the player is saved under), so that we can tell one anonymous player's games from another's. The codes are not tied to a name, an Apple account, or an advertising identifier. Our server does not store or log the network address the events come from.

On the website, the statistics also say where a browser first came from: the name of the site that linked to us (not the page), and the campaign tags of our own links, if any. The browser keeps this note and sends it only with the statistics.

We use the statistics only to run and improve the game. We do not sell them, share them, or use them for advertising or profiling.

The statistics are deleted after two years.

Where and how long

Our server is in the European Union (Ireland). Backup copies of it are kept for up to 30 days, so deleted data leaves the backups within that time.

Your choices

In the game, open Settings (it asks a question for grown-ups first). Under For parents:

• Share anonymous statistics is on when the game is installed. Switching it off stops the statistics at once and drops what has not been sent yet; switching it on again starts them again.
• Delete all data removes every player and game from the device, from our server and from the other devices that share them, and deletes the statistics this install has sent.

Deleting the app removes what it keeps on the device.

Children

The game is made for children. It does not ask for, collect or share personal information from them, has no chat or other way to contact anyone, and has no links out of the game outside the parents' section.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the new version appears here with a new date. Clever Checkers is made by Oleg Dats. Questions and requests: support@clevercheckers.com.