BackgammonBackgammon — Privacy Policy
Last updated 9 October 2026
Backgammon is a board game. It works offline, it has no accounts to create, and it asks for nothing about you that the game does not need. This page explains the little that does leave your device, and why.
Who we are
Backgammon is published by Sapphire Tech Solutions. If you have a question about anything here, email hello@sapphiretechsolutions.com.
What stays on your device
Most of what the app knows about you never leaves your phone. Saved games, your statistics, achievements, match history, daily-challenge progress and streaks, purchased themes, and every setting are stored locally in the app's own container and in its private preferences. We cannot see any of it.
What leaves your device
Game Center and online play
Online play is built on Apple's Game Center. If you sign in and play online, the app stores the following in its own cloud database so that ranked play and the leaderboard can work:
- Your Game Center player identifier and display name — the nickname Game Center shows other players. We never ask for your real name.
- Your ladder rating, wins and losses.
- While you have an open challenge posted in the lobby, that challenge and the rating attached to it — deleted as soon as a match starts, is abandoned, or expires.
Your rating is also submitted to a Game Center leaderboard, which Apple operates. Apple's own privacy policy covers Game Center itself, including your nickname, friends and Game Center achievements.
If you never sign in to Game Center and never play online, none of this happens.
iCloud backup of your statistics
Members who subscribe to Pro get their statistics backed up and synced across their devices. That copy is written to the private area of iCloud belonging to your own Apple Account. It is end-to-end your data: we have no way to read it, and deleting the app or signing out of iCloud takes it with you.
Advertising
The free version of the app shows ads supplied by Google AdMob. To serve them, Google's advertising SDK collects the usual advertising signals from your device:
| Data | Used for |
|---|---|
| Device advertising identifier (IDFA) | Ad personalisation and measurement — only with your permission, see below |
| IP address, and the approximate region derived from it | Serving ads relevant to your country and preventing fraud |
| Which ads you saw and tapped | Measuring and billing ads |
| Crash, performance and diagnostic data | Keeping the ads SDK working |
The first time you open the app, iOS asks whether you allow tracking. That prompt is Apple's App Tracking Transparency.
- If you decline, the app does not use your advertising identifier, and Google serves non-personalised ads only.
- If you allow it, Google may use your advertising identifier to personalise ads and measure them.
You can change your answer at any time in Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking. Google's handling of this data is described in its privacy policy and in how Google uses data from apps that use its services.
Subscribing to Pro or Premium removes every ad, and with them all of the collection in this section.
Purchases
Themes and subscriptions are sold through Apple's App Store. Apple processes the payment and tells the app only whether you are entitled to what you bought. We never see or store your card details, billing address, or Apple Account.
Notifications
If you turn on the daily-challenge reminder, the app schedules a local notification on your device at the time you choose. It is created and delivered entirely on the phone. No server is involved and we are not told whether you opened it.
Children
Backgammon is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. The app has no chat, no user-generated content, and no way to contact another player outside Game Center.
How long we keep things
Your player profile — identifier, display name, rating, wins and losses — stays in our database while you play ranked games, so that your ladder position survives between sessions. Open lobby challenges are deleted within minutes. Everything else is either on your device or in your own iCloud, and goes when you delete the app.
Your choices and rights
- Don't play online and nothing is stored in our database at all.
- Decline tracking to keep your advertising identifier out of it, or subscribe to remove ads entirely.
- Ask us to delete your ranked profile. Email the address above from the account you want removed and we will delete the player profile and leaderboard entry.
- Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, port, or erase the data described here, and to object to its processing. The same email address reaches us for any of those requests.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes in a way that matters, the date at the top changes with it and the new version is published here before the release that relies on it.