Privacy Policy

What the app stores

Blind Me keeps your blind structures, tournament presets, sound and language preferences, and any payout or bank figures you enter. All of it is written to your device’s local storage by the app itself.

None of it is backed up to a server we control. The only part that ever leaves your device is described under “Anonymous usage statistics” below — and player names and text you type are never part of it. If your device backs the app up through iCloud, that copy is governed by Apple’s terms, not ours, and we have no access to it.

What the app does not do

• No account, sign-up, email address, or login of any kind.
• No crash reporting, and no tracking of you across other apps or websites.
• No advertising, and no advertising identifiers.
• No third-party SDKs other than the analytics library described below. The two text-to-speech providers work on our server and never see your device.
• No tracking as defined by Apple’s App Tracking Transparency framework. The app never asks for permission to track, because it never does.
• No location, contacts, photos, microphone, or camera access.

Network access

Blind Me announces each new blind level out loud. To make that sound natural, the app can fetch a recorded voice for the announcement from our voice server (poker-clock.pro7ocol.com).

• What is sent: only the announcement text — the level number, the blinds, the ante, the language, and whether you chose the female or male voice. Nothing else: no account, no device or advertising identifier, no name, no game data, no bank data.
• Who processes it: our server turns that text into speech using third-party text-to-speech providers — Deepgram for English and SLNG for Russian. They receive the announcement text from our server, not from your device, and no personal data is part of it.
• What is kept: the generated audio is cached on the server and on your device so the same announcement is not generated twice. The server does not log requests and does not store IP addresses. It holds your IP address only in memory, to limit how fast one device can make requests, and drops it when that short time window ends.
• Offline use: the announcements for the default tournament are built into the app in all four voices, so it speaks and works fully in airplane mode for that tournament. Voices for a tournament you create yourself need a connection once; afterwards they are kept on your device. Without a connection the app falls back to your phone’s own built-in speech, so it is never silent.

Anonymous usage statistics

To learn which parts of the app help and which confuse, Blind Me sends anonymous usage information to PostHog, our analytics provider, on servers in the European Union.

• What is sent: which screens are opened, when a game starts, pauses or ends, level changes, which settings are used, bank amounts entered, and anonymised recordings of screen activity (session replay).
• What is never sent: player names and everything typed into a text field are masked on your device before any recording leaves it. There is no account, and we collect no name, email address, contacts, location or advertising identifier.
• Not linked to you, not used for tracking: the statistics are not tied to your identity and are never combined with data from other companies.
• Your choice: turn this off at any time in Settings → “Share anonymous usage data”. Nothing further is sent after that.

Apart from the voice server and these statistics, the app makes no network requests.

Tips and donations

Blind Me is free and nothing in it is locked. Optional tips are in-app purchases processed entirely by Apple; we never see your payment details. On the United States App Store the app also links to a web donation page run by Stripe, which is governed by Stripe’s own privacy policy.

Children

Blind Me is a countdown timer. It contains no gambling, no wagering, no real or virtual currency, and no user-generated or social content. Because it collects no personal data from anyone, it collects none from children.

Deleting your data

Deleting the app from your device deletes everything it stored. The anonymous usage statistics are not linked to you, so we cannot single out yours; turning them off in Settings stops any more being sent.

Changes to this policy

If a future version of the app changes what it stores or what it sends over the network, this page will be updated before that version ships, and the date at the top will change.

Contact

Questions about this policy or the app: blind-me@pro7ocol.com.