Privacy policy

1 Who we are

Tallygate is made and published by vereniging zonder winstoogmerk Internaat Antwerpen (“we”, “us”). For anything to do with privacy, write to macy88833@gmail.com.

Because the app keeps everything on your device and never sends it to us, we can’t see, use or share your games or scores. Where a privacy law talks about a “controller”, a “business” or an organisation responsible for personal information, that is us only for the small amount of information you send us yourself, such as a support email.

2 What the app keeps, and where

Tallygate keeps everything in one file on your phone, in the app’s private storage, an area Android keeps closed to other apps. The file holds:

• Your sheets. For each game: its title (whatever you call it, such as “Uno” or “Friday Hearts”), the names of the players you typed in and their pencil colours, the scores (each point or each round), how the sheet is set up (tally marks or round by round, a target score, whether the lowest score wins), who the spinner picked to go first, and when the game was started and finished.
• The people you’ve played with. A list of names and the pencil colour each person keeps, so they can be added to the next game in one tap.
• Two settings. Your choice of look (Daylight, Lamplight or matching the phone) and whether the pencil buzzes (haptics).

That is the whole list. None of it is sent to us or to anyone else.

3 What we never collect

Tallygate has no way to go online, and it doesn’t have or use:

• accounts, sign-in or cloud sync of its own;
• advertising, ad networks or the Android advertising ID;
• analytics, usage tracking or similar tools;
• crash-reporting or error-monitoring services;
• your location, contacts, calendar, photos, camera or microphone;
• in-app purchases or any payment information.

We don’t sell personal information, we don’t share it for advertising, and we don’t build profiles of anyone. There would be nothing to build them from. Who beat whom at cards stays at the table.

4 Permissions

Tallygate doesn’t ask you for any permissions, and it doesn’t have Android’s INTERNET permission, so it cannot connect to the internet at all. It has no access to your location, contacts, photos, files, camera or microphone.

The only entry in the app’s permission list is a technical safeguard that Android’s own support libraries (AndroidX) add to modern apps automatically, so that other apps can’t send messages to Tallygate’s internal parts. It gives Tallygate no access to anything on your phone.

The little buzz when you add a point (if you leave “Feel the pencil” on) uses the phone’s normal touch feedback, which needs no permission.

5 Backups and new phones

Unlike some apps, Tallygate lets Android include its file in Android’s own backup and transfer features, so your old sheets aren’t lost when you change phones:

• Backup to your Google account. If you’ve turned on backup on your phone (often called Google One backup or Android backup, in your phone’s settings), Android can include Tallygate’s file in your device backup, stored in your Google account. That backup is made, stored and deleted by Android and Google under Google’s privacy policy and terms, and with the settings you chose there.
• Moving to a new phone. When you set up a new phone, Android’s phone-to-phone transfer (by cable, wirelessly, or from your backup) can copy Tallygate’s file to the new phone.

In both cases the copy goes from your phone to your own Google account or your own new phone. It never passes through us, and we can’t see, open or restore it. The temporary CSV export file (see section 6) is never included.

If you’d rather your scores weren’t backed up, turn off backup in your phone’s settings. That setting applies to your whole phone or to the apps your phone lets you choose; Tallygate doesn’t have a separate switch for it.

6 Exporting your scores

Export every sheet as CSV, in Tallygate’s settings, writes all your sheets into one spreadsheet-friendly text file: each game’s title and date, each player’s name, their points round by round (for round-by-round sheets), their total and the result. Tallygate writes the file into its own temporary cache folder on your phone and then opens Android’s share sheet, so you can pick where it goes: for example a files app, a spreadsheet app, or an email or messaging app.

Nothing is shared until you pick an app. From then on, that app (and anyone you send the file to) has the file, under their own terms and privacy policies. The file isn’t encrypted, so anyone who has it can read it. The copy in Tallygate’s cache is replaced the next time you export, and Android may clear it at any time.

7 Other people’s names

The names you type in are often other people’s: your family, friends or teammates. Like everything else in Tallygate, they stay on your phone (and in your own backups, if you use them). We never receive them. You don’t have to use real names, and nicknames work just as well. If you export your scores and send the file to someone, the names go with it, so share it with people your players would be happy to have it.

To take someone off the list of people you’ve played with, use Forget next to their name in settings. Forgetting a name only takes it off that list; old sheets keep it until you delete those sheets.

8 Google Play

You get Tallygate from Google Play, which is run by Google. Google processes information about your download, your account and your device and, if you have allowed it on your phone, diagnostic data such as crash reports, under Google’s privacy policy. That is between you and Google; the app itself sends nothing.

In the Google Play Console we see only aggregate statistics, such as the number of installs, ratings and how often the app crashed on particular kinds of phone. These don’t identify you and never include your games, names or scores. If you post a public review, we see what you chose to publish there, like everyone else.

9 When you email us

Contact support, in Tallygate’s settings, opens your own email app with a new message addressed to macy88833@gmail.com. The draft has the subject “Tallygate” and, at the bottom, the app’s version number and your Android version, to help us help you. You can change or delete any of it before sending, and nothing is sent unless you send it.

If you write to us, we receive your email address, your message and anything you attach, along with the ordinary technical details that travel with an email (such as when it was sent). We use them only to read and answer your message. We don’t add you to a mailing list, and we don’t share your message with anyone other than our email provider, which keeps the mailbox for us.

Please don’t send us more than you need to. If you attach an exported score file, it will contain the player names on it; we will use it only to help you and delete it with the rest of the conversation.

10 This website

The Privacy policy and Terms of use links in the app open these pages in your web browser. This website is a set of static pages hosted on Cloudflare Pages. It sets no cookies and runs no scripts: the scorepad and the spinning pencil on the front page are plain HTML and CSS, and what you tap there never leaves your browser. There are no analytics, tracking pixels, embedded videos, third-party fonts or forms that send anything anywhere.

To deliver the pages and protect the site from abuse, Cloudflare processes technical data such as your IP address, browser type and the pages requested, under Cloudflare’s privacy policy. We don’t use that data to identify or follow visitors.

11 Children

Tallygate is a scorepad for anyone at the table, but the app is not directed at children under 13 (or the higher minimum age that applies where you live), and we don’t knowingly collect personal information from children. The app itself collects nothing from anyone. If you believe a child has sent us personal information by email, tell us and we will delete it.

12 Security

Your scores live in the app’s private storage, which Android isolates from other apps, and modern Android phones encrypt that storage on the device. Because the app never goes online, there is no server of ours to break into and no connection to intercept.

A few things are in your hands: keep a screen lock on your phone, look after your Google account if you use backup, and keep exported CSV files somewhere sensible, since they aren’t encrypted.

We keep support email in an access-controlled mailbox and look after it with reasonable care.

13 Keeping and deleting

• Your sheets stay on your phone until you remove them. Delete this sheet, in a sheet’s menu, removes that game and its scores. Uninstalling Tallygate, or clearing its storage in Android’s settings, deletes all of its sheets, names and settings from your phone. We never had a copy, so we can’t undo it.
• Copies elsewhere are not touched by deleting on your phone: a device backup in your Google account (managed by Google, which replaces it with newer backups and lets you delete it from your account), a phone you transferred to, and any CSV files you exported. Delete those yourself if you want them gone.
• Support emails are kept only as long as we need them to help you and to keep a sensible record of the conversation, and are deleted within 24 months of your last message unless the law requires us to keep them longer. You can ask us to delete them sooner.

14 Your rights where you live

Privacy laws around the world give you rights over your personal information. Because we hold so little, here is how they work in practice:

• Your scores and names. You already have complete control. You can read, change, export or delete every sheet yourself, at any time, without asking anyone. We can’t do any of this for you, because we don’t have them.
• Your emails to us. You can ask for a copy, ask us to correct or delete them, or object to how we use them. Write to macy88833@gmail.com. We will answer within one month (sooner if your law requires it), we won’t charge you, and we won’t treat you any differently for asking. We may need to check that the request comes from the same address.

The sections below add details for particular places. If you live somewhere that isn’t listed, the same promises apply to you.

European Economic Area, United Kingdom and Switzerland

Under the GDPR, the UK GDPR and the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection, we are the controller of support emails. Our lawful basis for using them is our legitimate interest in answering the people who write to us, or, where you ask us to do something for you, taking steps at your request.

You have the right to access, rectify and erase your personal data, to restrict or object to its processing, and to data portability. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular where you live or work: your national data protection authority in the EEA, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the UK, or the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) in Switzerland. We’d welcome the chance to put things right first, but you don’t need to contact us before complaining.

Our email provider may store messages outside your country. Where it does, the transfer relies on the safeguards the law requires, such as an adequacy decision or standard contractual clauses.

United States

California (CCPA, as amended by the CPRA). In the past 12 months we have collected only identifiers and message contents (an email address and what was written) from people who emailed us, directly from them, in order to answer them. We do not sell or share personal information, as the CCPA defines those terms (including for cross-context behavioral advertising), and we have not done so in the past 12 months. We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information in any way that would give you a right to limit it. You have the right to know about, access, correct and delete your personal information, and not to be discriminated against for exercising these rights. You may use an authorized agent; we may ask them for proof of your permission.

Other states. If you live in another state with a consumer privacy law, such as Colorado, Connecticut, Oregon, Texas or Virginia, you have similar rights to confirm whether we process your personal data, and to access, correct, delete and get a copy of it. Those laws also let you opt out of targeted advertising, the sale of personal data and profiling; we do none of these. If we decline a request, you can appeal by replying to our answer, and if you remain unhappy you can contact your state attorney general.

Brazil

Under the Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (LGPD), you can confirm whether we process your data, and ask for access, correction, anonymisation, blocking or deletion, portability and information about who we share it with, and you can revoke consent where it applies. Our legal basis for support emails is our legitimate interest in answering you. You can also petition the Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados (ANPD).

Canada and Québec

Under PIPEDA and similar provincial laws, you can ask to see and correct the personal information we hold about you, and withdraw your consent. You can complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. In Québec, under Law 25, the person in charge of the protection of personal information is vereniging zonder winstoogmerk Internaat Antwerpen, reachable at macy88833@gmail.com, and you may also contact the Commission d’accès à l’information du Québec. We make no automated decisions about you and use no technology to identify, locate or profile you.

Japan

Under the Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI), you can ask us to disclose, correct, stop using or delete the personal information we hold about you (in practice, your emails). We do not provide it to third parties; our email provider handles it only on our behalf, and if it stores messages outside Japan we require it to protect them to the standard the APPI expects. You can also consult the Personal Information Protection Commission.

South Korea

Under the Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA): the only personal information we process is what you send us by email (your email address and message), for the purpose of replying to you. We keep it as described in section 13 and destroy it permanently when that period ends. We do not provide it to third parties, and the only processing we entrust to anyone else is email hosting. You can ask to access, correct, delete or suspend the processing of your information. Our privacy officer is vereniging zonder winstoogmerk Internaat Antwerpen, at macy88833@gmail.com. You can also contact the Personal Information Protection Commission or the Personal Information Infringement Report Center (call 118).

Singapore

Under the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA), you can ask to access and correct your personal data and withdraw your consent. Our data protection contact is vereniging zonder winstoogmerk Internaat Antwerpen, at macy88833@gmail.com. You can also contact the Personal Data Protection Commission.

Australia and New Zealand

We handle personal information in line with the Australian Privacy Principles in the Privacy Act 1988 and the information privacy principles in New Zealand’s Privacy Act 2020. You can ask to access or correct your information. If you are not satisfied with how we deal with a complaint, you can contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) or New Zealand’s Office of the Privacy Commissioner. Our email provider may store messages outside Australia or New Zealand.

India

Under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and its rules, the personal data we process is what you voluntarily send us by email, used only for the purpose you sent it for: answering you. You can ask for a summary of that data, and ask us to correct, complete, update or erase it. You can also nominate someone to exercise your rights if you die or become unable to. For grievances, contact vereniging zonder winstoogmerk Internaat Antwerpen at macy88833@gmail.com; we will respond within the time the rules allow. If you are not satisfied, you can approach the Data Protection Board of India.

Vietnam

We process personal data in line with Vietnam’s Law on Personal Data Protection (Law No. 91/2025/QH15, in force since 1 January 2026) and, where it still applies, Decree No. 13/2023/ND-CP. The app does not collect personal data. When you email us, you consent to our using your email address and message to reply to you, and only for that; we keep them as described in section 13. You have the rights the law gives data subjects, including to be informed, to give or withdraw consent, to access, correct and delete your data, to restrict or object to its processing, to complain, and to seek compensation. To use them, write to macy88833@gmail.com. You can also contact the personal data protection authority under the Ministry of Public Security.

China

Under the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), please note that the app collects no personal information and transfers nothing, inside or outside China. If you email us from mainland China, your email address and message are transferred to us and to our email provider outside mainland China, solely so that we can reply. By sending the email you agree to this; you can withdraw your consent, and ask to access, copy, correct or delete your information, by writing to macy88833@gmail.com. Please don’t include sensitive personal information in your message.

15 Changes to this policy

If the app or our practices change, we will update this page and the effective date at the top. If a change would affect how your information is handled in a way that matters, for example if the app ever needed to go online, we will make that prominent here before the change takes effect, and we won’t apply it to information collected earlier without your consent.

16 Contact

vereniging zonder winstoogmerk Internaat Antwerpen
Email: macy88833@gmail.com

We read every message and reply as soon as we can, and within one month at the latest.

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