Privacy Policy

Effective 2026-09-14 · Balkrishna Enterprise

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In short: there is no account and no login. The app stores your name, language and preferences on your own phone. When you play online, your display name, your avatar and your moves travel through our relay so the other players can see them. Ads and crash reporting are handled by Google. We do not sell your data; we do not collect your phone number, contacts or location; and we never read your photo library — the picture you may choose as an avatar is optional, is opened through Android's own file chooser, and is shown only to the people at your table.

1. What the app stores on your phone

Data	Why
Your name (whatever you type)	So other players at your table know who you are
Language, sound, notification preferences	So the app speaks your language and behaves as you set it
Consent state and date	To show the Terms & Conditions notice only once
Games played, review prompt state	To ask for a Play Store rating at a sensible moment and not more often
Chips and starting stack for a table	Game state only — these are virtual and have no value
Your avatar: a built-in face, or a picture you chose	So other players recognise you. A chosen picture is shrunk to 96×96 and stored in the app's own folder on this phone; "Remove my photo" deletes it

All of it lives in the app's private storage on your device. Uninstalling the app removes it.

2. What leaves your phone

Online play (optional). If you host or join an internet room, the relay receives your display name, a room code, and every move made at that table (for example "seat 2 played a card"). It does not receive your cards, your phone number, or your contacts. Move logs are kept in memory only and deleted with the room, six hours after the last activity.
Nothing at all for offline play. Practice games and pass-and-play never touch the network.
Nearby play. Travels directly between the phones on your Wi-Fi or hotspot. It does not reach the internet.
Your avatar. Only in an online room of twelve players or fewer, your avatar — the picture, if you chose one — travels with your display name so the table can recognise you. It is never used for advertising and is not kept beyond the room. Section 3 explains exactly what that means for a photo.

3. Avatars and photos (optional, and yours to control)

What you can choose. One of twelve faces the app draws itself, or — if you tap "Use a photo from my phone" — a picture from your device.
No album access. The picker is Android's own file chooser. It hands the app the one picture you tapped and nothing else: the app cannot list or read anything else in your gallery, and it asks for no storage or photo permission at all. There is no such permission in the app's manifest.
What happens to a picture you pick. The middle square is cut out, shrunk to 96×96, saved in the app's own private folder on your phone, and nowhere else. "Remove my photo" in the avatar sheet deletes it; clearing the app's data or uninstalling removes it too.
When it is shared, and with whom. In an online room of twelve players or fewer, the picture travels through our relay to the other players at that table, so they see your face beside your name. That is the only thing it is ever used for: never advertising, never analytics, never shared with anyone outside that room. It lives in memory with the room, and rooms are deleted no later than six hours after the last activity. In a room of more than twelve players, and in nearby or offline play, no picture is sent at all — only a built-in face travels.
Other players' pictures. Another player's avatar is theirs. Do not copy or use a picture you have no right to share.

4. Advertising

The free version uses Google AdMob. AdMob may collect a device advertising identifier and approximate, coarse information to select and measure ads. You can limit ad personalisation in your Android settings (Settings → Privacy → Ads). Where consent is required by law, the ad SDK requests it. Choosing to remove ads (when offered) is a purchase handled entirely by Google Play; we never see your payment details.

5. Crash reports and diagnostics

If crash reporting is enabled in a release, Google Play collects anonymous crash and ANR reports to help us fix bugs. These contain a stack trace and device model, not your personal data. The build ships native debug symbols precisely so these reports are useful without collecting anything extra from you.

6. Children

The app is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided information, write to us and we will delete it.

7. Your rights

Because we hold almost nothing, your rights are mostly exercised on your device: clear the app's data or uninstall it to erase everything it stored. For anything held by our relay (for example a move log that has not yet expired) or by our service providers, email balkrishnagames@gmail.com and we will delete it. See the delete data page for the exact steps, which is also the process Google Play requires us to publish.

8. Security and retention

Online rooms are ephemeral: a code, a seed and an ordered list of moves, kept in memory and deleted no later than six hours after the last activity. We use HTTPS for all traffic to the relay. No method of transmission is perfectly secure, so please do not treat the app as a place for sensitive information — it is a card table.

9. International users

Our relay and our providers may process data in countries other than yours, including India and the United States. By using online play you consent to that transfer.

10. Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. Material changes will also be noted in the app's Play Store listing.

11. Contact

Balkrishna Enterprise
Email: balkrishnagames@gmail.com
Website: https://balkrishnagames.in