Privacy Policy

Section 01

Overview

PokerSharp is a mobile poker training application (“the App”) designed to help players develop Game Theory Optimal (GTO) intuition for No-Limit Texas Hold’em. The App is developed and published by Your Custom Web Design Inc. (“we,” “us,” or “our”).

The App is built to keep your training data on your device. Your hand history, settings, and session analytics are never transmitted to us — we operate no accounts and no server that stores your data. If you enable the optional Cloud Backup, your history is saved to your own Google Drive, not to us (Section 06). The App’s training features work fully offline.

Four narrow categories of data can leave your device, each described in its own section of this policy:

Advertising signals — the free version displays ads served by Google AdMob; the AdMob SDK communicates with Google’s servers when your device is online (Section 03).
Purchase validation — if you subscribe to PokerSharp Pro, the purchase is billed by Google Play or the Apple App Store and validated through RevenueCat, a subscription-management service (Section 04).
Voluntary bug reports — if you explicitly choose to send a bug report from within the App, that report is transmitted to a reporting endpoint we operate (Section 05). This is the only service we ourselves operate, and it receives data only when you press send.
Optional cloud backup — if you connect a Google account, your hand history and settings are backed up to your own Google Drive. That data flows between your device and your Google account only — never through us (Section 06).

This Privacy Policy explains precisely what data the App stores locally, what data each of those four channels transmits, and what we do (and do not do) with any of it.

By installing and using PokerSharp, you agree to the practices described in this policy. If you do not agree with any part of this policy, please discontinue use of the App.

Section 02

Data We Collect and Store

The App stores the following data locally on your device, using Android’s and iOS’s standard on-device storage APIs (React Native AsyncStorage and SQLite). None of this data is ever transmitted to us. It leaves your device only if you enable the optional Cloud Backup, which stores it in your own Google Drive (Section 06). For the separate, narrower categories of data that can be transmitted, see Sections 03–06.

The data listed above contains no personally identifiable information (PII). No name, email address, phone number, location, or any other information that could identify you as an individual is collected, inferred, or stored.

Section 03

Advertising and AdMob

The free version of PokerSharp is supported by advertising. We use Google AdMob, Google’s mobile advertising platform, to serve banner ads and (optionally) opt-in rewarded ads within the App. We do not operate any other advertising network, mediation layer, or attribution SDK.

What Google AdMob Accesses

To serve ads, the AdMob SDK embedded in the App may access the following device-level signals and transmit them to Google when your device has an internet connection:

Personalized vs. Non-Personalized Ads

Where required by law (the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, California, and several other US states), the App presents a Google-provided consent form on first launch via the Google User Messaging Platform (“UMP”). Your choice on that form determines whether you see personalized ads (selected based on your inferred interests) or non-personalized ads (selected only based on context and approximate location). Either way, the App continues to function fully.

Outside those jurisdictions the App defaults to serving personalized ads consistent with Google’s standard AdMob behavior. You can change this preference at any time from the “Privacy options” link in the App’s Settings, which re-opens the same Google-provided form.

Opting Out at the Device Level

Independent of the in-App consent flow, you can reset or limit ad tracking at the operating-system level:

Android: Settings → Google → Ads → Delete advertising ID (or, on older devices, Opt out of Ads Personalization).
iOS: Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking → toggle off Allow Apps to Request to Track, and / or revoke tracking permission for PokerSharp specifically.

Resetting or deleting your advertising ID prevents AdMob from associating future ad interactions with prior ones, severing the strongest signal used for personalization. The App will continue to show ads but they will be non-personalized.

Rewarded Ads

In addition to passive banner ads, the App offers optional rewarded ads — short video ads you can choose to watch in exchange for in-App chips (the free version’s hand meter). Rewarded ads are opt-in: you tap a button to start one. The same AdMob data-flow described above applies; no additional data is collected for rewarded ads beyond what AdMob accesses for banner ads.

Section 04

Subscriptions and RevenueCat

The App offers an optional paid subscription, PokerSharp Pro, which removes advertising and the chip meter and unlocks additional study features. Payment itself is handled entirely by the platform you bought the App from — Google Play on Android or the Apple App Store on iOS. We never receive, store, or process your name, billing address, or payment card details; those stay with Google or Apple under their own privacy policies.

To validate purchases and keep track of whether a given installation is entitled to Pro, the App uses RevenueCat, a third-party subscription-management service. When the App starts (and when a purchase or restore occurs), the RevenueCat SDK communicates with RevenueCat’s servers and transmits:

If you never purchase or start a Pro subscription, the RevenueCat SDK still performs a lightweight entitlement check (the anonymous ID and basic device context above) so the App knows whether to show ads. No purchase data exists in that case because there is no purchase.

Your training data — hand history, decisions, accuracy, settings — is never sent to RevenueCat, Google, or Apple. Subscription management is completely separate from your training activity.

Section 05

Voluntary Bug Reports

The App includes a built-in bug-reporting tool. It can be opened by shaking your device, from Settings → Support → “Report a Bug,” or via a prompt after you take an OS screenshot inside the App. Nothing is ever transmitted automatically — a report is sent only when you review it and explicitly tap send.

When you choose to send a bug report, the following is transmitted over an encrypted connection (HTTPS) to a reporting endpoint that we operate:

A screenshot of the App screen as it looked when you triggered the report;
The description you type, if any;
Technical context — the screen you were on, the game mode, app version, device model, and operating system version.

Bug reports are used for exactly one purpose: diagnosing and fixing the problem you reported. They are not used for advertising, analytics, or profiling; they are not linked to any identity (there are no accounts); and they are not shared with any third party. Reports are retained only as long as needed to investigate and resolve the issue, then deleted.

Section 06

Cloud Backup and Google Drive

The App includes an optional Cloud Backup feature that keeps your hand history and settings safe, and keeps them the same on every device you play on. It is off by default and activates only if you explicitly connect a Google account under Settings → Data.

Where Your Data Goes

Backups are stored in a hidden, app-private folder of your own Google Drive (Google’s “application data folder”), under your own Google account and counting against your own Drive storage quota. Your device communicates directly with Google Drive over an encrypted connection (HTTPS). No PokerSharp server is involved, and we never receive, hold, or have any means of accessing your backup. Google processes this data as your storage provider under Google’s own privacy policy — not as a processor acting for us.

What the App Can — and Cannot — Touch in Your Drive

The App requests a single, narrow Google Drive permission (drive.appdata) that grants access only to the hidden folder it creates for itself. It cannot see, list, read, modify, or delete any other file in your Drive — no documents, no photos, nothing — and other apps cannot read PokerSharp’s folder.

What Is Backed Up

Hand history records — the same records described in Section 02;
Gameplay, display, and sound settings — so a second device feels the same as the first.
Chip balance, daily-bonus state, and subscription entitlement are not backed up (Pro already follows your Google Play or Apple account).

Google Account Information

When you connect, the App receives your Google account’s email address, display name, and profile photo from Google’s sign-in service, solely to show on the Settings screen which account is connected. This information stays on your device and is never transmitted to us. Connecting a Google account creates no PokerSharp account — see Section 13.

Your Controls

Sync Now — run a backup manually at any time;
Delete Backup (Settings → Data) — removes every PokerSharp file from your Drive, leaving the data on your device untouched;
Disconnect — stops all syncing;
Revoke access at Google — from myaccount.google.com/permissions, or via Google Drive’s “Manage apps” settings, which can also delete the hidden app data itself.

Section 07

Data We Do Not Collect

Setting aside the four narrow channels described above — AdMob ad-serving signals (Section 03), RevenueCat purchase validation (Section 04), bug reports you explicitly send (Section 05), and the optional Cloud Backup to your own Google Drive (Section 06) — the following categories of data are not collected, stored, transmitted, or processed by PokerSharp under any circumstances:

Personal & Identity Information

The App does not collect names, email addresses, phone numbers, usernames, profile photos, dates of birth, or any other personal identifiers. No account registration of any kind is required or available. If you connect a Google account for Cloud Backup, the App shows that account’s email address on your device’s Settings screen only — it is never sent to us (Section 06).

Device & Hardware Identifiers

We do not access, read, or transmit hardware or software identifiers — IMEI, IMSI, MAC address, Android ID, serial number, or any similar device fingerprint. The only device-level identifiers the App handles are the operating system’s advertising ID (accessed only by the Google AdMob SDK, Section 03) and the anonymous random ID generated for subscription entitlement (used only by the RevenueCat SDK, Section 04). We do not receive either identifier. You can reset or delete the advertising ID at any time from your device’s privacy settings; see Section 03 for instructions.

Precise Location Data

The App does not request, access, or store your precise geographic location. No GPS permission is requested at installation or during use. Google AdMob may infer an approximate region from your IP address for the purpose of ad targeting and legal compliance (see Section 03); that inference happens on Google’s side, not ours.

Usage Analytics & Telemetry

The App does not include any third-party analytics SDK such as Firebase Analytics, Mixpanel, Amplitude, Segment, or similar. No crash reporting service, performance monitoring tool, or behavioral analytics platform is integrated. We receive no telemetry about how, when, or how often you use any feature of the App. The AdMob SDK measures only ad-related events (impressions, clicks, video completions) — not in-App training behavior — and the RevenueCat SDK records only subscription-entitlement events, not training behavior.

Financial & Payment Information

No payment card numbers, billing addresses, or bank details are ever collected, received, or handled by the App or by us. Purchases of PokerSharp Pro are processed entirely by Google Play or the Apple App Store on their own payment infrastructure. What we can see, via RevenueCat, is anonymized subscription status — that an installation holds an active Pro entitlement for a given product — never who you are or how you paid. See Section 04.

Network Communications

The App’s outbound network traffic is limited to exactly four channels: the AdMob SDK’s communication with Google’s ad-serving infrastructure (Section 03), the RevenueCat SDK’s purchase-validation calls (Section 04), bug reports you explicitly choose to send (Section 05), and — only if you have connected a Google account — the Cloud Backup’s direct communication with your own Google Drive (Section 06). We operate no other server, API endpoint, content delivery network, or remote service that the App contacts. With your device offline, the App’s training features — drills, range charts, hand history, analytics — function normally; only the ad slots remain blank.

Section 08

How Local Storage Works

PokerSharp stores data in two on-device stores: a SQLite database (your hand history records) and React Native AsyncStorage (settings and preferences), which maps to the platform’s native key-value storage — SharedPreferences on Android and NSUserDefaults / SQLite on iOS. Both stores are sandboxed to the App by the operating system.

This means:

Other apps on your device cannot read PokerSharp’s stored data. The operating system enforces this isolation. Data stored by the App is not included in any cloud backup service unless you have explicitly enabled full-device encrypted backup through your platform’s backup settings (Google One on Android; iCloud Backup on iOS), or the App’s own optional Cloud Backup to your Google Drive (Section 06) — and in either case, the data is controlled by you, not by us.

We have no access to any data stored locally on your device, regardless of how it is backed up. If you restore a device from a backup that includes PokerSharp’s data, that data will reappear on your device, but it was never transmitted to us and we remain unable to access it.

Section 09

Third-Party Service Providers

We engage two third-party service providers in connection with the App:

Google AdMob, which serves advertisements as described in Section 03. The narrow set of device signals AdMob accesses (advertising ID, approximate region inferred from IP, device and connection information, ad interactions) flows directly from your device to Google. We do not receive that data; Google handles it under its own privacy policy.

RevenueCat, which validates PokerSharp Pro purchases and manages subscription entitlements as described in Section 04. RevenueCat receives an anonymous installation identifier and store receipt data, acting as our processor under its own privacy policy.

A note on Google Drive: the optional Cloud Backup (Section 06) is not a service provider relationship of ours. Your device communicates directly with Google Drive under your own Google account; Google acts as your storage provider under your agreement with Google, and we never touch, route, or access that data.

Beyond these two providers (and the bug-report endpoint we ourselves operate, Section 05), we do not share, sell, license, rent, trade, or otherwise disclose any data related to your use of PokerSharp to any third party. The App does not integrate with any social platform, does not provide social-sharing features that transmit data to external services, and does not embed any other third-party SDK that independently collects or transmits data. There are no data-broker relationships and no joint-venture data arrangements.

Specifically, your training data — hand history, decisions, settings, accuracy metrics — is never accessible to us, to RevenueCat, or to Google’s advertising systems. It leaves your device only if you enable Cloud Backup, in which case it is stored in your own Google Drive under your own account (Section 06) — held by Google as your storage provider, and still beyond our reach.

Section 10

We Do Not Sell Your Data

We do not sell, rent, license, or trade your personal information to any third party for monetary consideration. We have no data-broker relationships. We do not run an analytics partnership, a list-rental program, or any other arrangement under which information about you would be transferred to a buyer.

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and similar state privacy laws define “selling” and “sharing” broadly enough that targeted advertising can, depending on jurisdiction and interpretation, fall within the scope of those terms. In the interest of transparency:

If you have consented to personalized ads through the Google UMP form (see Section 03), the AdMob SDK transmits your advertising ID and the other signals listed in Section 03 to Google so that Google can deliver personalized ads on our behalf. Some US state privacy frameworks treat this transmission as “sharing for cross-context behavioral advertising,” and California users in particular have the right to opt out under CCPA’s “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” provision.

To exercise that opt-out, open the App, go to Settings, and tap “Privacy options” to re-open the Google consent form and switch to non-personalized ads. You can also reset or delete your advertising ID at the device level per the instructions in Section 03. Either action stops the signals from being used for personalization.

The subscription-entitlement data handled by RevenueCat (Section 04) is processed solely to deliver the service you purchased — it is not sold, shared for advertising, or used for any cross-context behavioral purpose.

No training data — your hand history, decisions, accuracy, or settings — is sold, shared, or monetized in any way. That data stays on your device (or, if you enable Cloud Backup, in your own Google Drive — Section 06) and is never in our hands to sell.

Section 11

Law Enforcement and Legal Disclosures

From time to time, governments, courts, or law enforcement agencies may request that software developers disclose user data in connection with legal proceedings or investigations. We want to be transparent about how such requests would be handled in relation to PokerSharp.

We operate no user database and no system that stores user-attributable information. Your training history, settings, and session data exist only on your device (and, if you enabled Cloud Backup, in your own Google Drive) and are beyond our reach. A subpoena, court order, or government demand directed at us could therefore yield, at most, transient bug reports (which contain no identity information and are deleted after resolution) — with respect to your training data and identity, there is nothing for us to provide.

The advertising signals transmitted from your device to Google via the AdMob SDK (see Section 03) are held by Google, and the subscription records handled by RevenueCat (see Section 04) are held by RevenueCat and the app-store platforms — not by us. The same applies to any Cloud Backup: it lives in your own Google Drive, held by Google under your account (Section 06). Any legal request concerning that data would need to be directed to those companies rather than to us.

In the event we are ever required by law to disclose information, we would comply with applicable legal obligations to the extent of what we hold. We would not proactively volunteer information about users, and we would take reasonable steps to notify affected users of any legal request to the extent permitted by law.

Section 12

Business Transactions

In the event that PokerSharp or its parent business is involved in a merger, acquisition, asset sale, or similar corporate transaction, users will be notified of any change in ownership or control via a notice on this page or within the App itself, prior to any such change taking effect.

Because we do not hold user data, no personal information would be transferred as part of such a transaction. A successor entity would acquire the App and its codebase, but not a database of user records — because no such database exists. The privacy commitments in this document would be represented to any acquirer as binding obligations carried forward with the App.

Section 13

No Accounts or Authentication

PokerSharp does not require you to create an account, log in, or authenticate with any service to use any feature of the App. There is no registration flow, no email verification, and no password. The one optional sign-in is connecting a Google account for Cloud Backup (Section 06) — that connection is between your device and Google, creates no PokerSharp account, and shares nothing with us.

Because there are no accounts, there is no profile data associated with you. Your training history, preferences, and progress are stored anonymously on your device and are associated with the App installation — not with any named identity. Even PokerSharp Pro subscriptions work this way: entitlement is tracked against an anonymous random identifier (Section 04), and can be restored on a new device through your Google Play or App Store account using the “Restore purchases” option — the store, not us, knows who made the purchase.

If you uninstall and reinstall the App, your local training data will be cleared, and unless you had enabled Cloud Backup there is no mechanism to recover it — it was never stored outside your device. If Cloud Backup was enabled, reconnecting the same Google account restores your hands from your own Drive (Section 06).

Section 14

Children’s Privacy

PokerSharp is rated for users aged 18 and older, consistent with its classification as a simulated gambling application under Apple App Store Guideline 5.3 and the Google Play IARC rating system. The App is not directed at children under the age of 13 (or under 16 in the European Economic Area), and we do not knowingly market it to or knowingly collect information from anyone under those ages.

The App is distributed under an 18+ age rating on both stores, so the store’s own age gating applies before download, and the App itself carries a standing 18-and-over notice in Settings → About. By installing and using the App, you represent that you meet the minimum age requirement.

Because the App is not directed at children, Google AdMob serves ads in this App as a non-child-directed integration; AdMob’s targeting therefore does not apply child-specific COPPA / GDPR-K protections by default. If you believe a person under the applicable minimum age is using the App, please contact us at the address below and we will investigate; we will also take reasonable steps to disable any such installation and ensure that AdMob’s data flow is severed for that device (for example, by guiding the parent or guardian through resetting or deleting the advertising ID).

Section 15

Your Rights and Data Deletion

Accessing Your Data

All training data generated by your use of the App is accessible to you directly within the App itself. Your hand history, session analytics, and settings are visible in the Hand History screen and the Settings panel at any time. We have no copy of this data on our side that could be exported to you in any other form.

Deleting Your Training Data

Because all training data is stored locally on your device, you have complete control over it. You can delete it by:

Clearing the App’s storage through your device’s system settings (Settings → Apps → PokerSharp → Storage → Clear Data on Android; or equivalent on iOS), or by uninstalling the App entirely. Either action permanently removes all locally stored data. Unless you enabled Cloud Backup, there is no remote copy to request deletion of, because none was ever created.

Deleting Your Cloud Backup

If you enabled Cloud Backup (Section 06), one remote copy exists — in your own Google Drive — and you can delete it yourself at any time: in the App via Settings → Data → Delete Backup, or from your Google account by removing PokerSharp’s hidden app data (Drive settings → Manage apps, or myaccount.google.com/permissions). We could not delete it for you even on request — we have no access to your Drive.

Managing Advertising Data

The advertising signals described in Section 03 are held by Google, not by us. To manage that data:

Reset or delete your advertising ID from your device’s settings (instructions in Section 03). Future ad interactions will not be linkable to prior ones.
Switch to non-personalized ads via the in-App Settings → “Privacy options” link, which re-opens the Google consent form.
Exercise your rights with Google directly for any data Google holds about you under their privacy policy at policies.google.com/privacy.

Managing Subscription Data

Purchase records live with the platform that billed you — manage or delete them through your Google Play or Apple account. The anonymous entitlement record held by RevenueCat (Section 04) can be deleted on request: contact us at the address below and we will initiate deletion with RevenueCat. Note that deleting the entitlement record while a subscription is active may require you to use “Restore purchases” to re-activate Pro.

Bug Report Data

If you have sent a bug report (Section 05) and would like it deleted before its normal end-of-investigation deletion, email us with the approximate date and screen involved and we will remove it.

GDPR, CCPA, and Other Regulations

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, California, or another jurisdiction with applicable data protection legislation, your rights under those frameworks apply to these categories of data separately:

Your training data remains on your device (or, if you enabled Cloud Backup, in your own Google Drive) and is not collected, processed, or stored by us. We hold none of it, so requests for access, portability, correction, or deletion directed at us return nothing — the data is already in your possession and you can delete it yourself at any time, including the Drive copy (Section 06).
The advertising signals handled by Google AdMob are Google’s data to manage under Google’s privacy policy. Use the in-App “Privacy options” link to update your consent at any time, and contact Google directly for data-subject requests concerning data Google holds.
Subscription entitlement data handled by RevenueCat can be deleted via a request to us, as described above.
Bug reports you have sent can be deleted via a request to us, as described above.

If you have questions about how this App interacts with your rights under any applicable framework, please contact us at the address below.

Section 16

Security

Because we operate no user database and no infrastructure that holds user-attributable data, the most common category of data-security risk — a breach of a centralized server of user records — does not exist with respect to PokerSharp on our side. There is no remote dataset of users to compromise.

Training data stored locally by the App is protected by the operating system’s application sandbox: other apps cannot read it. On devices where full-disk encryption is enabled (the default on modern Android and iOS), the App’s stored data is also encrypted at rest by the OS.

All of the App’s network traffic — the AdMob SDK’s communication with Google (Section 03), the RevenueCat SDK’s purchase validation (Section 04), any bug report you send (Section 05), and the optional Cloud Backup’s communication with your Google Drive (Section 06) — travels over HTTPS / TLS. Google and RevenueCat secure their data under their own security practices; bug reports on our reporting endpoint are access-restricted and deleted after the underlying issue is resolved.

Section 17

Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control

Some web browsers and mobile operating systems support a Do Not Track (“DNT”) setting, and newer browsers support the Global Privacy Control (“GPC”) signal, indicating that the user does not wish to be tracked across services. There is no universally adopted standard for how applications must respond to these signals.

The App itself runs no first-party analytics, no cookies, and no behavioral monitoring beyond what the AdMob SDK does for ad-serving purposes. Mobile-app advertising does not rely on browser-level DNT or GPC signals; instead, the equivalent device-level control is the operating system’s advertising-ID setting (Android) and the App Tracking Transparency framework (iOS). To exercise the equivalent of a “do not track” preference within the App, either:

Reset or delete your advertising ID from your device’s system settings, or
Open the App’s Settings → “Privacy options” link to switch to non-personalized ads via the Google consent form.

Either of these will stop personalized tracking by AdMob for this App. Steps for both are in Section 03.

Section 18

Links to Other Sites and This Website

This Privacy Policy page and the PokerSharp website may contain links to external websites or services that are not operated by us. If you click a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site, which is governed by its own privacy policy.

We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for, the content, privacy practices, or data-handling of any third-party sites or services. We strongly encourage you to review the privacy policy of any external site you visit.

The PokerSharp website itself sets no cookies and runs no analytics. It stores a single value in your browser’s local storage — your light/dark theme preference — which never leaves your browser. The site loads the “Outfit” typeface from Google Fonts, which means your browser requests the font files from Google’s servers; that request necessarily includes your IP address and is handled by Google under its own privacy policy.

Section 19

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the effective date at the top of this document and, where the changes are material, provide notice through the App or the App Store listing.

Any future version of PokerSharp that introduces features requiring data collection beyond what is described here — such as user accounts or multiplayer functionality — will be accompanied by a materially updated Privacy Policy presented to users before the new features become active. (The optional Cloud Backup described in Section 06 was added under exactly this process, in the August 2026 revision of this policy.)

We encourage you to review this policy periodically. Your continued use of the App following any changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

Section 20

Contact

If you have questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or PokerSharp’s data practices, please contact us:

We will respond to all privacy-related inquiries within a reasonable timeframe. For questions about advertising data specifically, the fastest route is to manage your consent and advertising ID directly through the in-App “Privacy options” link and your device’s system settings (see Section 03); for data Google itself holds, contact Google through their privacy support channels.