Privacy Policy
Fold'em is a gambling self-exclusion app. Its job is to help you block gambling apps and websites on your iPhone for a term you choose. We collect the minimum needed to make that lock work — nothing more.
What we collect
- Account. When you sign in with Apple we receive a user identifier and, if you share them, your name and email address.
- Your exclusion. The term you chose, its start and end dates, and counts of what you blocked (e.g. "12 apps, 2 categories, 10 websites"). The actual list of apps you selected never leaves your device — Apple's Screen Time technology keeps it opaque even to us.
- Accountability partner. If you invite a partner, the name and contact details (email, phone) you enter for them, used only to send them invites, exit requests, and protection alerts.
- Protection status. Periodic check-ins from your device saying whether blocking is still active ("verified", "switched off", or "not heard from"). This is what lets your partner be told if protection is turned off.
- Exit requests. If you ask to end your term early, the request and your partner's decision.
What stays on your device
- The exact apps and categories you blocked (Apple-opaque tokens).
- Craving logs and "win" entries from the SOS flow.
- Your self-reported spending baseline and money-kept figures.
What we never do
- No advertising, no trackers, no analytics brokers.
- No selling or sharing data for marketing — to anyone, ever.
- No reading your browsing history. Blocking happens on-device.
Payments
Subscriptions are processed by Apple. We never see your payment details — only whether a subscription is active.
Service providers
We run on Google Firebase (authentication, database, hosting; Google Cloud, US/EU regions) and use Resend (EU region) to deliver partner emails. Both act only on our instructions.
Your partner's data
Partners interact through tokened web links — no account, no app, no cookies beyond what the page needs to work. A partner can decline or step away at any time, which stops further notifications.
Retention & deletion
Your data is kept while your account exists. You can delete your account and its data from inside the app (Settings); deletion during an active exclusion term follows the same safeguards as ending the term, so the lock can't be bypassed by deleting the account. You can also email us to exercise deletion or access rights.
Age
Fold'em is for adults (17+). It is not directed at children.
Contact
Changes
We'll post any changes here with a new date. Material changes will be flagged in the app.