Privacy policy

Blindissimo is a blind timer for your home poker tournaments: levels, breaks, players, prize pool and statistics.

Your tournaments stay on your device. The app works offline, with no account and no usage analytics; the publisher receives no data about you. It is free, funded by Google AdMob advertising; the Premium purchase, handled by Google Play or the App Store, removes every ad. These are the only third-party services it contacts, and the only things that need a connection (see "Advertising" and "Premium purchase").

The app keeps in the device storage, and nowhere else:

• the tournament structure (levels, breaks, starting stack), your saved structures and your chip set;
• the first names or nicknames of the players you register, their seats, rebuys, eliminations and winnings;
• the history of your tournaments and the season standings;
• your ad consent choices, kept by Google's SDK;
• your settings (language, volume, voice announcements), the Premium purchase as confirmed by the store and the voice announcements unlocked for a tournament.

Player names are the ones you type: only register people who agree to appear in your statistics, and prefer a first name or a nickname.

When you ask for it, the app creates a file (full backup, structure, statistics as CSV) or a podium image, and hands it to the phone's share sheet or to the browser download. You choose where it goes (messaging, email, cloud storage): that service then handles the file under its own rules. Nothing is sent to the publisher.

An imported backup replaces the app's data with the file's; it is only read on the device.

In the Android and iOS apps, the blinds are read by the phone's text-to-speech engine. In a browser, they go through the browser's speech synthesis, which may use an online voice from its vendor (Google, Apple, Microsoft): only the announced text (level and blinds) is then sent to it. You can turn announcements off in the settings.

A Google AdMob banner shows at the bottom of the home, players, structure, statistics and end-of-tournament screens and of these pages, never on the clock of a running tournament. Before a tournament, you can also choose to watch a full-screen video ad, which unlocks the voice announcements for that tournament; no other ad shows full screen. To choose these ads, measure them and fight fraud, Google receives technical data from the device: IP address and the approximate location it gives, model, system, language, interactions with the ad and, if you allow it, the advertising identifier. None of your tournament data is sent to it.

In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, a consent message shows at first launch: you can accept or refuse personalised ads, then change your mind with the "Manage my ad choices" button on this page. On iPhone and iPad, iOS also asks for tracking permission; refusing it does not stop you from using the app.

With the Premium purchase, the app no longer contacts Google AdMob: no more ads, consent message or tracking request.

Google processes this data as an independent controller, under its own rules: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites

The Premium purchase, a one-time purchase with no subscription, is handled by Google Play or the App Store, under their own privacy rules. The app only receives, on your device, the confirmation that the purchase took place, to unlock the voice announcements and remove the ads; it checks it with the store at every launch. The publisher has access neither to your payment details, nor to your identity, nor to your store account.

• Notifications: tell you when the level changes while the app is in the background or the screen is locked and, on Android, show the level countdown on the lock screen. They are created on the device itself.
• Alarms & reminders (Android): fire these notifications on time.
• Keep the screen on: during a tournament, so the clock stays visible.
• Internet access: loading the ads and the Premium purchase.
• Google Play billing (Android): permission needed for the Premium purchase.
• Advertising identifier: on Android, a permission added by Google's SDK; on iPhone and iPad, tracking permission asked once.

The app asks for neither the camera, the microphone, the location nor the contacts.

The installable web version works the same way, with no ads and no purchase (the voice announcements are free there): the data stays in the browser storage. As for any web page, the site host receives the IP address and technical browser information when the app loads; it receives none of your tournament data.

The publisher runs no server that would receive your data: no account, no email address, no usage analytics. Only advertising and the Premium purchase call on third parties: Google for advertising, Google Play or the App Store for the purchase (see these sections).

Blindissimo is meant for adults; it is not intended for children.

• The data stays on the device until you erase it: delete a tournament, or the whole history, in the Statistics screen; the player directory is drawn from that history.
• Uninstalling the app, or clearing its data in the phone or browser settings, deletes everything it kept.
• Files you exported or shared stay where you sent them.
• Data processed by Google for advertising follows Google's rules; the advertising identifier can be reset or deleted in the phone settings.
• A Premium purchase stays tied to your Google Play or Apple account: after a reinstall or on another device, "Restore my purchases" (Structure screen) finds it.

You have the right of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection and portability. As the publisher holds no data about you, these rights are exercised directly in the app and on your device (see above), with Google for advertising (https://policies.google.com/privacy) and with Google or Apple for the purchase. For any question: support@tequi.app.

You may also lodge a complaint with the CNIL, the French data protection authority: https://www.cnil.fr

This policy may change with the app. The date of its last update is shown below; the current version is always published in the app and on its website.

For any question about this policy: support@tequi.app.