The short version. The Gimme Five app collects nothing about you. There is no account to make, no analytics, no advertising, no crash reporting, and no server of any kind for information to be sent to.
The iPad and the phones at your table talk directly to each other and to nothing else. What the app remembers stays on your own device, and deleting the app deletes it.
This policy covers the Gimme Five app for iPhone and iPad, published by Detroit Game Studio, LLC. It does not cover this website, which serves ads and uses analytics and is described in the detroit.games privacy policy. The two are deliberately separate documents because the two things behave nothing alike.
What we collect
Nothing. We receive no information about you, your device or your games, and we have no way to. The app contains no analytics library, no advertising software, no crash reporter and no third-party software development kits, and it makes no connection to any server we or anyone else runs.
The app’s privacy manifest — the file Apple requires it to ship, declaring what it collects and why it touches certain system features — says the same thing: no tracking, no tracking domains, and no collected data types at all.
What the app stores on your device
A few small things, kept in the app’s own storage on your device, read by this app only, and never sent anywhere:
- The name you type in when you join a table, so you do not have to type it again.
- The seat you last sat in, so the app can ask for your chair back if your phone locks or the app is closed mid-game.
- An identifier for this device, generated on your device the first time it is needed. Its only job is to let a table recognise the same phone coming back and hand it the same seat. It is not tied to you, your Apple Account or any other app, and it is not used for advertising or measurement.
- Whether you have been shown the local network explanation, so you are not shown it twice.
- An unfinished pass-and-play game, so closing the app does not lose the game on the table.
Deleting Gimme Five removes all of it. There is no copy anywhere else.
What travels between the devices at your table
While a game is running, the devices exchange only what the game needs, and only with each other:
- The table sends the board, the scores and whose turn it is to everybody, and sends each hand of cards privately to the one phone holding it. A player’s cards are never part of what the shared screen receives.
- A phone sends the name you typed, the device identifier described above, the seat it wants, and the moves you make.
- While a table is open, the name your device has in iOS Settings is visible to other devices in range, because that is what is shown in the list of tables to join. If your iPad is called something you would rather strangers on a train did not read, change it in
Settings › General › About › Name.
All of this happens over the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth radios in the devices themselves. It does not travel over the internet, it does not pass through a router, and it does not reach us.
Permissions the app asks for
Local network. iOS requires your permission before an app may look for or announce itself to other devices nearby, and Gimme Five cannot work without it: a phone that is not allowed to look finds no tables, and a table that is not allowed to announce itself is invisible. The permission is used for reaching the other devices at your table and for nothing else. iOS asks once, so the app explains what it is for before the question appears.
Bluetooth. Used, where iOS chooses to use it, as one of the ways the devices reach each other when Wi-Fi is not available. No Bluetooth accessory is contacted and no location is derived from it.
Tracking, advertising and children
Gimme Five does not track you. It shows no ads, contains no advertising identifiers, and takes part in no measurement or attribution of any kind, so the App Tracking Transparency prompt never appears because there is nothing for it to ask about.
Because no personal information is collected from anybody, none is collected from children either. The app has no chat, no user-generated content, no links out to social networks and no purchasing inside a game.
Purchases
Buying Gimme Five, restoring a purchase and any refund are handled entirely by Apple through the App Store. We never see your payment details, your billing address or your Apple Account. What the app can tell is whether this Apple Account owns the purchase, which it reads from Apple’s own record stored on the device — and which is also why it keeps working with every radio switched off.
Refund requests go to Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com. If something in the app went wrong, write to us and we will try to fix it.
Your rights, and how little there is to exercise them on
Rights to see, correct, export or delete the personal information a company holds about you — under the GDPR, the CCPA and similar laws — apply to information a company actually holds. We hold none, so there is nothing for us to show you, correct, export, delete or sell, and nothing to sell it to.
If you want the information the app kept on your device gone, delete the app. If you would like us to confirm any of this in writing, ask and we will.
Changes to this policy
If a future version of Gimme Five ever collects anything, this page will say so before that version ships, and the date at the top will change. A policy rewritten quietly after the fact would be worthless, so the intention is that this page only ever gets longer for a reason you can read.