1. Who we are
PokerNight is an app made and run by an independent developer in Israel (“PokerNight”, “we”, “us”). It is not a company. The controller of the personal data described here, and the database owner under Israeli law, is the developer, Lior Amar.
This policy covers the PokerNight iOS app, the PokerNight Pro subscription, invitation and watch links, this website and our support channel.
Privacy contact: xlioramarx@gmail.com.
Under Quebec law, the person in charge of protecting personal information is the operator of PokerNight, reachable at the privacy contact above.
2. Data we process
Account data
Your email address, an account identifier, and sign-in data from Supabase Authentication, Apple or Google, depending on the sign-in method you choose. If you use email sign-up, you also give a display name and a password. We never see your Apple or Google password.
Profile data
Display name, nickname, username, avatar choice (a preset, or the profile picture URL Google gives us), app language, currency preferences and your privacy settings. New profiles can be found in people search. The app does not yet have a setting to turn this off; email us if you want to be removed from search.
Game and money records
Games you host or join: date, time zone, optional location text, players, buy-ins, rebuys, corrections, cash-outs, chip counts, results, who-pays-whom settlement instructions, payment-method labels and payment status that users enter, and personal session notes. These are bookkeeping records. PokerNight does not move money, and we never ask for card or bank details.
Data about other people
A host can add guest players who have no account, by name and optionally nickname, email or phone. If you add someone, you must have a right to do so (see the Terms). A guest’s name also appears in game snapshots and settlement records of that host.
Connections and invitations
Friend connections, invitation and claim links, co-host and watcher roles, and requests to link an account to an existing player record.
Notifications
If you allow notifications, your device’s push token, platform and notification preferences. Notification text can include player names and, unless you turn amounts off in Settings, money amounts.
Subscription data
If you buy or restore PokerNight Pro: your account identifier, the plan, status, store, product, renewal and expiry dates. Apple processes the payment. Our subscription provider RevenueCat receives the purchase receipt from Apple, which includes price, currency and country. We do not receive card details.
Usage data
Only if you agree when the app asks, and for as long as “Share usage data” stays on in Settings, the app sends product events to our analytics provider PostHog: screens opened, features used, upgrade prompts seen and similar actions. Events can include your account identifier, app language and plan, a game identifier, the number of players and buy-ins, and your role in a game. The analytics software also sends device model, operating system, app version and time zone, and PostHog receives your IP address when the app connects. Events sent before you sign in use a random identifier that is linked to your account after sign-in. After you sign in, your analytics profile also holds the display name you chose in the app, the country set in your phone’s region settings, your main currency, the date you signed up, and counts of your activity, such as games hosted and played, friends and players on your list, and the dates of your first and latest game. This data is pseudonymous, not anonymous. It does not include your email address, phone number, money amounts, other players’ names or your precise location. Session replay and IP-based location lookup are turned off. Until you answer, nothing is collected and the analytics software is not started.
Technical data
Our hosting providers receive technical request data, such as IP address, time and device or browser headers, when the app or website connects to them. This website uses no cookies, analytics or advertising tags.
Support messages
What you send us by email, including attachments.
3. Why we use data, and on what basis
- To provide the service (account, profiles, games, settlement calculations, sharing with the people in your games, notifications you enable, support). Basis: performing our contract with you.
- To sell and verify subscriptions, apply plan limits and restore purchases. Basis: contract; and legal obligations for tax and accounting records.
- To understand and improve the app with usage data. Basis: your consent, which you can withdraw at any time in Settings.
- To keep the service secure and to prevent abuse. Basis: legitimate interest and legal obligations, including the Israeli Privacy Protection (Data Security) Regulations.
- To comply with law and to establish or defend legal claims.
You are not under a legal obligation to give us your data. Account data is necessary to use the app. Without it, we cannot provide the service. Everything else is optional or created by your use of the app.
We do not sell or share personal data for money or for targeted advertising, show ads, or track you across other companies’ apps or websites. We make no decisions about you that are based solely on automated processing and have legal or similarly significant effects.
5. Service providers and international transfers
- Supabase, Inc.: authentication, database, file storage, server functions. Data region: European Union (Frankfurt, Germany).
- RevenueCat, Inc. (United States): subscription status.
- PostHog, Inc. (United States cloud): product analytics.
- Expo (650 Industries, Inc.) (United States): delivery of push notifications and app updates.
- Apple and Google: sign-in you choose; Apple also processes App Store payments under its own terms.
- Cloudflare, Inc.: hosting of this website and invitation links.
- Google (Gmail): our support mailbox.
Some providers store data outside Israel and outside the European Economic Area, mainly in the United States. We rely on each provider’s data processing agreement, which for Supabase and PostHog includes the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses for transfers outside the EEA. You can ask us for a copy of the relevant safeguards.
6. How long we keep data
- Account, profile and game data: while your account exists. You can discard a game that has not finished. To remove finished games, delete your account or email us.
- Invitation and link records: kept with the game or account they belong to and deleted when that game or your account is deleted. Expired links are not yet deleted automatically.
- Subscription status: deleted with your account. We also keep a log of subscription events (event type, time and your account identifier, with no prices or names). It exists so that a repeated delivery is not processed twice and is deleted after 90 days. When you delete your account, your identifier is removed from it. Apple keeps its own purchase records as the seller.
- Usage data (only if you allowed it): kept by PostHog for the retention window of our plan, up to one year on its free plan and up to seven years on its paid plans, then deleted in its monthly cleanup. PokerNight does not shorten this window today. Deleting your account also deletes it. To have earlier data deleted without deleting your account, email us.
- Support emails: kept in our mailbox until we delete them. You can ask us to delete them.
- Backups: our hosting plan keeps no automatic database backups. Before a major database change we may take a one-off copy, which we keep privately for at most 30 days and then delete. Copies are not edited when you delete your account.
When you delete your account
Use Settings → Sensitive actions → Delete account in the app, or email us if you cannot sign in. We delete your login, profile, avatar files, the games, rosters and tables you own, your connections, invitations, notification data and push tokens. We also ask RevenueCat and PostHog to delete the records linked to your account identifier, and retry automatically if a request fails. The log of subscription events described above is kept for the period stated there.
Records that belong to another host stay in that host’s account, because they are part of a shared game record. Your name may remain on that host’s roster and in that host’s finished games, without any link to your account. You can ask the host to remove it, or ask us to help.
Deleting your account does not cancel a PokerNight Pro subscription. Cancel it in your Apple account settings first.
7. Security
We use encrypted connections, access rules enforced on the server for every table, scoped server functions, secret management and restricted access for administrative tools, and we work to meet the Israeli Privacy Protection (Data Security) Regulations. No system is fully secure. If a serious security incident affects your data, we will notify the Privacy Protection Authority and you where the law requires it.
8. Your rights
Under the Israeli Privacy Protection Law you can ask to see the personal data we hold about you and ask us to correct or delete data that is wrong, incomplete, unclear or out of date. If the GDPR or UK GDPR applies to you, you can also ask for a copy of your data in a portable format, restrict or object to processing (including usage analytics), and withdraw consent at any time.
In the app you can edit your profile, turn off usage sharing and amounts in notifications, remove connections, and delete your account. For anything else, email xlioramarx@gmail.com with the subject “PokerNight privacy request”. We reply within 30 days and may need to confirm that the request comes from the account holder.
You can use these rights wherever you live. You can also complain to a data protection authority: the Israeli Privacy Protection Authority, the authority in your EU or EEA country, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, or the authority where you live.
9. Age
PokerNight is not directed to children under 13. You must be at least 13 to create an account. We do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under 13, and we delete it if we learn that we have. If you believe a child under 13 has an account or appears in PokerNight, contact us. Do not add children under 13 as players. In some places, including some EU countries, a person below a certain age (up to 16) cannot agree on their own to optional uses of data such as sharing usage data. If that applies to you, ask a parent or guardian before you tap Allow. The app works the same if you decline.
10. Changes to this policy
We will post changes on this page with a new effective date. If a change is material, we will also tell you in the app before it takes effect.