Privacy Policy

Last updated: 19 September 2026

TL;DR: the Antics app has no accounts, no ads and does not track you across other apps or websites. We never know who you are. The app makes a random anonymous ID on your phone and sends it with usage statistics that identify nobody; purchases are keyed to a separate anonymous customer ID held by our purchase provider, which newer versions of the app also send with those statistics. Neither identifies you.

What we don't collect

The Antics app has no user accounts, no sign-up, no advertising and no tracking across other apps or websites. We do not collect your name, email address, contacts or location. What you answer and who you play with is never recorded: player names you type in never leave your phone.

What the app stores on your phone

To make the app work between sessions, Antics saves a small amount of information in your phone's local storage:

Any player names never leave your phone, and neither does the progress file itself (the usage statistics below do record each prompt card shown, by number). The anonymous ID and the two counts are sent to our own servers with the usage statistics described below. Everything in this list is removed from your phone when you delete the app; copies already sent are covered under How long we keep data. Reinstalling the app creates a new anonymous ID, unless your phone restores the app's data from a backup. Restoring a purchase afterwards can let our purchase provider connect the new install to the purchase records of your previous one (see Purchases, below).

Purchases

Payments are handled entirely by Apple or Google Play, whichever store you installed from: we never see your payment details. To unlock what you've bought (and restore it if you reinstall), the app uses RevenueCat, a purchase-management service. RevenueCat holds an anonymous customer ID for this install and your purchase history for this app. That customer ID is a random ID that RevenueCat generates, separate from the anonymous ID described above. It is tied to this install's purchases, never to a person: not to your name, Apple ID, email or anything else about who you are, and it is not used for advertising or shared with anyone else. From version 1.1.1 on iPhone, and on Android from the first version after 1.1.1, the app also sends this customer ID with its usage statistics, which lets a purchase be matched to how the app was used on that install (see Anonymous usage statistics). If you restore a purchase after reinstalling, RevenueCat's restore process moves your purchase records to the new install's customer ID so your purchase keeps working. Where both installs ran one of those versions, that restore also lets us connect your old install's usage history to the new one; it never links either to a person. See the RevenueCat privacy policy.

Referral codes

If you use the invite feature, our server generates a referral code linked to the first anonymous customer ID our purchase provider gave this install (see Purchases: it is separate from the on-device ID described above, and is never a name) and stores it, along with which codes have been redeemed, so that rewards can be granted fairly. Redeeming happens in Apple's own offer-code sheet; Apple's report tells us which code was redeemed, when and in which country, never by whom. We never receive any identifier for your phone itself (no hardware or advertising IDs), and none of this referral data can be traced back to you personally.

Anonymous usage statistics

To understand which games get played and improve the app, Antics records anonymous events such as "a game was opened" or "a card was shown", with counts such as session length, how many times the app has been opened, and how long ago it was installed. Our lawful reason for this is legitimate interest: we need to see how the app is used to improve it. We do not advertise to you or build a profile of you. Each event also carries the app version, build number, operating system version, platform and which store the app was installed from; on Android, the first launch also records which campaign link (if any) the app was installed from. These events carry the anonymous ID stored on your phone, so we can tell how a single install behaves over time, for example whether people tend to come back the day after installing. From version 1.1.1 on iPhone, and on Android from the first version after 1.1.1, events also carry our purchase provider's anonymous customer ID for the install (see Purchases), which lets a purchase be matched to how the app was used, for example whether an install kept playing after buying something. Neither ID comes from an account or a login, because Antics has no accounts, and neither is an advertising identifier or used to track you across other apps or websites. This never reveals who you are: there is no name, email or contact information attached, no one, us included, can turn it into a person or a phone, and it is never used to advertise to you anywhere. We record which card was shown and for how long, never names, typed text or what anyone said: the statistics describe how the app is used, never a private conversation. The anonymous ID on your phone and our purchase provider's customer ID both count as the User ID on our App Store privacy label, which is why the label lists usage statistics and purchases as linked to you: linked to your install, never to a person.

Antics also uses Aptabase, a privacy-first analytics service, which receives the same events without either ID. Aptabase keeps its own separate session that is not linked to either ID, and we do not join the two.

Third parties

The complete list of services involved in running Antics:

None of them receive your name or anything else about who you are. There is no advertising software in the app at all.

App updates

From version 1.1.2 on iPhone, Antics can receive small updates to its own code between App Store releases, for example a corrected card. Until we switch this on, the app sends nothing to the update service: it only reads a small settings file on this website, with no identifiers attached. When it is switched on, the app checks for an update when you open it and, if one exists, downloads it and uses it from the next launch. Each check sends Expo, the update service, a random ID kept for your install, the platform, the app version, which update the app is currently running and, the first time after the app has crashed, the text of that error so a bad update can be found and withdrawn. None of that is your name, your account or anything that identifies you, and it is never used for advertising. Our lawful reason is legitimate interest: delivering fixes without a full release.

Instagram and Facebook adverts

We sometimes advertise Antics on Instagram and Facebook. If you arrive from one of those adverts, the download page you land on (anticsapp.com/get, the page that sends you to the App Store or Google Play) loads the Meta Pixel. That is a small piece of Meta's code which tells Meta that the page was visited, so Meta can measure whether an advert worked and improve who our adverts are shown to. It sets cookies in your browser, and Meta sees your IP address and browser details in the same way any website you visit would. It does not tell Meta your name, and we do not send it anything you type. It loads only on that one page and only for visits that come from one of our adverts: if you scan a promoter's QR code, follow a link in our bio, or arrive any other way, no Meta code is loaded at all. It is on no other page of this website, and it is not in the app. See Meta's privacy policy.

How long we keep data

We have no automatic deletion schedule yet: anonymous usage events and purchase history stay on our servers until you ask us to delete yours. Referral codes and redemption records are kept for as long as the invite feature exists. Aptabase keeps its copy under its own retention rules (see its privacy policy). Deleting the app removes the ID from your phone; it does not delete the usage events or purchase records already on our servers. Contact us (below) if you would like us to locate and delete your existing records as well.

Your rights

Under UK data protection law you can ask what data is held, ask for it to be deleted, and object to or ask us to restrict this processing. Because everything is keyed to an anonymous ID rather than your name, we may not always be able to tell which records are yours from an email alone, so please include as much detail as you can (roughly when you installed, what you bought, and on which platform). Deleting the app removes everything stored on your phone, the ID included; on a reinstall you get a new anonymous ID unless your phone restores the app's data from a backup. Emailing us lets us attempt to clear any server-side records tied to the old one too; the steps are on our Delete your data page. If you are unhappy with how we handle your data, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk).

Age requirement

Antics is designed for adults aged 18 and over and carries a corresponding App Store age rating. It contains mature, suggestive and sexual party-game prompts. Some prompts include infrequent references to alcohol, but the app does not instruct or encourage alcohol consumption.

Changes to this policy

If a future version of Antics changes how data is handled, this policy will be updated before that version is released, and the change will be clearly described here.

6 September 2026: from version 1.1.0 the app sends a random anonymous ID and plain launch counts with its usage statistics (previously only rough ranges and no ID), purchases may share that ID, and we added the section on how long we keep data and a mention of Android payments.

11 September 2026: from version 1.1.1 on iPhone, and on Android from the first version after 1.1.1, usage statistics also carry our purchase provider's anonymous customer ID, so a purchase can be matched to how the app was used. We also corrected this page: no released version of the app has used the on-device ID as the purchase provider's customer ID, so the two have always been separate IDs.

18 September 2026: our download page now loads the Meta Pixel for visitors who arrive from one of our Instagram or Facebook adverts, so we can tell whether an advert worked. Nobody else who visits the website loads it, it is on no other page, and nothing about the app changed.

19 September 2026: we named the company responsible for your data, Antics App Ltd, in the Contact section below. Nothing about how your data is handled changed.

Contact

Antics App Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 17325612), is responsible for your data.

Questions about this policy or the app? Email support@anticsapp.com.

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