Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Meld Club (“Meld Club,” “we,” “us”) is a solo Hand & Foot Canasta game for iPhone and iPad, published by Goldenberg Tech Advisors LLC of Dover, Delaware, United States. This Privacy Policy explains what information the app handles and the choices you have. It applies to the Meld Club app (bundle ID com.meldClub.meldClub) and this website.

Meld Club is built to collect as little as possible. You do not need an account to play, and your games and settings live on your device.

2. Information we collect

Information stored on your device

Your active and saved games, preferences and settings, lesson progress, and local statistics stay on your device. The app also stores your subscription/entitlement state. Apple handles subscription transactions, and selected product events are sent to PostHog only as described below.

Pseudonymous product analytics (enabled by default)

When the “Share product analytics” setting is enabled — as it is by default — the app sends named product events to PostHog. Examples include completing the lesson, starting a game, finishing a round, viewing the membership screen, and starting or completing a purchase or restore. PostHog groups events under a randomly generated app identifier rather than your name or an account. Events may also include basic technical information supplied by the analytics software, such as app version, device type or model, operating-system version, and a session identifier. As with ordinary internet requests, PostHog receives the request's IP address and may use it to derive an approximate region.

The app's analytics does not send your name, email, contacts, precise location, advertising identifier, the contents of your cards, or a deal seed. We do not create PostHog person profiles, use session replay, or build advertising profiles. You can turn analytics off at any time in Table Settings, and analytics never blocks or affects your ability to play.

Purchases and subscriptions

Meld Club Plus is sold through Apple's in-app purchase system. Apple processes the payment and your subscription status under Apple's own privacy policy. The app receives the purchase status needed to unlock or restore Plus, but we never see your payment card details or Apple ID. When product analytics is enabled, related events may include whether checkout or restore started or completed, the App Store product identifier, and the displayed product price.

Support correspondence

If you email us for support, we receive the information you choose to include (such as your email address and your message) and use it only to respond.

Website hosting data

This website has no account system, forms, advertising trackers, or client-side product analytics. It is served through Firebase Hosting, which processes ordinary web-request information such as your IP address, browser or user-agent information, the requested URL, and referrer information to deliver and protect the site.

3. How we use information

• To run the game — deal, save, and resume your tables on your device.
• To unlock and maintain Meld Club Plus features after a purchase or restore.
• To understand in aggregate how the app is used and where to improve it (only when analytics is enabled).
• To deliver, secure, and maintain this website.
• To respond to your support requests.

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not use it for third-party advertising.

4. How we share information & third parties

We share information only with the service providers needed to operate the app and website:

• Apple — processes in-app purchases and subscriptions and provides the App Store. See Apple's Privacy Policy.
• PostHog — our product-analytics processor, which receives the pseudonymous events and technical information described above only while analytics is enabled. Meld Club is configured to use PostHog Cloud in the United States. See PostHog's Privacy Policy.
• Google Firebase — hosts this website and processes the web-request information described above. See Google's Privacy and Security in Firebase.

We may also disclose information if required by law, or to protect our rights, safety, or the integrity of the service.

5. Data retention

Device-stored data remains until you delete the app. Pseudonymous analytics events are retained by PostHog for 30 days and then deleted or aggregated. Firebase states that incoming IP addresses collected by Hosting are retained for a few months. Support emails are kept only as long as needed to resolve your request and for reasonable record-keeping.

6. Data security

Because gameplay data stays on your device, its security is tied to your device's own protections. Data sent to our processors is transmitted over encrypted connections (HTTPS/TLS). No method of transmission or storage is perfectly secure, but we take reasonable measures to protect the limited information we handle.

7. Your rights & choices

• Analytics opt-out. Turn “Share product analytics” off at any time in Table Settings. The app stops sending new events after you turn it off.
• Deletion. Delete the app to remove its device-stored data. Analytics events are grouped under a random app identifier, not your name or an account. We therefore may be unable to connect a request to that identifier or locate your events, but you can contact us with any request.
• Access & questions. Contact us using the details below to ask about this policy or your data.
• Subscriptions. Manage or cancel Meld Club Plus in your Apple ID subscription settings.

8. Children's privacy

Meld Club is a general-audience card game and is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided us personal information, please contact us and we will take appropriate steps to delete it.

9. Where the app is offered

Meld Club is operated from the United States and is offered only through the United States App Store. The limited data described here is processed in the United States, where our service providers operate.

10. US state privacy rights

Depending on where you live (for example California under the CCPA/CPRA), you may have rights to know, access, delete, or opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of personal information. We do not sell or share your personal information as those terms are defined by these laws, and we do not use it for cross-context behavioral advertising. To exercise any applicable right, contact us below. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights.

11. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time as the app evolves. When we do, we will change the “Last updated” date above.

12. Contact us

Questions about this policy or your data? Email contact@meld-club.com.