Pedro — Privacy Policy
Last updated: August 6, 2026
Pedro is a card game. We built it to be played, not to collect your data.
This page explains, in plain language, what the app does and does not do
with information about you.
The short version
- No accounts. You never sign up, log in, or give us your
name, email, or anything else to play.
- No personal data collected. We do not collect, store,
or sell any personal information.
- No ads and no tracking in this version of the app.
- Online games connect you with other players to play together — your
moves go to them, not to us.
Playing offline
Games against the computer run entirely on your device. Nothing leaves
your phone or tablet. Your game settings and progress are stored only on
your own device.
Playing online
When you play online, Pedro uses a matchmaking server to put a table
together (this is how room codes and Quick Match work), and a game server that
actually runs the game.
- The game server deals the cards and runs the rules. It
therefore handles the gameplay data for your table — the cards dealt, the
bids made, the cards played, and the display name you chose — for as long
as the game lasts. This is what lets a game keep going when another
player quits, and it is why no player's device holds everyone's cards.
- It does not keep any of it. A game exists only in the
server's memory while it is being played and is discarded when it ends.
We do not write your games to a database, and we do not keep a history of
what you were dealt or how you played.
- Older versions worked differently. They connected
players directly to each other (peer-to-peer). Some connections may still
work that way; in that case gameplay data travels between the players'
devices instead.
This affects who can see your IP address:
- Your IP address is visible to our servers, which is
unavoidable — a device cannot connect to a server without revealing it.
What we do with it is described below.
- On a server-run game, other players do not
see your IP address.
- On a direct peer-to-peer connection, your IP
address is visible to the other players in your game, and to the
standard internet "STUN" service used to help devices find each other. An
IP address reveals an approximate region and internet provider — not your
name or identity. This is inherent to how direct connections work, the
same as most online games and video calls.
Either way, the display name you type is shown to the
other players in your game. In Quick Match with strangers, a random name is
assigned for you instead, so you never reveal a name you didn't choose to
share. Please do not enter personal information (such as your real name or
email) as a display name in private games.
To keep the matchmaking service working and to prevent abuse (such as
flooding the server with connections), the server briefly processes
transient connection metadata:
- Your IP address is used only to rate-limit abusive connections. For
this purpose it is stored only as a salted one-way hash
(not the real address), the salt is not retained across server
restarts, and raw IP addresses are not written to permanent logs.
- This metadata is never linked to you as a person, never used for
advertising or profiling, and never shared or sold.
Children
Pedro does not collect personal data from anyone, including children.
Online Quick Match assigns randomly generated display names when playing
with strangers.
Future updates
A later version of Pedro may add optional advertising (with an in-app
purchase to remove it). If that happens, this policy will be updated
before that version ships, and the app's App Store privacy
label will be updated to match. The version you are using today contains no
ads and no tracking.