Last updated: 2026-10-21

Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how the Lamplight Solitaire app (“the App”), on iPhone, iPad and Mac, handles information. The App is designed so that no personal data leaves your device.

Summary

  • The App collects no personal information.
  • The App contains no analytics, advertising, or third-party tracking.
  • The App works offline: your games, statistics, coins and settings stay on your device, and nothing about your gameplay is sent anywhere except, if you use it, to Apple’s Game Center.
  • Once a week at most, the App downloads the list of our other No Ads apps; it sends nothing about you.
  • The App is free to download, with one optional in-app purchase (Unlimited Play) and no subscriptions; Apple handles that transaction and the App never sees your payment details.
  • Game Center (achievements, leaderboards, activities) is optional and entirely governed by Apple, not by the App.

Information we do not collect

We do not collect, store, transmit, or share:

  • Your name, email, or any account credentials (the App has no accounts of its own)
  • Usage analytics or telemetry
  • Crash reports or diagnostics beyond Apple’s own system reporting, which you control in Settings > Privacy & Security > Analytics & Improvements on iPhone and iPad, or System Settings > Privacy & Security > Analytics & Improvements on the Mac
  • Advertising identifiers (IDFA) — the App does not request app-tracking permission
  • Your location

What the App stores on your device

The game in progress, your statistics (games played and won at each draw, streaks, best times, scores and moves) and deal history, the Daily Challenges you have won, your daily goals, level and day streak, your coin balance and your settings (draw, scoring, card deck, table colour, sound, haptics, left-handed layout) are kept on your device, in the App’s own storage. None of it is synced through iCloud or sent to the developer. Deleting the App deletes it.

Updating from Lamplight Solitaire 1.x

The first time the App opens after updating from an earlier version of Lamplight Solitaire, it reads the data that version left on your device, once, and carries over your coins, statistics, won Daily Challenges, game in progress and settings. It only reads that data, on your device; nothing is sent anywhere.

Game Center

If you choose to sign in to Game Center, your achievements, your number of games won at each draw, and your time when you win the day’s Daily Challenge are sent to Apple for its achievements and leaderboards, along with the time you spend playing as a Game Center activity — not to the App’s developer. The App never asks you to sign in to Game Center; if you aren’t signed in, nothing is reported. The App only ever asks Game Center for your own identity and scores to display them back to you; it does not read your friends list, messages, or any other Game Center data. Apple’s privacy policy governs Game Center: apple.com/legal/privacy.

The “More Apps with No Ads” list

So that the list of our other apps in Settings stays current, the App downloads it, with the apps’ icons, from a public file hosted on GitHub Pages, at most once a week, and keeps a copy on your device. The download sends nothing about you, your device or your use of the App: every one of our apps makes exactly the same request. GitHub, as the host, may log the IP address of each request for security purposes, under GitHub’s General Privacy Statement; we cannot see those logs.

Purchases

Lamplight Solitaire is free to download and play. New deals and hints run on a coin economy that lives entirely on your device; undo, the Daily Challenge, and every card deck and table colour are free to everyone. Coins are not money: they can’t be bought, sold or exchanged, have no cash value, and are not synced between your devices. The App sells one optional in-app purchase, Unlimited Play, a single non-consumable that makes new deals and hints unlimited. There are no subscriptions and no ads of any kind. The purchase itself is processed entirely by Apple; the App never sees your payment details, name, address, or billing information.

Apple’s privacy policy governs the purchase process: apple.com/legal/privacy.

Third-party services

The App does not integrate any third-party services, SDKs, or analytics platforms. The external systems the App talks to are Apple’s App Store (for purchase verification), Apple’s Game Center if you use it, and GitHub Pages, only to download the More Apps list described above.

Children

The App is suitable for all ages. It collects no personal information from anyone, including children under 13 (or the equivalent minimum age in your region). The App does not contain content inappropriate for children.

Changes to this policy

If we update this policy, we will post the new version at this URL and update the “Last updated” date above.

Contact

For privacy questions, email michaelholloway.apps@icloud.com .

Settings › Contact Us opens a new email in your mail app, addressed to us and filled in with the App’s name and version, your device model and your iOS or macOS version, to help us answer. Nothing is sent unless you send it, and you can change or remove any of it first.