Your data stays yours

Who we are

Acts Out is made by Acts Out Media ("we", "us"). This policy covers the Acts Out iPhone app and this website. If you have a question about it, contact us through the support form or at support@actsout.co.uk.

What stays on your phone

The app saves a few things so it remembers your choices. They're stored only on your device and never sent to us:

• your profile: the name you enter and the character you pick
• if you sign in with Apple, the anonymous ID Apple gives the app
• your settings, such as dark mode, sound and the timer
• team and player names from your last Bible Charades game
• decks you make and prompts you save
• your game results, daily puzzle answers and badges
• players you've hidden in Draw the Word

Deleting the app deletes all of this. So does Profile › Delete Account in the app (Delete My Data if you play as a guest).

Daily reminders

If you turn on Profile › Daily Reminder, your phone shows a notification each morning when the new Daily Anagram and Daily Question are ready. The reminders are set up on your phone by the app. Nothing is sent to us, and you can turn them off in the app or in Settings › Notifications.

Signing in with Apple

You can play as a guest, or sign in with Apple. If you sign in, Apple gives the app an anonymous ID for your Apple Account and, the first time only, your name if you choose to share it. The app keeps both on your phone so it can remember your profile. They aren't sent to us, and we don't ask for your email address.

You can stop using your Apple ID with Acts Out at any time in Settings › Apple Account › Sign in with Apple. Apple's sign-in is covered by Apple's privacy policy.

Playing online with Game Center

Online rooms (Blackjack, Bible Trivia, Draw the Word, Tic-Tac-Toe and Four in a Row) use Apple's Game Center. To play online you sign in to Game Center, which Apple runs under Apple's privacy policy.

When you join a room, the other players in that room see your Game Center nickname and character, and the game passes between your phones through Game Center: moves and cards in Blackjack, answers in Bible Trivia, and in Draw the Word, your drawings and the guesses you type. Only people with the room's code can join. The phone of the person who created the room runs the game.

We don't run a server for the game and we don't receive or store anything from your online games. If someone in Draw the Word shares something unkind, you can hide them, and report them using the form on our support page; we only see what you write in that form.

Playing on one phone, or against the computer, works without Game Center or an internet connection.

Buying packs

Packs are bought through the App Store. Apple takes the payment and tells the app which packs you own; we never see your payment details or Apple Account. Purchases are shared with your family if you use Family Sharing.

Children and families

Acts Out is made for all ages. Because the app doesn't collect personal information, it doesn't collect any from children. Parents can turn off online play with Apple's Screen Time and Game Center settings.

This website

This site doesn't use cookies, analytics or tracking, and its fonts are served from here rather than from another company. It's hosted by Netlify, whose servers may keep short-lived technical logs, such as IP addresses, to keep the site secure and running.

If you use the support form or email us, we receive the name, email address and message you send. We use them only to reply to you. Form messages are stored with Netlify and emails with our email provider, Fasthosts, and we delete them once your question is dealt with.

Your rights

Under UK data protection law you can ask what information we hold about you, and ask us to correct or delete it. The only information we could hold is a support message you sent us. To ask, use the support form. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.

Changes

If the app changes in a way that affects your privacy, for example if we add online accounts, we'll update this page and the date at the top before that version is released.