Privacy Policy

1. Information We Store Locally

The following preferences are stored only on your device, using the standard platform preferences store (SharedPreferences on Android, NSUserDefaults on iOS). None of this is transmitted anywhere.

• Email address — if you fill it into Settings; used to pre-fill the Support page as a Cc when you compose a support email.
• Language preference — your selected app language.
• Font scale — your chosen text size.
• Dark Mode preference.
• Show Tips & Tricks toggle.
• Morse Code Settings — WPM, Farnsworth, tone frequency, send sensitivity.

2. What We Do NOT Collect

• No callsign collection — there is no callsign field in the app.
• No user accounts, sign-up, or login.
• No analytics, no crash-reporting telemetry.
• No device identifiers (no IDFA, no GAID).
• No location data.
• No advertising or third-party tracking SDKs.

3. Microphone & Speech Recognition

Two games (Phonetic Voice, Q-Code Voice) use your microphone via your phone's built-in speech-recognition service.

• Voice processing happens entirely on your device.
• Audio is never uploaded to a server, never recorded to disk, and never leaves your phone.
• You can grant or deny microphone permission without affecting the other games.

4. Motion Sensors

One game (Follow That Satellite) uses your phone's accelerometer to detect tilt for tracking a simulated satellite. Sensor readings are used only to position the on-screen crosshair in real time and are not stored or transmitted.

5. Network Activity

The app has exactly one outbound network use: when you tap "Send email" on the Support page, your device's default mail client opens with a pre-filled draft. The actual transmission (if you choose to send) is handled by your mail app, not Ham Gaming.

No background network activity. No automatic updates. No telemetry pings.

6. Children's Privacy

Ham Gaming is designed to be friendly for kids learning about amateur radio. Because the app:

• Collects no personal data,
• Transmits nothing,
• Shows no advertising, and
• Has no in-app purchases,

it complies with COPPA, GDPR-K, and equivalent child-privacy frameworks by design.

7. Data Retention & Deletion

All preferences are stored only on your device. To delete everything Ham Gaming knows about you, simply uninstall the app — that's it. No account to close, no server data to request deletion of.

8. Third-Party Services

Ham Gaming does not integrate any third-party advertising, analytics, or tracking SDKs. It uses standard open-source Flutter packages (audioplayers, flutter_tts, speech_to_text, sensors_plus, etc.) — each of which processes data on-device only.

9. Changes to This Policy

If anything in our privacy stance ever changes (it won't lightly — privacy is a core design value), the updated policy will appear at this URL and ship in a new version of the app.

10. Contact

Questions about privacy? Email [email protected]. We typically reply within a few days.