Privacy Policy

The app “دبّل: تحدي الشلة والعائلة” (Dabbel; formerly “على قد ثقتك”) and this website
Effective date: 30 October 2026 (version 1.1)

This is a translation. If it differs from the Arabic text above, the Arabic text prevails.

1. Who we are

The app and this website are run by the developer Asim Ali (“we”). For any privacy matter, write to asimapps.dev@gmail.com.

2. What the app saves, on your device only

• Settings: digit style, sounds, large text and reduced motion.
• Play progress: the IDs of questions you have already seen (so they do not repeat too soon), how many games you have completed, whether you played the 3-question tutorial, and whether the app has already shown the rating prompt (so it is not shown again).
• Your last game: the teams of the last game you started (each team’s name, colour and “صغار” switch) with the packs and the game length, so you do not type the names again next time; and an unfinished game (its questions, your answers and the scores), so you can finish it later. It is deleted as soon as the game ends or you end it.

This data never leaves your device, we cannot see it, and it is deleted when you delete the app. Team names and the “صغار” (younger players) switch are saved on your device only (with your last game); the app never sends the names anywhere unless you share the result yourself (section 3). Your device backups (such as iCloud) may include these settings, depending on your device settings and under Apple’s policy.

3. Connections, ratings and sharing

The one-phone game connects to no server: all questions and sounds are inside the app. The app’s only connection is the live rooms (section 4), and there is no in-app purchase that would need the App Store. If Apple’s rating prompt appears and you choose to rate the app, Apple’s system sends your rating to the App Store directly.

Sharing: the two share buttons at the end of a game, “شارك النتيجة” (share the result) and “تحدّوا غيركم بسؤال” (challenge others with a question), draw a picture on your device (the standings with names and scores, or one of your game’s questions with its four options and without its answer) and open your device’s share sheet with a short message (the winner’s name, or names for a shared win, for the result; the question’s text for the challenge). You choose the app and the person to send it to; the picture and message never pass through us. If the message carries the app’s App Store link, the link has a campaign tag (ct) that says only that it came from a share; it carries no data about you.

Saving the picture: if you choose “Save Image” in the share sheet, iOS asks your permission to add the picture to Photos. The app can only add the picture; it cannot see or read your photos.

Privacy policy: its link in Settings opens this page in your browser, outside the app.

4. Live rooms (“العب مع ربعك”) — new in 1.1

In a live room everyone answers on their own phone, and game messages pass through a small relay server on Cloudflare that connects the phones. You join a room with a 5-digit code and a nickname, which is checked against a filter for inappropriate words. No account is needed, and you do not need to use your real name.

• What the server keeps for a while: the room code, the nicknames and colours, the game settings (packs and length), the current question’s number and the answers to it, the scores, and a random token per phone that lets it rejoin the room after a dropped connection. The questions themselves are inside the app on each phone.
• When it is deleted: the server keeps a room only while it is in use and deletes all of its data automatically 30 minutes after the game ends, or after 2 hours without any activity. If the host leaves before the game starts, the room is deleted at once.
• Who sees it: nicknames, colours and scores are shown only to the people in the same room. Each phone’s answer goes only to the host’s phone (which scores the game); after the reveal, everyone sees what each player answered.
• No accounts, no tracking: we keep nothing about players once a room is deleted, and we use room data for nothing else. The server logs only the name of any technical error, with no data about you.
• IP address: like any internet connection, your phone’s IP address reaches Cloudflare so the connection can be made. We use it briefly, in the server’s memory only, to limit how many rooms one address can create, and we do not store it. Cloudflare may process technical data to run and protect its service under its own privacy policy, and its servers may be outside Saudi Arabia.
• Offline: the one-phone game works with no connection at all.

5. Purchases

The app is free, with no in-app purchases at the moment: every pack is open to you, and the app asks for no payment and handles no payment data. If a later version adds an in-app purchase, it will go through Apple’s App Store, and we will update this page and its effective date first.

Like every developer, we can see aggregated statistics in Apple’s developer tools (for example downloads by country). They do not identify anyone.

6. Emailing us (optional)

• The “بلّغ عن خطأ” (report a mistake) button in Settings opens your own mail app with a draft that contains only the IDs of the last questions. Nothing is sent automatically: you choose whether to edit, send or discard it. If no mail app opens, the app shows the address and the question IDs for you to copy.
• If you email us, we receive your email address, the display name on it, your message and any attachments you add.
• We use them only to reply and to fix the problem or question you report. We do not use them for marketing and do not share them, unless the law requires it.
• Retention: we keep emails for up to 12 months after the last exchange, then delete them.
• Deletion: you can ask us to delete your emails at any time by writing to the same address; we delete them within 30 days and confirm.
• The support mailbox is hosted by Google (Gmail), so emails may be stored on servers outside Saudi Arabia.

7. This website

• The site is a set of static pages hosted on GitHub Pages by GitHub, Inc.
• It has no cookies, no analytics, no trackers, and loads no fonts or scripts from other sites.
• The room-link page (/dabbel/j/) reads the room code from the link inside your browser only, and sends it nowhere.
• Like any host, GitHub may record technical data about visits in server logs (such as IP address, browser type and the page requested) for operation and security, under GitHub’s privacy statement; its servers may be outside Saudi Arabia. We do not request or use these logs.
• The site’s App Store button, and the app banner Safari may show at the top of the page, take you to Apple, where Apple’s policy applies.

8. All ages

The game is made for families. We collect no personal data from any user, whatever their age. The app does not ask anyone’s age: the “صغار” switch only changes the rules for that team, and it is saved on your device only, with your last game. In live rooms a nickname is enough; we suggest not using your full name.

9. Your rights

Under Saudi Arabia’s Personal Data Protection Law you have the right to be informed about how your data is processed, to access it and obtain a copy, to have it corrected, and to have it destroyed. Since the app collects no data and room data is deleted automatically, in practice these rights apply to emails you send us: write to us and we will answer within 30 days. You may also complain to the competent authority, the Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA).

10. Changes

If we change this policy, we will update this page and the effective date above. If the app ever starts to collect data, we will say so here before that update and update the App Store privacy details.

11. Contact

asimapps.dev@gmail.com