Poker Ascent ("we," "us," "our") operates the Poker Ascent mobile application and website (collectively, the "Service"). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you use our Service.
By using Poker Ascent, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.
1. Information We Collect
1.1 Information You Provide
- Account information: Email address and authentication credentials when you sign up via Google, Apple, or email
- Profile preferences: Game environment (live/online), experience level, playstyle preference, study goals, and study time — collected during onboarding
- Referral source: How you heard about Poker Ascent (optional, collected during onboarding)
- Support communications: Any messages you send to our support team
1.2 Information Collected Automatically
- Gameplay data: Every drill answer you submit, including the hand scenario, your chosen action, the correct action, time to answer, accuracy, XP earned, and session history
- Skill progress: Per-topic accuracy, tier progression, challenge results, streak data, and level history
- Usage analytics: Page views, feature interactions, button taps, navigation patterns, session duration, and engagement metrics
- Session recordings: We use PostHog to record anonymized session replays of how you navigate the app. All text input fields (passwords, emails) are masked in recordings.
- Device information: Browser type, operating system, screen size, device type, IP address, and time zone
- Error data: Crash reports and error logs collected via Sentry to identify and fix bugs
- Performance data: Core Web Vitals (page load times, responsiveness) collected via Vercel Analytics
- Push notification data: If you enable notifications, we store your device push subscription endpoint
1.3 Poker Decision Data
We collect detailed data about your poker decisions, including:
- What action you chose in each drill scenario (fold, call, raise, etc.)
- The poker context: your position, villain archetype, hand strength, board texture, stack depth, and street
- Whether your decision was correct or incorrect
- Your training mode (balanced, exploitative, aggressive, conservative)
- Patterns in your mistakes (e.g., hand types and board textures where you make errors)
This data is used to personalize your training, detect weaknesses, and improve our drill content. In aggregate and anonymized form, this data helps us understand how poker players at different stakes make decisions.
2. How We Use Your Information
- Personalization: Customizing drill selection, difficulty, explanations, and coaching based on your profile and performance
- Progress tracking: Displaying your XP, streaks, accuracy, skill progression, and weakness insights
- Product improvement: Analyzing aggregated usage patterns to improve drills, explanations, and app features
- Research: Using anonymized, aggregated poker decision data to understand player behavior patterns across different stakes, environments, and skill levels
- Communication: Sending push notifications (streak reminders, daily goals) if enabled; account-related emails (password resets, subscription changes)
- Security: Detecting and preventing fraud, abuse, and unauthorized access
- Legal compliance: Meeting legal obligations and responding to lawful requests
3. Data Sharing and Disclosure
3.1 Service Providers
We share data with third-party services that help us operate Poker Ascent:
- Supabase: Database hosting and user authentication (stores your account, progress, and drill data)
- Stripe: Payment processing for premium subscriptions (we never see or store your credit card number)
- PostHog: Product analytics, session recordings, and user behavior tracking
- Vercel: App hosting, page view analytics, and performance monitoring
- Sentry: Error monitoring and crash reporting
- Google/Apple: OAuth authentication when you sign in with Google or Apple
3.2 Aggregated Data
We may share anonymized, aggregated poker decision data with third parties for research, educational, or commercial purposes. This data cannot be used to identify individual users. Examples include:
- Average accuracy rates by skill topic and player experience level
- Common decision patterns at different stakes (live $1/$2 vs online micro)
- Aggregate mistake frequency by hand type, board texture, and position
3.3 Legal Requirements
We may disclose your information if required by law, court order, or government request, or if we believe disclosure is necessary to protect rights, safety, or property.
3.4 What We Don't Do
- We do not sell your personal information to advertisers
- We do not share your individual gameplay data with other users
- We do not collect real-money poker hand histories or financial gambling data
- We do not track your activity outside of Poker Ascent
4. Data Storage and Security
- Your data is stored on Supabase's infrastructure with row-level security (RLS) enabled on all tables
- All data is transmitted over HTTPS with TLS encryption
- Authentication tokens are stored in HttpOnly cookies, not in localStorage
- Payment information is handled entirely by Stripe (PCI DSS compliant) — we never process or store card details
- We use strict Content Security Policy headers, HSTS, and other security measures
While we implement industry-standard security measures, no method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security of your data.
5. Data Retention
- Active accounts: Your data is retained as long as your account is active
- Deleted accounts: When you delete your account, all personal data (profile, progress, drill history, analytics events linked to your user ID) is permanently removed within 30 days
- Anonymized data: Aggregated, anonymized analytics data may be retained indefinitely for research and product improvement purposes
- Backup retention: Database backups that may contain your data are automatically purged within 90 days
6. Your Rights
Depending on your location, you may have the following rights:
6.1 All Users
- Access: Request a copy of the personal data we hold about you
- Deletion: Request deletion of your account and all associated personal data
- Correction: Update your training preferences and profile information at any time
- Opt-out of notifications: Disable push notifications in your device settings or profile
- Data portability: Request your data in a machine-readable format
6.2 California Residents (CCPA)
If you are a California resident, you have the right to:
- Know what personal information we collect and how it is used
- Request deletion of your personal information
- Opt out of the sale of your personal information (we do not sell personal information)
- Not be discriminated against for exercising your privacy rights
6.3 European Residents (GDPR)
If you are located in the European Economic Area, you have additional rights including:
- Right to restrict processing of your personal data
- Right to object to processing based on legitimate interests
- Right to withdraw consent at any time
- Right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority
To exercise any of these rights, contact us at privacy@pokerascent.com.
7. Cookies and Local Storage
- Authentication cookies: HttpOnly cookies managed by Supabase for secure session management
- Theme preference: Stored in localStorage to remember your dark/light mode choice
- Tutorial state: Stored in localStorage to track if you've seen the first-time tutorial
- Sound preference: Stored in localStorage to remember your mute/unmute setting
- Push notification preference: Stored in localStorage to track if you've responded to the notification prompt
We do not use third-party advertising cookies. PostHog may set analytics cookies to track user sessions.
8. Children's Privacy
Poker Ascent is not intended for users under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If we discover that we have collected data from a minor, we will delete it immediately. If you believe a minor has provided us with personal information, please contact us at privacy@pokerascent.com.
9. International Data Transfers
Your data may be processed and stored in the United States and other countries where our service providers operate. By using Poker Ascent, you consent to the transfer of your information to these countries, which may have different data protection laws than your country of residence.
10. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of material changes by:
- Posting a notice within the app
- Updating the "Last updated" date at the top of this page
- Sending an email notification for significant changes (if you have an account)
Continued use of Poker Ascent after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.
11. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or your data, contact us at:
