Last updated: August 9, 2026
The Chess & Arrows app collects nothing. There is no account, no sign-up and no server of ours. The app has no analytics, no tracking and no advertising, and it never will. Two things in it reach the internet, both because you asked them to — loading a game you named, and an optional move-statistics lookup — and neither one carries anything that identifies you.
Nothing. Set out in full, so there is no ambiguity:
| Category | Collected |
|---|---|
| Name, email address, phone number | None |
| Account or login credentials | None — there is no account |
| Your chess rating, or any measure of your play | None — the app never rates you |
| Location, precise or coarse | None — never requested |
| Contacts, photos, camera, microphone | None — never requested |
| Device identifiers, advertising ID | None |
| Usage data, analytics, crash reports | None |
| Positions, games and preferences you save | Stay on your device |
| Cookies or similar technologies | None — no web content in the app |
This is a description of what the software does, not a statement of intent. The app contains no analytics library, no advertising library and no crash-reporting service, and it has nowhere to send data even if it wanted to, because there is no YohApps server behind it.
Everything the app remembers is written to its own private storage on your device:
This data never leaves your device. We cannot read it, recover it or delete it for you. You can delete saved items inside the app at any time, and removing the app deletes everything in its storage along with it. On iOS it is kept in the app's own container; on Android in the app's private storage, which other apps cannot read. Your device's own backup settings may include this data in a backup you control — that backup is between you and Apple or Google, and we have no access to it.
The four arrows are produced on the device itself. In the apps the engine is ArrowEngine, written for Chess & Arrows by YohApps; the opening books are bundled with the app. Nothing about your play, your positions or your games is uploaded for analysis, because there is nothing to upload it to. The board, the opening books, the opening names and every saved position work with the network switched off.
The app can show how often players actually choose each move. To do that it asks the public Lichess opening explorer at explorer.lichess.ovh about the position on the board. That request contains the chess position and nothing else — no identifier, no account, nothing about you or your device beyond what any web request carries.
It is a setting, and switching it off means no request is made at all — not a request whose result is hidden. The arrows do not depend on it: if the lookup is off, fails or is unavailable, the four arrows still appear and one line of text says the statistics are unavailable.
As with any request to any website, Lichess will see your IP address. What Lichess does with it is covered by Lichess's own privacy policy, not by this one.
Analysis mode can fetch a game from the public Lichess and Chess.com APIs, directly from your device to them. There is no server of ours in between: we never see the game, the username you type, or the PGN you paste, and none of it is logged anywhere by us. A game you open is remembered on your device so you can reopen it without fetching it again.
Lichess and Chess.com will see the request and your IP address, as any website you visit does, and their own policies apply to it. A PGN you paste or open from a file never touches the network at all.
The app asks for no runtime permission of any kind: no location, no camera, no microphone, no contacts, no photos, no notifications. On Android it declares network access and network state, used only for the two optional things described above. On iOS it declares no usage descriptions, because it needs none.
When the app is distributed through the App Store and Google Play, those companies collect information about downloads under their own policies, and may give us anonymous, aggregated statistics — for example the number of installs in a country during a month. We never receive information that identifies you, and we cannot connect any of it to a person or a device.
These pages are part of yohapps.com, which uses Google Analytics 4. It is off until you accept it: the analytics script is not requested unless you consent, and you can change your mind at any time from the Cookie settings link in the footer. The detail is in the YohApps website privacy policy and the cookie policy. The app collecting nothing and this website using analytics are both true, and they are separate things.
A browser version of Chess & Arrows also exists. It is finished but not published: the site is not deployed and chessandarrows.com does not resolve yet. It sets no cookies and loads no analytics, and when it goes live it will carry its own privacy policy on that site.
The app is suitable for all ages and collects nothing from anyone, including children. It has no chat, no user-generated content and no way to contact another person.
Data protection laws including the GDPR and the CCPA give you rights to access, correct, delete and port your personal data, and to object to its processing. Those rights apply to data a company holds about you.
We hold none, so there is nothing to request. The data the app creates is on your device and under your control: you can view it, edit it and delete it in the app at any time. We do not sell or share personal information, because we do not have any.
If you believe we hold data about you, write to the address below and we will respond.
If a future version of the app ever collects anything, this policy will be updated before that version ships, the last-updated date above will change, and the change will be described here rather than quietly folded in. The app's store privacy labels would change with it, which is visible to you before you update.
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This policy covers the Chess & Arrows mobile app. Other YohApps products have their own policies.