Last updated 17 September 2026
Rescue the Groom is a small card game made for the guests of one wedding. It is not a business, it shows no advertising, and it sells nothing. This policy explains exactly what the app does with information.
Your card collection, Wedding Points, win/loss record, streak, favourite cards, chosen dice colour and the friends you have added are all saved on your device.
You can play the computer without giving us anything. If you choose to create a player profile, you sign in with Apple. Apple tells us only that you are you: we receive an identifier that is unique to this app and means nothing anywhere else, and your first name if you agree to share it, which we use only to suggest a display name. We do not ask Apple for your email address.
That sign-in is the key to your profile. It is what lets a reinstall, an update or a new phone find your cards again, and it is how we make sure each person appears on the leaderboard only once.
Without a profile, none of this is sent.
Playing against friends needs a way for a friend's invitation to find you, and that is your mobile number. It is asked for only when you open Friends, and you can use everything else in the app without giving it. The number is turned into a one-way code (a hash) on your phone before anything is sent; we store that code, never the number itself, and nobody, including us, can turn it back into your number or list the numbers in the game. It is used for one thing: matching an invitation texted to you with the person who tapped its link. The invitation itself is sent as an ordinary text message from your friend's phone, not by us.
When you play a friend, the two of you share one record of that match: the display names you each chose, the cards each of you brought, every move and dice roll, and the result. Only the two of you can read it. Your friend can therefore see the cards you drafted for that match, as they could across a real table.
If you allow notifications, a token that identifies your phone is stored so that friends' challenges and "your move" reminders can reach it. It is shared only with your friends' phones, and removed with your account.
Sign-in and storage are provided by Google Firebase, which processes this data on our behalf; Google's handling is covered by firebase.google.com/support/privacy. Sign in with Apple is provided by Apple under its own privacy policy.
The app never reads your address book. When you invite a friend, iOS shows you its own contact picker and hands back only the single person you select; the app cannot see anyone else. That friend's name and number are saved on your device so the invitation can be written; only the hashed form of the number leaves it, as described above. A friendship, once made, is a link between the two profiles and shows each of you the other's display name.
Open the Leaderboard and choose "Delete my leaderboard data". You will be asked to confirm with Apple, and then your leaderboard entry, your career backup, your hashed number, your friendships, invitations, match records, notification token and the account itself are permanently erased. It cannot be undone. Your cards remain on the device you are holding; to remove those too, use "Reset career" or delete the app.
The app has no chat, no messaging, no advertising, no purchases and no user-generated content beyond a display name. Friend matches are between people who have exchanged phone numbers themselves.
If this policy changes, the updated version will appear here and in the app.
Questions, or want your card removed from the game? Email kgw209@gmail.com.