Tally Ho

Privacy policy

Last updated 29 August 2026

Tally Ho is a scorekeeping app for games played in person. It is made by BoardOps. This policy explains what the app collects, why it needs it, and how to get rid of it.

The short version

Tally Ho has no analytics, no advertising, no crash reporting, and no tracking of any kind. Nothing you do in the app is measured, profiled, or sold. There is no third-party SDK in the app whose purpose is to watch you.

What it stores is what it needs to work: who you are, and the scores of the games you played.

What the app collects

Your account

When you sign up, Tally Ho stores your email address and a display name. If you sign in with Google or Apple, it also stores the profile picture they provide, when there is one.

Sign in with Apple lets you hide your real address, in which case Tally Ho only ever sees Apple's private relay address. That works fine, and the app never asks for anything more.

Passwords are handled by Firebase Authentication and are never visible to the app or to us.

Your games

The scores you enter, the rounds they belong to, which game was played, who was at the table, when it started and finished, and the resulting win and score totals. Games you create for a group, and the groups themselves, are stored the same way.

This is shared with the other players in that game. That is the point of the app: everyone at the table sees the same scorecard.

Names you type for other people

You can add a guest to a game — someone playing who does not have a Tally Ho account. The name you type is stored with that game so the scorecard reads properly. Please only enter a name that person would be comfortable with; a first name or a nickname is plenty.

Questions you ask the judge

Built-in games have a judge that settles rules disputes. When you ask it something, the question you typed is sent to Anthropic, along with the name of the game, the display names of the players at that table, and the current score, so that the answer makes sense. Nothing else about you goes with it — not your email address, not your account, not your other games.

Anthropic processes the question to produce the ruling and does not use it to train their models. The question and the ruling are then stored with that game, where everyone at the table can read them, and are deleted when the game is.

Asking is entirely optional. If you never tap the judge, nothing is ever sent.

Feedback you send

If you use Send feedback, the app stores your message along with your name, email address, app version, and whether you are on iOS or Android — so that a reply is possible and a bug report says which build it came from. Feedback is read by us and is not published or shared.

The tip jar

Tally Ho is free. If you leave a tip, the payment is handled entirely by the App Store or Google Play — no payment details ever reach the app or us, and we never see your card, address, or billing information.

All the app records is the date it last asked and the date a tip was last left, so that it knows to stay quiet afterwards.

Your camera

The camera is used for exactly one thing: scanning the QR code that joins a game at the table. The image is read on your device to find the code and is never stored, uploaded, or looked at by anything else. The app does not request microphone access.

What it does not collect

Who else handles it

Tally Ho runs on Google Firebase — Authentication, Firestore, and Cloud Functions. Google stores and processes this data on our behalf, on servers that may be outside your country. Google's handling is governed by the Firebase privacy documentation.

Anthropic is involved only when you ask the judge a question, and receives only what that question needs — described above. Their handling is governed by the Anthropic privacy policy.

Google and Apple are involved only if you choose to sign in with them, and only to confirm who you are. The App Store and Google Play are involved only if you leave a tip.

Nobody else receives your data. It is not sold, rented, or shared with advertisers, data brokers, or any other third party — and there is no circumstance in which it would be.

How long it is kept

Your account and game data are kept for as long as your account exists. Delete the account and the personal parts go with it, immediately.

The one thing that outlives your account

Scores you recorded in finished games that other people also played in stay on those scorecards, because a completed game is the whole table's record and not only yours. Removing them would rewrite other players' history and statistics.

Those scores are anonymized: once your profile is deleted your name appears nowhere, and the other players see only an unnamed seat. Nothing identifying you is retained.

Your choices

You can change your display name in the app at any time. You can request a copy of your data, ask for a correction, or ask us to delete it, by emailing contact@boardops.org. Depending on where you live you may have these rights under the GDPR, the UK GDPR, or the CCPA; we honour them regardless of where you live.

To delete your account outright, see how to delete your account. You can do it yourself from inside the app, or by email if you have already uninstalled it.

Children

Tally Ho is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their information. If you believe a child has created an account, email us and we will remove it.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes in a way that meaningfully affects you, the app will say so rather than quietly updating the date at the top of this page.

Contact

BoardOps — contact@boardops.org