On your device
Lamplit Spades saves a resumable solo game and preferences locally. These records include the state of the hand, bids, scores, selected characters and settings. The game also keeps local character-conversation state, such as which greetings and lines have recently been used.
The app does not provide its own iCloud or other cloud-save synchronization. Your device’s backup and restore settings can affect copies of local app data.
Apple Game Center
Lamplit Spades uses Apple Game Center for player identity, invitations and live multiplayer. Game Center may begin authentication from the lobby before you choose multiplayer. Playing on your own does not require waiting for Game Center.
The app uses the player identifier and display information Apple provides. When you choose people to invite, it can request your Game Center friends list. Apple manages that access and its permission controls.
During a live match, participants exchange player profiles and display names, bids, played cards, scores and connection state through GameKit. People can send fixed phrases and emoji reactions; the app does not provide free-form text chat. Devices also exchange identifiers and prepared presentation information for selected prerecorded character lines. Separately, a guest can send the host hearing-history records for prerecorded character conversations, called Bits. These records include Bit identifiers, hearing counts and selection counters used to avoid repeats. The host merges this history into the table’s retained character-conversation state, which is separate from the resumable solo save. Hearing-history Bit identifiers and counters are separate from the selected line identifiers. These records describe the game’s fixed dialogue, not recordings of your speech. A participant receives their authorized view of the table; other players’ hidden hands are not included in that view.
Apple processes Game Center information under its own Game Center privacy information and privacy policy.
Character audio
Character speech is prerecorded and plays from files included with the app. Some lines use written captions without a recording.
Lamplit Spades does not use the microphone to record you, recognize your speech or provide voice chat. Character speech is not generated by a remote service while you play.
Local diagnostic records
The app keeps diagnostic records on your device to help identify multiplayer and sound problems. Multiplayer records can include Game Center display names, sign-in and connection state, errors, timestamps and app build information. Sound records describe audio events and state.
When a new event is recorded, the journals keep up to the latest 200 multiplayer events and 300 sound events. These are event-count limits, not a time-based expiry. Starting or finishing a game does not clear these journals.
These records are not automatically uploaded to the developer. If you choose to send information to support, review it before sharing; a diagnostic report may contain player display names.
Developer-operated services
The app has no developer-operated account system, game server, advertising service, analytics service or tracking SDK. Solo saves and preferences are not uploaded to the developer.
Apple’s own Game Center, distribution and device-diagnostic processing is separate from the app’s local records and is governed by Apple’s services and your Apple settings.
Retention and your choices
Your solo save remains on your device until it is replaced or cleared. Starting a new solo game replaces the resumable save; finishing the game clears that save. Preferences, character-conversation state and diagnostic records are separate and are not all removed by those actions.
The app does not currently offer a single control to delete all local data. The developer cannot remotely erase records stored only on your device. Contact support for device-specific removal guidance, and review your device backup settings for retained copies.
For Game Center information, use Apple’s account, privacy and permission controls. Deleting a solo save does not delete your Apple Game Center account or Apple-held information.
Messages you choose to send
If you contact support, your message may include your reply address, problem description and any screenshots or reports you choose to attach. That information is needed to respond and investigate your request. Please avoid sending passwords, payment information or unrelated personal details.
We keep support messages and attachments while needed to answer support or investigate problems, and retain information we are legally required to keep. You can request deletion by emailing spades@metal-sole.com.
These support pages
This website is hosted by Vercel. When you visit, Vercel processes request information such as your IP address, the requested page and browser information to deliver and protect the site. This website does not add an advertising or analytics service. Hosting request information is separate from the game data stored on your device. Vercel describes its processing in its Privacy Notice.
Read Vercel’s Privacy Notice for information about its hosting services.
Contact and policy updates
Questions about this policy or a privacy request can be made through Lamplit Spades support.
If the game’s information practices change, this page will be updated before those changes are adopted in a release.