Privacy Policy

TraceOff · Last updated 31 August 2026

TraceOff has no accounts, no advertising, and no third-party SDKs. We never sell anything about you, and nothing here is joined with data from any other company.

Two things in the app use the network. Both are described in full below: your progress can sync to your own iCloud, and the app can send anonymous usage counts that carry nothing identifying you — which you can switch off in the app at any time. There is nothing else.

What the app stores

Everything TraceOff saves stays in its own storage on your iPhone:

• Your best scores for each shape and line thickness, along with the accuracy, precision and duration of the round that set them.
• Your difficulty preference, so it is remembered next launch.
• A random identifier generated on first launch and kept in the iOS keychain. It is a random number, not derived from you or your device, and it is not linked to any name, email or account. It exists so that if the app later offers score syncing, your existing history can be recognised as yours.

What leaves your device

Your progress, to your own iCloud

If you are signed in to iCloud, your best scores and difficulty preference sync between your own devices through Apple's iCloud key-value storage. This goes to your iCloud account, not to us. We have no way to read it: there is no server, no account and no key on our side that can open it. Turning off iCloud for TraceOff in iOS Settings stops it, and the app keeps working exactly as before on that device.

Anonymous usage counts, if you leave them on

The app can send a small record of rounds played, so the shapes and par times can be tuned against how people actually play. Each record contains only:

• which shape was traced, at which line thickness, in Solo or Head-to-Head;
• the score, accuracy, precision, how long the round took and its par time;
• the app version and whether the device is an iPhone or an iPad.

There is no identifier of any kind in it. No account, no advertising identifier, no device ID, and specifically not the random keychain identifier described above — that one never leaves your device. Records cannot be linked to each other or to you, which also means we cannot tell how many people play, only how often each shape is played.

These counts go to a server we run ourselves on Cloudflare. There is no third-party analytics company involved and no SDK in the app.

You can turn this off. Open the settings button on the main screen and switch off “Share anonymous usage data”. Turning it off also deletes anything still waiting to be sent.

Backups

Your scores may be included in your own iPhone or iCloud backups, because they are part of the app's storage. Those backups are yours and are governed by Apple's privacy policy, not this one.

This website

traceoffapp.com is separate from the app, and it does use analytics. We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to count visits and see which pages people read. It sets no cookies, does not track you across other websites, and does not build a profile of you. It records aggregate information such as page views, referring site, country, and general browser and device type.

The site has no accounts, no forms and no advertising. Your email address is only seen by us if you choose to write to the support address below.

Nothing measured on this website is connected to anything you do in TraceOff. The two are separate systems, and the app's usage counts carry no identifier that could be matched against a website visit even in principle.

Children

TraceOff is rated 4+ and is suitable for all ages. The usage counts described above contain nothing that identifies anyone, so nothing personal is collected from children any more than from anyone else. There are no accounts, no messaging, no advertising and no links out of the app.

Deleting your data

Deleting the app removes your scores and preferences from that device. The random identifier in the keychain may persist so that a reinstall can recognise you; you can clear it by deleting the app and, in iOS Settings, removing any TraceOff keychain entry.

Progress synced to iCloud is removed by turning off iCloud for TraceOff, or by deleting the app's data in iOS Settings under your Apple Account.

Usage counts already sent cannot be deleted on request — not as a refusal, but because there is genuinely nothing to look them up by. Records contain no identifier, so there is no way to find yours among anyone else's. Switching the toggle off stops any further ones.

Changes

Version 1.0 is the first public release of TraceOff, and it is the version this policy describes: iCloud progress sync and optional anonymous usage counts, both covered above. If a future version adds anything further that sends data anywhere — an online leaderboard, for example — this policy will be updated before that version ships.

Contact

Questions about this policy: support@traceoffapp.com