Privacy Policy

Effective date: September 26, 2026

This policy describes how Vidya ("the app") handles your information. Vidya is made by Francisco Martínez, in Valencia, Spain ("we", "us"), who is responsible for the data described here. Contact: hi@framara.net.

The short version: there are no accounts, no ads, no analytics or tracking tools, and we don't sell or share your data. Your collection is kept on your phone and, if you use iCloud sync, in your own iCloud account. To find games and prices, the app talks to our catalog server, which keeps only the few things listed below.

On your phone and in your iCloud

Your cards, wanted games, binders, notes and the photos you take of your games are stored on your iPhone. Photos are read on the device to find titles and barcodes. iCloud sync is on unless you turn it off (Settings, Your data): your collection is then also kept in your own iCloud account, in Apple's private storage for the app, which we can't see.

The camera is used only while you're adding a game or taking a photo of one. Vidya asks to add to your photo library only when you save a card picture or reveal video there.

What the app sends to our server

The app talks to our catalog server (vidya.framara.net) to:

Find games. What you type in search, the text and barcodes read from a photo, a shelf's spines or the live camera, and a fingerprint of the box's picture (a list of numbers computed on the phone to compare it with known covers). The photo itself is not sent.
Import a list. The titles, consoles and regions in a file you import. The file itself stays on your phone.
Keep prices and box art up to date. When the app opens, it sends the catalog IDs of the games you own and want, to get their current prices and rarity. Cards without box art ask for it the same way.
Remember barcodes. When you add a game you scanned, the app sends which game the barcode belongs to, so the next scan of that box is exact.
Share what you choose to. If you add a game the catalog doesn't have, or share a photo as box art, we receive the game's details and, if you included one, the photo.

Requests to the catalog carry a random device ID: an identifier the app creates, not linked to your name, email or Apple Account. We use it to limit how much one device can submit, to show you the status of what you sent (Settings, Your contributions) and to count barcode confirmations from different devices. It's kept in your iPhone's keychain, so it survives deleting and reinstalling the app.

What our server keeps

Searches, photo matches, imports and price requests are answered and not stored. The server keeps:

Games and photos you submit, with your device ID and the date. We review each submission before anyone else can see it. Approved games and photos become part of the public catalog: other people see the game's details, and the photo as its box art. Submissions, including ones we don't approve, are kept until you ask us to delete them.
Barcode confirmations: the barcode, the game and your device ID, kept while the catalog uses them.
Scan records: for scans with a barcode, which codes were read and which games were offered, with no device ID or IP address. Kept for 90 days, to improve barcode matching.

Our server doesn't keep access logs. If a request fails, the server's software may record the error with the request's details, including your IP address; we use these only to fix problems.

The server runs on a machine we rent from a hosting provider in the European Union. Encrypted backups of what it keeps are made every night, kept on the server for 14 days, and copied to storage we control.

Other services

Box art images. Some box art is loaded by the app directly from the image servers of the catalog's sources (PriceCharting's images, hosted on Google Cloud Storage, and TheGamesDB's). Like any website, those servers see your IP address when your phone downloads an image.
Barcodes we don't know yet. Our server may ask eBay, Rakuten (for Japanese barcodes) or UPCitemdb which product a barcode is. Only the barcode is sent, never anything about you.
Links you tap. "Find on eBay" and price links open eBay or PriceCharting in your browser, where their privacy policies apply. The eBay link is an affiliate link: it tells eBay the visit came from Vidya, so we may earn a commission if you buy something, but it carries nothing that identifies you.
Apple. iCloud sync is provided by Apple under Apple's privacy policy. If you choose to share analytics with app developers in your iPhone's settings, Apple may pass us crash reports that don't identify you.

Deleting your data

On your phone: Settings, Your data, Delete all data removes your cards, wanted games and binders, and their copy in iCloud when sync is on. Deleting the app removes what it keeps on the phone, except the device ID in the keychain.
In iCloud with sync off: remove the app's iCloud data in your iPhone's settings (your name, iCloud, Manage storage).
On our server: email hi@framara.net and tell us which games or photos you sent (they're listed under Settings, Your contributions). We'll delete them, and the barcode confirmations from the same device, from the live service. Backups made before that keep them until those backups are deleted.

Your rights

You can ask us for a copy of the data we hold about you, or to correct, delete or restrict it, or object to how we use it: email hi@framara.net. We use your data only to run the features you use and to keep the catalog accurate and free of abuse. If you're in the European Union and think we've handled your data wrongly, you can complain to your data protection authority; in Spain, the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (aepd.es).

Children

Vidya is not directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect data from them.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be here with a new date.