Verdict — Privacy Policy
Last updated: 28 August 2026
Verdict is a daily reasoning game. One case file a day, the same one for everybody, and twenty-four hours to answer it. This document says exactly what it stores and what it does not, and it is short because the app does very little.
It is written to be read rather than to be defensible. If something here is unclear or wrong, that is worth reporting.
The short version
- There are no adverts, no analytics, no crash reporting, and no third-party SDKs of any kind. Nothing you do here is measured for anybody else's benefit.
- Your email address is never asked for and never held.
- The app contacts exactly two servers: Verdict's own, and Supabase, which provides the sign-in and the database behind it. It contacts nothing else.
What is collected
An account identifier
On first launch the app makes an anonymous account. No email, no password, no form. What exists is an opaque identifier that lets the server recognise the same player tomorrow. It is not linked to you, your device, your phone number, or any advertising identifier.
A display name, if you choose one
It goes on your warrant card, and appears beside your result when a case closes. It is whatever you type. Do not use your real name if you would rather it were not shown — nothing requires it and nothing checks it.
Your findings
For each case: the answer you gave, how much of it was right, how many reference checks you spent, and the date. This is the game. A daily puzzle with no record of what you answered is not a daily puzzle.
A Google account, only if you choose to claim
The app works indefinitely without ever signing in. If you do claim your account, so that a new phone can reach the same record, the app receives your Google account identifier. It does not receive, request or store your Google password, your contacts, your files, or your mail.
What is not collected
Location. Contacts. Photographs, files or media. Calendar. Microphone or camera. Health or fitness data. Financial or payment information. Messages. Browsing history. Installed applications. Advertising identifiers. Device identifiers.
The app asks for three Android permissions and no others: internet access, network state (so that “you are offline” can be told apart from “the server is slow”), and — only if you turn reminders on — permission to post notifications.
Reminders
Reminders are scheduled on your device. There is no push service, no server component, and no device token; nothing leaves the phone to make one appear. They are all off until you turn them on, and each can be turned off on its own.
Nothing they say contains any part of a case — not the title, not the premise — because they are read on a lock screen in front of other people.
What stays on the device
Your session token, your reminder preferences, today's case, and any photographs attached to it, so that the app works on a train. Clearing the app's data removes all of it. Uninstalling removes all of it.
Who else sees it
Nobody. It is not sold, not licensed, not shared with advertisers or analytics providers, and not used to train anything.
Two companies hold it in order to run the service and for no other purpose: Supabase (database and sign-in) and Render (hosting).
Your display name and your result on a case that has closed are visible to other players. Nothing else is.
How long it lasts
Until you delete it. There is no automatic expiry, because a record of how you did last March is the point of having a record at all.
Deleting your account removes all of it, immediately and permanently. See deleting your account — which you can do from inside the app, or from that page without installing anything.
Security
All traffic uses HTTPS. Answers live in a different table from the cases themselves, and the answer to a case that has not closed is never sent to any device — so a copy of this app, however thoroughly taken apart, cannot reveal today's answer.
Children
Verdict is not directed at children and asks for nothing that would identify one.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it, and every previous version stays in this repository's history where anyone can read what it used to say.
Contact
Questions, corrections, or a report that something here is wrong:
https://github.com/MrSinisterX/verdict-privacy/issues
A public issue tracker rather than an email address, deliberately: it is monitored, it does not put a personal address into a document search engines will index, and a privacy question answered in the open is answered for everybody who had it.
If you would rather not raise something publicly, open an issue with no detail in it and a private channel will be arranged.