Privacy

Last updated October 15, 2026

• The short version
• Out Loud
• On the Hook
• Keystone
• Ninefold
• Laddra
• Kids' games
• Playing in a browser
• Every app
• How long we keep it
• Your choices
• Contact

This policy covers the apps published by Akrasia Studios, LLC ("we," "us"): Out Loud, On the Hook, Keystone, Ninefold, and Laddra, whether you play them in a browser or as an app. It explains what each one collects, where that information lives, and what we do with it. Our kids' games (Word Burrow, Number Burrow, Elbows) are still in development; their section below says what we've committed to, and it will say exactly what they collect before any of them can be downloaded. The rules for using the apps are in our terms of service.

The short version

• Most play stays on your phone. What leaves it is listed app by app below. Ninefold's Daily standings receive an anonymous ID and your moves. On the Hook is the big exception: it has a public leaderboard, and it shows rewarded ads served by Google. Whether those ads can be personalized is up to you; the app works the same either way.
• We don't sell your information to anyone, and we never give it to data brokers. The one place anything is "shared," in the way California law uses that word, is On the Hook's ad personalization, which you control.
• Health data never leaves your device and is never used for marketing.
• Nothing we make involves real money wagering.
• You can delete your On the Hook player record and your Ninefold standings, and everything tied to them, from inside each app's settings, and anything else we hold by emailing hello@akrasiastudios.com.

Out Loud

On your device

Your daily lines, streaks, favorites, grace balance, settings, and history are stored locally on your phone. If you delete the app, that data is deleted with it. We don't have a copy.

Health data

Out Loud can unlock certain moments based on activity from Apple Health, such as steps, workouts, sleep, or mindful minutes. This only happens if you grant permission in iOS, and you can revoke it at any time in Settings. Health data is read and processed on your device. It is never sent to our servers, never shared with any third party, and never used for advertising, marketing, or any purpose other than the feature you turned on. Crash reports from Out Loud are scrubbed before they leave the phone so they carry no Health data.

Circle

If you choose to join a Circle, we store the display name you pick, the grace you give, and the lines you leave for others, in a database hosted for us by Supabase in the United States, so that the people in your Circle can see them. That's the only information the Circle feature sends to us. Your streak breaks, missed days, and passes are never shown to anyone. Leave a Circle and your entries are removed from it; email us and we'll delete them entirely.

Resonance

Lines you submit to the shared library come to us for review before anyone sees them. Submissions are stored without your name or any identifier that links back to you. Counts shown in the app are aggregate totals, not individual votes.

Purchases

Subscriptions and grace packs are processed by Apple. We receive confirmation that a purchase happened so the app can unlock what you bought. We never see your payment details.

On the Hook

On the Hook is a simulation. There is no real money wagering, no deposits, no withdrawals, and no connection to any sportsbook. Chips are paper, can't be bought, and have no cash value.

On your device

Your paper bankroll, career progress, bet history and settings are stored on your phone. Delete the app and that copy is gone.

On our servers

On the Hook has a shared leaderboard, so some of it also reaches us. When you pick a handle, we store that handle, a random player ID your device generates, your simulated net worth, your win-loss record, and summaries of recent simulated bets. Your handle and that record are public: every other player can see them on the standings. If you create or join a private group, we store the group name, its join code, and who is in it.

The player ID is random. It isn't your name, your email, or your Apple ID, and we never attach it to any of those. It's stored on your device and in iCloud, so reinstalling doesn't lose your progress.

Ads

On the Hook is free and funded by rewarded ads, the ones you choose to watch for chips. They're served by Google AdMob. When an ad is requested, Google's software in the app sends Google, and the advertising partners Google works with to fill the ad, your IP address, the name of the app, information about your device (including an app-scoped device identifier), your approximate location as estimated from your IP address, information about the ads you see and tap, and the ad software's own crash and performance data. Google uses that under its own privacy policy, and explains what it does with it at How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.

The first time an ad is about to show, iOS asks whether you allow tracking. If you allow it, Google can also use your device's advertising identifier to personalize ads based on your activity in other companies' apps, and to measure whether ads led to installs. That is what California law calls "sharing" personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, and it is the only place in anything we make where it happens. If you decline, the advertising identifier is not sent, you still see ads, and they are chosen from the context rather than from a profile of you. Google may still use an identifier to cap how often you see the same ad and for aggregate reporting. Otherwise, install attribution runs through Apple's SKAdNetwork, which reports to Google in aggregate without identifying you. You can change your answer any time in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking. Either choice gets you the same chips for the same ads.

When you finish a rewarded ad, Google's server tells ours so we can confirm the reward before granting it. That message carries a transaction ID, the ad unit and ad network, the reward amount, a timestamp, a signature, and an identifier for your player record that the app supplies, so Google holds that identifier alongside its record of the ad. We keep our copy for 7 days.

Abuse prevention

Requests to our servers include your IP address. We don't store it. What we keep alongside a request counter is a one-way hash we cannot reverse, deleted daily.

Reporting and blocking

If you report another player's handle, we store who you reported, the handle as it looked at the time, the reason you picked and anything you type in the box, so we can act on it. We keep a report until we've dealt with it, then for 90 days, unless the person it concerns deletes their data first, which removes it. Blocking is separate and stays on your phone. We're never told who you've blocked.

Deleting your data

Settings → Your data → Delete my data removes everything we hold for your player ID: your handle, your standings entry, your chip record, your group memberships, any reports you filed and any reports about you. It also clears the copy on your phone and the player ID kept in iCloud, so a reinstall starts fresh. You don't have to email anyone and we don't have to verify who you are, because the request comes from the device that holds the ID.

Lines and scores

The odds and scores in the game come from a third-party sports-data provider. The app gets them from our server, which gets them from the provider; the provider receives nothing about you.

On the Hook is intended for adults only. It depicts simulated sports wagering and is offered for ages 18 and up.

Keystone

Keystone is a daily word puzzle. The boards ship with the game, so everyone gets the same five each day without an account. Your streaks, records, solve times, and settings are stored on your phone. Delete the app, or clear your browser's site data, and they're gone. Nothing about your scores or solves is sent to us.

One small exception in the app: a note of which free tries of Keystone Plus you've used is kept in your iPhone's keychain, so reinstalling the app doesn't reset them. It stays on your phone, holds nothing about you, and is never sent to us.

If you're signed in to Game Center, the app sends Apple your current and longest streak, the number of dailies you've solved, your best Overflow run, and the achievements you earn, so they appear in Game Center. Apple handles that under its own privacy policy; we don't receive your Game Center identity.

Daily reminders are optional. If you turn them on, iOS schedules them on your phone; nothing about them is sent to us.

Keystone Plus is a one-time purchase processed by Apple. We receive confirmation that it happened so the app can unlock it. We never see your payment details.

The Keystone app doesn't include the crash reporter described under "Every app above," and neither does the browser version.

Ninefold

Ninefold is a daily number puzzle. Local and Express play stay entirely on your device, and so do your stats and streaks.

The Daily has a shared standings table, and that part does talk to us. When you finish a Daily, the game sends us the day, your move log, your result, and a random player ID the game made up the first time you played. We replay the moves on our side to confirm the result and send back your standing. You appear on the standings under a name made from that random ID, like "Brass Heron," in the app and in the browser. You can't type one, and we never ask for your name, email, or anything else. The random ID is not linked to you, your phone, or your other apps, and if you clear your browser's site data or delete the app it's gone and a new one is made next time.

That table runs on Supabase, a hosting provider we pay for the database and the small program that checks scores. They store the data for us and don't use it for anything else. Like any server, theirs sees the IP address of each request; we don't store it with your runs.

To remove your runs, open the app's Settings and tap Delete my leaderboard data. It deletes everything we hold for your player ID right away, with no email needed, and gives you a new ID and name. If you play in a browser, email us with your board name and the days you played; names aren't unique, so we'll confirm the details with you before deleting anything.

If you're signed in to Game Center, the app sends Apple your best Daily result and the achievements you earn, so they appear in Game Center. Apple handles that under its own privacy policy; we don't receive your Game Center identity.

Daily reminders are optional. If you turn them on, iOS schedules them on your phone; nothing about them is sent to us.

Ninefold Plus is a one-time purchase processed by Apple. We receive confirmation that it happened so the app can unlock it. We never see your payment details.

The Ninefold app doesn't include the crash reporter described under "Every app above."

Laddra

Laddra is a falling-tile puzzle. Your scores, records, and settings are stored on your phone. No account is required to play.

Word Burrow, Number Burrow, Elbows

Our kids' games are in development and not yet available. Before any of them ships, this section will state exactly what that game collects and does not collect, how any purchase works, and how long anything is kept, and the App Store listing will say the same.

Playing in a browser

Keystone and Ninefold can be played at keystone.akrasiastudios.com and ninefold.akrasiastudios.com. The browser versions keep your progress in your browser's storage for that site, which your browser lets you clear at any time. If you add the game to your home screen, it keeps its own copy, separate from Safari's. The pages are hosted on Netlify, which, like any web host, sees the IP address of each visitor in its server logs. We don't run analytics, ad scripts, or trackers of any kind on them.

Every app above

This section covers Out Loud, On the Hook, Keystone, Ninefold, and Laddra. The kids' games are covered only by their own section.

• No selling or renting of personal information, and no sharing of it except the ad personalization in On the Hook, which you can turn off.
• No standalone analytics SDK. The only third-party code that collects anything in our apps is the ad software in On the Hook and the crash reporter described below; each collects diagnostic and performance data for its own operation, which is described in its section.
• Every company that holds data for us (Sentry for crash reports, Supabase for the databases behind Ninefold and Out Loud's Circle, Netlify for the web games, Cloudflare for this site) is bound by its contract with us to protect that data at least as well as this policy says we will. Google is different: it receives ad data in On the Hook on its own account and uses it under its own privacy policy, as the On the Hook section explains.
• Out Loud, Keystone, Ninefold and Laddra contain no ads and no advertising SDKs. On the Hook shows rewarded ads through Google AdMob; see its section above. It is the only app of ours that does.
• We don't track you across other companies' apps or websites ourselves. If you allow tracking when On the Hook asks, Google may, for advertising.
• Crash reporting. Except in Keystone and Ninefold, when an app crashes or hits an error, it sends a diagnostic report to Sentry, a US error-monitoring service, so a build that breaks is something we find in minutes rather than from reviews. A report contains the stack trace, device model, operating system version, memory and screen size, app version, and a short trail of what the app was doing just before (screens opened, buttons tapped, and the addresses of its own network requests with any query text removed). Each report carries a random installation ID that Sentry's software generates on your device and a hashed device value; neither is your handle, your player ID, or an advertising identifier. The copies on your device are gone when you delete the app; reports already sent expire at Sentry after at most 90 days. Sentry also counts app sessions (started, ended, crashed) so we can see whether a release is stable. Sentry is set not to store IP addresses, though it may infer the country it came from, and reports never include screenshots or recordings of your screen. Sentry processes reports in the United States under its data processing addendum, using the cloud providers listed at sentry.io/legal/subprocessors.
• Our apps are not directed to children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has provided us information, email us and we'll delete it.
• This website, akrasiastudios.com, is a static page with no analytics, cookies, or tracking, and nothing on it collects information about your activity over time or across other sites. Because there is nothing to turn off, the site does not respond to browser "Do Not Track" signals. It is served by Cloudflare, which sees visitor IP addresses the way any web host does.
• Support email is handled by us directly. If you write to us, we keep the message so we can help you and follow up. We don't add you to any list.

How long we keep it

• Rewarded-ad verification records: 7 days.
• The hashed value we use for rate limiting: deleted daily.
• Reports about handles: until we've dealt with them, then 90 days.
• Leaderboard entries, group membership, and game progress on our servers: until you delete them.
• Crash reports at Sentry: at most 90 days.
• Circle entries in Out Loud: removed from the Circle when you leave it; deleted entirely when you ask.
• Lines you submit to Out Loud's shared library: as long as they're in the library.
• Confirmation of an Out Loud purchase: as long as needed to keep what you bought unlocked.
• Support email: as long as we're helping you with it; deleted when you ask.
• Ninefold daily runs: until you delete them in the app or ask us to remove them.

Your choices

Data on your device is yours. Delete the app to remove it, or use the app's own reset options. For anything we hold on our side, such as Circle entries, Ninefold standings or a support conversation, email us and we'll delete it within 30 days and confirm when it's done.

In On the Hook you can delete everything we hold about you from inside the app: Settings → Your data → Delete my data. It takes effect immediately and needs no email. Ninefold works the same way: Settings → Delete my leaderboard data.

California residents have the right to know what personal information we collect, to request its deletion, to correct it, and to not be discriminated against for exercising those rights. We do not sell personal information. The one case where we "share" it, as California law uses that word, is described under On the Hook: when you allow tracking, Google may use your advertising identifier to personalize ads. You can opt out of that by declining the tracking prompt, or by turning tracking off for On the Hook in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking. Nothing else we make shares personal information with anyone. We offer these rights to everyone, whether or not the law requires it of a company our size.

Our apps are offered in the United States. If you use them from the EEA or the UK anyway, you have the right to access the information we hold about you, to have it corrected or deleted, to object to or restrict how we use it, and to receive a copy of it. Email us and we'll take care of it. Our servers are in the United States, so information you send us is transferred there.

Changes

If this policy changes in a way that affects what we collect or how we use it, we'll update the date at the top and, for anything significant, tell you in the app.

Contact

Akrasia Studios, LLC
1550 Victory Blvd.
Glendale, California
(323) 412-0523
hello@akrasiastudios.com