Privacy Policy

Who Zapman is for

Zapman is a study app for students and adults aged 13 and over. It is not intended for or directed to children under 13.

Who this policy covers

This policy covers Zapman, an iPhone app published by Anchorwright LLC. It applies to the app itself and to the Apple services the app relies on (iCloud and CloudKit, Game Center, and the system’s notification service). It does not cover any other app, website or service.

Contact

Questions about this policy or how the app handles your information: zapman-support@anchorwright.com.

What the app stores

Zapman stores what you put into it:

• Your decks: each deck’s name and, if you add one, a course tag such as “BIO 101”.
• Your cards: each card’s question and answer.
• Your study history for each card: when you made it, when it is next due, how far apart its reviews are, a number for how easily you have recalled it, how many times you have reviewed it, and how many times you missed it. This is what schedules your reviews and what the progress view shows.

Some settings and counts stay on the one device and are not synced: whether reminders are on and at what time, whether sounds are on, your study streak, your Daily Zap streak and the days you played in the last two weeks, any duel opponents you have blocked, and a few flags the app keeps for itself, such as whether you have finished the first-launch introduction.

Importing notes, photos and PDFs

You can type cards, scan pages with the camera, choose a photo of your notes, or open a PDF or other file. Zapman asks for camera permission only when you choose to scan. Choosing a photo or a file uses Apple’s own pickers, which show Zapman only the item you pick, so the app does not ask for access to your photo library.

The text is read on your device by Apple’s own frameworks. Nothing you import is uploaded to be processed. Zapman keeps only the text you save as cards; it does not keep the photo, scan or file.

Where it is stored, and who can read it

Your decks, cards and study history are stored on your device. If you are signed in to iCloud, iOS also syncs them to your own private iCloud database, so they reach your other devices. That database belongs to your Apple Account. Anchorwright has no access to it and no ability to read, export or recover what it holds. There is no public deck library and no shared marketplace.

Zapman does not add its own encryption on top of Apple’s. Your decks are protected by your device’s encryption and by the protections Apple applies to iCloud under your Apple Account.

Duels and Game Center

Duels use Apple’s Game Center, under your Game Center account and Apple’s terms. Zapman runs no server of its own for them and collects no login.

• Signing in. When you open the Daily Zap tab, Zapman asks Game Center to sign you in, so it can show duels waiting for you. If you are not signed in, iOS shows its own sign-in screen, which you can cancel; everything except duels works without it.
• Your friends. To show you who you can challenge, Zapman asks iOS for access to your Game Center friends. iOS asks you first. Zapman shows the list and does not store it. Zapman lets you challenge only a Game Center friend you pick, and sends the invitation to that friend alone; it offers no matching with strangers.
• What a duel sends. When you challenge a friend, Game Center carries the duel to them: one question from your deck, its correct answer, the answers of three other cards in that deck offered as wrong choices, the deck’s name, and whether each of you answered correctly and when, recorded under each player’s Game Center player ID. Zapman shows each player’s Game Center name. Game Center stores the match under Apple’s terms, not ours.
• Restricted accounts. If Screen Time or parental controls restrict multiplayer games on your Game Center account, Zapman reads that setting and does not start a duel from that account. Duels sent to you are still shown. Zapman does not store the setting.
• Blocking and reporting. If you block a player, Zapman keeps that on this device and stops showing their duels. Game Center is not told. Report, on a duel’s result, opens an email to us (see “Emailing us” below).

Emailing us

Contact Support in Settings, and Report on a duel’s result, open a new message in your own mail app, addressed to zapman-support@anchorwright.com. It starts with your device model, your iOS version and Zapman’s version, and nothing else from the app; your decks and the other player’s name are not added. You can edit or delete any of it, and nothing is sent unless you send it. We use what you send only to answer you.

Sharing a deck

If you choose to share a deck, Zapman makes a file holding the deck’s name, its course tag, and every card’s question and answer, and hands it to iOS’s own share sheet. You choose where it goes: Messages, Mail, AirDrop, Files, or nowhere. Nothing is sent to Anchorwright. Once you send the file, it is an ordinary file on whatever device or service receives it, and deleting the deck in Zapman does not reach a copy you already sent. Opening a deck file someone sent you lets you add it as a new deck.

Reminders and sounds

If you turn on the daily reminder, Zapman schedules it with iOS on your device. It is a local notification: no reminder goes through a server, and its text carries none of your cards. Zapman asks for notification permission only when you turn reminders on. You can turn reminders and sounds off in the app’s Settings.

Crash diagnostics

Zapman records crash and performance diagnostics from Apple’s own MetricKit framework, which are stack traces and device state, into its own storage on your device. They contain none of your decks or cards. They are never sent anywhere, and only the most recent are kept.

Separately, if you have chosen to share analytics with app developers in iOS Settings, Apple may share crash reports with developers under Apple’s policies, not ours.

What is never collected

• No accounts of our own. There is no sign-up, no password and no profile with Anchorwright. Game Center and iCloud are Apple’s accounts.
• No analytics, tracking or advertising. The app contains no analytics software, no advertising software and no third-party SDKs. It does not track you across apps or websites, and it collects no advertising identifier.
• No age, location or contacts. Zapman does not ask your age or anyone’s. It does not use location services or read your contacts.
• No network calls to us. Zapman never contacts a server run by Anchorwright, and no Anchorwright service receives anything from the app.
• Nothing is sold or shared. We have nothing to sell or share, and would not.

Children

Zapman is for students and adults aged 13 and over, and is not intended for or directed to children under 13. It collects no personal information from anyone, children included. If you believe a child under 13 is using Zapman, email zapman-support@anchorwright.com and we will tell you how to remove the child’s decks from the device and from iCloud.

Deleting your information

You can delete a card or a whole deck inside the app; the deletion syncs to your other devices through iCloud. To remove everything, delete the app from your device. To also remove the synced copy, delete Zapman’s data from your iCloud storage in iOS Settings, under your Apple Account. Because we never receive your information, there is nothing to request from us and nothing for us to delete on your behalf.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, export or delete personal information a company holds about you. Anchorwright holds none from this app. Your information is on your own devices and in your own iCloud account, and the app gives you direct access to all of it.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted at this address with a new effective date. Changes to how the app handles your information will also be noted in the app’s release notes.