Last updated: 3 October 2026
The short version. D20 Adventurers Folio collects nothing about you. It has no accounts, no servers and no analytics, and nothing you make in it is sent to us — there is no “us” to send it to. One thing reaches beyond your device: if you choose to join a table, your device talks directly to the other devices in the room. What that sends, and to whom, is set out below.
Everything you create — characters, ability scores, inventories, notes and any portrait you choose — is written to the app’s own storage on your device. A small number of preferences (your chosen dice set, whether sound is on) and your recent dice rolls (the last 50, including the name of any roll the Game Master (GM), the person running the game, asked you for) are stored the same way. Clear in the dice tray removes the roll history.
This data is included in your normal iPhone or iPad backup, which is governed by Apple’s privacy policy, not this one. It is not sent to us, because there is no “us” to send it to. Apart from a table you choose to join, and purchases, which belong to Apple, the app makes no network connections at all. Both are described below.
If you join a table, your device also remembers a random identifier of its own so the same table can recognize you next week. It is not derived from you or your device and it means nothing anywhere else.
It also remembers the name you typed the last time you joined a table, so you need not type it again. It is kept on your device, in the same storage and backup as above, until you change it at a later join, clear the field, or delete the app. It is sent only in your request to join a table you chose, and the GM’s device shows it while deciding and does not keep it.
If you give a character a portrait, you pick it through Apple’s own photo picker. The app is never granted access to your photo library — Apple hands it only the single image you chose. That image is stored with the character on your device, and the full-size photograph never leaves it. The stored image goes with the character if you share or export it yourself. If you join a table, a small copy — about 256 pixels across — is sent to the GM so your character can be recognized, and passed to the other players in the room.
This version can join a game run by a GM using D20 Chair. It is never automatic. The app makes no connection of any kind until you tap Join. Played on your own, the app makes no connection to anyone except Apple: it asks Apple at each launch which purchases you own (see Purchases below), and Apple may occasionally show its own prompt to rate the app.
When you join, your device talks directly to the other devices in the room, over your local Wi‑Fi or Bluetooth. There is no server of ours in between, we operate no service that sees your game, and nothing about your play reaches us. It does not work over the internet — everyone has to be in the same room.
What the GM’s device receives from yours. Your character sheet — all of it, including your current hit points, any conditions you have written down, your spell slots, and anything you have typed into it yourself, such as a background, adventure notes or what your character is carrying. A small copy of your character’s picture, if you set one. Anything you type to the GM privately. Your rolls, when you are asked for one. And the name you type on the Join screen — your character’s, your own, or a nickname — which the GM sees when deciding whether to let you in.
What the other players see. Your character’s name, class, level and picture, whether you are at the table, and whether your character is healthy, bloodied or down. They do not see your exact hit points, your conditions, your spell slots, your sheet, or anything you and the GM say to each other. Those are addressed to the GM alone. If the GM is using a map, everyone at the table also sees where your token stands on it and whose turn it is.
What stays afterward, and where. Your sheet is never stored by anyone else — it is sent fresh each time you join, and while you are playing your hit points, conditions and spell slots keep the GM’s screen up to date as they change. What the GM’s device does keep, so the table is still there next week, is your character’s name, class and level, a picture for it, and the last evening’s table: the board and the GM’s log, including the rolls they asked you for and your results, and rolls they made for your character. Your character sheet and your private notes with the GM are not kept. The GM can clear that at any time, and it is removed from their device rather than hidden. If they show the table a map, a copy of that picture is written to a temporary file on your device, and it is deleted when the table ends, or the next time you open the app if it was closed first.
Everything else on this page is unchanged. No accounts, no sign‑in, no analytics, no advertising, and nothing sold or shared with any company.
If you turn on Use my smart dice, the Folio listens for Bluetooth dice in the room so that a real roll can land on your sheet.
It only listens. The app never connects to a die, never pairs with one, and never sends anything to one. It reads what a die already broadcasts to anything nearby: which die it is, how charged it is, and the face it is showing. That is all a smart die says, and all the Folio hears.
The first time a die rolls for you, the Folio asks whether it’s yours. If you say yes, it remembers which die that is, on this device only, so other dice in the room are ignored. Forget my dice clears it.
Nothing about your dice leaves this device, and nothing about them is sent to us — there is still no “us” to send it to. Turning the setting off stops the listening completely.
Listening to a die in the room is not a network connection, so what this page says above about network connections is unchanged.
In-app purchases are handled entirely by Apple through the App Store. Apple tells the app only whether a purchase is owned; it never gives the app your name, your email or your payment details, and the app never sees or stores them. Purchase handling is covered by Apple’s privacy policy.
The app collects no personal information from anyone, including children under 13.
Because no personal data is collected or held, there is nothing for us to disclose, correct or delete on request. You can remove everything the app has stored at any time by deleting the app from your device — though copies inside your own iPhone, iPad or computer backups stay until those backups age out or you delete them.
If a future version ever collects anything, or transmits anything anywhere, this policy will be updated before that version is submitted for review, and the change will be described here rather than buried.
The policy above is about the app. This site is a set of static pages hosted by GitHub Pages; it sets no cookies and runs no analytics, but GitHub records visitors’ IP addresses as any web host does, under GitHub’s privacy statement. The walkthrough video on the app’s home page (praxis-hq.ai/gaming/folio) is served from this site, praxis-hq.ai.
Questions about this policy: hello@praxis-hq.ai.