Privacy policy

Last updated 24 September 2026

Who is responsible

Quicksave is made by Gareth Beddis, an individual developer in the United Kingdom and the controller of the personal information described here. This policy covers the Quicksave app and getquicksave.app.

For support, privacy questions or requests about your data, email quicksaveapp@proton.me.

Information we use

• Account information. An account identifier links your library and subscription access. When you use Sign in with Apple, we receive Apple’s identifier and any name or email address Apple provides. You can use Apple’s private relay email option. We also handle authentication credentials needed to keep you signed in and disconnect Apple when you delete your account.
• Your library. Saved links, identified games, lists, notes, ratings, play status and related dates.
• Your username. If you choose one, we store it and it is public: a username exists so that someone who does not already know you can find you, and the app searches usernames. Usernames and display names are checked against a word list when you set them.
• Profile photo. If you choose one, we store it with your account and show it to other people using Quicksave, on the same terms as your username. Every photo is screened automatically before it is stored; one that fails the screen is refused and never stored — see Keeping and deleting information for what we keep instead. You can remove your photo at any time in account settings.
• Friends. Who asked whom to be friends and when, and once a request is accepted, that the two of you are friends. Requests you decline or cancel are deleted. Your friends list is visible to your friends.
• Sharing. Your display name, list membership and activity associated with games in shared lists, and the activity shown to people you are friends with.
• Likes and comments. A like you give to a friend’s update, and a comment you write under one, with the time and which update it was on. Comments are up to 280 characters and are checked against a word list before they are stored. Both are shown to the people who can already see that update — the detail is below.
• Subscriptions. Purchase and transaction information, subscription status and account identifiers used to provide and restore access. Apple handles payment; Quicksave does not receive your payment-card details.
• Support and safety. Messages you send us, content and match reports, blocking preferences, relevant links and account identifiers.
• Notifications. If you allow notifications, we store the notification token Apple issues for this installation of the app, together with an identifier we generate for the installation itself, so an alert can be addressed to this device and stopped when you sign out. Alongside it we keep your notification preferences and the settings your device reports — whether alerts, sounds and badges are permitted — and your time zone, language and app version, so a notification arrives at a sensible hour and in a form your app understands. This is not an advertising identifier, we do not use it to recognise you on other companies’ services, and turning notifications off in iOS Settings stops it being used.
• Technical information. Request and error logs used to operate, secure and troubleshoot the service. Our hosting and subscription providers may process IP addresses, device and app information, timestamps and purchase-related events.

We do not sell your personal information or use it for advertising across other companies’ apps and websites. RevenueCat processes subscription activity for purchase functionality and subscription analytics.

Analytics. With your permission, asked when you first open the app, we use PostHog (hosted in the EU) to count how the app is used: which screens you reach, where saves succeed or fail, and which features you open. These events are not linked to your account, and you can turn this off at any time in Account. If you decline, nothing is collected and the software is never started.

Crash reporting. We use Sentry (hosted in the EU) to record crashes so we can fix them. Reports carry the crash itself, your device model and operating system version, and the build number. No account identifier, no email address, no IP address, no game titles and no shared links.

What happens when you share a post

1. The TikTok, Instagram or YouTube link you share is sent to our backend.
2. We retrieve available public information about the post. This can include its author or channel name, title, caption, description, transcript and images.
3. We send relevant text and selected images to our third-party AI provider to identify the game. A slideshow may contribute several images. A previous identification may be reused when the same post has already been processed.
4. We match the result against our game catalogue and save the game with the source link.

Public post content is processed outside your device and by another company. We do not send your Quicksave account profile or payment information as part of the identification prompt.

Our current AI provider states that API inputs and outputs are not used to train its models by default. Its standard abuse-monitoring retention is up to 30 days, with exceptions for legal and safety needs; other retention can depend on the feature and settings. See the provider’s data controls.

Images and linked content may be cached to display them efficiently. When your device loads content from a provider such as a social platform or an artwork host, that provider receives the request, including the IP address needed to serve it.

What other people can see

Friends

A friendship is asked for and accepted, never assumed. Joining the same shared list as someone does not make you friends with them. Either person can end a friendship at any time.

A username is public. If you choose one, anyone using Quicksave can find you by typing it into the app's search. You do not have to have one, and you can change it in account settings.

A profile photo, if you have one, is shown wherever your username is — search results, friend suggestions, activity and shared lists — so treat it as visible on the same terms.

Three numbers are visible to anyone, not only to friends: how many friends you have, how many games are in your backlog, and how many you have finished. Numbers only — no game titles, no ratings and no lists, all of which stay behind an accepted friend request while Private profile is on. Because the username directory is open to anyone using Quicksave, treat those three as public.

Once you accept a friend, they can see:

• Your display name and username.
• Up to 500 of the games you have saved, most recently updated first, each with the play status you gave it and your rating.
• Up to 50 lists you own: their names, how many games are in each, and the games in them — including lists you have never shared with anyone.
• Your activity: when you saved a game, changed its status or rated it.
• Who else you are friends with. Your friends can see your friends list, and open those people's profiles. This also means somebody you are friends with can be seen by your other friends.

While Show my Quicksaves to friends is on, a friend who opens a game you have also saved can see the posts you saved it from. Turn it off in account settings to hide them; your status and rating stay visible. Friends cannot see your private notes.

Private profile. Your profile is private unless you change it. If you turn off Private profile in account settings, anyone using Quicksave who can find you, including someone who has not signed in, can see your saved games with their status and rating, your lists and your friends list, without being your friend. They cannot see your activity, the posts you saved from or your private notes, and they cannot comment on or like anything. Someone you have blocked, or who has blocked you, still cannot see you at all. Turning Private profile back on ends that access immediately.

Likes and comments. A friend can like an update of yours and write a short comment under it, and you can do the same on theirs. A comment is visible to everyone who can see the update it sits under: your friends, or the members of the shared list it belongs to. Comments cannot be edited. You can delete any comment you wrote, and you can delete any comment on your own update. A like or comment on your update can send you a notification if you allow them.

Quicksave has no direct messaging. There are no private messages, and the only place another person can write to you is a comment under an update you have already shared with them.

Removing a friend or blocking ends their access. If you do not want a particular person to see your library, remove them as a friend or block them, and their access ends immediately. A block also applies while Private profile is off.

Blocking and reporting. You can block anyone from their profile or from a shared list. A block applies in both directions and is not announced: the blocked person sees what they would see if the account did not exist. You can also report a person, a comment, or something in a shared list. A report records who reported whom, what you selected and anything you wrote, and it comes to us rather than to the person reported.

Shared lists and links

Members of a shared list can see the list, its members and shared activity, including ratings for its games. Your saved posts can appear alongside your rating, including when someone else added the game. Turn off Show my Quicksaves to friends in account settings to hide those posts; your ratings remain visible. Private notes are not automatically shared.

If you create or send a share link, people with the link can view the information presented on its web page, such as the list name, display name and games, without a Quicksave account. Links can be forwarded. An invitation link can also let its recipient join a list.

Our website and waitlist

If you join the waitlist, we store your email address, signup date and signup source to send the launch notification you requested. You can withdraw by emailing us. We don’t use the waitlist for unrelated marketing.

The website mascot demo contributes to a shared total rather than a history of individual activity. We do not add advertising cookies or tracking pixels to the site. Vercel processes technical requests and logs to host and protect it.

Why we use this information

• Providing the service you request: operating your account, saving and identifying games, syncing your library, enabling sharing, and managing subscription access. Our lawful basis is performance of our contract with you. Information needed for these features is necessary to provide them; optional sharing and waitlist signup are your choice.
• Our legitimate interests: maintaining a secure and reliable service, handling support and abuse reports, understanding subscription performance, and matching public post content to games. We use information relevant to those purposes and consider the effects on the people concerned.
• Your consent: sending the launch notification you request through the waitlist. You may withdraw that consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of earlier processing.
• Legal obligations: responding to valid legal requests and retaining records where the law requires it.

Game identification and suggestions are automated features. We do not use them to make decisions about you with legal or similarly significant effects.

Services that process information

• Supabase: account authentication, database storage and waitlist records.
• Amazon Web Services: backend processing, service logs, maintenance jobs, and storing and automatically screening profile photos.
• OpenAI: identification using public post text and images.
• IGDB / Twitch: game information and artwork. Game searches are sent to the catalogue provider when needed.
• Apple and RevenueCat: purchase processing, subscription verification, restoration and related subscription information. Apple’s Push Notification service also carries notifications to your device.
• Vercel: website hosting, share pages and website requests.
• Proton Mail: messages you send to our support and privacy email address.
• Content hosts, including TikTok, Instagram and YouTube: requests to retrieve or display posts, images and other linked content.

We may also disclose information when legally required or where necessary to address fraud, abuse or threats to people’s safety.

Where information is processed

Our main database and backend are hosted in the United States, in the Northern Virginia region. Our service providers may also process information in other countries, including countries outside the UK and European Economic Area.

For restricted international transfers, our providers’ data-processing terms include contractual safeguards such as the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses and the UK Addendum, where applicable. You can request information about the safeguards relevant to your data by emailing us. Provider terms are available from Supabase, AWS, our AI provider, RevenueCat and Vercel.

Keeping and deleting information

You can delete your account in Quicksave’s account settings. Contact us if you cannot access it. Deletion removes your account-linked library records, saved links and authored list activity from our live database. Other members keep their own contributions. Copies someone has made outside Quicksave are outside our control.

• Account and library: kept while your account remains open, unless you remove individual records or request deletion.
• Likes and comments: removed when you delete your account. A comment you delete is hidden immediately and its text is kept only so that a report about it can still be read; it is removed with your account.
• Reports and automated photo screening. We keep a report you made, a report naming you, and the record our automated system creates when it refuses a profile photo (the label names and a confidence score, never the image itself), even after the account involved is deleted — deleting them would remove the evidence a report exists to preserve. When your account is deleted, a report you made is disconnected from your identity rather than erased, and a report naming you is marked to show that account no longer exists.
• Apple disconnection: an encrypted credential and account reference may be retained after deletion until the request to revoke Apple access succeeds. They are then removed.
• Identification cache: public post links and identification results can remain separately from your account so repeated saves do not require the same processing. This cache has no account identifier and is not cleared by account deletion. Contact us about removal of a particular source link.
• Service logs: maintenance logs expire after 30 days. Other service and security logs are retained according to the need to diagnose failures, investigate abuse and maintain reliable operation; account deletion does not automatically erase these logs.
• Backups: deleted information can remain in database backups until those backups expire under the hosting plan. Separate recovery copies made for a release are kept while needed to recover from that release. They are not used as the live service database.
• Support correspondence: kept for handling your request and any related follow-up, complaint or dispute. We remove correspondence when it is no longer needed for those purposes.
• Notification registrations: kept while the installation is registered. Signing out, deleting the app or turning notifications off deactivates the registration, and Apple also tells us when a token has become invalid; deactivated registrations are removed with your account and are not used to send anything in the meantime.
• Waitlist: removed on withdrawal or within 30 days after the launch notification is sent.
• Purchase records: Apple and RevenueCat can retain transaction information separately under their applicable retention rules and legal obligations. Deleting your Quicksave account does not automatically erase those records.

Account deletion does not cancel an Apple subscription. Manage or cancel it in your iPhone’s Settings → your name → Subscriptions. Our support page has more help.

Your rights and choices

Depending on your circumstances, you can request access to your information, correction, deletion, restriction of processing or a portable copy. Email quicksaveapp@proton.me. We may need to verify your identity, and we normally respond within one month. If a permitted extension is needed, we will explain why.

You have the right to object to processing based on legitimate interests. Contact us to explain your objection so we can assess it. You can also withdraw waitlist consent at any time.

You can complain directly to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office or, where applicable, the data-protection authority where you live or work. You do not need to contact us first.

Children

Quicksave is not intended for children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has provided personal information, contact us so we can investigate and remove it.

Changes to this policy

We will update the date on this page when the policy changes. For significant changes, we will provide an appropriate additional notice.