Privacy

Halqa for iPad · last updated 4 August 2026

Halqa collects nothing. There are no accounts, no analytics, and no servers of ours for anything to be sent to.

How it works

Halqa runs entirely on one iPad. That iPad serves the game to phones over your own local network — the same Wi-Fi everyone in the room is already on. It works with no internet connection at all, and it makes no outbound connections when one is available.

What students provide

A team name, typed by the students themselves, and a seat number the app assigns. That is everything.

• Nobody signs in. There are no accounts and no passwords.
• Team names exist only while the session is running, and are gone when it ends or the server is stopped.
• Nothing identifies an individual student. A team is a name someone chose and a number.
• No device identifiers, advertising identifiers, or location data are read or stored.

What the facilitator can export

A facilitator can export a log of what happened in a session — teams joining, rounds revealed, rounds skipped — as a file. That file is created only when they ask for it, and it stays on the iPad unless they choose to share it. It is a record of the session, not a record of individual students, and Halqa never sends it anywhere.

Children

Halqa is used in classrooms, so students are often children. Because no personal information is collected from anyone, none is collected from children either. Students do not create accounts and are never asked for anything about themselves.

Third parties

There are none. Halqa contains no analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising, and no third-party SDKs of any kind. No data is shared or sold, because there is no data to share or sell.

Games you install or create

Games are files stored on the iPad. Games created with the help of an AI assistant are written by the facilitator, on their own device — that conversation happens in the assistant, under whatever terms the facilitator has with its provider. Halqa itself sends nothing to anyone.

Changes

If this policy ever changes, the date above changes with it. Given that the app collects nothing, changes are only likely if the app itself gains something that does.

Contact

Questions about privacy: privacy@halqa.education