Privacy policy
What Empo collects and what leaves your device.
Empo runs on your iPhone or iPad. There is no Empo account and no Empo server.
Last update: 7 September 2026.
What Empo collects
Nothing. Empo has no analytics, no crash reporting service, and no advertising.
Your games, your save files, and your settings stay in the app container on the device. iOS backs that container up to your own iCloud backup if you turn iCloud backup on. That is an Apple feature, and Empo does not control it.
What leaves the device
Empo makes two kinds of network request.
A version check reads the latest release of the Empo repository from
api.github.com. GitHub sees the request and the IP address it came from.
A certificate refresh reads cacert.pem from curl.se. Games need it for HTTPS.
The curl project sees the request and the IP address it came from.
Empo sends none of these to a server that Empo owns, because there is no such server.
Device permissions
Empo asks for the camera only when you take a photo for custom game artwork. The photo stays on the device. When you pick an image from the photo library instead, iOS gives Empo only that one image.
Empo links the CoreBluetooth framework because SDL2 uses it to find game controllers. Empo reads no Bluetooth data.
Some games have local multiplayer. iOS asks for local network permission before such a game can find other players. Empo itself does not use the local network.
Children
Empo is not directed at children under 13 and collects no data from anybody.
Changes
A change to this policy shows here with a new date at the top.
Contact
Open an issue at github.com/mateo-m/empo-app, or ask on the Discord server.