TruckDeck Privacy Policy

Effective date: 14 November 2026 Last updated: 14 November 2026

This policy explains how personal data is handled in connection with TruckDeck, the Android app published on Google Play, and the free TruckDeck Bridge program for Windows (together, "TruckDeck"), and in connection with the TruckDeck pages on madfrog.ie. It is written to meet Articles 13 and 14 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Google Play's User Data policy.

The short version: the TruckDeck app has no accounts, no advertising, no analytics, no crash-reporting service and no third-party libraries. It talks only to the Bridge on your own PC, over your own local network. We do not run an application server and we do not receive what you do in the app. The TruckDeck pages on madfrog.ie have no analytics and no non-essential cookies. We only receive personal data if you contact us, buy the app through Google Play (Google shares limited order information with us), join our community channels, or join the TruckDeck waitlist. Our hosting provider also processes technical server logs, as described below.

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1. Who is responsible for your data (the controller)

The controller is Fernando Laska, trading as Mad Frog Studios, a sole trader in Ireland (registration of this business name with the Companies Registration Office is pending), 16-30 Foley Street, Montgomery Court, Dublin 1, Ireland.

• Email: [email protected]
• We are not required to appoint a Data Protection Officer under Article 37 GDPR, and we have not appointed one. For any question about your personal data, contact Fernando Laska at [email protected].

2. What the app does on your devices (no data reaches us)

• None of this is sent to us or to any third party. We cannot see it, so we cannot access, correct or delete it for you. You control it: clearing the app's storage or uninstalling the app deletes it from your device.
• The app does not use Android's cloud backup for its settings, so they are not copied to your Google account backup.
• Security note: the connection between the app and the Bridge uses plain HTTP on your local network. It is not encrypted and is protected only by the PIN. Use it on a network you trust, such as your home Wi-Fi, not on public Wi-Fi.

Permissions the app requests

• INTERNET — only to reach the Bridge on your local network.
• VIBRATE — haptic feedback when you press a button.

The app does not request location, camera, microphone, contacts, storage or phone permissions.

3. Personal data we do process

3.1 When you contact us (support email)

• Data: your email address, your name if you give it, the content of your messages and any attachments (for example screenshots or logs you choose to send).
• Purpose: to answer you, fix problems and handle refund or consumer-rights requests.
• Legal basis: performance of our contract with you (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR) when you are a customer; otherwise our legitimate interest in answering questions about our product (Art. 6(1)(f)).
• Retention: 12 months after our last exchange with you, then deleted. We keep a message longer only if it is needed to deal with a legal claim or forms part of an accounting record (for example a refund request), in which case it is kept for the period in section 8.
• Service provider: our mailbox is provided by Google (Gmail).

3.2 When you buy TruckDeck on Google Play

• Google Play handles the payment. We never see your card or bank details. In the EU/EEA, Google acts as merchant of record for Google Play sales; its own privacy policy applies to the data it collects.
• Data Google makes available to us: Google Play shares order information with us in Play Console and in its sales and financial reports: the order ID, date and time, the item bought, the price, taxes and fees, the order status and history (for example refunds or chargebacks), and the buyer's country. Where Google is merchant of record (including the EU/EEA), only the country of the buyer's address is shown. Where we are merchant of record (in some countries outside the EEA), Google's reports may also include the buyer's city, state/region and postal code, for tax purposes. Play Console also lets us find an order if we search for the buyer's full email address — we only do this when you contact us about a purchase. We do not receive your card or bank details.
• Purpose: to keep accounting and tax records and to handle refunds and consumer-rights requests.
• Legal basis: contract (Art. 6(1)(b)) and legal obligation (Art. 6(1)(c)) for accounting and tax records.
• Retention: six years, as Irish Revenue requires for business records.

3.3 Statistics and crash information from Google Play

Google Play Console gives us aggregated statistics (for example installs, uninstalls, ratings and country breakdowns) and, through Android vitals, crash and "app not responding" reports from users who have chosen to share usage and diagnostics data with Google. This information is collected by Google under Google's privacy policy, not by the TruckDeck app. We use it only to understand how the app is used and to fix bugs.

• Legal basis: our legitimate interest in keeping the app working (Art. 6(1)(f)).
• Retention: as long as Google keeps it available in Play Console.

3.4 When you visit the TruckDeck website or download the Bridge

The TruckDeck pages on madfrog.ie (https://madfrog.ie/truckdeck/) let you read this policy, our terms and our legal notice, and download the free TruckDeck Bridge for Windows. The official Bridge download is the one on https://madfrog.ie/truckdeck/download/ (file served from download.madfrog.ie). Please check the SHA-256 checksum shown there against the file you download.

We do not use analytics on the website.

Our hosting and content-delivery provider, Cloudflare (Cloudflare Pages and Cloudflare R2), may process technical server logs when you visit a page or download a file. Those logs can include your IP address, browser user agent, and the date and time of the request. We are the controller of this data. The provider acts as our processor.

• Purpose: to deliver the website and the Bridge file, and to keep the service secure (for example, to detect abuse or attacks).
• Legal basis: our legitimate interest in delivering and securing the website (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
• Retention: Cloudflare keeps these logs for a limited period under its own retention settings. We do not export or keep our own copies of them.

3.5 When you join the TruckDeck waitlist

You can join the TruckDeck waitlist through the Google Form called "TruckDeck Waitlist" (https://forms.gle/HwTcMZmx7r9h8a7v9), or from a link to that form on our site. Joining is optional.

• Data: your email address (required); your answers to the optional questions "Which sim do you play?" and "What device would you use?"; your confirmation that you agree to receive emails about the TruckDeck launch (required); and the date and time of your submission.
• Purpose: to email you about the TruckDeck launch, including when TruckDeck can be bought directly on madfrog.ie, and only to tell you about TruckDeck, as stated on the form. You can unsubscribe at any time, using the link in our emails or by emailing [email protected]. We use the optional answers only to understand which sims and devices people on the list use.
• Legal basis: your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You give this by submitting the form and ticking the agreement to receive emails. You can withdraw consent at any time by unsubscribing or emailing us. Withdrawal does not affect emails we already sent lawfully.
• Retention: until you unsubscribe or ask us to remove you.
• Storage: the form and your responses are stored with Google LLC / Google Ireland Limited under Google's Terms of Service and Privacy Policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy). Google may process this data in the United States. Where a transfer outside the EEA takes place, it may rely on the European Commission's adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, where Google is certified, as described in section 7. This policy does not claim that a separate data-processing agreement applies to the waitlist form.

3.6 Downloading the telemetry plugin (GitHub)

On first run, the Bridge may download the open-source SCS telemetry plugin (scs-telemetry.dll, by RenCloud) directly from GitHub (GitHub, Inc., a Microsoft company). That request goes from your PC to GitHub, which processes technical data such as your IP address under its own privacy statement. We do not receive it.

The App also has a button that opens the TruckDeck releases page on GitHub in your web browser, only when you tap it. From that point GitHub's own privacy statement applies; the App itself sends nothing.

3.7 Community channels (optional)

If you join our Discord server or interact with our social media posts, the platform (for example Discord) processes your data under its own privacy policy. We see what you post there and your public username. We use it to answer you and run the community, based on our legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f)). The channels we currently use are our Discord server, YouTube (@truckdeck) and Instagram (@truckdeck).

4. Cookies

The TruckDeck pages on madfrog.ie set no analytics cookies and no other non-essential cookies. We do not use advertising or analytics tools on the site.

The TruckDeck website sets no cookies and uses no similar tracking technology: no analytics, no advertising, no third-party fonts, embeds or scripts. If that ever changes, we will update this section before the change goes live and, where the law requires it (Regulation 5 of S.I. No. 336/2011), ask for your consent first.

5. What we do not do

• No user accounts, no sign-in.
• No advertising and no advertising identifiers.
• No analytics or tracking SDKs inside the app, and no analytics on the TruckDeck website.
• No sale of personal data and no sharing for advertising.
• No profiling and no automated decision-making with legal or similarly significant effects (Art. 22 GDPR).
• No location, contacts, camera, microphone or file access.

6. Who receives personal data

We do not sell or rent personal data. The only recipients are:

7. Transfers outside the European Economic Area

Some of these providers (Google, GitHub/Microsoft, Discord, and Cloudflare) are based in, or may process data in, the United States or another country outside the EEA. Where personal data we control is transferred outside the EEA, the transfer relies on the European Commission's adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, where the recipient is certified, or on the Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission. You can ask us for more information about these safeguards.

8. How long we keep data

9. Your rights

Under the GDPR you have the right to:

• access the personal data we hold about you (Art. 15);
• have it corrected (Art. 16);
• have it erased (Art. 17);
• restrict its processing (Art. 18);
• data portability (Art. 20), where processing is based on contract or consent and carried out by automated means;
• object to processing based on our legitimate interests (Art. 21);
• withdraw any consent you gave, at any time, without affecting earlier processing.

To use any of these rights, email [email protected]. We will answer within one month, as the GDPR requires (extendable by two further months for complex requests, in which case we will tell you why). We may ask you to confirm your identity. Exercising your rights is free.

Because the app has no accounts and we hold no in-app data, there is no account to delete. To remove data stored by the app, clear the app's storage in Android settings or uninstall it. To delete your support emails, your waitlist entry, or any other data we hold, email us and we will delete it unless we must keep it by law (for example accounting records).

10. Your right to complain

You can complain to the Irish supervisory authority:

Data Protection Commission, 6 Pembroke Row, Dublin 2, D02 X963, Ireland — https://www.dataprotection.ie

If you live in another EU/EEA country you can also complain to the data protection authority there. We would appreciate the chance to sort out your concern first, but you do not have to contact us before complaining.

11. Is providing data required?

Using the app does not require you to give us any personal data. Visiting the website will result in the technical server logs described in section 3.4; you do not have to give us your name or email to read the site or download the Bridge. Joining the waitlist is optional; it requires an email address and your agreement to receive emails. Contacting us requires an email address so we can reply. Buying the app requires a Google account and payment with Google Play, under Google's terms.

12. Children

TruckDeck is not directed at children. On Google Play its target audience is 13 and over. The app itself collects no personal data from anyone. The waitlist is also not directed at children. If you are under 16 and want to contact us or join the waitlist, please ask a parent or guardian to help. If we learn we have received personal data from a child without proper authorisation, we will delete it.

13. Security

We keep the data we hold to a minimum. Our support mailbox is protected with a strong password and two-step verification. Data that stays on your devices is protected by your device and network security; see the security note in section 2.

14. Changes to this policy

If we change how TruckDeck or the website handles data (for example if a future version adds in-app purchases, an online feature or crash reporting, or if the site starts using analytics), we will update this policy and, where it affects the app, the Google Play Data safety section before the change goes live, and change the "Last updated" date. Significant changes will also be announced in the app's release notes.

15. Contact

Questions about this policy or your data: [email protected]

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TruckDeck is an unofficial companion app for Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by SCS Software s.r.o. Euro Truck Simulator 2, American Truck Simulator and SCS Software are trademarks or trade names of their respective owners.