Holoport AI Chess
Privacy Policy
Holoport AI Chess for Apple Vision Pro · last updated 14 October 2026
The chess engine runs on your headset, and Play Local works with no connection at all. When you play Claude, the text of what you say and the moves of the game are sent to our server so that Claude can answer you. Your voice is turned into text on the headset and the recording itself is never uploaded. There is no advertising, no tracking and no analytics in the app.
Who we are
Holoport AI Chess is made by Gazellia Ventures LLC. Questions about this policy go to chris@gazellia.com.
What stays on your headset
- Your room. The app looks for a table so it can put the board on it. That happens on the device using Apple's frameworks. No image or map of your room is sent anywhere.
- Your hands and eyes. Picking up pieces uses the system's hand and eye input. The app is told which piece you picked up, not where you looked. Your eye data is never available to us.
- Your voice. In a Claude game the microphone is on so you can talk to him, and you can mute it at any time. Speech recognition is set to run on the device, so what you say becomes text on the headset. The audio is not recorded, stored or uploaded. The microphone is not used in any other mode.
- Play Local games. The chess engine runs on the headset. A Play Local game works with no connection at all.
What is sent to our server, and why
The app talks to one server, run by us at hc.gazellia.com on Amazon Web Services.
| What | Why |
|---|---|
| A random account ID | The app makes a random identifier the first time it runs and keeps it in your Keychain (synced by iCloud Keychain if you use it). It is how the server knows which games you have paid for, without a login. It is not linked to your name, email or Apple Account. |
| The text of what you say to Claude | So Claude can reply. Only the text, never the audio. |
| The moves of the game, your colour and the level you chose | So the server can keep the game, choose the opponent's move and let you resume an unfinished game. |
| Purchase information from Apple | When you buy a Claude game, the app sends the Apple-signed transaction for that purchase (which product, its transaction ID and whether it was a test purchase) so the server can credit the game to your account ID. We never see your payment details. |
Free Play Local games can also use the server for one thing: when you are online, the wizard's spoken lines for your first few free games each day are written by Claude, which needs the moves of that game. Offline, he uses built-in lines and nothing is sent.
If you choose an online match against another player, the moves are relayed through our server, and so are the positions of your head and hands relative to the board (about 15 times a second, during that match only) so your opponent sees a figure reach for the pieces. These are relayed live, not stored. Your opponent sees the display name you typed; names containing offensive words are replaced with a generic name before anyone else sees them. Your account ID is sent with an online match so blocks can be kept, and it is never shown to your opponent. If you play a friend over FaceTime, the game runs through Apple's SharePlay.
What our server keeps, and for how long
Each game against Claude or the wizard is stored as a record tied to your random account ID: the moves, the result and, for Claude games, the conversation text, so a game can be picked up again and so the wizard remembers what was said earlier in it.
- Conversation text and game records are deleted after 90 days. The server checks every hour and removes anything older.
- Purchase records are kept. The record of each game you bought (which product, Apple's transaction ID, and whether it was used or refunded) is kept because it is needed for refunds and accounting. Where a purchase points at a game older than 90 days, only a bare entry for that game is kept: its conversation text and moves are deleted.
- Daily counts. How many free voiced games you played each day is kept for the free daily limit and deleted after 90 days.
- Reports and blocks. If you report or block a player in an online match, or someone reports or blocks you, the server stores it for safety: the two account IDs, the game ID, the reason chosen and the display name shown. Reports are reviewed by us and deleted after one year. A block is kept so the two players are never matched again; email us to have yours removed.
- Server logs. Our web server's logs record the IP address of each request, the time, the address requested and the app version (from the User-Agent), but not your account ID. The game server's own logs record operational details such as errors, timings and usage counts. Logs are kept for a limited time, are not used to profile you and are never sold.
Online matches against other players are not stored beyond the reports and blocks described above: their moves exist only while the match is being played.
To have the records for your account ID deleted sooner, email chris@gazellia.com.
Who else is involved
- Anthropic's Claude, through Amazon Bedrock. Claude runs on Amazon Web Services' Bedrock service. The conversation text and the state of the game are sent to it to produce his replies and his moves. Under AWS's Bedrock terms, these inputs are not used to train the models.
- Voice generation. The wizard's spoken voice is made from the text of his reply on our server, using a text-to-speech provider (currently ElevenLabs). Only his words are sent to it, never yours. If that service is unavailable, his voice is generated on the headset instead.
- Amazon Web Services hosts the server and its database.
- Apple handles purchases, FaceTime and SharePlay. Apple's own privacy policy covers those.
We do not sell or share your data for advertising, and the app contains no third-party analytics or advertising code.
Children
Holoport AI Chess is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them.
This website
The Holoport AI Chess pages on holoportvision.com do not use any analytics or tracking scripts. The Holoport Vision privacy policy describes the measurement used on the Holoport Vision page itself.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new date. Anything that changes what the app sends would be described plainly and arrive with an app update you choose to install.