Privacy Policy

Effective date: 29 September 2026

🔍 Overview

This page explains how Binderlyst handles your data. Binderlyst doesn't ask for your name or email, show ad banners, collect how you use the app, or sell or share your data with third parties for their own purposes. By default your collection stays on your device. The app goes online to look up card data, prices and news, to back up your data to your own Google Drive if you choose, and to contribute to community stats if you turn that on.

• No account required to use the app.
• No ad banners, and no ad network or ad SDK in the app.
• No usage analytics and no crash reporting service.
• Optional Google Drive backup, fully under your control.
• Optional community stats, off unless you turn it on.
• Free, with an optional cosmetic supporter subscription billed through Google Play. Some buy links are affiliate links; they're clearly marked and can be turned off.

📷 Camera Access

Binderlyst asks for camera access so you can scan cards. When you tap Scan, the app takes a photo and reads the card's text on your phone. The photo is only used to identify the card. It stays on your phone and is deleted straight after.

• Camera is only used when you actively tap Scan.
• If you would prefer not to grant camera access, all other features still work.

Card text is read on your phone by Google ML Kit. It sends Google basic technical information, like your device model and any errors, but never your photos or cards.

📦 Your Collection

By default, your collection data is stored locally on your device. Binderlyst has no built-in account system, and by default no server receives your cards, so your collection isn't accessible to the developer. The one exception is the optional Community Stats feature described below: only if you turn it on, the app sends the cards in your decks, want lists and collection, without your name or account. If you uninstall the app, locally stored data is removed with it, unless your device's Android auto-backup is enabled, in which case some data may be backed up to your Google account independently of this app.

You can also back up your data to your own Google Drive (see Google Drive Backup below), and you can export your collection at any time using the in-app export options. CSV, Excel and PDF are all supported.

☁️ Google Drive Backup

Binderlyst offers an optional backup feature that saves a copy of your data to your own Google Drive, so you can restore it if you lose or change your device. This only happens when you choose to sign in with Google and tap Back up (or enable automatic backup). It is off until you turn it on.

• What's backed up: your collection, decks, want lists, folders, saved reports, dashboard layout, app settings, and any dashboard attachments, saved as a single backup file in your Drive.
• Binderlyst uses the limited drive.file permission. This means the app can only see and manage the backup file it creates. It cannot see, read, or touch any of your other Google Drive files.
• The backup is stored in your Google Drive, not on any Binderlyst server, and the developer has no access to your backup or your Google account.
• Your Google account email may be shown inside the app to indicate that you are signed in. It is kept on your device and in your Drive backup file, and is never sent to the developer.
• You stay in control: you can sign out, turn off backup, or delete the backup file from your Google Drive at any time.
• For extra safety, you can also export your collection from time to time.

Once data is in your Google Drive, Google's handling of it is governed by Google's Privacy Policy.

🌐 Internet & Card Data

Card details, prices and images come from Scryfall, and deck lists, price history and news from other public sources. These requests don't include anything about you.

📊 Analytics & Crash Reporting

Binderlyst doesn't use analytics or crash reporting services. It doesn't record which screens you open or what you do in the app, and if the app crashes, no report is sent. The app doesn't use your advertising ID.

🤝 Community Stats (Optional)

Binderlyst can show community stats, like how many decks run a card. These come from players who choose to share. It's off unless you turn on "Contribute anonymized data" in Settings, or tick the box when you first set up the app.

When it's on, the app sends the cards in your decks, want lists and collection, plus your app version, about once a day, including in the background. It never sends your name, email, account, prices, notes or photos.

Turning it off stops sharing and deletes your latest upload. Your upload is only kept for a week. Each week, everyone's uploads are turned into overall numbers, like "90% of decks run Sol Ring", and those numbers are kept for 12 weeks. Nobody's collection is shown. The data is stored with Google Firebase.

🚫 What Binderlyst Doesn't Collect

Binderlyst does not collect, store on any server, or send to the developer any of the following:

• Your name, password, or any login credentials. When you sign in for backup, that is handled securely by Google, and Binderlyst never sees your password.
• Your precise or GPS location.
• Your advertising ID.
• Records of how you use the app, or crash reports.
• The contents of your collection, decks, or the card data you save. These stay on your device (and, if you choose, in your own Google Drive). The optional Community Stats feature above is the only thing that sends any card data off your device, and only when you switch it on.

🤖 A Note on AI

Binderlyst is built with the help of AI tools. They are used for some of its code, some of its artwork, including the supporter styles, and some of its promotional material. Not all of it is made that way, but enough is that it is worth saying plainly. This technology can raise concerns and strong opinions within parts of the community, and that's completely fair. Binderlyst would not exist without it. If this is something that prevents you from using the app, that's understandable, and we hope you find an alternative that works better for you.

🛒 Buy Links & Affiliate Links

Binderlyst shows buy links for cards and sealed products, for example on price tiles in card details and in the New releases section. These are affiliate links to TCGplayer: if you buy something after tapping one, Binderlyst may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Wherever they appear, they're marked with the note "Affiliate links, we may earn a commission."

• Tapping a buy link opens your device's browser, outside the app. Nothing is sent until you tap.
• The link says which cards or product you're buying and where in the app you tapped it. On a want list, "Buy missing" sends the cards you still need. Binderlyst never learns who you are.
• Links pass through the retailer's affiliate network (Impact), which may set cookies in your browser so a purchase can be credited to Binderlyst. From that point, TCGplayer's privacy policy and Impact's privacy policy apply.
• You can turn buy links off in Settings, which hides them throughout the app.

💰 Monetisation

Binderlyst is free to use. Its development is supported in two optional ways: the affiliate buy links described above, and Binderlyst Supporter, a paid subscription that unlocks premium visual styles. The subscription is cosmetic only, and no core feature is locked behind it. Neither of these changes what data the app collects about you. The goal remains the same: no ad banners, no unnecessary annoyances, and no paywalls that lock away core features.

💳 Subscriptions & Google Play Billing

If you subscribe to Binderlyst Supporter, the purchase is handled entirely by Google Play Billing. Google is the seller and processes the payment.

• Binderlyst never sees your payment details. Card numbers, billing addresses and similar information go to Google, not to the app or the developer. How Google handles that is covered by the Google Privacy Policy.
• The app asks Google Play whether the Google account signed in on your device has an active subscription. The answer is a simple yes or no, plus the plan you are on. It is used only to decide whether the premium styles are unlocked.
• That answer is remembered on your device only, so the styles still work offline. It isn't sent to any server.

Cancelling, refunds and billing questions are handled through Google Play. There is a link to your Play subscriptions in the app's Settings.

⚖️ Your Data

Binderlyst's developer is responsible for the data on this page and can be contacted at binderlyst@gmail.com. Community Stats is based on your consent, and turning it off withdraws it. Firebase may store data outside your country, including in the US, under Google's legal safeguards.

📝 Changes to This Policy

If this policy changes, the date at the top of the page will be updated.

✉️ Contact

If you have questions, feedback, concerns, or feature requests, you can get in touch at binderlyst@gmail.com. Responses may take a little time, but you'll get a reply as soon as possible.

⚖️ No Affiliation

Binderlyst is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Wizards of the Coast Fan Content Policy. Not approved/endorsed by Wizards. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. ©Wizards of the Coast LLC.

Card data and prices come from Scryfall, which is not affiliated with Binderlyst, and from TCGplayer for the buy links described above.