Hearts+ is a product of labor from A-Star Software LLC. Where attribution is required for content created by third parties, it is listed below.

The following in-game sounds available online:

The classic card images were created by Jesse Fuchs and Tom Hart, and are available for use under a Creative Commons License.

Images for achievements are as follows

Last updated: August 13, 2020

A-Star Software has players from all over the world coming together to play card games together in our apps. Our goal is to create a fun, safe, and fair place for all card game fans to enjoy the game and escape things that are going on elsewhere in the world. We encourage all players to treat others how they would like to be treated and to follow the specific guidelines below. Players who fail to follow these rules will be subject to warnings, restricted privileges, temporary bans, or even having their multiplayer accounts closed.

Player Name Policy

An example of a player name that is NOT allowed: “I Hate Unicorns”, (Feel free to substitute Unicorns for any specific person or group of people and it is still not allowed), etc.

Community Conduct Policy

If you experience violations of this policy, feel free to contact support using our in-game “Report Abuse” feature under the Help Menu. Contacting us this way will help ensure that we can track down and take corrective action against users who are actively violating the policy.

Opt-out of Sale
To create a more customized online experience, A-Star Software's advertising partners may collect information about your device and the ads you view or click. A-Star Software respects your privacy as a user, and you can opt-out from receiving interest-based advertising. You can opt-out by limiting ad tracking on your iOS device, following these steps:

On iOS 15 and later:

On iOS 14:

On iOS 13 or earlier:

Access
You have the right to request, twice in a 12-month period, that we disclose to you the personal information we have collected, used, disclosed and sold about you during the past 12 months. You can submit an access request by tapping here.

Deletion
You can delete your multiplayer account by opening multiplayer, going to "Account", and then selecting "Delete Account". This will remove your account and delete all personal information. Certain non-personal data, like tokens and rating, will be saved in an anonymized form and can be restored only if you choose to re-create your account by opening Multiplayer again.

You have the right to request that we delete certain personal information we have collected from you. You can delete your multiplayer account and any other personal data we have collected by sending us a personal data deletion request by tapping here.

Object of the game

The overall objective is to be the player with the least amount of points by the end of the game.

Passing Cards

Before each hand begins, each player chooses three cards, and passes them to another player. The main objectives of passing are to try to become "short" or "void" in a suit, and thus able to play off-suit when that suit is led; or to rid one's hand of "dangerous" cards that will likely force that player to take a trick containing penalty points, such as the Ace, King, or Queen of any suit (especially Spades and Hearts). There are many variations on passing; the most common (popularized by computer versions) rotates passing through four deals; on the first deal, players pass to the left, the second deal to the right, the third across the table. On the fourth deal no cards are passed; the cycle of four deals is then repeated.

Game play

The game is played like most other trick-taking games. The first trick is led by the player to the left of the dealer. Each other player, in clockwise order, then plays a card from their hand. Players must "follow suit"; that is, play a card of the same suit as the lead card, if they are able. If they are not able to do so, they can play any card (an action known as "sloughing" or "discarding"), including a penalty Heart or the Queen of Spades. The trick and any penalty points it contains are won by the player who played the highest-value card of the suit that was led. That player then becomes the lead player for the next trick, and play continues until all players have exhausted their hands.

The player holding the two of clubs must lead it to begin the first trick.

No penalty card may be played on the first trick ("no bleeding on the first trick"). The chance of being dealt a hand composed entirely of standard penalty cards, and thus being forced to break this rule, is roughly 1 in 45 billion. This becomes more likely when other penalty cards are introduced as part of a variant.

Hearts cannot be led until they have been "broken" (discarded on the lead of another suit), unless the player who must lead has nothing but Hearts remaining in hand. In some variations, any penalty card, including the Queen of Spades, can break Hearts.

Scoring

Each Heart taken in a trick scores one penalty point against the player winning the trick, and taking the Q of Spades costs 13 penalty points. There are thus 26 penalty points in each deal. The game usually ends when one player reaches or exceeds a certain amount of points. In any of these cases, the winning player is the one with the fewest penalty points.

In some variants, the Jack of Diamonds is a "bonus" card, subtracting 10 penalty points from the player who captures it.

Shooting the Moon

Shooting the moon, also known as getting control, capmangoe, or running, is a very common scoring variant. If one player takes all the penalty cards on one deal, that player's score remains unchanged while 26 penalty points are added to the scores of each of the other players. This is known as playing by "Old Moon" rules. In the "New Moon" rules, the player subtracts 26 points from his or her own score instead of adding 26 to the others. Attempting to shoot the moon is often a risky strategy, as failure to capture every single penalty card will result in the remaining penalty points (as many as 25) being added to one's score.

One variant is called "Shooter's Choice." In this variant, the moon shooter can pick if they want "Old Moon" or "New Moon" scoring.

Attribution

For more information see Wikipedia, where most of this information is sourced from.

Last updated: 12/16/24

A-Star Software LLC ("us", "we", or "our") operates the Euchre 3D, Spades+, Hearts+, and Solitaire+ mobile applications (the "Service").

This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Data when you use our Service.

We will not use or share your Personal Data without your consent.

I. Personal Data Collection and Purposes

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together follows:

This data collectively constitutes the "Personal Data" we collect from you.

We also collect, use and share anonymized aggregated data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated data may be derived from your Personal Data but is not considered Personal Data as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. Aggregated Data may be used for third-party marketing purposes.

II. How Your Personal Data is Collected

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

Direct interactions. You may give us your Personal Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes Personal Data you provide when you:

Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website and mobile applications, we may automatically collect technical data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this Personal Data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies.

Log Data. We collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Service ("Log Data"). This Log Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics.

Third-Party Services. In addition, we may use third party services such as Google Analytics, Google Firebase, Yahoo Flurry and Fabric that collect, monitor and analyze this type of information in order to increase our Service's functionality. These third-party service providers have their own privacy policies addressing how they use such information.

When you access the Service by or through a mobile device, we may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device’s unique device ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser you use, your location information and other statistics.

Cookies. Cookies are files with a small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a web site and transferred to your device. We use cookies to collect information in order to improve our services for you.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. The Help feature on most browsers provide information on how to accept cookies, disable cookies or to notify you when receiving a new cookie.

If you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some features of our Service and we recommend that you leave them turned on.

Do Not Track Disclosure. We do not support Do Not Track ("DNT"). Do Not Track is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked.

You can enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting the Preferences or Settings page of your web browser.

Service Providers. We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service, to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services and/or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform specific tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use your information for any other purpose.

III. Compliance with Laws

We will disclose your Personal Data where required to do so by law or subpoena or if we believe that such action is necessary to comply with the law and the reasonable requests of law enforcement or to protect the security or integrity of our Service.

IV. Business Transaction

If A-Star Software LLC is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, your Personal Data may be transferred as a business asset. In such cases, we will provide notice before your Personal Data is transferred and/or becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

V. Security

The security of your Personal Data is important to us, and we strive to implement and maintain reasonable, commercially acceptable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the information we store, in order to protect it from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure.

However, please be aware that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure, and we are unable to guarantee the absolute security of the Personal Data we have collected from you.

VI. Data Deletion

You can delete your multiplayer account by opening multiplayer, going to "Account", and then selecting "Delete Account". This will remove your account and delete all personal information. Certain non-personal data, like tokens and rating, will be saved in an anonymized form and can be restored only if you choose to re-create your account by opening Multiplayer again.

You have the right to request that we delete certain personal information we have collected from you. You can delete your multiplayer account and any other personal data we have collected by sending us a personal data deletion request, via email at support+delete@astarsoftware.com.

VII. International Transfer

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the information, including Personal Data, to United States and process it there.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

VIII. For Residents of California, Colorado, Connecticut, and Virginia

Residents of California, Colorado, Connecticut, and Virginia have certain choices regarding your personal information, as described below.

Access: You have the right to request, twice in a 12-month period, that we disclose to you the personal information we have collected, used, disclosed and sold about you during the past 12 months.

Deletion: You have the right to request that we delete certain personal information we have collected from you.

Opt-Out of Sale: You have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information.

To exercise any of these rights, you may go to the “Help” screen in the app and select “Do Not Sell My Info”, where the appropriate instructions will appear.

IX. For Residents of the European Union (“EU”) – General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”)

This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use and share your Personal Data. If you are a resident of the EU, you are subject to the GDPR, which becomes effective on May 25, 2018, and the following terms also apply to you. We are the Controller and responsible for your Personal Data.

Lawful Bases to Process Your Personal Data

This Privacy Policy describes above the Personal Data we collect from you and how we use it. We will only use your Personal Data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your Personal Data in the following circumstances:

You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us support+access@astarsoftware.com.

Specifically, we have a lawful basis for processing each type of Personal Data described in this Privacy Policy, which are as follows. We collect Identity Data and Contact for the purpose of providing the Service, identifying and communicating with you, and responding to your requests/inquiries, all of which is necessary for the performance of a contract with you to provide the Service. We also collect this information for improving our services, which is necessary for our legitimate interests to study how users use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy. We collect Technical Data and Usage Data for our legitimate interests in improving the Service, running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganization or restructuring. We collect Friend Data for the purpose of allowing you to find and connect with your friends in our mobile applications.

We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you ( this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.

Note that we may process your Personal Data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact us support+access@astarsoftware.com if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your Personal Data where more than one ground has been set out forth in this Privacy Policy.

We may have to share your Personal Data with the parties set out below for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

External Third Parties

We require all third parties to respect the security of your Personal Data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your Personal Data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your Personal Data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

International Processing

We are based in the United States, which is where all of your data will be processed.

Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your Personal Data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your Personal Data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your Personal Data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality. We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected Personal Data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

Data Retention

We will only retain your Personal Data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for Personal Data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the Personal Data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your Personal Data, the purposes for which we process your Personal Data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements. In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data. In some circumstances we may anonymize your Personal Data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS UNDER THE GDPR

Under certain circumstances, EU residents have rights under data protection laws in relation to their Personal Data. If you are an EU resident, you have the right to:

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us at support+access@astarsoftware.com. You will not have to pay a fee to access your Personal Data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances. We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your Personal Data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that Personal Data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response. We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

X. Links To Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

XI. Children's Privacy

Only persons age 18 or older have permission to access our Service. Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 16 ("Children"). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from Children. If you are a parent or guardian and you learn that your Children have provided us with Personal Data, please contact us at support+access@astarsoftware.com. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from Children without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.

XII. Changes to This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is effective as of 5/27/2020 and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page.

We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Service after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.

If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by placing a prominent notice on our website.

XIII. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to inquire about your Personal Data, please contact us support+access@astarsoftware.com.

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