“We reached out to itch.io” aka we called his mom.
Privacy =!= Protection from legal action
If you use your iPhone to conduct illicit business, the police can subpoena Apple and it will hand over your data (at least in the US).
Privacy in this context means preventing other apps from selling your data to brokers (e.g., location data) or using your phone information to do other stuff (e.g., AI training).
The jokers are what makes the game fun. You should try it. It’s a kind of video poker though.