Privacy Policy
Summary: Pog Yatzy can be played locally without an account. Online multiplayer is optional and requires an account. When you use online features, we process account, game, social, and notification data through Firebase. The app also uses Google Mobile Ads for advertising unless you have removed ads, and uses the platform's purchase and review services.
1. Who We Are
Pog Yatzy is developed and operated by Hans Martin Austestad ("we", "us", or "our"). This policy explains what information the Pog Yatzy mobile application (the "App") processes, why it is processed, and the choices available to you.
2. Information We Process
Information you provide for online play
- Email address and authentication information when you create or use an account. Firebase Authentication processes this information so we can sign you in and protect online games.
- Your chosen username and username search information. Your username is visible to other signed-in players so they can find and invite you.
- Information you submit in online games, including players, game configuration, scores, turns, game status, invitations, chat messages, reactions, and game history.
Information generated by the App and services
- Firebase Authentication identifiers and account status.
- Push-notification tokens and notification preferences when you grant notification permission. Tokens are stored in a private account area and used to deliver game-related notifications.
- Technical information processed by Firebase, Google Mobile Ads, Apple, Google Play, and their SDKs as needed to provide authentication, hosting, security, notifications, advertising, purchases, and app functionality. We do not use a separate analytics product or sell personal information.
Local information
Local games, settings, statistics, recent names, review milestone counts, cached purchase status, and other preferences may be stored on your device. Local-only play does not require an account or send game data to our servers.
3. How We Use Information
- To create and authenticate accounts and provide online multiplayer.
- To match players, manage invitations and friends, synchronize games, show leaderboards, and deliver game notifications.
- To maintain security, prevent abuse and cheating, troubleshoot failures, and operate Firebase backend services.
- To show advertising to users who have not purchased the remove-ads product, subject to applicable consent choices.
- To process and restore the one-time remove-ads purchase through Apple App Store or Google Play. We do not receive your full payment-card details.
- To request an optional native App Store or Google Play review at game-count milestones. The platform controls whether a review prompt is shown; we do not receive your review content through the App.
4. Advertising and Consent
The App uses Google Mobile Ads (AdMob) for interstitial advertising. If you have purchased remove-ads, the App does not request ads. Before ads are requested, the App uses Google's User Messaging Platform (UMP) where applicable to obtain consent, and on iOS it may request App Tracking Transparency permission. You can refuse or withdraw consent through the available platform or consent controls; ads may then be non-personalized or unavailable depending on the applicable rules.
AdMob and its partners may process device, advertising, and usage information under their own policies. See Google's Privacy Policy and the AdMob privacy information. We do not use AdMob to identify you by name or read your contacts, photos, or precise location.
5. Service Providers
We use the following providers as necessary to operate the App:
- Google Firebase: Authentication, Firestore database, Cloud Functions, App Check, Firebase Cloud Messaging, and web hosting.
- Google Mobile Ads / UMP: advertising and consent management.
- Apple App Store and Google Play: distribution, in-app purchase processing, and native review prompts.
- Flutter and open-source libraries: software components that run the App under their respective licenses.
These providers may process information in countries other than your own under their respective terms and privacy policies.
6. Retention and Deletion
Local data remains on your device until you delete it, clear the App's storage, or use an available in-app reset. Uninstalling the App can remove local data.
Online account and game data is retained while needed to provide online features, maintain game history and leaderboards, resolve disputes, prevent abuse, or comply with legal obligations. You may request account and associated online-data deletion by contacting us. We will verify the request and delete or anonymize information that we are not required to retain. Backup copies may take reasonable time to expire.
Signing out does not automatically delete an account or shared game records. Push tokens are removed when the App unregisters them or when the account/device association changes.
7. Your Choices and Rights
- You may play offline without creating an account.
- You may change your username and notification permission in the App or device settings.
- You may control advertising consent through the consent controls and device settings, and remove ads by purchasing the available one-time product.
- Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, object to, or receive a copy of personal information. Contact us to exercise applicable rights.
8. Children
The App is not directed at children under the minimum age required by applicable law. Online accounts, advertising, and purchases should be used with a parent or guardian where required. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children in violation of applicable law. If you believe a child has provided personal information, contact us.
9. Security
We use Firebase Authentication, access rules, App Check, and reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect online information. No internet transmission or storage system is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
10. Changes
We may update this policy when the App, services, or legal requirements change. We will update the date above. Material changes will be communicated through the App or another reasonable method where appropriate.
11. Contact
Hans Martin Austestad
post@lurenstudio.no
lurenstudio.no