Privacy policy

Draft for soft launch; pending legal review.

What we collect

• A random player id (anonymous sign-in), your game progress and the display name you choose.
• Gameplay analytics and crash reports (Firebase Analytics and Crashlytics) to improve the game.
• If you play signed in to Game Center (iOS) or Google Play Games (Android): the player identifier the platform gives this game, so your progress can follow you to a new device, and the achievements you unlock (stored by Apple or Google). You can sign out of Game Center or Play Games in your device settings.
• If you connect Facebook (optional): your Facebook app-scoped id, the list of your Facebook friends who also play Worldwink (Facebook only shares friends who connected too), and your profile picture. We use them to add those friends in the game, to let your progress follow you to another phone, and to show your picture as your avatar. Other travelers see your picture unless you turn off Settings → Show my Facebook picture; your Facebook name is never shown. We never post for you and don't use Facebook for advertising (no Facebook app events). Disconnect any time in Settings → Disconnect Facebook, or remove Worldwink in your Facebook settings under Apps and websites. After you disconnect or delete your account we keep only a scrambled (hashed) marker that your Facebook account already received the one-time connect bonus.
• Purchase records (store transaction ids and what they granted).
• An age band (under 13, 13 to 15, or 16 and over), from the age range your App Store or Google Play account shares with us or from the birth year you enter before a first purchase. We keep only the band, not the year or the exact range.
• Game logs of random outcomes (dice, suitcase prizes, postcard draws, prank outcomes) with your player id, kept up to 13 months so we can check fairness complaints.

What we don't do

• No advertising SDKs and no cross-app tracking (so no ATT prompt). On iOS, Facebook sign-in uses Facebook Limited Login, which doesn't track you across apps.
• We don't sell personal data.

Your choices

• Delete your account any time in Settings → Delete my account; it removes your progress, profile and friend links from our servers.
• Can't open the game any more? Request deletion on the web: worldwink.web.app/delete-account.html.
• Refund requests (App Store): off unless you switch on Settings → Share refund info with Apple. When it is on and you ask Apple for a refund, we tell Apple whether the purchase was delivered and how much of it was used, so Apple can decide. You can switch it off any time; requests to Apple about that data go to apple.com/legal/privacy/contact.
• For a copy of your data or any other privacy request, email nonicnetwork@gmail.com.

How long we keep it

• Game progress and profile: until you delete your account.
• Random-outcome logs: up to 13 months.
• Purchase records: as long as tax and consumer law require.
• Analytics: Firebase's default retention (up to 14 months).

Children

Worldwink is a general-audience game. Players under 16 can't buy anything without a parent, and we don't use behavioural advertising.

Where data lives

Google Firebase, region europe-west1 (Belgium) and eur3 (EU multi-region).