Legal · Privacy
Your privacy, in plain language.
This policy explains what data the Football Trivia app processes, why it is processed, who may receive it, and how you can manage your choices.
We do not require registration with your name, email address, or phone number.
Your preferences and game statistics are primarily stored on your device.
If ads are enabled, Google may process data; if online features are used, infrastructure providers may process data.
1. Data controller
Football Trivia (the “App”) is provided by an independent developer. For privacy questions and requests, contact us at sametsemihalici@gmail.com.
2. Data we process
Data stored on your device
Preferences such as language, sound, haptics, data downloads, and league/game filters, as well as tutorial status, local scores, achievements, and game statistics, may be stored on your device. This data keeps your experience consistent and is not automatically sent to the developer’s server.
Online game data
When online features are made available and you use them, we create a random guest identifier and a time-limited access token without requesting your name or email. Matchmaking preferences, game mode, difficulty/league selection, room and connection state, moves, guesses, and scores are processed to operate online play.
Your IP address may be technically processed for security, abuse prevention, and rate limiting. The App’s current server logging is designed not to record access tokens, IP addresses, or secret in-game guesses.
Advertising and diagnostics data
If advertising is enabled in a production release, Google AdMob may display interstitial ads. Depending on Google’s policies, your device settings, and consent where required, the Google Mobile Ads SDK may process device or advertising identifiers, IP address, ad impressions and clicks, inferred approximate location, and diagnostic information. This advertising data is not stored on the developer’s own server.
Network requests
The App may use an internet connection to download current football data packages and provide online features. As with a standard network connection, the hosting provider can technically see the IP address and basic request information.
3. Purposes and legal bases
| Data | Purpose | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Local preferences and progress | Remember choices and provide gameplay and statistics | Providing the service; legitimate interests |
| Guest session and match state | Matchmaking, room management, real-time play, and cheat prevention | Providing the service you request; legitimate interests |
| Short-lived IP rate-limit counter | Prevent abuse and excessive requests | Legitimate security interests |
| Advertising data | Serve and measure ads and prevent fraud | Consent and/or the provider’s legitimate interests, depending on region |
4. Who may receive data?
- Google AdMob: For ad delivery, measurement, and security when advertising is enabled.
- Hosting and infrastructure providers: For the online game server, Redis data store, TLS/network services, and football data-package delivery.
- Apple and Google: Under their own terms for app-store distribution, related store services, and platform security.
- Authorities: Where legally required or necessary to protect rights and safety.
We do not sell your personal data. Google’s independent processing through AdMob advertising technologies is governed by Google’s own terms. We expect service providers to process data consistently with this policy and with appropriate safeguards.
5. Retention and deletion
- Local preferences and statistics may remain on your device until you reset them, clear the App’s data, or uninstall it. Operating-system backups may separately be governed by your provider.
- A guest access token is valid for one hour by default and can be configured for no longer than 24 hours; a new token is created after expiry.
- Matchmaking records and active match state use short Redis TTLs: by default, 30 seconds for the queue, 5 minutes for an active room/match, and 10 minutes for request replay records. An active connection may renew necessary records for the duration of play.
- The IP-based rate-limit counter is automatically removed after one minute by default.
The App does not create a persistent user account. You may contact support to request deletion of online session data; because we cannot associate you with an account, we may be unable to locate a particular anonymous record.
6. Your choices and consent
Depending on your region, advertising personalisation and consent choices may be managed through a Google-certified consent interface in the App, your device advertising settings, or Google ad settings. You can clear App data in operating-system settings or uninstall the App. No online match data is created if you do not use an online feature.
7. Children’s privacy
The App is not directed to children under 13 and does not knowingly collect a child’s name, email address, or phone number. If you believe a child has provided personal data to us, contact us to request deletion. If the App’s intended audience or advertising configuration changes, appropriate age and family protections will be implemented.
8. Security and international transfers
We use measures such as HTTPS/WSS network transport, secure on-device storage for online tokens, expiring server records, payload limits, and rate limits. No method is completely secure. Google and infrastructure providers may process data outside your country under their applicable transfer mechanisms and safeguards.
9. Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, or object to processing; withdraw consent; and complain to a competent data-protection authority. Send requests to our support address. We ask only for information needed to verify and respond to the request.
10. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy when App features or legal requirements change. A new version will be published on this page with a revised effective date. We may provide an appropriate in-app notice for material changes.
11. Contact
For privacy questions, rights requests, or data-deletion requests: sametsemihalici@gmail.com
App: Football Trivia · Package identifier: com.blacktowhite.footballtrivia