This Privacy Policy explains how Sports Pin ("the App", "we", "us") handles your information. Sports Pin is a daily geography game: you read clues and drop a pin on a map. There are no accounts and no ads, and we do not track you across other apps or websites.
1. What Stays on Your Device
Your game progress, scores, streak, history, and settings are stored locally on your device. Pins you place on the map are used only to calculate your score on the device. The App does not access your location, contacts, photos, or camera.
2. What We Collect
To show how your score compares with other players and to run the invite feature, the App talks to a small server operated by us (hosted on Cloudflare). It receives:
An anonymous random identifier. On first launch the App generates a random code and stores it in your device's Keychain. It is not linked to your name, email, Apple ID, or any other personal information. We store only a one-way hash of it.
Your daily result: the round's date and your total score.
Invite data: your invite code, and, if you enter a friend's code, the link between the two anonymous identifiers, used to count completed invitations.
The App also uses Firebase Analytics (Google) to measure anonymous usage: which screens and features are used (for example, starting or finishing a round, opening the archive, sharing, or viewing the subscription screen), plus basic device and app information such as app version, OS version, device model, language, and approximate country derived by Google from the network address. This data is tied to a random app-instance identifier, not to your identity.
We do not collect your name, email address, phone number, precise or approximate location, or advertising identifier.
3. How We Use It
To show you what percentage of players you beat today.
To count invitations and unlock the invite reward (a week of Pro for every five friends who complete a round).
To understand how the App is used and to improve it (Firebase Analytics).
To prevent abuse of the service (for example, rate limiting by network address; we do not store network addresses ourselves).
4. Third-Party Services
Cloudflare hosts our server and processes requests on our behalf, including technical data such as the network address of your connection, under Cloudflare's Privacy Policy.
Google Firebase Analytics receives the anonymous usage events described above, under Google's Privacy Policy and Firebase's privacy information. The App does not use the advertising identifier (IDFA) and does not ask for tracking permission.
Wikipedia / Wikimedia: after each clue the App may load a photo and link to the related Wikipedia article. Loading these images and pages sends your network address and device details to Wikimedia servers, under the Wikimedia Foundation Privacy Policy.
Apple: optional subscriptions are processed entirely by the App Store. We never see your payment details. Billing is governed by Apple's terms.
Apple Maps (MapKit) displays the map. Map requests are handled by Apple under Apple's privacy policy.
We do not use advertising or tracking SDKs, and we do not sell or share your data for advertising.
5. Notifications
If you allow it, the App schedules a local daily reminder on your device. It is created on the device and no notification token is sent to us. You can turn it off any time in iOS Settings → Notifications.
6. Retention and Deletion
Daily results and invite records are kept while the service is operating, in the anonymous form described above. Deleting the App removes your local data. To have the server-side records linked to your identifier deleted, email us; because the data is anonymous, we may ask you for the invite code shown in the App to locate it.
7. Children's Privacy
The App is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children.
8. Your Choices
Use the App without entering an invite code. Playing never requires sharing anything beyond the anonymous data above.
Manage or cancel a subscription in iOS Settings → [your name] → Subscriptions.
Turn off reminders in iOS Settings → Notifications → Sports Pin.
9. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Material changes will be reflected by updating the "Last updated" date above.