Privacy

The short version

• We don't ask for your name, email or phone number, and there are no accounts.
• The game knows your device only by a random number it makes up.
• We store your rounds (which photos you saw and what you answered) for the daily ranking, and the reports you send.
• There are no ads in the game, and we don't sell your data. Only if you allow it, the game tells Meta (Facebook) that you installed and play it, so our ads reach people who'll enjoy the game.
• You can erase your rounds and reports in the app, and ask us to erase the rest, at any time.

What we store

• A random device id. The game makes it up the first time it talks to our server. It isn't linked to your name, email, phone number or any account, and we don't use it for advertising.
• Your rounds. The photos you were shown, your answers, how long each took, your level and the date. We use them for the daily ranking and to find photos that are too easy or too hard.
• Photo reports. Which photo you reported, the reason you picked and your note, if you wrote one.
• How the app is used and how it runs. Events such as opening the app, starting and finishing a round and errors, each with the time, the app version, your phone's language, time zone and region, and, from Google Play, how the app was installed. We use them to fix problems and to improve the game.

Location. We do not collect your precise location. The app sends the country of your phone's SIM card or mobile network, and when your device first contacts our server, the server works out an approximate country from your internet connection. We keep only that country, for the daily ranking and for statistics on where the game is played.

We don't store your IP address. Our server sees it, as every website does, and uses it only in memory, for example to limit how many requests one address can make in a day and to work out the country above.

Photos in the game

All photos in the game come from Wikimedia Commons and are used under their free licences; the app's Photo credits screen lists the author and licence of each one and what we changed. We blur text, faces and number plates in them. If you are the author, the owner of a work in a photo, or a person in a photo and you want it credited differently, blurred or removed, write to support@truemagic.io with the photo's title or link. We reply within 2 working days and take a photo down while we look into it. You can also tap Report this photo after any answer.

Meta (Facebook), only if you allow it

We advertise Which Country? on Facebook and Instagram. After your second finished round, the game asks whether it may share that you installed and play it with Meta. Until you tap Allow, Meta's software in the game stays switched off and sends Meta nothing.

If you allow it, it sends Meta: that the game was installed and opened, that you finished the first rounds, and that you came back on a later day than the install; your phone's advertising ID, an anonymous ID that Meta's software makes for the game, and whether you came from a Facebook or Instagram ad (read from the Facebook and Instagram apps on your phone, if you have them); basic facts about the app and your phone that Meta's software adds itself: the app version, your phone's model and Android version, language, time zone, mobile carrier, screen size and storage size, and your IP address; and reports from Meta's software when it crashes itself. Never your name, contacts or answers.

Meta uses this to count which ads bring players and to show our ads to people like the ones who enjoy the game, under Meta's privacy policy. To stop it, turn off Share installs with Meta in the game's Settings. We also store your answer (allow or no) with the random device id, so we know how many players say yes. You can reset your phone's advertising ID, or delete it, in your phone's settings.

Where your data is

Our server and database run on Amazon Web Services in Ireland (EU). The game's pages and photos are delivered through Amazon CloudFront, close to wherever you play.

How long we keep it

• Rounds and reports: kept while the game runs, until you erase them in the app (Settings › Delete my data) or ask us to.
• App events and the device record (including the country above): kept as anonymous app data tied to the random device id, until you ask us to erase them.

Your choices and rights

• Ask us for a copy of your data, to correct it or to erase it: write to support@truemagic.io. Because we don't know who you are, tell us when you played and your device id (it is under About in the game's settings), so we can find your data. We answer within one month.
• Delete my data in the app erases your rounds and reports on our server and everything the game saved on your phone. It does not remove the app events and the device record, which stay as anonymous app data tied to the random device id. To have those erased too, write to us with your device id and we will do it within one month.
• If you're unhappy with how we handle your data, you can complain to the data protection authority where you live.

Children

The game is meant for players of 13 and older. We don't knowingly collect data from younger children; if you think a child has played, write to us and we will erase it.

Contact

TrueMagic · support@truemagic.io

If we change this notice, the date at the top changes too.