Privacy Policy

Information we process

We process the nickname you choose, a backend account identifier and sign-in provider, provider-supplied name and email when available, an app installation identifier, platform, time zone, approximate country derived from the request, gameplay and ranking records, in-game friend connections, tournament and puzzle participation, emoji messages, notification settings, and push delivery addresses. A self-hosted stream secret is stored only as a cryptographic hash.

If you upload a profile photo, it is stored and shown with your public game profile. Feedback and support messages are stored with the submitting account. We do not read your phone's address book or collect precise GPS location. In-game friend connections are a social graph, not imported device contacts.

You may also choose to add your real name, a short biography, and one external profile link. These optional details are public after automated content moderation by the developer-operated backend. A profile link is not identity verification. You can edit or remove these details from your profile; account deletion removes them.

Guests receive a backend account identifier and a generated public nickname. We do not offer email-and-password registration and do not receive or store passwords for Apple, Google, or Facebook accounts.

Social sign-in

If you choose a supported sign-in provider, that provider and our backend process the authentication request. Provider availability differs by platform. Our backend stores the provider identifier and provider type needed to recognize the same account on another device. Email sign-in, when enabled, uses a verification code. Installed older clients may continue using Firebase Authentication during the transition.

Provider processing is governed by the Apple Privacy Policy, Google Privacy Policy, and Meta Privacy Policy.

How we use information

We use this information to operate accounts and multiplayer games, keep nicknames unique, synchronize progress across devices, calculate rankings, provide social and tournament features, prevent abuse, deliver requested notifications, diagnose crashes, and improve reliability.

Optional promotional tournament invitations are on by default. When Tournament invitations are enabled in the app, we use your saved time zone, recent app activity and tournament participation to select relevant official events. Invitations are limited to one per day and three per week. You can turn them off in Settings → Notifications at any time, independently of notifications for tournaments you have entered. We retain invitation records to prevent duplicates and enforce these limits.

Analytics and service providers

New Gomoku Party releases use Sentry for diagnostics, performance and product analytics. Installed older releases may continue using Google Firebase Authentication, Analytics and Crashlytics during migration. Firebase Cloud Messaging is not used by the current client. Notifications are sent by the developer-operated backend through Apple Push Notification service, standards-based browser Push services, or the game's own authenticated stream. Operational hosting and the game database are run by the developer. We do not sell personal information. We do not send app account data or gameplay records to Google Ads; the optional website measurement described below is separate from app diagnostics.

Analytics records coarse interactions such as navigation, sign-in, matchmaking, tournament and notification events. Sentry receives stack traces, diagnostic logs, device and operating-system information, and sampled performance measurements. Sampled mobile session replays mask text and images; request bodies and screenshot attachments are excluded. We do not intentionally send account identifiers, email addresses, credentials or chat content to Sentry, and IP storage is disabled in our Sentry projects. Diagnostic SDKs may use installation or session identifiers. Sentry processing is described in the Sentry Privacy Policy.

The current iOS client disables Facebook automatic app-event logging, advertiser identifier collection, and SKAdNetwork reporting by default. Older Firebase-enabled releases deny advertising storage, advertising user-data use, and ad personalization. Account, gameplay, notification, analytics, and diagnostic processing still occurs as described above.

Optional website advertising measurement

On the marketing website at gomokuparty.com, we ask before loading Google Ads measurement (Google tag AW-18125958877). If you allow it, Google may process advertising click and cookie identifiers, the page visited, browser and device information, and network information such as your IP address to measure whether our ads lead to website visits. We record a page-view conversion on marketing and guide pages, not a registration, purchase or completed game. Its configured 1 HUF value is a reporting value, not a charge or payment.

Advertising storage and advertising user-data consent are enabled only after you agree. Ad personalization and Google Analytics storage remain disabled. We do not send account details, email addresses, chat messages or game records with this event. Legal and support pages do not send Google Ads page-view conversions. This website choice does not enable Google telemetry in the game or native apps.

Before loading the tag, we check the country reported by Cloudflare through its same-domain diagnostic endpoint. Google measurement stays off for mainland China and whenever the country cannot be verified. Our consent code reads only the country and site verification fields; it does not store, log or forward the diagnostic response. Cloudflare still processes network requests to serve and protect the website.

Your allow or reject choice is stored in this browser for 180 days under gomoku.marketing-consent.v1. If browser storage is unavailable, the choice lasts for the current page only. Google advertising cookies may have their own lifetimes as described in Google's cookie information. Google processing is also covered by the Google Privacy Policy.

Use Cookie settings in any marketing page footer to change your choice. Rejecting measurement prevents the Google tag from loading. Withdrawing a previous permission removes this site's Google advertising cookies and reloads the page to stop the loaded tag. It does not retroactively delete data already processed by Google. You can use the website and play regardless of your choice.

Retention and account deletion

Account and gameplay information is kept while your account is active or as needed to operate and secure the service. You can permanently delete your account in the app under Settings → Account → Delete account. This removes backend-owned personal data and linked identities through the deletion flow supported by your app version. Completed game and tournament records may remain under an anonymized historical player so opponents' history and ratings stay consistent.

See the account and data deletion instructions if you cannot access the app.

Your choices and contact

You can play as a guest, choose which social provider to use, change your unique nickname, control notifications, and delete your account. For privacy questions or a deletion request, contact [email protected].

Children and changes

Gomoku Party is not directed to children below the minimum age required to consent to online data processing in their country. We may update this policy when the app or legal requirements change; the effective date above will be updated.