BackgammonPrivacy Policy
Backgammon is a board game app for iPhone and Android. It is built to need as little about you as possible: there is no email, name or password to give. “We” means TroySoft, the publisher of the app.
What we collect, and why
Games against the bot and on one phone stay on your phone. When you play online, our server keeps the following:
| Data | Why |
|---|---|
| A device account: a random account ID and the public half of a key made on your phone. The private half never leaves your phone’s Keychain (iPhone) or Keystore (Android). | So you can play online without a sign-up or login screen. |
| Sign-in tokens, stored only as hashes. A token lasts at most 90 days. | Keeping you signed in. |
| Your player profile: the player name we generate for you (you can change it), your avatar choice, your country taken from your phone’s region setting (not your location), the app’s language, and your privacy settings. | Showing you to opponents and friends, country leaderboards, and notifications in your language. |
| Online games: each move and roll, the dice seed, the score, times and your opponent. | Running the game, letting both players review it, and letting you check the dice. |
| Ratings and statistics: your rating in each game, rating history, wins and losses, season results and leaderboard places. | Ranks and leaderboards. |
| Friends: friend requests, friendships, blocks, invite codes and challenges. | The Friends features. |
| Reports and bans: reports you send about another player (a reason and the game), reports about you, and any ban on your account. | Keeping online play fair and safe. |
| A notification token from Firebase Cloud Messaging, and whether your phone is an iPhone or Android. | Telling you when it is your turn and about challenges and friend requests. |
| Server logs: the address of each request, its result and how long it took. Our app server doesn’t write IP addresses to its logs; our web server’s access logs do record them. | Keeping the service running and stopping abuse. |
What other players see
Other players see your player name, avatar, country, ratings and tier, and your record against them. Friends see whether you are online or in a game, and can watch your live games one turn behind. You can turn off showing when you are online, appearing on country leaderboards, and friends watching your games in Profile → Privacy, and you can choose who may send you friend requests and challenges. In-game messages are preset phrases only, so there is no free chat.
Advertising
The app shows a full-screen ad now and then after a game ends, never during a game, a tutorial or the first game you play after opening the app. Ads come from Google AdMob, which receives your phone’s advertising ID (IDFA on iPhone, Android advertising ID), basic device and app information and your IP address, to choose, show and measure ads.
- In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, Google’s consent form asks whether ads may be personalised. You can change your choice at any time in Profile → Ads → Ad privacy choices.
- On iPhone, Apple asks whether the app may track you. If you say no, the advertising ID is not shared.
- You can reset or limit your advertising ID in your phone’s settings.
Google explains how it uses this information at How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.
What stays on your phone
Your settings and language, a game in progress against the bot, your sign-in tokens and the private key stay on your phone and are not sent to us.
What we don’t do
- We don’t ask for your email, name or phone number.
- The app doesn’t use your contacts, photos, location, microphone or camera.
- There are no analytics or crash-reporting tools in the app.
- We don’t sell your data, and there is nothing to buy in the app.
Who processes data for us
- Our own server runs the online games and stores the data listed above.
- Google Firebase Cloud Messaging delivers notifications, using your notification token. Apple’s push service carries them to iPhones. See Privacy and Security in Firebase.
- Google AdMob shows ads, as described above.
- Apple and Google distribute the app through their stores, under their own privacy policies.
Some of these providers process data outside your country, including in the United States.
How long we keep it
- Your profile, games, ratings and friends: as long as your account exists.
- Notification tokens: until you delete your account, or until Firebase tells us the token no longer works.
- App server logs: 30 days. Web server access logs, with IP addresses: 14 days.
- Reports and bans: as long as we need them to keep online play safe.
Deleting your data
In the app, go to Profile → Account → Delete account. Any match you are playing is forfeited. We then remove your sign-ins, tokens, notification tokens, friends, blocks, invites, challenges, ratings, rating history, statistics, season results and leaderboard places, and replace your player name, avatar and country with anonymous values. Finished games stay for your opponents, without your name.
If you no longer have the app, see Delete your account.
Your rights
Depending on where you live (for example under the GDPR, the UK GDPR, the CCPA or Türkiye’s KVKK), you can ask to see the data we hold about you, to correct it, to delete it, or to object to how we use it, and you can complain to your data protection authority. Because we don’t know your name or email, tell us your player name (shown at the top of Profile) so we can find your account.
Children
The app is not directed at children under 13 (16 in the EEA), and we don’t knowingly collect data from them. If you think a child has an account, write to us and we will delete it.
Security
The app talks to our server only over HTTPS. Signing in uses a signature from the key on your phone, so no password is ever sent, and sign-in tokens are stored only as hashes. Access to our admin tools needs a password and a second factor.
Changes
When this policy changes, we update the date above. If a change matters to how your data is used, we will also tell you in the app.
Contact
TroySoft · support@troysoft.com.tr