Privacy Policy — Arcade Hoops

1. Overview

Arcade Hoops is an arcade basketball game. It needs no account, password or email, and never asks for your photos, contacts or location. To learn how the game is played and improve it, it uses Google Firebase Analytics, which collects anonymous usage statistics described below. From version 1.1 the game also has a world ranking (section 4), which stores a player name of your choice and your best scores on our servers. From the same version it shows a short video advertisement every few rounds, served by Google AdMob (section 5).

2. What stays on your device

• Game progress. Scores, best scores, tickets, unlocked machines and balls, boosters, mastery progress and the daily-gift streak are saved on your device only.
• Settings. Sound, music and vibration preferences are saved on your device only.

Uninstalling the game, or clearing its data in your phone's settings, deletes them.

3. Anonymous usage statistics (Firebase Analytics)

The game uses Google Firebase Analytics, a service of Google LLC, to count installs and see how the game is used. It collects:

• App activity: which screens are opened (for example the hall, the shop or a machine), and game events such as a round ending (its score, tickets and goals reached), an item bought with in-game tickets, a daily gift opened or a mastery tier reached.
• Device and app information: a random app-instance identifier created by Firebase, the device model, operating system version, app version, language, and an approximate country derived by Google from the connection.

This information is not linked to your name or any account, is not used for advertising, and is not sold. Analytics and advertising are kept apart: the advertising ID is used only by AdMob, as described in section 5. Google processes the data under its own terms: Google Privacy Policy and Firebase privacy information. Analytics data is kept for the retention period set in Google Analytics (at most 14 months) and then deleted.

To reset the app-instance identifier, clear the app's data or reinstall the game.

Crash reports (Firebase Crashlytics)

On Android, if the game crashes, Google Firebase Crashlytics, a service of Google LLC, sends us a crash report so we can fix the cause. A report contains where in the program the crash happened, the game events just before it (the same events as the statistics above), the device model, operating system version, app version, free memory and storage, and a random installation identifier created by Crashlytics. It is not linked to your name or any account, is not used for advertising, and is not sold. Crash reports are kept for 90 days and then deleted. Clearing the app's data or reinstalling the game resets the identifier.

4. The world ranking (version 1.1 and later)

Each machine in the game has a world ranking of the players' best scores. To place you on it, the game keeps a small record for you on Google Firebase (Firebase Authentication and Cloud Firestore, services of Google LLC):

• A random user ID created by Firebase the first time you play a round. It is not your name, email or phone number.
• Your player name. The game gives you one at first (for example "PLAYER 4821", or the name of your Google Play Games or Game Center profile) and you can change it at any time in the game's Profile.
• Your best score on each machine, with the ball it was scored with and your mastery levels, and the time it was set.

Your player name and best scores are public: other players see them on the rankings in the game. Do not use your full real name if you do not want it shown.

Store sign-in. On Android the game signs you in with Google Play Games, and on iOS with Apple Game Center, so the same ranking record comes back if you reinstall the game or change phone. From that sign-in the game receives your player ID and display name there; never your email or password.

This record is used only for the rankings. It is not used for advertising, not sold, and not shared with anyone except Google as the service that stores it.

Deleting your ranking data

In the game: Profile → DELETE MY ONLINE DATA. This deletes your player name, your scores on every ranking and your user ID immediately; your progress on the phone stays. You can also ask us to delete it without the game: see how to delete your data, or write to dimrihezi@gmail.com with your player name. We delete it within 30 days.

5. Advertising (Google AdMob)

From version 1.1 the game shows a short video advertisement every few rounds, as you leave the end-of-round card. The ads are served by Google AdMob, a service of Google LLC. To serve and measure them, AdMob collects on its own behalf:

• The device's advertising ID on Android (the game does not ask for permission to track on iOS, so there AdMob works without Apple's advertising identifier), the device model, operating system version, language, an approximate location derived from the IP address, and ad activity such as which ads were shown and tapped.

Google uses this data to show ads and to limit how often you see the same one, and, where you have agreed to it, to personalize them. We do not receive this data and do not give Google anything else about you.

Your choices. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland the game asks for your consent before it shows any ad; to change that choice, open Profile → Privacy options in the game. Everywhere, you can reset or delete the advertising ID and opt out of personalized ads in your phone's settings (Android: Settings → Google → Ads; iOS: Settings → Privacy & Security → Apple Advertising). Google explains its use of advertising data at How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services and in its Privacy Policy.

6. What we do not do

• No password or email is ever requested.
• No access to your photos, camera, microphone, location or contacts.
• The game uses the internet only for the anonymous statistics and crash reports above, the world ranking and the advertisements. Vibration is used for haptic feedback.

7. Purchases

Tickets, machines, balls and boosters are earned and spent inside the game. There are no real-money purchases in the current version. If that changes, this policy will be updated before the change is released.

8. Children

Arcade Hoops is a general-audience game and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

9. Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new effective date.

10. Contact

Questions about this policy, or a request about your data: dimrihezi@gmail.com