Privacy policy
Who we are
Swooshi is made by appnice. The data controller under the GDPR is Patryk Juniszewski (appnice). Contact: contact@swooshi.app.
What the app keeps on your device
Your progress (boards played, scores, stars, coins, lives, unlocked worlds, streaks and quests) and settings (language, sound, background, reminders, analytics on or off) are stored on your device. There is no account or sign-up. Uninstalling the app deletes this data. Some of these values travel with the usage statistics described below, for example the board you are on or how many coins you have, but the full save file is never sent anywhere.
Usage statistics (PostHog)
To see where the game is too hard, too easy or confusing, the app sends usage statistics to PostHog, Inc., using its EU cloud (servers in Frankfurt, Germany). They cover gameplay events: boards started and finished and their results, the moves made on each board, menu choices, coins, lives, daily boards, quests, reminders and ads. Each event also carries the app version, the operating system version, whether the device is a phone or a tablet, the app language, the language and region setting of the device, and how long ago the app was installed.
The events are tied to a random install id created by the app. It is not linked to your name, an account, the advertising id or any other identifier, and it is deleted when you uninstall the app or turn usage statistics off. We do not collect your name, email address, advertising id or precise location. Your IP address is not stored (IP anonymisation is on in our PostHog project) and is not used to find your location; the country comes from the device’s language and region setting only.
Your choice. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, usage statistics run only with your consent, given in the consent form shown when the app starts or with the “analytics” switch in Settings. Until you answer, nothing is sent. Everywhere else they are on by default. Everyone can turn them off at any time with the same switch in Settings; turning them off stops sending and deletes the install id on your device.
Raw events are kept for one year, the retention of our PostHog plan, and then deleted or kept only as totals. See the PostHog privacy policy.
Crash reports (Sentry)
When the app crashes, it sends a crash report to Functional Software, Inc. (Sentry), using Sentry’s EU region (data stored in Germany). This is how we find and fix crashes. A report contains the technical details of the crash (the stack trace, the error type and the threads), the app version and build, the operating system and its version, the device model and type (for example its memory, screen and orientation), where you were in the game (the board and the game mode), and the names of the last 20 game events before the crash (for example “board started”), without their details. The app also tells Sentry when a session starts and ends and whether it crashed, with a random identifier created by Sentry’s library, so we can count how many sessions end without a crash.
Crash reports contain no name, email address, account, advertising id, usage statistics install id or precise location, and no screenshots or recordings of the screen. Your IP address is not stored (IP storage is switched off in our Sentry project). Nothing in a report lets us link it to you.
Your choice. Crash reports are sent in every region, because they contain no personal data and the app cannot be kept working without them. The “analytics” switch in Settings turns them off as well: with it off, no crash report is sent, and from the next start of the app no session is counted.
Sentry keeps crash reports for 30 days on its free plan and 90 days on its paid plans, and then deletes them. See the Sentry privacy policy.
Advertising (Google AdMob)
The app shows ads through Google AdMob, provided by Google Ireland Limited. To show and measure ads, Google may collect your device’s advertising identifier, IP address, device and app information, and how you interact with ads. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland we ask for your consent first through Google’s consent form; personalised ads are shown only if you agree, otherwise ads are non-personalised. You can change your choice at any time with the “privacy” option in Settings. The app does not ask to track you across other companies’ apps and websites. See how Google uses information from apps that use its services.
Game Center (iPhone and iPad)
If you are signed in to Game Center, your score on the daily board is sent to Apple’s daily leaderboard under your Game Center account. This is handled by Apple under Apple’s privacy policy; we do not receive or keep it. Signing out of Game Center stops it.
Reminders
If you allow notifications, reminders are scheduled on your device. They are not sent through a server of ours or of anyone else.
Purchases
The current version of the app has no in-app purchases. If we add them, payments will be processed by the App Store or Google Play and we will never see your payment details; to confirm and restore purchases the app will use RevenueCat, Inc. We will update this policy before that happens.
What we do not do
- We do not collect your name, email address, contacts, precise location or photos.
- We do not track you across other companies’ apps or websites, and we do not use the advertising id for statistics.
- We do not sell personal data.
Legal basis
Personalised advertising relies on your consent (GDPR Art. 6(1)(a)); non-personalised ads and fraud prevention rely on our legitimate interest in funding a free game (Art. 6(1)(f)). Usage statistics rely on your consent in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland (Art. 6(1)(a)), and on our legitimate interest in improving the game elsewhere (Art. 6(1)(f)). Crash reports rely on our legitimate interest in keeping the app working (Art. 6(1)(f)).
Children
Swooshi is a general-audience game and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children.
Your rights
You can ask for access to, correction or deletion of your data, object to processing, withdraw consent, and complain to your data protection authority (in Poland: the President of the Personal Data Protection Office, UODO). Our processor for usage statistics is PostHog, and for crash reports Sentry. To ask about your usage statistics, open Settings, tap “copy my id” next to the analytics switch, and send the id to contact@swooshi.app; we will give you or delete the events stored under it. Crash reports carry no identifier that could be matched to you, so they cannot be looked up for one person; they are deleted when the retention above ends. Requests about ad data are passed to Google.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be published on this page with a new effective date.