Privacy Policy

Last updated: 26 October 2026

DATA CONTROLLER

The developer of this game and the controller of your personal data is Über Creative Oy, a company based in Finland.

Privacy contact: antikainen.m@gmail.com

WHAT DATA WE COLLECT

When you sign in and play online matches, we process the following data:

- Sign-in data: the identity token (ID token) of your Google or Apple account, the email address your sign-in provider passes along, and a Firebase user ID (UID) that identifies your game account.
- Profile data: the player name, team name and motto you enter yourself, plus game preferences synced to your profile (for example settings, calibration and unlocked boules). If you choose to show your player-card photo to others, we also store a processed copy of the photo and your visibility choice on the service.
- Game data: wins, losses, ELO rating, throw statistics (for example best and average throw and hit accuracy) and online match turn data (for example throw results).
- Daily throw: the day's result (the boule's distance from the jack), your player name and team name at the time, the game version, and the throw's path, i.e. the boule's positions during the throw. The path is used to check that the result came from the game. Daily wins, Thrower of the Month points and trophies are also stored.
- Device- or app-installation-related identifiers: a Firebase Cloud Messaging notification token for signed-in players with the game language notifications are written in, and Play Integrity attestation data. These are used for gameplay turn notifications, the daily throw evening reminder and service security.
- Reminder choice: if you turn on the daily throw reminder, we store that choice, the language the reminder is sent in and your device's time zone, so the reminder arrives at 6 PM your time. You can turn the reminder off in the game settings.

We do not request access to device location or contacts. You may optionally select or take a player-card photo. Data processed by the advertising service in the ad-supported version is described below.

PURCHASES AND ACCESS

The full game can be unlocked with a one-time purchase in the App Store or Google Play. The store processes payment; the game does not receive payment card details. The game checks the store-verified product and purchase status and caches access on the device for restoration and offline play. A free entitlement for an existing player account may also be stored with its user ID in Firebase.

The game's shop sells cosmetic items: boule skins, character outfits and packs made of them. A purchase requires a signed-in game account. Our server verifies the purchase proof from the store and records the purchased product, the platform and the purchase identifier against your game account (a Google Play purchase token is stored only as a hash), so the purchase can be restored on a new device and withdrawn if the store refunds it. The store notifies our server of refunds. When you delete your game account, the purchase records are deleted from our server. Your character's look (for example hair, clothes and the name printed on its back) is stored in your profile and shown to your opponent during a match.

WHY WE PROCESS DATA

The game-account data listed above is used to run the game: finding opponents in online play (matchmaking), showing leaderboards and player cards, and storing your profile and progression. The legal basis for processing is providing the game service to you (contract, Article 6(1)(b) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation). Posting the day's winner on Discord is based on our legitimate interest in telling the game's community about competition results (Article 6(1)(f)). You can object to it by contacting the address above.

WHERE DATA IS PROCESSED

Online profile and match data is stored in Google's Firebase service. Google acts as a data processor on behalf of the controller. Firebase services also provide authentication, notification delivery and service security. Processing by these services is not limited to the game database location: data may also be processed outside the EU/EEA under Google's data processing terms and applicable transfer safeguards, such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses. Learn more: https://firebase.google.com/support/privacy.

The daily winner announcement is sent to Discord (Discord Inc., United States), which processes posted messages under its own terms and privacy policy, including outside the EU/EEA.

FRIEND MESSAGES AND FAVORITE NOTIFICATIONS

You can send private text messages to a player after you have both added each other as favorites. Only the participants can view their conversation. Blocking a player or removing a favorite revokes access to the conversation. Messages are transmitted and stored using Firebase; they are not end-to-end encrypted.

The service retains the latest 50 messages in each conversation, participant game identifiers, timestamps and read status. New messages replace older ones. Deleting either participant's account also starts deletion of the conversation.

When you add a player to your favorites, they receive a notification with your player name. It may also appear in device notifications if the recipient allows them. The service retains up to 50 recent favorite notifications per recipient. Deleting an account also removes its related favorite notifications.

PUBLIC DATA

Please note that your player name, team name and statistics (wins, losses, rating and throw statistics such as best and average throw and hit accuracy) are visible to other players on the leaderboard, player cards and in matches. If you turn on the photo setting, your selected player-card photo is also visible to other signed-in players. You can remove the photo from view in Settings. Do not use a player or team name containing information you do not want to show to others.

On the daily throw board, other players see your player name, team and result for the day. The day's winning throw is shown to other players as a replay the next day, and the winner's player name, result and the number of players are posted on KOKUKY's public Discord server. The player names of the top three of the season and the month are shown with their trophies.

DATA STORED ON YOUR DEVICE

Practice progression, the local save file and the optional player-card photo stay on your own device and are removed when you delete the game. The photo is sent to Firebase only if you are signed in and separately turn on the setting that shows it to others. If you are signed in, the profile and game data described above are additionally synced to the Firebase service.

RETENTION

We keep your data for as long as your game account exists. When your account is deleted, your profile, public player-card photo, leaderboard row and matchmaking data are deleted from the Firebase service without undue delay. The public photo copy is also deleted when you turn off photo visibility in Settings. Completed matches remain in your opponents' match history as match records showing your player name at the time of play and the course of the match; you can request anonymization of these records by contacting the address above.

A daily throw's path is deleted after about five days. When your account is deleted, your daily throws, paths and Thrower of the Month points are also deleted, and your name is removed from the day, month and season winners. Discord announcements already posted are not deleted automatically; you can ask for their removal at the address above.

YOUR RIGHTS

Under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) you have the right to access your data, the right to have inaccurate data rectified, and the right to request erasure of your data.

You can delete your game account and its online data directly in the game settings via POISTA TILI (Delete account). You can also send any data requests to antikainen.m@gmail.com.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. In Finland the supervisory authority is the Office of the Data Protection Ombudsman (tietosuoja.fi).

ADS AND YOUR CHOICES

In the free version, Google AdMob may show one ad after a completed match. The first welcome match, practice, and players with full access are ad-free. Play continues if an ad is unavailable.

When the advertising service is enabled, the Google Mobile Ads SDK may process your IP address (which can indicate approximate location), app/device identifiers, ad impressions and interactions, and performance/diagnostic data to deliver and measure ads and prevent fraud. We do not send your game-account name, email, photo, Firebase ID or match results to AdMob. The game requests non-personalized ads; this does not mean the advertising service processes no data.

Required advertising privacy choices are presented through Google's consent form. You can also review ad partners, processing purposes and partner privacy policies in that form. Processing that requires consent relies on your consent. Available choices can be reopened under Settings → Ad privacy settings. Ad requests are made only when Google's consent tool permits them. The iOS version does not request tracking permission and cannot obtain the IDFA advertising identifier without operating-system permission.

Google may process advertising-service data outside the EU/EEA under its privacy policy and applicable transfer safeguards. See https://policies.google.com/privacy and https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites for Google's processing, retention and privacy choices.

Unlocking the full game removes future ads and ad preloading. A purchase or deletion of your game account does not automatically delete data previously processed by Google. Identifiers of consumed match ad opportunities are stored locally to prevent repeated ads for the same match. They are not sent to the game server.

SITE ANALYTICS ON KOKUKY.FI

If you allow statistics in the kokuky.fi cookie notice, the site uses Google Analytics 4 (Google Ireland Limited) to measure visits, page views and clicks on the app store buttons. Google Analytics stores the cookies _ga and _ga_PZDF7GHGF3 in your browser to recognise the same browser across visits for up to 13 months. Google then processes your IP address and information about your browser, device and actions on the site.

We only look at aggregated statistics (for example, visits per day). We do not link them to your game account or use them for advertising: Google signals and ad personalisation are switched off. The legal basis is your consent (Article 6(1)(a) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation). If you do not allow statistics, Google Analytics is not loaded and no cookies are stored; your choice is kept only in your browser's local storage. Google keeps event-level data in Google Analytics for two months and may process data outside the EU/EEA under its privacy policy and applicable transfer safeguards: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

You can change or withdraw your choice at any time: open cookie settings. The link is also in the site footer. Withdrawing removes the Google Analytics cookies for this site.

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

If this policy changes, the updated version is shown in the game. Material changes will be announced separately.

CONTACT

Über Creative Oy
antikainen.m@gmail.com