Privacy Policy

Section 1

Who we are and what this policy covers

This Privacy Policy applies to Type Race on Android (package dev.giamma.type_racer) and iOS/iPadOS (bundle giamma.studios.TypeRace). Platform-specific features are identified below. “Type Race”, “we”, “us”, and “our” refer to Gian Marco, the independent developer and data controller for Type Race.

Privacy contact

dev.store.feedback@gmail.com

App account

On Android, Friends uses an automatically assigned Firebase Authentication player identity without a separate registration form, email address, or password. The identifier can persist between sessions. Your nickname is a game label, not a login credential; Friends uploads it with the multiplayer information described below.

Third-party accounts

Google Play Billing and optional Google Play Games features use your Google account. App Store purchases, subscriptions, and optional Game Center features use your Apple Account. Each provider’s terms apply. Type Race never receives either account password.

This standalone HTML page contains no Type Race analytics script, advertising tag, cookie, or external font. The provider that hosts the uploaded page may still receive normal web-server information, such as an IP address and request metadata, under its own terms.

Section 2

Data kept on your device

Type Race needs a local save to run the game. The following information is stored in app-private storage and is not a cloud profile. On Android, Friends also uploads the multiplayer information described below; normal saved game progress and earned balances remain local.

On Android, core player data uses encrypted preferences. Android backup is disabled, and the encrypted player file is excluded from cloud backup and device transfer. Operational caches may use standard Android app storage. On iOS/iPadOS, saves and purchase receipts are stored in the app’s private storage. Apple device backups may include app data according to your device and backup settings; Type Race does not operate a cloud-save or cross-platform account service.

Typed characters are processed locally to score a race. Type Race does not intentionally include the text you type, the playable phrase itself, or your local username in app-authored Analytics or Crashlytics fields. Local completed match records contain aggregate results rather than the phrase text. Friends room records include the game-provided race phrase as described below.

Section 3

Data collected or transmitted from the app

“Collected” below includes information transmitted from the device to us or to a service provider acting for the app. Not every item is present in every session. On iOS/iPadOS, Firebase Analytics and Crash Reports require your separate opt-in choices; purchase processing through Apple and RevenueCat is independent of those choices.

Android Friends associates your nickname with its Firebase Authentication player identifier in room records. The exclusion of your local username, playable phrase, and typed text applies specifically to app-authored Analytics and Crashlytics fields. We may be unable to locate other pseudonymous provider records unless you give us appropriate purchase or support information. Type Race does not create a shared Android/iOS customer login. Restoring store purchases may associate RevenueCat anonymous identifiers with the same purchase history.

Section 4

Play with Friends — Android

When you create or join a Friends room, Type Race uses Google Firebase Authentication and Firebase Realtime Database to operate the multiplayer game. Firebase assigns a player identifier without requiring an email address or password. This identifier can persist between sessions; it is not a fully anonymous or untraceable identity.

We transmit and store:

• Your in-app nickname, selected avatar, cursor and trail, and average typing speed.
• Room codes and identifiers, player identifiers, room settings, race language, the game-provided race phrase, and relevant timestamps.
• Ready and connection status, race progress, correct-character and error counts, completion information, and result-confirmation status.

We use this information to connect players, synchronize races, display appearances and standings, configure computer opponents, and handle reconnections and results. Friends transmits progress and error counts rather than the actual characters you type.

Other players see your nickname, appearance, race progress, and results. Room information can be accessed by authenticated users who have the room code. Limited expired-room records can also be retrieved by authenticated app clients performing cleanup. Use a nickname that does not reveal personal information and share room codes carefully.

Google Firebase also processes technical connection information, including IP addresses and information about the connecting software, to provide and protect its services. See Firebase’s privacy and security information.

Friends analytics

Our existing Firebase Analytics integration records Friends activities such as creating and joining rooms, starting and completing races, player and computer-opponent counts, race language, and completion counts. These custom event fields do not contain nicknames, room codes, Firebase Authentication player identifiers, race phrases, or typed text. The existing Analytics disclosures and platform-specific controls continue to apply.

Friends retention and deletion

Room records may remain after a race ends or a player leaves. The app attempts to remove rooms during certain departure and expiry events. It also performs limited cleanup when new rooms are created, targeting rooms that expired more than six hours earlier. This is not a guarantee of deletion within six hours; records can remain longer.

Closing or uninstalling the app does not itself delete previously uploaded room records or Firebase authentication records. Authentication records are separate from room records and may remain after a room is deleted. Normal saved game progress and earned balances remain covered by the local-data section of this policy.

For a Friends data-access or deletion request, contact dev.store.feedback@gmail.com. Identify Friends as the relevant feature and, if available, provide the room code, approximate date of play, and nickname. We may request additional information reasonably necessary to locate the records and verify the request.

Section 5

Purposes and legal bases

Where data-protection law requires a legal basis, we rely on the basis appropriate to the feature and context:

On iOS/iPadOS, Firebase Analytics and Crash Reports use your separate consent choices. RevenueCat may connect when the app initializes or refreshes purchase status, even before a purchase and with Firebase options off. Apple can also send purchase and subscription updates directly to RevenueCat, including renewals, cancellations, refunds, and billing issues.

You may object to processing based on legitimate interests. Where processing depends on consent, you may withdraw consent without affecting processing already carried out lawfully. Some processing—such as transmitting a purchase token for validation—is necessary to deliver or restore the purchased feature.

Section 6

Service providers and sharing

We disclose data only as needed to operate Type Race, carry out a user-requested action, comply with law, or protect rights and security. The current Android and iOS/iPadOS apps do not display third-party advertising. We do not sell personal information.

We may also disclose information if reasonably necessary to comply with law or a valid legal process, prevent fraud or security incidents, protect users or legal rights, or complete a business transfer. If ownership of Type Race changes, the recipient must handle personal data consistently with this policy and applicable law.

Type Race does not intentionally share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. On Android, Firebase may collect advertising and attribution identifiers when available; those identifiers are used for measurement subject to Google’s controls and terms.

Section 7

International data transfers

Type Race can be used globally. Apple and Google/Firebase process data on global infrastructure. RevenueCat states that customer data is stored on infrastructure in the United States and may be processed by listed subprocessors. Cloudflare also operates globally. This means data may be processed outside your country, including in countries whose privacy laws differ from yours.

Where required, transfers are protected through measures made available by the relevant provider, such as the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses, contractual and security commitments, and applicable adequacy or Data Privacy Framework mechanisms. You can review the provider links in the previous section for current transfer details.

Section 8

How long information is kept

• Local game data: kept until you reset or clear Type Race data or delete the app. Apple device backups, if enabled, are managed separately through your device and Apple Account. See the reinstall section below.
• Friends on Android: room cleanup and the separate retention of Firebase Authentication records are described in Friends retention and deletion.
• Firebase Analytics: user-level and event-level data is retained for the period configured in the standard Analytics property, no longer than 14 months. Google explains that standard aggregated reports can remain beyond that user/event retention period.
• Firebase Crashlytics: Firebase states that crash traces and associated installation identifiers are kept for 90 days before removal from live and backup systems begins.
• RevenueCat: purchase and subscription records are kept while needed to provide purchase and subscription management and while our RevenueCat agreement remains active, subject to deletion requests, backup practices, dispute resolution, fraud prevention, and legal obligations.
• Apple and Google platform services: purchase, subscription, achievement, leaderboard, and account data is kept by the applicable provider according to its policies and the choices available in your Apple or Google account.
• Cloudflare network request: Cloudflare retains request and network data according to its privacy policy. Type Race stores only the timestamp needed for daily-gift state.
• Support messages: kept until the request is resolved and afterward only as reasonably needed to document the resolution, prevent abuse, or establish or defend legal claims.

We may retain information longer when required for tax, accounting, fraud prevention, dispute, or other legal obligations. We may keep data that has been irreversibly aggregated or de-identified because it can no longer reasonably identify or single out a user.

Section 9

Your choices and privacy rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to ask whether we process your personal data, access or receive a copy, correct it, delete it, restrict processing, object to processing, withdraw consent, or receive portable data. You may also have a right not to be discriminated against for exercising a privacy right and to appeal a decision where local law provides it.

To exercise a legal privacy right concerning data controlled by Type Race, use the request route below. We may need to verify that the request relates to you. Rights can be limited by law—for example, where records must be retained for fraud, accounting, legal claims, or another person’s rights.

If you are in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland, you may complain to the data-protection authority where you live or work. In Italy, this is the Garante per la protezione dei dati personali .

Section 10

How to delete Type Race data

You can delete local data and request deletion of pseudonymous data held for Type Race by its service providers, including Friends room records and the separate Firebase Authentication records used on Android.

1. Delete local game data: on Android, use Settings → Apps → Type Race → Storage → Clear storage, or uninstall the app. On iOS/iPadOS, use Reset All Data in Type Race Settings or Delete App in device Settings; Offload App keeps its documents and data. Manage any Apple device backups separately. Deleting local data removes that installation’s profile, progress, currencies, settings, and locally earned items; eligible store purchases may be restored separately. This does not itself delete previously uploaded Friends room or Firebase authentication records.
2. Request provider-record deletion: email dev.store.feedback@gmail.com with the subject “Type Race Data Deletion Request”. Explain whether the request concerns RevenueCat purchases/subscriptions, Firebase telemetry, Friends room records, Firebase Authentication records, or a combination of these, and which platform you use.
3. Help us locate a purchase record: include the platform, product, and approximate purchase date. A Google Play order number or an Apple transaction/order reference, if available, may help us find it; we may need further non-sensitive information. Never send payment-card or bank details, a raw receipt or purchase token, or an account password by email.
4. Help us locate Friends records: identify Friends as the relevant feature and, if available, provide the room code, approximate date of play, and nickname. We may request additional information reasonably necessary to locate the records and verify the request.
5. Manage platform-held data separately: use Google account, Play Games, and Google Play controls for Google-held data, or Apple Account, App Store, Game Center, and Apple privacy controls for data Apple controls directly.

Section 11

What happens after a reinstall

On Android, uninstalling or clearing storage removes the local Type Race save. Reinstalling starts a new level-one local profile: levels, XP, rating, currencies, ordinary progress, settings, and permanent cosmetics left behind by an expired subscription cannot currently be recovered.

With the same Google Play account, an active subscription can be found again through Google Play and RevenueCat. Use Restore Purchases in Settings if Premium does not return automatically. Premium restores its active benefits—double XP, 50% extra gold, and local Spaceman ownership—but it does not restore the old game save and does not bypass Multiplayer’s level-five rule.

On iOS/iPadOS, a fresh install without restored device data creates a new local profile. Restore Purchases uses the same Apple Account to recover eligible store purchases and active Type Club membership; purchase history is also synchronized with RevenueCat. It does not restore prior race or Book progress or a lost in-game currency balance. Restoring an Apple device backup, where available, is separate from restoring purchases.

Google Play Games and Apple Game Center achievements and leaderboard entries may remain with the respective platform profile after reinstall. They are not a backup of Type Race progress. Type Race does not link purchases or game saves between Android and iOS.

Section 12

Children’s privacy

Type Race is a general-audience typing game and is not directed to children under 13. The app does not ask for a birth date and cannot independently determine a user’s age. It also does not ask for a real name, phone number, postal address, or email address during gameplay; the local username can be a nickname. On Android, Friends uploads this nickname and shares it with other players as described in the Friends section. Choose a nickname that does not reveal personal information.

A parent or guardian should supervise purchases, Friends multiplayer, optional Play Games or Game Center use, support emails, and device permissions for a minor. If you believe a child submitted personal information to Type Race or that data should be removed, contact us using the deletion route above. Where local law requires parental authorization for a minor’s data processing, the child should use the app only with that authorization.

Section 13

Security

Type Race uses reasonable technical and organizational safeguards appropriate to the data it handles. Network requests described in this policy use encrypted HTTPS/TLS connections. Android uses encrypted preferences and disables app backup; iOS/iPadOS stores saves in its private app container. Both platforms record purchase fulfillment to prevent duplicate grants. Apple, RevenueCat, Google/Firebase, and Cloudflare maintain their own security programs as described in their policies.

No storage or transmission method can guarantee absolute security. Please keep your device and Apple or Google account protected. If you believe Type Race data is at risk, contact us promptly.

Section 14

Policy changes, links, and contact

We may update this policy when Type Race features, service providers, legal requirements, or data practices change. The new version will show a revised effective date. If a change materially affects how personal data is used, we will provide additional notice or request consent where required.

Type Race includes public-domain or licensed gameplay text and may open external source, store, subscription-management, support, or sharing links. External sites and apps have their own privacy practices. This policy does not control their independent processing.

Please do not email passwords, full payment-card or bank details, raw receipts, or purchase tokens.