Apateon

What data we use

Apateon works without an account, an email address or a phone number. This is all the data it handles:

• •Your player name: the nickname you type to play. It is stored on your device. When you play online it is sent to our servers and the other players in the room see it; if you create a public room, it also appears in the list of open rooms. If you win points, it is shown with your points on the public ranking. We recommend a nickname rather than your full name.
• •A random device identifier: a code the app generates at random and keeps on your device. It gives you your seat back if you reload the page or return to a room, and adds up your ranking points. It is not linked to your identity, your Apple or Google account, or any advertising identifier.
• •What you do in a game: your moves, votes, scores and the text you type inside games (for example, Stop answers, Just One clues or Hook & Liar fake answers). The other players in that game see them, and they are stored on our servers.
• •Activity log: when you sit down in a room or a game starts with you at the table, with your player name and the game, and the points you win. We use it for internal usage statistics.
• •Device type: whether you use the app or the website, the operating system (iOS, Android, Windows, macOS or Linux), whether it is a phone or tablet, and when it was last used.
• •Website visit statistics: on apateon.app we count page views in aggregate with Vercel Web Analytics, which uses no cookies and does not store your IP address. The mobile app uses no analytics tool.
• •Error and performance reports: when something breaks, the app sends Sentry a technical report (the error, the app version, the device model, the operating system and the screens visited just before), and measures how long some operations take.
• •Connection data: like any internet service, the servers that host Apateon receive your IP address in order to respond to you.
• •What we do not collect: email, phone number, contacts, location, photos, camera, microphone, payment data, advertising identifiers or sensitive data. In single-phone mode (pass the phone), names and the game stay on your device only.

Why we use it

We use this data only to:

• •Run the game: create rooms, seat each player, show the table everyone's names, moves and scores, and give you your seat back if you disconnect.
• •Keep the global points ranking.
• •Learn which games are played and on which devices, always in aggregate, to decide what to improve and which games to add.
• •Find and fix errors and improve performance.
• •Answer your support messages and handle requests about your data.
• •Protect the service against abuse and comply with the law.
• •We do not use your data for advertising, build profiles to target ads, or track your activity across other apps or websites.

Who we share it with

We do not sell or rent data. Only these providers process it on our behalf, and they may do so outside Colombia (mainly in the United States) with appropriate safeguards:

• •Convex: the database and real-time servers that hold rooms, games, the ranking and the activity log.
• •Vercel: hosts the apateon.app website and produces its aggregate visit statistics.
• •Sentry: receives error and performance reports.
• •Apple and Google: distribute the app through the App Store and Google Play, under their own privacy policies.
• •Other players: see your player name, your moves and what you type in the games you join, and the public ranking shows your name and points.
• •Authorities: only when the law requires it or to defend our rights.

Security

All communication between the app or website and our servers is encrypted (HTTPS). Only the Zanacode team can access stored data, and we use providers with high security standards, although no system is 100% secure. Retention: room seats are deleted when a room closes for inactivity; played games, the ranking and the activity log are kept while they serve the running and the statistics of the service, or until you ask us to delete them. What is stored on your device (name, settings and identifier) is deleted when you clear the app's or the website's data, or uninstall the app.

Your rights

Under Colombia's data protection law (Law 1581 of 2012) and the laws that apply where you live, you can:

• •Know, update and correct your data.
• •Ask us to delete your data: write to us with the player name you use and, if you can, roughly when you played, and we will delete your games, your ranking entry and your activity log.
• •Ask for proof of the authorization you gave and how we have used your data.
• •Withdraw your authorization at any time by stopping using Apateon and deleting its data from your device.
• •File a complaint with Colombia's Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio or with the data protection authority in your country.
• •Apateon asks for nothing that identifies anyone. If you are a minor, use a nickname and play with your parents' or guardians' permission; if you are a parent or guardian and want us to delete your child's data, write to us.
• •If we change this policy, we will publish the new version here with its date.