Privacy Policy

Effective date: July 29, 2026

Most of our games have no accounts and no back-end: your progress stays on your device, and we couldn't read it if we wanted to. The exception is Kiosque, which creates an anonymous account and syncs a small profile — a display name you choose, a generated avatar, and your daily scores — so you can compare results with friends you have added (section 3). Beyond that, the only data that leaves your device goes to Apple or Google (purchases, iCloud sync) or, in free versions, to an advertising network to serve ads.

1. Who we are

Carré is a trade name of 1596505 B.C. Ltd., a company based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ("we", "us"). This policy covers this website (playcarre.com) and our games — Partitions, Domidoku, and Partypicker for iOS, and Kiosque for iOS and Android (the "Apps"). You can reach us at hello@playcarre.com.

2. This website

playcarre.com is a static site. It sets no cookies, runs no analytics, and has no accounts or forms. Two third parties are involved in serving it:

• Vercel hosts the site and, like any host, processes standard server logs (IP address, user agent) to deliver pages and protect the service.
• Google Fonts serves the site's typefaces; your browser requests them from Google's servers, which see your IP address and user agent.

3. What our Apps store

Game data — progress, completed puzzles, best times, streaks, hint balances, settings, and mid-game saves — is stored locally on your device and never transmitted to us. For Partitions, Domidoku, and Partypicker that is the whole story: those Apps have no accounts and no back-end, and we cannot see their data. Kiosque additionally syncs a small profile, described below.

If you are signed into iCloud, some Apps sync a small progress summary through Apple's iCloud key-value storage so your progress follows you between your own devices. That copy lives in your personal iCloud account, is handled by Apple under Apple's privacy terms, and is not visible to us. Kiosque does not use iCloud sync.

Deleting an App (or using its in-app reset option) erases its local data.

Kiosque: friends & daily scores

Kiosque is our one App with a back-end. On first launch it silently creates an anonymous account using Firebase Authentication — there is no sign-up, and we ask for no email, no password, no phone number, and no device identifier. The account is an opaque user ID plus a short, shareable friend code.

To make the friends leaderboard work, Kiosque stores the following — and only the following — in Cloud Firestore, per user:

• your display name — chosen by you, free text, unverified;
• your avatar — an index and a colour-palette string describing generated artwork, never a photo;
• your friend code;
• one entry per game for the current day: the date, your time in seconds, the number of mistakes, the number of hints used, and for some games one extra number (letters found, attempts, or steps);
• pending incoming friend requests — the sender's user ID, name, and avatar;
• one record per accepted friendship, holding the two user IDs.

This data exists for the friends leaderboard and nothing else. It is never sold, never used to target advertising, and never combined with the ad data described in section 5. Firebase, a Google service, processes it on our behalf. Access is restricted by Firestore security rules: only you and the friends who have accepted a request can read your name, avatar, or scores — strangers cannot. As the project's owners we can technically access the database, though we do not use that access in normal operation.

Kiosque uses no analytics service and sends no push notifications — the optional daily reminder is a local notification scheduled on your device. It does use Firebase Crashlytics to report crashes: when the App stops unexpectedly, Crashlytics sends us a technical report — the crash stack, the device model, the operating system version, and the puzzle that was open at the time (for example "trame, 2027-03-14"). These reports carry no display name, no friend code, and no user ID, and we use them only to find and fix the bug.

4. In-app purchases & subscriptions

Purchases (for example, ad removal, hint packs, or a subscription) are processed entirely by the store you bought them from: Apple via StoreKit on iOS, and Google Play Billing on Android (Kiosque). The store shares only a transaction receipt with the App so it can grant the entitlement on your device. We never see your name, email, payment card, billing address, or any other purchase detail. Subscriptions are managed and cancelled through your App Store or Google Play account settings; previous purchases can be restored from within each App.

5. Advertising (free versions only)

Unless you have removed ads via purchase or subscription, free versions of our Apps may display ads served by Google AdMob. AdMob may collect or access:

• your device's advertising identifier — on iOS the IDFA, and only if you grant permission via Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt; on Android the Google advertising ID;
• coarse, non-precise location derived from your IP address;
• information about the ads you see and interact with;
• standard device characteristics (model, OS version, language).

AdMob uses this data to deliver, measure, and — only if you have consented — personalise advertising. Google's privacy policy applies to that processing: policies.google.com/privacy.

In the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Switzerland, we use Google's User Messaging Platform (UMP) to obtain consent before requesting personalised ads. You can review or change your choice at any time via the App's settings ("Ad privacy options").

6. Tracking permission

Where an App shows ads on iOS, the system will ask whether the App may track you across other companies' apps and websites — this is Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt, controlled by Apple. If you allow it, AdMob may use your IDFA for personalised ads; if you deny it, ads still appear but are non-personalised. You can change your answer any time in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking.

Android has no equivalent system prompt. Ads there use the Google advertising ID; you can delete or reset it and opt out of ad personalisation in Android Settings → Privacy → Ads, and review your consent choice through the App's ad privacy options (section 5).

7. Game Center

Apps with Apple leaderboard features — currently Partitions — use Apple's Game Center. Your Game Center nickname, avatar, and friend connections are created, stored, and processed by Apple under Apple's privacy policy — not by us. You can disable Game Center for any App in iOS Settings. Kiosque does not use Game Center; its friend features are described in section 3.

8. App-specific notes

Partitions

A single-player puzzle game. Progress is stored on device. No accounts and no back-end run by us; leaderboards use Game Center (section 7). Free versions may show ads (section 5); purchases are handled by Apple (section 4).

Domidoku

A single-player puzzle game. Progress is stored on device, with an optional iCloud progress summary (section 3). Free versions show AdMob ads (section 5); the ad-removal purchase and hint packs are handled by Apple (section 4).

Kiosque

A daily puzzle collection for iOS and Android. Progress and streaks are stored on device. Playing with friends works by sharing a short friend code: the App creates an anonymous account and syncs your display name, generated avatar, and each day's scores through Cloud Firestore so you and your accepted friends can compare results (section 3). The optional subscription — which removes ads and unlocks the archive — is handled by Apple on iOS and Google Play on Android (section 4). Free versions may show ads (section 5).

Partypicker

In development. Preferences are stored on device; the general sections of this policy apply. Any app-specific details will be added here before release.

9. Children

Our Apps are suitable for general audiences but are not specifically directed at children under 13 (or the equivalent minimum age in your country). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. Three of our four Apps collect no personal information at all; Kiosque's friend feature stores only a freely chosen display name, a generated avatar, and daily scores (section 3) — no real name, email, or photo is ever requested. If you are a parent or guardian with a concern, including a request to delete a child's Kiosque profile, contact us at hello@playcarre.com.

10. Data retention

For Partitions, Domidoku, and Partypicker we retain nothing, because nothing reaches us. Local data persists until you delete it or uninstall the App. Kiosque's synced profile and scores remain in Cloud Firestore until you ask us to delete them (section 11); removing a friend in the App deletes that friendship record immediately. Data processed by Apple or Google is retained under their respective policies.

11. Your rights

Depending on where you live — for example Canada under PIPEDA, the EU/UK under GDPR, or California under CCPA/CPRA — you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or object to processing of your personal data. For most of our Apps we hold none of it, so those rights are exercised directly:

• Local data: use the App's reset option, or uninstall it.
• Ad personalisation: revoke tracking in iOS Settings or reset the advertising ID in Android Settings, and revisit the in-app ad privacy options.
• Apple data (purchases, Game Center, iCloud): contact Apple or manage it in your Apple Account settings.
• Google data (Play purchases): contact Google or manage it in your Google Account settings.
• AdMob processing: see Google's privacy controls, linked in section 5.

Kiosque's synced data is different: we hold it, so requests come to us. Removing a friend in the App immediately deletes that friendship record. For everything else — a copy of your data, a correction, or deletion of your entire profile (display name, avatar, friend code, scores, and friendships) — write to hello@playcarre.com and include your friend code so we can locate the record; because we hold no email address or real name, the friend code is the only way to find you. You can also delete the whole synced profile yourself, from the App: open the Moi tab and tap Supprimer mon compte at the bottom — the full procedure, including what is and is not erased, is set out on our account deletion page. We act on verified requests within the timelines required by the law that applies to you — in most cases 30 days.

For anything else, write to hello@playcarre.com.

12. International users

Our Apps are distributed worldwide through Apple's App Store, and Kiosque also through Google Play. Kiosque's synced profile and scores are stored in Cloud Firestore and processed on Google Cloud infrastructure, which may be located in the United States or other countries where Google operates. Device-level data handled by Google AdMob may likewise be processed in the United States and other countries. Apple processes purchases and identifiers under its own published policies.

13. Security

For Partitions, Domidoku, and Partypicker, no personal data flows through us, and the platform itself — which sandboxes each App using standard protections — is the primary security boundary. For Kiosque's synced data, the boundary is Firestore's security rules: they are enforced on Google's servers and limit reads of your profile to you and your accepted friends. Traffic between the App and Firestore is encrypted in transit. We hold no passwords (there are none), no payment data, and no sensitive personal information at any point.

14. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time; the effective date above reflects the latest revision. Material changes will be noted in App release notes. Continued use after a change means you accept the updated policy.

15. Contact

Questions, requests, or complaints: hello@playcarre.com. We respond as quickly as we reasonably can.