Privacy Policy

Overview

Pocket Shuffle Chess is currently in early testing. We collect and process the information needed to run gameplay, accounts, profiles, leaderboards, notifications, analytics, security, support, and reliability.

Account And Profile Data

• Email address, account identifiers, and Google sign-in identity when you sign in.
• Display name, avatar choices, tagline, country preference, profile settings, and saved account preferences.
• Signed-in progress that may sync across devices, including scores, favorites, streaks, ratings, achievements, and saved review games.

Gameplay Data

We may store scores, seeds, board setup, side played, moves, match result, match history, leaderboard rows, favorite seeds, ratings, streaks, achievements, puzzle progress, review games, and related gameplay summaries.

Analytics And Technical Data

• We collect first-party analytics events such as route views, game starts, first moves, completions, abandons, result actions, notification events, session identifiers, app version, timing metrics, device type, and country inferred from request headers.
• We use Google Analytics 4, Microsoft Clarity, GameAnalytics, Meta Pixel and Conversions API, Vercel Analytics, and Vercel Speed Insights to understand page usage, gameplay events, ad performance, app performance, heatmaps, session replay context, and reliability signals.
• Analytics tools may process browser, device, page, interaction, referrer, network, and event data according to their own service terms and privacy documentation.

Local And Browser Storage

Guest progress and preferences are stored locally on your device. We may use localStorage, sessionStorage, IndexedDB, service workers, and similar browser features for guest identity, theme, game progress, puzzle caches, favorites, sign-in reminders, analytics session IDs, and GameAnalytics event queues.

Service Providers

• Supabase provides authentication, database storage, realtime game data, profiles, first-party analytics event storage, notification preferences, and related backend services.
• Resend sends transactional and game-related emails, including sign-in, welcome, reminder, feedback, and unsubscribe messages where enabled.
• Vercel hosts the app and serverless APIs and provides Web Analytics and Speed Insights.
• Google Analytics 4, Microsoft Clarity, GameAnalytics, and Meta process analytics, advertising, and gameplay usage data.

Notifications And Email

If you enable notifications or game emails, we may store notification preferences, timezone, device label, push subscription endpoint and keys, email unsubscribe token, notification events, send status, open status, and delivery errors. You can unsubscribe from emails through the unsubscribe link and control push notifications in your browser or device settings.

How Data Is Used

• To run games, accounts, leaderboards, profiles, saved progress, notifications, support, and anti-abuse checks.
• To diagnose bugs, prevent broken game states, measure performance, and improve early testing quality.
• To send configured emails or push reminders and to respond to feedback, privacy questions, login problems, and removal requests.

Contact And Removal Requests

You can sign out, clear local browser data, unsubscribe from emails, and manage push permissions in your browser or device. For privacy questions or removal requests, email alphadenthj+chess@gmail.com. Include your account email, display name, and any relevant game link or seed.