Honk!1Who we are
Honk! is made by AlgoMate AB (org.nr 559539-0963), Sweden. We are the data controller for the personal data described here. You can reach us at contact@algomate.se.
2The short version
- You never need an account, and we never ask for your name, email, phone number or contacts.
- Your progress, coins, unlocks and settings are stored on your own device.
- For Daily Dash, the weekly leagues and the leaderboards we store a random player id, the player name shown in your league, your results and your country.
- To make the levels better we record gameplay statistics (time per level, crashes, hints, which offers are used). They are tied to the random player id, never to you.
- Honk! is free because of ads from Google AdMob. You decide whether ads may be personalised.
- Purchases are handled by Apple (App Store) or Google (Google Play). We never see your payment details.
3What we process and why
| Data | Why | Legal basis | Kept for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Progress, stars, coins, unlocked items, settings | So the game remembers where you are | Stored only on your device | Until you delete the app |
| Random player id, a secret device token, player name, level and stars reached, country (from your device region), Daily Dash results and the routes you drew in them, league and weekly group | To run Daily Dash, the weekly leagues and the leaderboards, and to check that results are real | Legitimate interest in running the features you use in the game | Until you ask us to delete it, or 24 months after you last played |
| Gameplay statistics: level number, time spent, number of tries and crashes, hints used, the difficulty rating you give, which video and purchase offers were shown and used, ad results, app version, device type and language | To see where levels are too hard or too easy and improve the game | Legitimate interest in improving the game. Not linked to your identity or your advertising identifier | Up to 18 months, then deleted |
| Advertising identifier (only if you allow tracking), IP address, device and ad interaction data | To show, limit and measure ads and to prevent fraud | Your consent for personalised ads. Legitimate interest for non-personalised ads and fraud prevention | According to Google's policies |
| Anonymous app user id and purchase receipts | To confirm purchases and restore them | Performance of our agreement with you | As long as the purchase is active, and as required by accounting law |
| Game Center player id and name (iPhone, only if you sign in) | To show your friends on the leaderboards and report achievements | Performance of our agreement with you | Handled by Apple |
| Emails you send us | To help you | Legitimate interest in answering you | Until your question is solved, then deleted within 12 months |
Our gameplay statistics stay with us: they are not used for advertising, not shared with ad networks and not combined with data from other apps. We do not sell your data.
4Leagues and player names
Players in your weekly league group and on the leaderboards can see your player name and your results. You get a random name such as “Speedy Taxi 24” and can change it under Settings → Player name. Please don't use your real full name or anything that identifies you. We may rename or remove names that break our terms.
5Notifications
If you allow notifications, Honk! schedules reminders on your phone (a new Daily Dash, lives refilled, your next level). They are local notifications: nothing is sent from our servers and no push token is stored.
6Advertising
Ads are served by Google AdMob. Google and its partners may use your device's advertising identifier (IDFA on iPhone, the Android advertising ID on Android), IP address, approximate location derived from it, device information and how you interact with ads, to show and measure ads.
- iPhone tracking: iOS asks if Honk! may track you. If you say no, your advertising identifier is not shared and ads are not personalised based on it. You can change this any time in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking.
- Android advertising ID: you can reset or delete it any time in Android Settings → Google → Ads. When it is deleted, ads are not personalised based on it.
- EU/EEA, UK and Switzerland: we ask for your consent through Google's consent form before personalised ads are shown. You can change your choice any time in the game under Settings → Privacy settings.
Read how Google uses data: policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
7Purchases
Purchases are processed by Apple through your App Store account on iPhone, or by Google through your Google Play account on Android. We use RevenueCat to confirm purchases and let you restore them. RevenueCat receives an anonymous app user id and the purchase receipt, never your name or payment details.
9Transfers outside the EU
Google and RevenueCat may process data in the United States. Such transfers rely on the EU–US Data Privacy Framework where the recipient is certified, or on the European Commission's standard contractual clauses.
10Children
Honk! is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 13. If you believe a child has sent us personal data, contact us and we will delete it.
11Your rights
You have the right to access, correct or delete your data, to restrict or object to processing, to data portability, and to withdraw a consent at any time. To delete your player data or use any other right, email contact@algomate.se and tell us your player name and roughly when you last played.
If you are unhappy with how we handle your data, you can complain to the Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection (IMY), imy.se, or to the data protection authority where you live.
12Security
All traffic between the app and our services is encrypted. Results can only be sent with a secret token that exists only on your device, so nobody else can change your scores.
13Changes and contact
We may update this policy when the game changes. The date at the top shows the latest version, and important changes will be shown in the game. Questions? Write to contact@algomate.se.