Privacy Policy

1. Data controller

Ali Buğatekin, Adana, Türkiye. Contact: alibugatekin@gmail.com.

2. What we collect and why

The game needs an internet connection and sends the following to our own server. We use it only to run and improve the game:

• Game account: a random account number and key, your platform (iOS or Android), the app version, language, region setting, time zone, device model and operating-system version. To run the game, keep your progress and find faults that happen only on some devices.
• Platform sign-in: your Game Center (iOS) or Google Play Games (Android) name and player ID, if you are signed in. Only to recognise your account and give your progress back on a new phone or after a reinstall. Signing in is optional.
• Cloud save: a copy of your game progress and purchase history. To restore your progress on a new phone or after you reinstall the game.
• Play: the results of the stages you play and a summary of your progress. To keep the game fair and to balance its difficulty.
• Purchases: which product you bought, when, and the store's transaction number. To give you what you bought exactly once, also after a reinstall, and to handle refunds. Payment is handled by Apple or Google; we never see your card or billing details.
• Rewarded ads: confirmation that you watched a rewarded ad you chose to watch. Only to give you the reward fairly.
• Game statistics: play events (for example, a stage was started or a card was upgraded) and technical errors. To find faults and improve the game.

We do not collect your real name, email address, contacts, photos or precise location, and we do not store your IP address (it is used only for a short-lived counter that protects the server from overload). Other players never see anything about you: the game has no chat, no player names and no public rankings.

3. Fair play

To keep purchases and rewards fair, the game uses Apple's and Google's app integrity services to confirm that it is the original, unmodified app. Purchases and rewards from a modified game are not accepted.

4. Legal basis

• Providing the game you chose to play: account, cloud save, purchases, rewards.
• Our legitimate interest: game statistics, game balance, security and fair play.
• Your consent: personalised ads and tracking where the law requires consent. You can withdraw it at any time.

5. Other companies

Our server and database are run by hosting providers in the European Union, on our behalf and only on our instructions. In addition, these companies process some data as independent controllers, under their own privacy policies:

• Apple (iOS): Game Center, in-app purchase, app integrity check, and a copy of your account key kept on your device so that a reinstall recognises your account. — apple.com/legal/privacy
• Google (Android): Google Play Games, Google Play purchases, app integrity check, and a backup of your account key so that a reinstall recognises your account. — policies.google.com/privacy
• Google AdMob (both): shows the ads that keep the game free — ads between stages and optional rewarded ads. It may use your device's advertising identifier, approximate location derived from your IP address and device information. — policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
• Meta (both): measures how many installs our Instagram and Facebook ads bring, using the advertising identifier and the fact that the app was opened. — facebook.com/privacy/policy

Each of these companies and our hosting providers is bound, by its own terms and the terms we have agreed to, to protect this data at least as well as described in this policy.

6. Your choices about ads

• In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, Google's consent screen is shown before any ad; you can choose whether ads are personalised and change it later.
• iOS: you can allow or refuse tracking in Apple's prompt, and change it in Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking.
• Android: you can reset or delete your advertising ID in your phone's Settings → Privacy → Ads.
• Refusing changes nothing in the game; ads are simply not personalised.

7. On your phone

Your settings, progress and account key are kept in the app's storage on your phone. Deleting the app removes them; so that reinstalling recognises your account, a copy of the account key may remain on your device (iOS) or in your Google backup (Android).

8. How long we keep data

Account data, the cloud save, stage results and purchase records are kept while your account exists. Game statistics are kept to compare over time; after your account is deleted they are no longer linked to any name or personal detail.

9. Transfers abroad

Our providers are in the EU. The companies listed above may also process data outside Türkiye or the EU, with the safeguards their own terms provide, such as the EU Standard Contractual Clauses.

10. Children

The Caravan is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect data from children under 13.

11. Your rights

Under KVKK and the GDPR you can ask to access, correct or delete your data, object to processing, and complain to a data protection authority. Write to alibugatekin@gmail.com with your player number (Settings, at the bottom) and platform. For data processed by the companies listed above, you can also contact them directly.

12. Deleting your account

In the game: Settings → “Delete my account”. Your account, progress and cloud save are deleted at once and the game starts over with a new, empty account. Without the game, write to alibugatekin@gmail.com. Details: https://goa.alibugatekin.com/en/caravan/delete-account

13. Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the date above is updated. Significant changes will also be announced in the game.

14. Contact

alibugatekin@gmail.com