QuickCat — Privacy Policy

Data kept on this device

The app stores your device ID, language, selected theme, selected difficulty, local round history, daily game status, themed level progress, and unfinished round state on this device.

This local data helps the game resume rounds, show history, and keep progress without requiring an account.

Data sent to the game service

When you submit a round, the app sends the answer text, the category and its internal ID, the starting letter (and, for modes that use a letter pool, the available letters), language, game mode and validation profile, and — when applicable — the daily game ID with completion time or the themed level ID. This is what the service needs to validate answers and calculate daily comparison percentages.

When you report an answer result, the app sends the answer text and its normalized form, the validation result and reason, the prompt version, the category, starting letter, mode, language, the daily game ID or themed level ID if the round had one, and your report reason so the result can be reviewed.

Aggregate, anonymous daily-game scores (correct-answer count and completion time, keyed by daily game ID) are kept by the game service so it can compute the better-than and faster-than percentages shown after each daily game.

AI validation

Submitted answers may be processed by the game service and its configured AI validation provider only to decide whether an answer fits the letter and category.

The app does not use answer text for advertising or tracking.

Advertising

The app can show ads through Google AdMob.

The Google AdMob SDK may collect your advertising identifier (IDFA on iOS, GAID on Android), coarse device and app information, IP address, and interaction events with the ad in order to deliver, frequency-cap, attribute, and measure ads.

Ads never see your answers or game progress. We do not pass round content to the ad SDK.

App Tracking Transparency (iOS)

On iOS the app asks for App Tracking Transparency permission shortly after the home screen appears. You can choose to allow or ask the app not to track.

If you ask the app not to track, ads will still be shown but will be non-personalized and the IDFA will not be shared with ad partners. You can change this choice any time in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking.

Your choice is also passed to the ad SDK as a consent signal so that ad partners respect it.

Reset or opt out of ad personalization

iOS: open Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking, then turn QuickCat off (or turn the global "Allow Apps to Request to Track" off). You can also reset your advertising identifier in Settings → Privacy & Security → Apple Advertising.

Android: open Settings → Google → Ads to reset your advertising ID or opt out of ad personalization.

Reporting bad ads: use the "Report ad" option on the Settings screen to send the network and creative ID of the last ad you saw to quickcatapp@gmail.com so we can have it taken down.

No account

The app does not require authentication and does not ask for your contacts, photos, camera, microphone, or precise location.

The app does not sell personal data.

Deleting data

You can delete local game data by removing the app from your device.

For questions about data stored by the game service, use the support contact listed on the App Store product page.