Privacy Policy – שביל ישראל – משחק חידות ישראלי

Effective date: 2026-10-17

This Privacy Policy explains how the mobile app “שביל ישראל – משחק חידות ישראלי” (the “App”) collects, uses, and shares information. The App is provided by Liav Kuperman (KupiGames) (“we”, “us”).

Summary

• Family-friendly puzzle game for a mixed audience (kids and adults). Extra safeguards apply for under-age users.
• We ask for a display name (free text, e.g., a nickname) to show in-app and save progress.
• We use Firebase (Authentication, Firestore/Realtime Database, Analytics, Crashlytics) and Google AdMob (ads). These providers may collect device/usage data.
• For under-age contexts we show non-personalized, families-appropriate ads and limit data collection.
• The App offers in-app purchases via Google Play Billing and the Apple App Store. Our server checks each purchase with Google or Apple before delivering it. We don’t handle card details.
• We do not sell personal information.

Information We Collect

1) You provide

• Display name (free text you choose). Used to identify your profile, to save and restore progress, and shown to other players on the leaderboard together with the level you reached.
• Sign-in with Google or Apple (optional). If you choose to sign in so that your progress follows you between devices, we receive from Google or Apple an account identifier, your name and your email address (Apple lets you hide it). They are used only to sign you in and to find your saved progress.

2) Created while you play

• Progress: the level you reached, coins, hints and settings, saved under a player identifier created for your profile.
• Leaderboard row: your display name and level, visible to other players.
• Presence: while the App is open it records, about once a minute, that your profile is active, the time, and the level you are on. This is used for operating the game (seeing how many players are active) and is not shown to other players.
• Activity log: the App keeps its own log of events under your player identifier: profile created, levels completed, hints used, ads watched, shop purchases made with coins, and real-money purchases (which product and its price; never your payment details, which stay with Google Play or Apple). It is used to understand how the game is played and to operate it.
• Messages to us: when you report a riddle or write to us (“צרו קשר”), we receive what you wrote and, only if you enter it, your email address for our reply. The message comes with your display name, player identifier, app version, platform, device model and language, and for a riddle report the level and its question. It is used only to answer you and to fix the game.
• Fair-play checks: our server compares how your coins and hints change over time with what playing can explain, to spot cheating and misuse of purchases. If an account is found cheating, we may close its shop, remove it from the leaderboard, reset its progress, or show a notice, as the terms of use explain. We keep a record of such actions, linked to the player identifier and, if signed in, the Google or Apple account identifier.
• Notifications: if you allow notifications, the App schedules a reminder on your device when a holiday sale starts. Scheduling happens on the device; no extra data is sent to us.

3) Automatically via SDKs

How We Use Information

• Operate the App (authentication, saving/restoring progress, showing your display name).
• Improve stability and features (analytics, crash diagnostics).
• Show and measure ads (AdMob). Under-age: non-personalized ads.
• Ensure safety, prevent abuse, and comply with legal obligations.

In-App Purchases & Payments

The App offers optional in-app purchases processed by Google Play Billing on Android and the Apple App Store on iOS. We do not collect or store payment card details; payments are handled by Google or Apple. After a purchase, the App sends its receipt (Google’s purchase token, or Apple’s signed transaction) to our server, which checks it with Google or Apple before the item is delivered. We store limited transaction metadata (e.g., order or transaction ID, purchase token, product ID, timestamps, price and currency, country) with your player identifier to deliver items, restore purchases, handle refunds, and prevent fraud. Google and Apple also notify our server of refunds and cancellations.

• What we store: purchase tokens or transaction IDs, product identifiers, the player identifier, and Google’s or Apple’s account identifier for the purchase where provided, for entitlement management.
• Use: grant/restore entitlements (e.g., ad-free, content packs), verify receipts, provide support, comply with tax/accounting laws.
• Sharing: Not sold. Shared only with service providers as needed (e.g., Firebase/our backend) or if required by law.
• Retention: kept as long as necessary to provide/restore entitlements and meet legal requirements, then deleted or anonymized.
• Restoring and refunds: on iPhone, “Restore purchases” asks Apple for your past purchases. Refunds follow Google Play’s or Apple’s policies.
• Children & families: purchases require the device/account holder’s Google Play or Apple authorization. We never ask for card details in-app.

Learn more: Google Play purchases & payments, Google Privacy Policy, Apple Privacy Policy.

Mixed-Audience & Families Policy

The App is for a mixed audience (adults and children). We implement safeguards aligned with Google Play’s Families Policy and applicable child-privacy laws (e.g., COPPA where applicable):

• Minimize direct identifiers for children; collect only what is necessary.
• Configure AdMob for non-personalized ads and families settings for under-age contexts.
• If age-screening is used, users identified as under-age receive restricted data collection and families-appropriate ads.

Legal Bases (EEA/UK)

Where applicable, processing may be based on legitimate interests (basic analytics, security, crash diagnostics) and/or consent (e.g., personalized advertising where offered and allowed). You may withdraw consent in device settings or in-app controls where available.

Data Sharing

We do not sell personal information. We share information with service providers (Google/Firebase/AdMob, and our cloud/analytics providers) to operate the App and as required by law or to protect rights.

Data Retention

• Display name, sign-in details, progress, leaderboard row & presence: retained while your profile exists; deleted at once when you delete your account (see below), upon valid request, or in periodic cleanup of unused profiles.
• Activity log: retained for analysis. After you delete your account its rows remain under the old player identifier, which is no longer linked to a name or a sign-in account; they are removed upon request.
• Analytics/Crash/Ads data: retained per Google/Firebase/AdMob policies.
• Purchase records: retained as needed for entitlements and legal obligations.
• Messages to us: kept while we handle them, then deleted on request.
• Fair-play records: coin and hint snapshots are kept while your profile exists; a record of an action taken against cheating is kept as long as the action applies.

Security

We take reasonable measures to protect information. No method of transmission or storage is 100% secure.

International Transfers

Data may be processed in countries other than yours. Where required, appropriate safeguards are applied.

Your Rights

Depending on your location, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or restrict processing. Parents can request review/deletion of a child’s information. Contact us to exercise these rights.

Deleting Your Account and Data

You can delete your account and data at any time from inside the App: open Settings, tap “מחיקת משתמש” (Delete user) and tap again to confirm. This immediately deletes your profile, your leaderboard row, your presence record, your sign-in account for the game and everything saved on the device. The activity log is not erased automatically: its rows stay under the old player identifier, which is no longer linked to a name or a sign-in account. Ask us by email if you want those rows removed as well. If the App is no longer installed, you can ask us by email. Details: account deletion page.

Accessibility

The App’s accessibility statement (in Hebrew) is available here.

Links & SDK Policies

• Firebase Privacy & Security
• Google Analytics privacy
• Google Ads/AdMob Policies
• AdMob Families policy guidance

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Policy. We will post the new version with an updated “Effective date.”

Contact

Email: support@kupigames.co.il
Developer: Liav Kuperman (KupiGames)