Minesweeper Champions Edition
Privacy Policy
Last updated: 20 October 2026
This policy describes how Pirates Never Talk processes information in Minesweeper Champions Edition. For questions, contact
Play and account information
The game stores settings, board preferences and local results on your device. If you sign in with a supported Google Play Games or Apple account, Firebase Authentication processes an account identifier, sign-in credentials or tokens and provider profile information, which may include a display name and email address. We do not receive your Google or Apple password.
Store achievements and gameplay statistics
Versions with achievements use Google Play Games on Android and Apple Game Center on iOS. When you are signed in to the relevant gaming service, the game sends achievement identifiers and completion progress associated with your gaming profile. A small local queue stores earned achievements and an account-specific identifier so failed submissions can be retried without assigning progress to another account. These services operate independently of your Firebase game account. Deleting your game account does not automatically delete achievements in your Google Play Games or Game Center profile; use the relevant Google or Apple account controls to manage that data.
Versions supporting Google Play Games Game Stats send a victory event, board difficulty, number of safe cells cleared, automatic-opening setting and completion duration to Google Play Games when you are signed in. Google associates these cumulative gameplay statistics with your gaming profile. We do not send names, email addresses, purchase details or campaign rewards in these events. Manage or delete Play Games data through your Google account controls. Game Stats is separate from Firebase Analytics, which remains disabled.
Our daily operational email contains anonymous totals for first campaign gift grants and newly accepted results or improved personal records. Repeat reward claims and result retries do not count twice. These aggregate totals contain no names, account identifiers, email addresses, IP addresses or tokens; the campaign entitlement remains associated with your game account until account deletion.
Leaderboards
When you submit a competitive result, our online services receive your player identifier and nickname, result/time, selected country, device platform, game mode, board width and height, and auto-open setting. In versions using server-issued games, we also process the match identifier, board layout, moves and timing information to validate completion. Firebase App Check processes app or device attestation information to help reject requests from unauthorized clients. These details associate results with the correct competition and help maintain the leaderboard. Our game API runs on Timeweb hosting and stores verified matches and leaderboard records in a MySQL database. Firebase provides authentication, App Check and player profiles; older app versions use Firebase leaderboards. The hosting infrastructure receives IP addresses and request metadata for operation and security.
Your nickname and competitive results, together with country, platform and competition details, may be visible to other players in leaderboards. Email addresses and sign-in tokens are not intended to be public leaderboard fields. Use a nickname that does not identify you if you prefer not to share your real name. The country selection is a profile/competition choice, not a request for precise device location.
Leaderboard safety and reports
We validate public player names and may replace inappropriate names, hide results or restrict leaderboard access. You can tap a player name marked with an ellipsis in supported versions to report an inappropriate name or suspicious result, or hide that player on your device. Reports include the reporting account identifier, the reported account and leaderboard record, selected reason, a snapshot of the reported name/result, and the time of the report. Only authorized administrators can review reports and apply restrictions. A report does not automatically impose a restriction. Contact
Reports and moderation action logs are retained for up to 90 days plus scheduled cleanup time. Active restrictions remain until removed or the account is deleted. Account deletion removes reports made by or about that account, its restrictions and associated moderation log entries. Hidden-player preferences are stored locally and can be reset in Privacy > Options.
Online service reliability
To operate and diagnose the Online service, we count API requests by operation, verification stage and HTTP status. We also record the day of an authenticated API request, the account identifier, its Firebase registration timestamp and whether an Online start or result request succeeded. Account-linked daily activity is retained for up to 30 days plus scheduled cleanup time and removed on account deletion. Request totals without account identifiers are retained for up to 90 days plus cleanup time. Authorized administrators receive aggregate daily reports by email. These records do not track Local play, screens or actions outside our game API, and do not include player names, email addresses, IP addresses, tokens or raw request/error contents.
Analytics
Versions with this October 2026 privacy update disable Firebase Analytics collection on Android and iOS. This does not disable Firebase Authentication, App Check, player profiles or the operational records described above. It also does not disable advertising measurement or data processing by Appodeal and its partners, which are described separately below.
Optional advertising
Core matches are not interrupted by ads. The availability of optional rewarded videos depends on the app version. Submitting a result is free. The first refresh of each leaderboard is free, followed by one free refresh every 24 hours; an optional rewarded ad allows an earlier refresh. Appodeal and its advertising partners may process IP address, device/app information, advertising identifiers where allowed, approximate location inferred from IP, ad interactions and consent choices to deliver and measure advertising, prevent fraud and, where permitted, personalize ads.
Advertising consent and tracking authorization are handled through the available provider and operating-system choices. Where the Privacy menu is available, choose Options, then Ad choices to reopen the advertising consent controls. These choices are separate from signing in and submitting a score. Advertising partners can vary by platform and region. Read Appodeal’s Privacy Policy for more information.
Account removal
Signing out clears local sign-in information and does not delete your cloud account. In versions offering permanent account deletion, open Account, choose Delete, confirm and sign in again. A successful deletion removes the linked Firebase authentication account, profile and associated leaderboard records; Apple sign-in access is revoked when applicable. Older versions may only clear local sign-in information. If deletion is unavailable or not confirmed, you can request deletion without installing or updating the app. To request deletion of server-side data, use our Account and Data Deletion page and contact support.
Support and your rights
If you contact us, we use the information in your message to answer it and resolve your request. Depending on your location, you may have rights to access, correct, delete or restrict processing of your data, object to processing, withdraw consent, and complain to a data protection authority. Contact
Retention and deletion
Local preferences and progress remain on your device until reset or removed; device backups may retain copies. Cloud account and leaderboard records are retained to provide the related features until deleted or no longer needed. In the server-issued game service, match records expire after 24 hours. Scheduled cleanup runs every 15 minutes in bounded batches; expired records can remain longer during outages or backlogs. After account deletion, a temporary identifier-based security marker is kept for approximately 24 hours, plus cleanup time, to prevent old authentication tokens from recreating data. Provider logs and backups may remain for their applicable retention periods, and records required by law or to prevent fraud may be retained. Removing the app does not by itself delete a cloud account.
See Account and Data Deletion for game-specific instructions and an email request option.
Service providers and transfers
Timeweb provides hosting for our website, game API and verified leaderboard database. Google Firebase provides authentication, app attestation, player profiles and legacy leaderboard infrastructure. Apple and Google operate their sign-in and app stores. These services may process information outside your country under their applicable terms and safeguards.
Children and age ratings
A store age rating describes game content; it is not permission to collect children’s data. Do not provide a child’s personal information through support or public profile names. If you believe we have received a child’s personal data without appropriate authorization, contact us so we can investigate and take appropriate action.
Changes
We update this page when our data practices change. The date above identifies the current version.
Optional push notifications
When you enable notifications in Settings and grant device permission, Firebase Cloud Messaging (Google; Apple APNs on iOS) delivers optional messages about a new country leaderboard leader, a drop in your leaderboard position, or an available free table refresh. Each category and all notifications can be disabled in the game. We store the delivery token, an installation identifier and revocation secret hash, Firebase account identifier, language, UTC offset, notification preferences, selected leaderboard category, refresh eligibility time, recent leaderboard comparisons and sending timestamps on our hosting. These data provide notification delivery and frequency limits; they are not used for advertising personalization or Firebase Analytics. We do not request device location.
We send at most two notifications in a rolling seven-day period, at least 24 hours apart, outside quiet hours 21:00–10:00 using the last UTC offset supplied by your device. Only the most recently registered device receives messages. Delivery depends on your connection and device settings. Disabling notifications, signing out or deleting your account removes the server subscription when the request reaches the server; offline revocation is retried when connected. Inactive subscriptions expire after 30 days plus scheduled cleanup time, pending events after two days, and sending limits after eight days. Google and Apple process delivery data under their own policies.
Advertising partners may also process SDK crash reports, diagnostics, performance and network information. Some included partners, such as Start.io, may process information about installed apps where an advertising identifier and platform rules allow it. These data support advertising delivery, measurement and fraud prevention under the partner policies. Our app does not request precise location permission. See Google Mobile Ads data disclosure and Start.io privacy policy.