HALKA Privacy Policy

1. Scope and controller

This policy applies to HALKA: Connect the Lines, the iPhone and iPad puzzle game. It does not describe data practices of other apps linked from the same website.

Controller: Deniz Sertkan, Donaustraße 44, 12043 Berlin, Germany. Contact: deniz@aidogtranslator.de.

2. Game data on your device

HALKA stores your board, scores, daily puzzle records, preferences, consent state, ad frequency counters and stone wallet on your device. The wallet includes purchase identifiers used to prevent duplicate credits. HALKA has no game account, developer analytics service, AI processing or developer-hosted gameplay database.

Game progress is not synchronized between devices. When iCloud is turned on, the stone wallet (stone balance and purchase, reward and rescue identifiers; no name or contact details) is also kept in your iCloud key-value storage, so it follows your Apple Account to your other devices and after a reinstall. Apple processes it under its own terms; we cannot access your iCloud data. Apple device backups may contain local app data according to your device settings.

3. Purchases

Apple processes payments and subscriptions through StoreKit. HALKA receives verified product and transaction identifiers and entitlement information to deliver purchases, handle subscription status and avoid duplicate delivery. We do not receive your card number or banking credentials.

Apple processes purchase and account data under its own terms and privacy policy. Purchase support requests you choose to send may include transaction details; never send card details or your Apple Account password.

4. Ads and privacy choices

When advertising is enabled, Google Mobile Ads and Google User Messaging Platform provide ads and manage required privacy choices. Their data processing may include IP-derived approximate location, device or app identifiers, ad impressions and interactions, app interactions, crash reports and performance data. These data support ad delivery, fraud prevention, reporting and diagnostics.

HALKA asks for App Tracking Transparency permission once, after your first finished run, never at launch. If you allow tracking, Google may use your device's advertising identifier (IDFA) to show more relevant ads and to measure them; if you decline, ads are shown without the IDFA. You can change this at any time in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking. Ads without tracking can still process technical and interaction data; this is not a claim that no data is collected.

Where required, a privacy form is shown before eligible ad requests. Available options can be reopened in Settings → Ad privacy choices. Rejecting optional consent does not block the puzzle game. If a suitable ad is unavailable, an optional ad reward is unavailable; the player can continue playing normally.

Google and any configured advertising partners process data according to their policies and the privacy choices shown to you. HALKA does not sell game records or send them to advertisers. Google privacy information is linked below.

We require third parties receiving HALKA user data to provide the same or an equivalent level of protection as described in this policy and required by Apple's App Review Guidelines. We do not share user data with a service that cannot meet this requirement.

5. Purpose, legal grounds and recipients

Local game operation and purchase delivery are necessary to provide the requested game and paid features. We handle support correspondence to answer your request and, where applicable, perform the contract. Necessary security and troubleshooting rely on our legitimate interests, balanced with your rights. Records required by law are processed to meet legal obligations.

Optional advertising storage or other consent-based processing takes place only with the required consent. You may withdraw consent using the available privacy controls. Apple, Google and their providers may process information outside the EEA. Their policies explain applicable transfer mechanisms and safeguards; contact us for information about the providers used by HALKA.

6. Retention and deletion

Local game and wallet data remain until removed by you or the operating system. Deleting the app deletes local records; with iCloud turned on, your stone wallet returns when you reinstall HALKA with the same Apple Account. The iCloud copy is managed through your Apple Account's iCloud settings. Restoring purchases restores Premium, not stone packs. Device backups are managed through Apple device and backup settings.

Support correspondence is kept for the time needed to resolve and document the request, handle disputes and satisfy applicable record-retention duties. It is not used for marketing. Apple and Google determine retention of the data they process under their own policies; local app deletion does not delete their records.

7. Your rights

Where applicable, you may request access, correction, erasure, restriction, portability, or object to processing. You may withdraw consent without affecting processing already lawfully completed. Contact deniz@aidogtranslator.de; we respond within the period required by applicable law. We may need proportionate information to verify your request.

You may complain to a data protection authority, including the authority in your country or the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information. HALKA does not make automated decisions with legal or similarly significant effects about you.

8. Audience, security and updates

HALKA is a general-audience puzzle game and is not specifically directed to children. Parents should use Apple purchase restrictions where appropriate. Tell us if you believe child data has been processed improperly.

We minimize the data HALKA sends and use the security features provided by Apple and the integrated services. No storage or transmission method can be guaranteed completely secure. Material changes will be reflected in this policy and, where required, communicated in the app or through a renewed privacy choice.