Your game.
Your account.

01 About this policy

Soconu is operated by Joe DiGioia. This policy covers the Soconu website at soconu.com, the Soconu iOS app, and the account and gameplay services they share.

You can play practice without creating an account. Online features, including ranked play, cloud saves, leaderboards, and player challenges, use the information described below.

02 Information we use

• Account information: your email address, player name, Firebase user identifier, and account creation information. Google Firebase Authentication processes your password, sign-in, and password-reset requests. The current Soconu game database does not store your password.
• Ranked gameplay: saved boards and moves, game modes, scores, wins, streaks, statistics, achievements, challenge preferences and results, and timestamps needed to save and verify your progress.
• Technical information: hosting and authentication providers receive information such as IP address, browser or device information, request times, and error or security information when you connect. This supports delivery, authentication, reliability, and abuse prevention.
• Messages you send us: your email address and the information you include when requesting support or exercising privacy choices.

Soconu does not request access to your contacts, photos, microphone, camera, or precise location.

03 How it is used

We use this information to create and secure accounts, authenticate players, save and synchronize ranked progress, verify scores, display rankings and achievements, match and record player challenges, answer requests, and maintain the service.

The current website and iOS app do not use an advertising SDK or a product-analytics SDK. We do not sell personal information or use it for targeted advertising or tracking across other companies’ apps and websites. Operational and security processing by our providers is separate from advertising tracking.

04 Sharing and services

Other players: your chosen player name, rankings, scores, earned badges, and challenge results can be visible to other players. Public leaderboard responses also include a player identifier. Your email address and password are not displayed on leaderboards or challenge cards. Choose a player name you are comfortable making public.

Service providers: Google Firebase handles authentication; the website and game service run on hosting infrastructure provided through OpenAI Sites and Cloudflare, with ranked records in Cloudflare D1. The website also requests Firebase code and font styles from Google. These services receive the information necessary to deliver and secure those requests. This privacy page does not load Firebase, external fonts, or analytics.

We use providers for these service purposes under their applicable privacy and data-protection terms. We do not authorize them to use Soconu account or gameplay information for their own advertising. Providers may process information in countries outside your home country.

Apple: Apple handles App Store purchases and its own store and device services. Soconu does not receive your full payment-card details. The current iOS app has no subscriptions or in-app purchase checkout.

Information may also be disclosed when required by law or reasonably necessary to protect users, investigate abuse, or protect the service.

Provider information: Firebase, Cloudflare, OpenAI, Google, and Apple.

05 On your device

The website uses browser storage for practice progress and preferences. Firebase uses persistent browser storage to keep you signed in. Clearing Soconu’s site data removes locally stored practice and sign-in state, but does not delete your online account.

The iOS app stores practice progress and preferences on your device and keeps a sign-in credential in the device’s Keychain. It does not save your password. Local practice is separate from ranked play and is not uploaded as ranked scores. Removing the app’s local data removes local practice; deleting your online account is a separate action.

Loading the website or using online features still involves network requests, even when you have not signed in. Offline practice in the iOS app does not require an account or an internet connection.

06 Your choices

• Play without an account: use local practice instead of ranked online play.
• Control challenges: turn off automatic random challenges in Player challenges.
• Sign out: use Account to end your signed-in session on that device. Signing out does not delete your cloud progress.
• Delete your account: in the iOS app, open Account → Delete account, enter your current password, and confirm. If you use only the website or cannot access your account, contact us using the address below to request deletion.
• Request help with your data: contact us to request access, a copy, correction, or deletion, or to raise a privacy concern. Depending on your location, you may have additional privacy rights. We may need to verify account ownership. Never send your password.

07 Retention and deletion

Account and ranked game records are retained while your account remains active so you can resume play. Successful account deletion removes your profile, current ranked saves and statistics, leaderboard entry, challenge preferences, and challenges involving your account from the active Soconu database, and requests deletion of your Firebase login. If login deletion fails, the app reports that outcome so you can retry.

Local practice remains separate and must be removed from the device or browser. Earlier Soconu game statistics are not imported into the rebuilt game. If your request concerns records from an earlier version, mention that when contacting us so those records can be addressed separately.

Deletion from active systems does not mean every provider backup disappears immediately. Cloudflare D1 recovery history may retain database copies for up to 30 days. Firebase states that authentication information is removed from its live and backup systems within 180 days after deletion is initiated, and that logged authentication IP addresses are retained for a few weeks. See Cloudflare’s backup documentation and Firebase’s retention information.

Support correspondence is kept as needed to handle your request and related issues. Limited records may be retained where necessary for security, fraud prevention, or legal obligations; those purposes do not require keeping your profile publicly ranked.

08 Security and children

We use encrypted connections, authenticated access to private gameplay records, and provider security controls to help protect information. No online service can guarantee absolute security.

Soconu is a general-audience game and is not directed to children under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information without appropriate parental permission, contact us so we can investigate and arrange deletion where appropriate.

09 Contact and updates

For privacy questions, account-deletion requests, or help with your information, contact:

Include “Soconu privacy” in the subject and the email address associated with your account. Do not include your password or payment details.

We may update this policy as Soconu changes. The current version will remain available at soconu.com/privacy, with the effective date shown above. Where required, we will provide additional notice or request consent for material changes.