Privacy Policy

Effective date: August 15, 2026 · Last updated: August 26, 2026

This Privacy Policy describes how Pen Fight: Flick Battle (the "App"), developed by Paolo Furlan (listed as Furlan Paolo on the App Store) ("we", "us", or "our"), handles information when you use the App on iPhone or iPad.

The short version: Pen Fight does not collect your email, contacts, photos, or precise location, and never asks you to create an account. It does show ads — a short full-screen advert from Google AdMob after a match — and those ads involve advertising identifiers and data about how you use the App. A one-time in-app purchase, Remove Ads, turns them off permanently. Everything else we collect is limited, anonymous technical data used to understand how the game is played and to fix crashes.

Online play uses Game Center. Every other part of the game — playing the computer, pass-and-play, and the Weekly Desk — works with no account at all. If you choose to play online, the App signs you in to Apple’s Game Center, and your Game Center nickname is shown to the people you play against. That account is Apple’s, not ours: we never see your Apple Account, your email address, or your real name.

The App offers optional in-app purchases. Purchases are handled entirely by Apple; we never see your payment details.

1. Information We Collect

The App collects only the following data, none of which directly identifies you:

• Anonymous usage analytics (Firebase Analytics). We use Google Firebase Analytics to understand basic, aggregated usage patterns, for example which screens are viewed, how often games are played, and general device information such as device model, operating system version, and country-level region.
• Crash reports (Firebase Crashlytics). If the App crashes, a crash report is sent to Firebase Crashlytics. Reports include the device model, OS version, and the technical state of the App at the time of the crash, so we can find and fix bugs.
• Install identifier. On first launch, the App generates a random identifier stored only on your device (via UserDefaults). This is not your IDFA or IDFV and is never used to track you across apps or websites. It is used solely to send a single first-launch notification to the developer's internal Slack workspace so we know a new install happened. No other first-launch or purchase data is transmitted.
• Advertising (Google AdMob). The App shows full-screen adverts from Google AdMob after a match. To serve, measure and protect those adverts, Google receives your device’s IP address (from which an approximate, city-or-region-level location can be derived — the App itself requests no GPS or location permission), device and OS information, advertising identifiers, and information about your interaction with the advert and the App. Where you have allowed tracking, this may include Apple’s Advertising Identifier (IDFA) and the adverts may be personalised. Where you have not, Google serves non-personalised, contextual adverts and the IDFA is not available to it. Google acts as an independent controller for this processing under the Google advertising privacy notice. Buying Remove Ads stops all of it.
• Local game data. Settings, unlocked pens, desks, finishes, coins, and progress are stored only on your device and never leave it.
• Game Center (online play only). If you play online or open the leaderboards, Apple’s Game Center signs you in and handles matchmaking and score submission. Your Game Center nickname is visible to the players you are matched with, and to anyone viewing a leaderboard you appear on. What is sent between the two devices during a match is the recording of each shot — where the pens went and what they hit — and nothing else. There is no chat, no messaging, and no free text of any kind. Game Center is operated by Apple under the Apple Privacy Policy; you can sign out of it at any time in iOS Settings.

2. What We Do Not Collect

• No Pen Fight account, and no password — we never ask you to create one. Online play uses your existing Apple Game Center account, which we do not operate and cannot read.
• No email addresses and no real names
• No chat, no messaging, and no free text you can type to another player
• No contacts, photos, camera, or microphone access
• No location permission of any kind. The App never requests GPS or precise location. Our advertising partner can infer an approximate region from your IP address, as any server can.
• No advertising network other than Google AdMob, and no advertising mediation
• No sale of personal information for money

2a. Advertising, Tracking and Your Consent

App Tracking Transparency. Because the App includes Google’s Mobile Ads SDK, iOS asks you once whether the App may track you across other companies’ apps and websites. We ask this after your first completed match, never at launch, and never at the same moment as any other permission. Saying no costs you nothing: the game is identical, Remove Ads is the same price, and adverts continue as non-personalised. You can change your answer at any time in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking.

EEA, UK and Switzerland. If you are in one of these regions, before any advert is requested we show a consent form from Google’s User Messaging Platform, a certified Consent Management Platform operating under the IAB Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF v2.3). It lists the advertising vendors involved and lets you accept or refuse each purpose. You can reopen it at any time from Options → Privacy Options inside the App, which appears wherever this requirement applies.

US state privacy laws. Serving personalised adverts involves “sharing” personal information for cross-context behavioural advertising as those laws define it, even though no money changes hands. Residents of California and other states with comparable laws may opt out through the US-state privacy form shown by the same consent platform, by declining App Tracking Transparency, or by buying Remove Ads.

The simplest opt-out is the product. Remove Ads is a one-time purchase in the in-app Shop. Once it is yours, no advert is requested and nothing is sent to Google AdMob at all, on any device signed in to your Apple Account.

3. Third-Party Services

The App uses the following third-party services:

• Google AdMob and Google User Messaging Platform (Google LLC / Google Ireland Limited), for the adverts described in section 1 and the consent forms described in section 2a. Google is an independent controller for advertising data; see the Google advertising privacy notice and the Google Privacy Policy. Transfers out of the EEA and the UK rely on Google’s certification under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and its UK extension, and on Standard Contractual Clauses.
• Google Firebase (Analytics, Crashlytics and Remote Config). Data is processed according to the Firebase Privacy and Security documentation and the Google Privacy Policy. Remote Config is read-only settings we can change without shipping an update — it sends us nothing about you.
• Apple Game Center, used only for online matches and leaderboards. See the Apple Privacy Policy.
• Apple App Store, which processes in-app purchases. We receive only whether a purchase succeeded — never your payment details.

4. Data Retention

Analytics and crash data in Firebase are retained for a limited period as configured in our Firebase project and are then deleted. Local game data remains on your device until you delete the App.

5. Children's Privacy

Pen Fight: Flick Battle is rated 4+ and does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 (or the applicable age in your jurisdiction). The App contains no chat and no messaging of any kind, and we do not create an account for you.

The App is a general-audience game. It is not directed at children under 13, is not in the App Store’s Kids Category, and is not tagged for child-directed treatment with our advertising partner. Adverts are restricted to Google’s G (general audiences) content rating, and categories unsuitable for a 4+ game are blocked at the account level. A parent who would rather the App showed no adverts at all can buy Remove Ads, or turn off tracking in iOS Settings to limit them to non-personalised ones. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, contact us using section 8 and we will delete it.

Online play is optional and is the only part of the App that uses Apple’s Game Center. Game Center access can be restricted or turned off entirely for a device in Settings → Screen Time → Content & Privacy Restrictions. With it restricted, the App says so plainly and every offline mode continues to work.

6. Your Choices

• Delete the App at any time to remove all locally stored data.
• Play offline only. Nothing in the App requires Game Center except the online mode and the leaderboards, and neither is ever entered on your behalf.
• Sign out of Game Center, or restrict it via Screen Time, in iOS Settings.
• Buy Remove Ads in the in-app Shop to stop every advert, and everything sent to our advertising partner along with them. It is one purchase, permanent, and restorable on any device signed in to the same Apple Account.
• Turn off Allow Apps to Request to Track, or switch this App off individually, in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking. Adverts continue as non-personalised.
• Reopen the consent form at Options → Privacy Options in the App, wherever that requirement applies, and change or withdraw what you agreed to.
• Report an advert you think does not belong in a 4+ game: Options → Report an Ad, or Google’s own AdChoices control on the advert itself.
• We hold no account and no data that identifies you by name, so there is generally nothing of yours for us to retrieve or delete. If you believe otherwise, write to us using section 8 and we will look into it.

7. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated "Last updated" date.

8. Contact

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, contact us at goreste90@gmail.com.