🔒 Gomoku Kids — Privacy Policy
Last updated: October 6, 2026 (remote play via Game Center, tip jar and family app shelf, from 1.0.20261005) · first effective June 19, 2026
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The developer of Gomoku Kids collects no personal data. There are no servers of ours, no account with us, no analytics, no tracking and no advertising. Playing the computer, the tutorials, Challenge Road and two players on one device all work fully offline. The only online feature is optional remote play with family, which runs on Apple's Game Center, plus a few parent-only actions handled by the App Store — described below. App Store privacy label: Data Not Collected.
What the app stores, and where
- Game settings (sound, voice, language, hints, board size, difficulty) and parental settings (play windows, daily limit).
- Progress: tutorials, Challenge Road stars, Secret Cards, badges, and the game history behind the parents' strengths-and-progress report.
- Custom sounds: audio files a parent chooses to import to replace built-in sounds.
- All of this stays on your device and is never sent to us. A learning report leaves the device only if a parent exports and shares it.
Network use
Gomoku Kids uses the network only for:
- Remote play with family (optional, from 1.0.20261005). Turn-based games through Apple Game Center. Signing in to Game Center and creating invites are behind the parental gate. Only Game Center friends can be invited — there is no matchmaking with strangers. A game sends only the board moves and, optionally, one of five fixed cheer stickers; there is no free text, chat or voice. Game Center sign-in is handled by iOS (the app never sees credentials), and Apple processes the Game Center account and match data under Apple's Privacy Policy. If you never sign in, the app makes no Game Center connection.
- Optional tips ("buy the developer a coffee", Parents area, behind the gate): handled by the App Store; the app never sees payment details. Tips unlock nothing.
- Family app shelf (Parents area, behind the gate): shows the App Store page of our other kids' apps inside the app.
What we do NOT collect
- No name, email address, or any personal identifier
- No location data
- No microphone, camera, or photo library (the app uses none of these)
- No usage analytics or crash reporting sent to us
- No advertising identifiers (IDFA)
- No third-party SDKs (Game Center and the App Store are Apple system services)
Children's privacy (COPPA / GDPR-K)
Gomoku Kids is suitable for ages 4+ and designed for children to use alongside a parent. The developer collects no information about child users. Everything that involves an account, a purchase or leaving the game — Game Center sign-in, invites, tips and the app shelf — sits behind a parental gate, and remote play is limited to friends with no chat. On a child's Apple Account, parents also control Game Center multiplayer through Screen Time.
Ad-free, tracking-free
The app is 100% ad-free with no tracking. It displays no third-party ads and uses no advertising or analytics tracking of any kind.
Data deletion
Data on the device: uninstalling the app deletes all of it. Imported custom sounds can also be restored to the built-in ones one by one, and online games can be removed from the "Play with Family" list. Game Center data (your Game Center profile, friends and match history) is held by Apple under your Apple Account and managed in your device's Settings → Game Center.
Changes to this policy
If we make changes, we will update the date above. Material changes will be noted in the App Store release notes.
Contact us
Questions? Email us at [email protected].