GeoGuru App Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

This app and this website are published by AppStation Studio Pte. Ltd. ("AppStation Studio", "we", "us"), a company incorporated in Singapore (UEN 202240001Z) with its registered office at 68 Circular Road, #02-01, Singapore 049422. AppStation Studio is the data controller responsible for the personal data described in this policy.

GeoGuru: Geography Game & Quiz is a mobile geography puzzle game containing three daily games — one played on a 3D globe, one on country outlines, and one on flags. This policy covers the iOS app distributed through the Apple App Store, together with geoguru.org.

For anything in this policy, you can reach us at hello@geoguru.org.

2. What data is collected

We do not operate our own user accounts or servers that store your gameplay. All data described below is collected by third-party SDKs embedded in the app (analytics and advertising), for the purposes shown. This matches the disclosures in our Apple App Store "App Privacy" labels.

The two purposes above mean the following:

• Analytics — understanding aggregate usage so we can fix crashes, see which puzzles are too hard, and improve the app.
• Third-Party Advertising — displaying advertisements from a third-party ad network inside the app. Ads are how GeoGuru stays free.

None of this data is linked to your identity, because the app never learns your identity in the first place.

3. What we never collect

• No account data — no name, username, email address, phone number or password. GeoGuru has no sign-up.
• No precise or coarse location. The app does not request location permission. Guessing countries on a globe does not require knowing where you are.
• No contacts, photos, microphone, camera, health, financial or messaging data.
• No user-generated content is uploaded to us.

4. Tracking and the App Tracking Transparency prompt

The app never shows Apple's App Tracking Transparency (ATT) permission prompt. Because that prompt is never presented and consequently never authorised, iOS does not provide the IDFA (Identifier for Advertisers) to the app or to the advertising SDK — the identifier is returned as all zeros. Ads shown in the app are therefore contextual and non-personalised rather than based on cross-app tracking.

The advertising SDK may still use the Identifier for Vendor (IDFV), which is scoped to our apps alone and is reset when you delete the app. It is used to limit repeated ads, measure ad delivery and detect invalid traffic within GeoGuru — never to build a cross-company profile of you.

5. Third-party SDKs

GeoGuru includes SDKs from the providers below. When they collect data as described above, they act as independent controllers under their own privacy policies, and we recommend reading them:

• Google AdMob (advertising) — Google Privacy Policy · How AdMob uses data
• Google Analytics for Firebase / Firebase Crashlytics (analytics and crash diagnostics) — Firebase Privacy & Security

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising as those terms are defined under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA/CPRA).

6. Legal bases for processing (EEA / UK)

• Consent — for personalised advertising and non-essential analytics where consent is required. In the EEA and UK the app presents a consent choice (Google UMP / IAB TCF) before such data is used; you can change it at any time from the app's Settings.
• Legitimate interests — for crash diagnostics, security, fraud and invalid-traffic prevention, and for keeping the app running reliably.

If you decline consent, GeoGuru still works — you will simply see non-personalised ads.

7. Your choices and controls

• Tracking (iOS): Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking. Since GeoGuru never requests tracking permission, there is no authorisation to revoke — the IDFA is not available to the app either way.
• Personalised ads: Settings → Privacy & Security → Apple Advertising also lets you turn off Apple's own personalised advertising system-wide.
• Consent choices (EEA/UK): reopen the consent form from the app's Settings screen to change or withdraw your choice.
• Delete everything: deleting the app removes all locally stored progress and settings, and resets the IDFV.

8. Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, delete, port or restrict processing of your personal data, to object to processing, and to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

Because we hold no accounts and no directly identifying information, we usually cannot locate data relating to a specific individual on our side. To exercise rights over data held by the SDK providers, contact them directly using the links in section 5, or write to us at hello@geoguru.org and we will help where we can.

9. Data retention

We do not maintain our own database of user data. Analytics, advertising and diagnostics data is retained by the respective providers according to their own retention schedules — typically between 2 and 14 months for event-level analytics data, and shorter for ad-serving data. Data stored on your device is kept until you clear the app's data or delete the app.

10. Children

GeoGuru is a general-audience game and is not directed at children under 13 (or the equivalent minimum age in your country). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, contact hello@geoguru.org and we will act on it.

11. International data transfers

AppStation Studio Pte. Ltd. is established in Singapore. Where we act on data relating to users in the EEA or the UK, that processing therefore takes place outside those regions, on the basis of the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses or an equivalent transfer mechanism.

Our SDK providers may separately process data on servers located outside your country, including in the United States. Where required, those transfers rely on safeguards such as the Standard Contractual Clauses or the EU–US Data Privacy Framework, as described in the providers' own privacy policies.

12. This website (geoguru.org)

Sections 2–11 describe the mobile app. The geoguru.org website itself is a small set of static pages with no accounts, no forms and no ad serving. It uses Google Analytics 4 to measure traffic, which collects:

• Pages viewed, referring site, approximate visit duration and clicks on the store links.
• Browser, operating system, device type and screen size.
• Your IP address, which Google uses to derive an approximate location (typically city or region level) and then discards. We never see your IP address or a precise location.

To do this, Google Analytics stores a first-party cookie (_ga) in your browser containing a randomly generated identifier. It is used to tell repeat visits apart, not to identify you personally, and it is not linked to anything in the app.

You can opt out by using Google's Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, by blocking cookies for this site in your browser settings, or by sending a Do Not Track / Global Privacy Control signal that your browser or an extension supports. Nothing on the site requires cookies to work.

The site also loads the Nunito typeface from Google Fonts, which means your browser makes a request to fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com; Google receives your IP address as part of that request.

13. Changes to this policy

If we change what the app collects or why, we will update this page and revise the "Last updated" date above. Material changes will also be reflected in the App Store privacy disclosures. Continuing to use GeoGuru after an update means you accept the revised policy.

14. Contact us

Questions, privacy requests or anything else about the app: