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Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 11, 2026

1. Introduction

Family Trivia ("we," "us," or "our") is a family trivia game developed by Tatiana Shukletsova. This Privacy Policy explains what information the Family Trivia mobile app, our website at familytrivia.app, and our supporting services collect, how it is used, with whom it is shared, how long it is kept, and the choices you have.

Family Trivia is for independent use from age 13. Children aged 6–12 can participate when a parent or guardian sets up and manages the game, chooses topics and difficulty, and reads questions aloud. The app has no user accounts, no chat, and no advertising.

2. The short version

  • Games are saved on your device. Some of this information is also sent to our server to run the game, as described below.
  • Usage analytics is enabled by default unless you switch it off. It links app activity and subscription events using a random app identifier, not your name or email. You can change your choice without a subscription (see section 7).
  • The app store processes payments. Our subscription provider records purchases, trials, renewals and cancellations under a randomly assigned customer identifier.
  • Game setup sends player names, topics and difficulty choices to our server. Question generation sends topics, difficulty and recently seen questions to our AI provider. Player name fields are not sent to the AI.
  • We store reports and feedback you choose to send, including your name and email only if you provide them.
  • We do not sell personal information.

3. Information the app handles

3.1 Saved on your device

The app saves the following on your device. The next section explains what is also transmitted:

  • Player and team names you enter, and each player's topic and difficulty choices
  • Game state, scores, and statistics
  • Your recently played topics
  • The bank of questions shown on your device, including which questions were already asked
  • The date the app was first installed

3.2 Sent to our server

Our server receives the following to make the game work:

  • When a game starts: the chosen topics, difficulty levels, and player names as part of the game setup. Topics are checked for suitability. Player names are not saved in our database or deliberately included in our application logs.
  • When questions are generated: the topic, difficulty, and the texts or fingerprints of questions you have already seen, so the AI can avoid repeats. The fingerprints are used to skip repeats and are not stored.
  • When you report a question: the question itself, the screen you reported it from, and any comment you type. Stored by our feedback provider.
  • When you send feedback: your message, and your name and email address only if you choose to provide them. Stored by our feedback provider.
  • Aggregate topic popularity (how often each topic is played, with no player or device identifiers attached).

We also keep short-lived technical logs (for example, request identifiers, timing, and the requested topic) to keep the service running and troubleshoot problems.

3.3 AI question generation

Our AI provider, OpenAI, receives topics for safety checks and question generation, along with difficulty, safety-check results and recently seen question texts. We do not send player name fields to the AI. Please do not include names or other personal information in topics or feedback about questions.

4. Optional usage analytics

The app includes Google Analytics for Firebase, Google's analytics service, to help us understand which features are used, where players get stuck, and how often games are started and finished.

  • Data collected: a random app-instance identifier assigned by Google; events such as app open, onboarding progress, paywall views, game starts and finishes, topic choices (by category, not the topic text you typed), and feedback submissions; device and OS information; approximate location derived by Google from your IP address. Google's own automatic events (for example first open and session start) are also collected.
  • Purpose: analytics, to improve the app.
  • Linking: this data is tied to the random app-instance identifier, which makes it linkable across your sessions. It is not linked to your name, email, or any account, because the app has no accounts. It is not "anonymous" in the strict sense.
  • Retention: event-level data is retained for 14 months, with expired data deleted during Google's monthly deletion process. User-level data has a separate 14-month period that restarts when you return and analytics is enabled. Aggregate reports, such as totals and averages, are not affected by these deletion periods.
  • Choice: analytics is enabled by default after your saved preference is loaded. Existing opt-outs are respected. The Home banner explains analytics; “I consent” dismisses the notice and does not change your setting. Switch analytics off in About on Home or Analytics settings on the welcome and subscription screens, without a subscription. See section 7 for details.

5. Subscriptions and purchases

Payments for Family Trivia Premium are processed entirely by Apple through your Apple Account. We never see your payment details.

We use RevenueCat to validate purchases and manage subscription access. It receives your subscription lifecycle information (trials, purchases, renewals, cancellations, and expirations), tied to a randomly assigned customer identifier and your device's transaction data from Apple. If analytics is enabled, the app also shares the Google Analytics app-instance identifier with RevenueCat so that subscription events can be analyzed together with app usage in Google Analytics. We do not send your player names, email or feedback messages to our subscription provider.

RevenueCat retains this data for as long as it is relevant to your use of the service and for a period afterward as described in RevenueCat's privacy policy.

6. This website

familytrivia.app uses Google Analytics (GA4) and Ahrefs Analytics to measure visits to the site, such as page views and which link led to a download. These services may set cookies or similar identifiers in your browser and may infer your approximate location from your IP address. You can block or delete these cookies through your browser settings; the site works without them.

7. Your choices and rights

7.1 Your analytics choice

Open About on Home, or Analytics settings on the welcome or subscription screen, and switch off "Share usage analytics." This stops app analytics collection and requests removal of the identifier used to link subscription events to app activity. That removal needs an internet connection; the app retries pending updates when you return or reconnect. Subscription analytics may continue until the provider receives the update. This does not erase previously collected events or affect gameplay, purchases or subscription access.

7.2 Access, correction, and deletion

To access, correct, or delete information you have given us (for example, a feedback message with your name and email, or a report you submitted), email us at familytrivia.app@gmail.com. We will delete the records we can identify as yours, and ask our service providers to do the same where practical.

Uninstalling the app removes its local game data. Copies in device backups may remain under your backup settings. Uninstalling does not delete information already sent to us or our providers.

If you are a California or EU/UK resident, you also have rights such as knowing what personal information we hold and objecting to processing. Contact us at the same email and we will respond, keeping in mind that we hold very little identifiable data (see sections 3 to 6).

8. Children's privacy

Independent use is for ages 13 and over. Children aged 6–12 may participate only when a parent or guardian sets up and manages the game, chooses the content and reads questions aloud. Children can answer verbally and do not need an account or contact details.

Parents should use made-up nicknames or team labels rather than children's real names. Player names and topics entered during setup are sent to our server; topics also go to our AI provider. Avoid putting personal information in topics, reports or feedback. The parent or guardian should make the optional analytics choice.

We do not ask children to submit personal information. If you believe information about a child has been sent through the app, contact us at familytrivia.app@gmail.com and we will help identify and delete records we hold.

9. Service providers and sharing

We share information only with service providers that process it on our behalf, each under its own privacy policy:

  • Google (Firebase Analytics, Google Analytics): usage analytics as described in sections 4 and 6
  • RevenueCat: subscription validation and analytics (section 5)
  • Apple: App Store distribution, TestFlight, and payment processing
  • OpenAI: AI question generation and topic safety checks (section 3.3)
  • Cloudflare: hosting our services and database
  • Airtable: storing question reports and feedback
  • Ahrefs: website visit analytics (section 6)

We do not sell or rent personal information, and we do not share it with advertising networks or data brokers. We may disclose information if required by law or to protect our rights.

10. Data retention

  • On-device game data: kept until you uninstall the app
  • Google Analytics event data: up to 14 months (section 4)
  • RevenueCat subscription records: per RevenueCat's retention policy (section 5)
  • Reports and feedback: kept while needed to handle your request, and deleted on request
  • Aggregate topic popularity in our database: kept indefinitely in a form that is not linked to any player or device
  • Technical server logs: short-lived, kept only for troubleshooting

11. Security

Connections to our services are encrypted. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

12. International users

Our service providers process data in the United States and other countries. If you use the app from outside those countries, your information may be transferred to and processed in the United States, where our providers' systems are based. These transfers rely on contractual safeguards where required.

13. Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post the new policy here and update the "Last updated" date, and note significant changes in the app.

14. Contact us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or want to exercise your rights, contact us at:

Email: familytrivia.app@gmail.com