Letroca — Privacy Policy

1. The short version

• Letroca has no account, no sign-in and no password. Your nickname and avatar are a local profile, not an identity we verify.
• Your progress — nickname, avatar, best scores, trophies and Daily Mission history — is stored in a local database on your iPhone. Nothing is uploaded unless you play online or use Game Center.
• When you play online, your nickname, avatar, and the words and scores you submit during a round are sent to our server and shared with the other players in that room, for as long as the room exists.
• Game Center is optional. If you sign in, Apple — not us — handles that sign-in; we only receive the achievements and scores the app reports.
• Letroca has no ads, no in-app purchases and no third-party analytics or advertising SDKs.
• You can erase your local progress at any time from Settings, or by deleting the app.

2. Information Letroca accesses

2.1 Network connection

Letroca uses your internet connection only when you choose an online mode (room-based multiplayer, Team rounds, or the official Daily Mission attempt) or when it reports a leaderboard score or achievement to Game Center. Solo play and local versus on the same iPhone need no network access and send nothing.

2.2 Game Center (optional)

If you sign in to Game Center, Letroca can report trophy achievements and submit your score to the Daily and Classic leaderboards. Apple's own screen handles authentication; we never see your Apple ID, e-mail or Game Center credentials. If you stay signed out, or Game Center is unavailable, every feature keeps working without it.

3. Information stored on your device

Letroca keeps the following in a local database on your iPhone, created with and managed by the app:

• your nickname and avatar, and the local second player's name and avatar for versus mode;
• your best score per mode;
• unlocked trophies and their progress;
• your Daily Mission history (date, score, words found and whether the attempt was official);
• app preferences, such as sound, haptics and accessibility toggles.

This information is never transmitted anywhere by itself. It is included in your device backups according to your iOS backup settings, and it is removed if you uninstall the app.

4. Information processed to play online

Online rooms run on our own server (not a third-party ad or data broker). To play a room-based mode, Team rounds or the official Daily Mission, the following is processed:

• An anonymous session is created from the nickname and avatar you choose; it is identified by a token kept on your device, with no e-mail, phone number or password attached.
• Room data — your nickname, avatar and accumulated points in that room — is visible to the other players in the room for as long as it exists, the same way it would appear on a shared screen.
• Round data — the words and letter paths you submit — is sent to the server, which re-validates them against the dictionary before they count; this is needed so every player's score is checked fairly.
• Daily Mission attempts are tied to your session token so the server can enforce one official attempt per person per day; no name or contact information is required to do this.
• Your IP address is processed automatically by the server, as with any online connection, to apply rate limits that protect the service from abuse. It is not paired with your nickname for any other purpose and is not sold or shared.

We do not require or collect your real name, e-mail address, phone number, precise location or Contacts. Letroca has no in-game chat and never sends messages on your behalf.

5. What Letroca does not do

• It does not require an account, e-mail or phone number to play, online or offline.
• It does not access your Contacts, Photos or precise location.
• It does not show ads or sell in-app purchases.
• It does not use third-party analytics, advertising or tracking SDKs.
• It does not have voice or text chat, and does not contact anyone on your behalf.
• It does not sell or share your nickname, scores or room activity for advertising.

6. Your controls

All of the following are available from the app's Settings:

• Change your nickname and avatar — from your profile, at any time; a new online session simply uses the new values.
• Erase local data — removes your best scores, trophies and Daily Mission history from this device.
• Leave a room — leaving or closing the app removes you from an online room; a brief grace period lets you reconnect if you only lost connection mid-round.
• Game Center — manage or revoke access from the iOS Settings app at any time; this does not affect your local progress.

Uninstalling the app deletes its local database.

7. Retention

Local progress stays on your device until you erase it or uninstall the app. On the server, a room's data is kept only for as long as the room is active, plus a short grace period to let a disconnected player reconnect and see the last round's results; it is discarded shortly after the room ends. Daily Mission results are kept long enough to enforce the one-attempt-per-day rule and to show leaderboards.

8. Children

Letroca is not directed at children under 13 (or the minimum age required in your jurisdiction) and does not knowingly collect information from them. Because the app needs no name, e-mail or other personal identifier to play, there is very little that could identify a child even in online play.

9. Security

Local progress relies on the protections of iOS: the app sandbox, device encryption and your passcode or biometrics. Connections to our online server use TLS encryption, and session tokens are sent only in request headers, never in a URL, so they do not end up in server logs.

10. Changes to this policy

If Letroca starts to collect new data, use a new permission, or change how online play or Game Center works, this policy will be updated before that version is released, and the change will be described in the release notes. The effective date at the top always reflects the current version.

11. Contact

Questions about privacy: quicktap2024@gmail.com.