Privacy Policy

Who we are

Ball Knower is operated by iodine studio, a California business. Contact us about privacy at privacy@iodine.studio.

Information we collect

Depending on how you use Ball Knower, we collect:

• your guest identifier and nickname;
• your registered username, optional email address, and password hash;
• session, MMR, win-loss, match, move, and rating-history records;
• operational request, device-class, diagnostic, abuse-prevention, and security metadata; and
• browser storage described below and, when configured, sanitized monetization telemetry.

Sanitized monetization telemetry may include eligible surface views; placement, route, and experiment cohort; aggregate ad delivery outcomes; optional-support impressions and Ko-fi link selections; queue starts, match completions, and Queue Again selections; ad-slot dimensions; hard-navigation page-performance fields; and a coarse mobile or desktop device class. We do not record AdSense clicks, user IDs, tokens, nicknames, match IDs, player names, moves, results, or ad content in those events.

How we use information

We use information to authenticate users, create and maintain sessions, operate matchmaking and games, provide ratings and records, prevent fraud and abuse, protect security, improve reliability, respond to support, comply with law, and measure configured monetization features.

How we share information

We disclose information to infrastructure and service providers that help operate Ball Knower; to advertising and consent-management providers such as AdSense when enabled; when reasonably necessary for legal, safety, or security purposes; and as part of a business reorganization, financing, sale, or succession. Ko-fi receives information only when you choose to navigate to its external service. Those providers have their own privacy practices.

iodine studio does not sell account passwords or gameplay records. If third-party advertising is enabled, the advertising provider may collect or receive identifiers and activity data as explained through its consent controls.

Cookies and browser storage

Ball Knower uses a secure session cookie for authentication. Local browser storage may hold a profile snapshot and an advertising experiment cohort so the interface can persist between visits. Clearing browser storage does not delete an account, match history, rating history, or other server-side records.

Advertising and online tracking

Advertising and a consent-management platform may be enabled. When they are active, third parties may use cookies or similar technology subject to the choices available in the consent controls. Ball Knower does not currently change its own behavior in response to browser “Do Not Track” signals or claim support for Global Privacy Control. You may use available consent controls or contact us about your choices.

Retention

Sessions are retained until expiry or revocation. Private-game invites are retained until expiry and operational cleanup. Account, rated-match, and rating-history records are retained while reasonably needed to provide player records and protect game integrity. Security, dispute, and legal records may be retained as reasonably necessary for those purposes.

Security

We use reasonable administrative and technical safeguards appropriate to the service, but no transmission or storage system can be guaranteed absolutely secure.

Your choices and requests

You may request access to, correction of, or deletion of information by emailing privacy@iodine.studio. We may need to verify your identity and may retain information where permitted or required for security, integrity, legal, or operational reasons.

Children

Ball Knower is not directed to children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 supplied personal information, contact us at privacy@iodine.studio.

California disclosures

The categories described above include identifiers, account and authentication information, internet or electronic activity, gameplay and profile records, and inferences such as ratings. Sources include you, your browser or device, service operation, and service providers. We use and disclose those categories for the purposes and to the third-party categories described above.

If applicable law gives you rights to know, access, delete, correct, restrict, opt out, or receive equal service when exercising a privacy right, submit a request to the privacy email above. We will process verified requests as required by applicable law.

Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy. We will update the effective date and provide notice of material changes. A Privacy-only update will not by itself block access to gameplay.