Privacy Policy

Tile Out — Last updated: June 9, 2026

This Privacy Policy describes how Tile Out (“we,” “our,” or “us”) collects, uses, and shares information when you use our app. We are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your data transparently.

1. Information We Collect

We collect the following information when you use Tile Out:

• Google Account information — When you sign in with Google, we receive your name, email address, profile picture URL, and Google Account ID. Sign-in is required to use the app.
• Game performance data — Your puzzle completion records, including the number of moves, time taken, difficulty level, and daily completion history.
• Streak and statistics — Your current and longest consecutive completion streaks and related dates.
• Challenge and social data — Friend connections you initiate, challenges you create or participate in (including move sequences for replays), and notifications about challenge activity.
• Preferences — Your selected difficulty level.

We do not collect location data, contacts, health data, financial information, or any other sensitive categories of personal data.

2. How We Collect Information

Information is collected in the following ways:

• Directly from you when you sign in with Google and when you play puzzles or interact with challenge features.
• Automatically as you play: move sequences, completion times, and results are recorded when a puzzle is finished.
• Via Firebase (Google) services that power our backend database and authentication.

We do not use cookies, advertising identifiers, tracking pixels, or fingerprinting techniques.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect to:

• Authenticate you and maintain your account.
• Display your name and profile picture to friends and challenge opponents you connect with.
• Track and display your puzzle statistics, streaks, and leaderboard rankings.
• Enable you to send, receive, and replay challenges with friends.
• Send in-app notifications about challenge activity.
• Store your difficulty preference across sessions.

We do not use your data for advertising, sell it to third parties, or use it for any purpose beyond operating the app.

4. Information Shared With Third Parties

We share data with the following third parties, solely to operate the app:

• Google (Firebase & Google Identity Services) — We use Firebase Authentication and Firestore (both Google services) to authenticate users and store all app data. Your data is subject to Google’s Privacy Policy. Google provides equivalent or stronger data protection than described in this policy.

We do not share your data with analytics providers, advertising networks, data brokers, or any other third parties.

5. Data Retention

Your data is stored in Firebase Firestore for as long as your account is active. You can permanently delete your account at any time from within the app: open the avatar menu in the top-right corner and choose “Delete account.” This removes your account and all associated game history — daily results, challenges, friend connections, statistics, and your entries on shared leaderboards. Deletion is permanent and cannot be undone.

6. Your Rights and Choices

• Access: You may request a copy of the data we hold about you.
• Deletion: You may permanently delete your account and all associated data yourself at any time using the “Delete account” option in the avatar menu.
• Withdraw consent: You may stop using the app at any time. Because sign-in is required, signing out and uninstalling the app ends all future data collection.
• Leaderboard visibility: Your name and puzzle results appear on daily leaderboards visible to other signed-in users. Deleting your account removes these entries.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at tileoutadmin@gmail.com.

7. Children’s Privacy

Tile Out is not directed to children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us and we will delete it promptly.

8. Security

We rely on Firebase’s security infrastructure, including Firestore security rules that restrict data access to the authenticated user who owns it (and, for challenge data, to the specific participants). We do not store raw credentials.

9. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the “Last updated” date at the top. Continued use of the app after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

10. Contact Us

If you have questions or requests regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
tileoutadmin@gmail.com