Privacy Policy

What the game does not do

• No account, no sign-up, no login of any kind.
• No player profiles: our server does not keep your scores, match history or any identifier for you. It only produces the host's voice, as described below.
• No analytics or crash-reporting SDK of our own.
• No chat, no friends list, no leaderboard tied to an identity.
• No access to your microphone, contacts, photos, or precise location. The camera is used only if you choose to scan a multiplayer QR code (see below).
• No cloud AI for challenges or commentary: the optional Apple Intelligence features run entirely on your device. The only AI used online is the speech service that voices the host's lines.

Party mode: camera and local network

In party mode, phones join a game hosted by the Apple TV or Mac app over your local Wi-Fi network. The app asks for local-network access to find and connect to that host. Between the devices travel: the nickname and emoji you pick, your spoken name, the anonymous player identifier, your answers and taps, the scores, and which party features your purchases unlock. Other people in the room can see your nickname on the board. This traffic stays on your local network, with one exception: the spoken lines described in the next section.

If your phone cannot work out how to pronounce a nickname, it may ask another phone in the room with on-device AI to do it, over the local network. That phone does not display the name.

The camera is used only if you tap to scan the room's QR code shown on the TV. Frames are read on your device to decode the code and are never stored or transmitted. You can always type the room code instead and leave the camera permission off. The QR code contains a link with the room code and the host's local network address. With the app installed, the link opens the app directly. Without it, your browser opens a page on pynkstudio.eu, which receives that link along with the standard information any website receives, such as your IP address.

Stupid Streak in iMessage

Stupid Streak is played inside Apple's Messages app. The state of the game travels inside your conversation as a message, through Apple's service and under Apple's terms. It does not use a server of ours, and we do not see your conversations, your contacts or your results.

Advertising (Google AdMob)

The app shows ads through Google AdMob, provided by Google LLC / Google Ireland Limited ("Google"), to fund development. Ads only ever appear when you tap a specific button — an interstitial after you tap TRY AGAIN, or a rewarded video if you choose to tap CONTINUE — never automatically, and never during gameplay itself. The Apple TV and Mac host apps show no ads.

To do this, the Google Mobile Ads SDK embedded in the app may collect and process, on Google's behalf: your device's advertising identifier (IDFA on iOS, Advertising ID on Android), IP address, general device information (model, operating system, language, time zone), an approximate location derived from your IP address, diagnostic data about the ad SDK, and data about how you interact with ads (impressions, clicks, view time). Google uses this to serve ads, measure and report on their performance, prevent fraud, and — where you have consented — show ads personalized to your interests.

We do not receive or see any of this data ourselves — Google processes it directly, under its own privacy policy. See Google's Privacy Policy, how Google uses data in AdMob apps, and Google Ad Settings for details and controls.

In-app purchases

You can buy one-time upgrades, such as "Remove ads" and the Party Pack. The payment is handled entirely by the App Store or Google Play under their own terms and privacy policies: PYNK STUDIO never receives your name, payment details or account. The app only learns that the purchase succeeded, and remembers it locally; in party mode it tells the host which features are unlocked. "Restore purchase" in Settings asks the store again, for example after a reinstall.

Your choices and rights

Where the GDPR applies, personalized advertising and the use of your advertising identifier rely on your consent (Art. 6(1)(a)), collected through the consent message and withdrawable at any time from Settings → AD PRIVACY CHOICES; non-personalized ads and fraud prevention rely on our and Google's legitimate interest in funding and protecting a free game (Art. 6(1)(f)). The online voice host relies on our legitimate interest in offering the entertainment feature the room has chosen to use (Art. 6(1)(f)): you can object at any time, and the room can switch it off from OPTIONS. Because the audio of the host's lines is not linked to a person, we can usually find it only if you tell us the exact name and language; if you ask, we will delete it, and otherwise it expires as described above. Requests about advertising data are best handled directly with Google using the links above (Ad Settings, Tracking permission, Advertising ID reset). For anything else — a question about this policy, a request under the rights below, or a report of a problem — contact us at info@pynkstudio.eu and we will respond as soon as we can. If you are in the EU/EEA, UK, or California, you may have rights of access, correction, erasure, restriction and objection under GDPR or CCPA/CPRA; for Google's processing, Google's privacy policy explains how to exercise them. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection authority — in Italy, the Garante per la protezione dei dati personali.

Changes to this policy

If our data practices change — for example if we add a new feature or partner — we will update this page and the date at the top. We recommend checking back occasionally, especially before a major app update.