GOAT – Privacy Policy

1. Information We Collect

GOAT does not require you to create a traditional account using your name, email address, phone number, or password.

However, the App uses Firebase services provided by Google and automatically creates an anonymous identifier to enable certain App functionality.

Depending on how you use GOAT, we may collect the following categories of information.

Anonymous User Identifier

GOAT uses Firebase Authentication to create an anonymous user identifier (“User ID”).

This identifier does not require you to provide your name, email address, or other traditional account information. It is used to distinguish an App user or installation and enable features such as saving and processing tournament activity and community statistics.

Because activity stored by GOAT may be associated with this identifier, we treat this information as data that may be linked to a user for purposes of platform privacy disclosures.

Product Interaction and Usage Data

When you interact with GOAT, we may collect information about how you use the App, including information relating to:

• tournaments you play;
• tournament selections and choices;
• tournament completions and results;
• selected winners;
• interactions with App features; and
• other events relating to the operation and use of the App.

We use this information to provide GOAT’s tournament functionality, calculate and display community statistics and rankings, understand how features are used, maintain the App, and improve the user experience.

Some product interaction information may be associated with your anonymous User ID where necessary to provide App functionality. Other analytics events may be processed using installation or device-related identifiers generated by Firebase services.

Crash Data

GOAT uses Firebase Crashlytics to identify, diagnose, and fix crashes and stability problems.

Crash information may include information such as:

• crash logs and stack traces;
• application state at the time of a crash;
• App version;
• operating system information;
• device model and technical characteristics;
• diagnostic identifiers;
• timestamps;
• diagnostic logs and breadcrumbs; and
• an anonymous User ID where associated with a crash report.

This information is used only for App functionality, diagnostics, reliability, debugging, security, and performance improvement.

Other Diagnostic Data

We may collect additional technical and diagnostic information necessary to monitor App functionality, diagnose errors, investigate technical issues, and improve stability and performance.

This information may be associated with the anonymous User ID or installation identifiers used by Firebase.

2. How We Use Information

We use the information described above to:

• provide and operate GOAT;
• maintain tournament progress and functionality;
• process tournament results;
• calculate and display aggregated community statistics and rankings;
• understand how users interact with the App;
• analyze and improve App features and user experience;
• diagnose crashes, errors, and technical problems;
• improve App reliability, scalability, security, and performance; and
• prevent misuse and protect the integrity of the App and its services.

We do not use this information to build advertising profiles about individual users.

3. Analytics

GOAT uses Google Analytics for Firebase to help us understand how users interact with the App.

Analytics may collect information about App interactions and technical information associated with an App installation. We use this information to measure feature usage, understand App performance, and improve GOAT.

We do not intentionally send your name, email address, or phone number to Google Analytics for Firebase.

4. Firebase and Google

GOAT uses services provided by Google Firebase, including services such as:

• Firebase Authentication;
• Cloud Firestore;
• Google Analytics for Firebase; and
• Firebase Crashlytics.

Google may process information on our behalf as necessary to provide these services.

Information processed by Google is also subject to applicable Google and Firebase privacy and data-processing terms.

5. Advertising and Tracking

GOAT does not currently use the information described in this Privacy Policy for cross-app or cross-website tracking for targeted advertising purposes.

We do not use your User ID, product interaction data, crash data, or diagnostic data to track you across apps or websites owned by other companies for targeted advertising.

If our practices materially change in the future, we will update this Privacy Policy and applicable platform privacy disclosures as required.

6. Sale of Personal Information

We do not sell your personal information.

We do not sell GOAT tournament choices, anonymous User IDs, crash information, or diagnostic information to data brokers or advertisers.

7. Sharing of Information

We may disclose information to service providers that process data on our behalf where necessary to operate, analyze, secure, and improve GOAT.

Our primary service provider for the data described in this Privacy Policy is Google through Firebase.

We may also disclose information where reasonably necessary to:

• comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, or governmental requests;
• protect the rights, property, safety, or security of GOAT, Chilizard Studios, our users, or others;
• investigate fraud, abuse, security incidents, or violations of applicable terms; or
• establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.

We do not share your information with third parties for their own targeted advertising purposes.

8. Data Retention

We retain information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including providing App functionality, maintaining community statistics, troubleshooting technical problems, complying with legal obligations, and protecting the App.

Different Firebase services may maintain information for different periods.

Information stored directly by GOAT in Firebase may be retained while necessary to operate the App and its community functionality unless it is deleted, no longer required, or a valid deletion request requires its removal.

Some information may remain temporarily in backups or be retained where required by law, for fraud prevention, security, dispute resolution, or other legitimate legal purposes.

9. Data Deletion and Privacy Requests

You may contact us to request deletion of information associated with your use of GOAT or to ask questions about your privacy.

Contact:

Because GOAT uses anonymous authentication rather than traditional accounts, we may need information from your App installation or anonymous account to identify the data associated with your request.

We will make reasonable efforts to verify and process valid deletion requests.

Deletion from our systems may not immediately remove information maintained temporarily in backups or by service providers according to their applicable retention schedules.

10. Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to protect information processed through GOAT against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.

GOAT uses Firebase infrastructure for backend services.

However, no electronic storage or transmission method can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

11. Children’s Privacy

GOAT is not specifically directed to children under the age required to consent to the processing of personal data in their jurisdiction.

We do not knowingly request or collect traditional identifying information such as names, email addresses, or phone numbers from children through the App.

If you are a parent or guardian and believe that a child has provided personal information through GOAT that should be deleted, please contact us at chilizardstudios@gmail.com.

12. International Data Processing

GOAT uses third-party cloud infrastructure, including Google Firebase.

As a result, information may be processed or stored in countries other than the country in which you reside. Where required, data will be handled in accordance with applicable data-protection requirements and safeguards.

13. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live, applicable privacy laws may provide rights concerning your personal data, which may include the right to:

• request access to certain personal data;
• request correction or deletion;
• object to or restrict certain processing;
• request information about how data is processed; or
• exercise other rights provided by applicable law.

To submit a privacy request, contact chilizardstudios@gmail.com.

We may need to verify that a request relates to the person or App installation making the request before fulfilling it.

14. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to GOAT, our services, legal requirements, or our data-processing practices.

When we make changes, we will update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

If changes materially affect how we process user information, we may provide additional notice where appropriate or legally required.

15. Contact Us

If you have questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or GOAT’s handling of information, contact: