ETHERFC Privacy Policy

Information stored on your device

The apps store gameplay information on your device, including collection and duplicate state, packs, squads, Drafts, objectives, SBCs, preferences, and progress. This lets local and offline gameplay continue. Local data normally remains until you reset the app, clear its storage, or uninstall it. Platform or device backups may retain copies under your Apple or Google settings.

ETHERFC 27 online accounts

ETHERFC 27 can create a guest Firebase account and can link it to an email address, password sign-in, username, and active-device credential. We use this information to authenticate you, restore your account, provide online features, prevent unauthorized account movement, and protect the server-verified economy.

When local collection ownership is adopted by an online account, we record it as legacy adoption. Legacy adoption is a provenance category and is not treated as proof that a player modified the game.

Online gameplay and transaction data

For server-verified ETHERFC 27 features we process the data needed to complete and recover the action. This can include wallet and inventory balances, collection provenance, pack opens and results, rewards, Objectives, SBC submissions, Draft state, Pack Pass state, purchases and entitlements, trades and offers, friends, blocked accounts, reports, account-device state, request receipts, and security or abuse-prevention records.

Cloud Functions, Cloud Firestore, Firebase Authentication, Firebase App Check, and Firebase Realtime Database are used to provide these features. Private economy data is server-owned and is not made publicly searchable. A limited public profile can include your username, display name, and trade reputation for other signed-in players.

Operational and security telemetry

ETHERFC 27 produces bounded operational records to keep online features reliable and secure. These records can include the feature or server operation, app platform/version, success or error category, timing, retry or receipt-replay state, App Check state, and estimated Firebase reads or writes. UIDs, request IDs, and sessions are represented by shortened cryptographic hashes where identity is needed. We do not intentionally place emails, usernames, auth tokens, passwords, device secrets, inventories, offers, arbitrary request data, or raw error messages into these logs.

Production operational logs are intended to be restricted to authorized maintainers and retained for no more than 30 days.

Product analytics

Optional client Firebase/Google Analytics gameplay collection is not enabled in the current ETHERFC 27 production release. Development and Staging may process strictly allowlisted server-authoritative product facts to test privacy-protected aggregate balancing reports. Those tests do not use a Firebase UID as a Google Analytics User ID, do not create a player browser, and suppress reporting for cohorts below 20 accounts. Before any production enablement, this policy, store disclosures, consent behavior, retention, and the released app will be reviewed and updated together.

Authoritative operational and transaction records may still be processed when needed to provide the service, prevent fraud, diagnose failures, and protect the online economy. Those records are separate from optional product analytics.

Advertising and consent

The current ETHERFC 27 production release does not initialize Google Mobile Ads or request advertising or Privacy Sandbox identifiers. Safe non-production builds use only Google's official sample advertising configuration for test purposes.

Other Etherie apps, and any future ETHERFC 27 release that deliberately enables ads, may use Google AdMob and Google's User Messaging Platform to request, display, measure, and verify ads according to the user's consent state and Google's policies. That release will update this policy, the relevant store disclosure, and its in-app privacy choices before advertising is enabled. Advertising data is not joined to a normal account-level ETHERFC Insights view.

How information is used

• Save local progress and preferences.
• Create, authenticate, protect, restore, and delete ETHERFC 27 accounts.
• Provide server-verified packs, rewards, economy, trading, Draft, Objectives, SBCs, and Pack Pass features.
• Prevent replay, cheating, account theft, abuse, and invalid economy mutations.
• Diagnose reliability and Firebase usage while limiting logged fields.
• Request, display, measure, and verify ads according to applicable choices.
• In future releases, improve aggregate game balance only after the analytics and privacy release gates are met.

Sharing and service providers

We do not sell ETHERFC account or gameplay data. Information is processed by providers used to operate the app, including Google Firebase, Google Cloud, Google AdMob/User Messaging Platform, Apple services on iOS, and Google Play services on Android. Store purchase information may be sent to Apple or Google for verification. These providers process information under their own terms and policies.

Retention

Account-owned online profile, wallet, inventory, progression, reward, Draft, SBC, and similar game-state records are kept while the account exists. Bounded request receipts can expire after their retry or support window. Operational logs are intended to be retained for no more than 30 days.

After account deletion, completed economy, purchase, trade, moderation, fraud-prevention, and security records may be retained in restricted systems only as reasonably necessary for disputes, accounting, platform obligations, fraud prevention, security, or law. Public profile and reusable sign-in data are removed. Retained records are minimized and separated from normal product analytics.

Account and data deletion

ETHERFC 27 players can initiate deletion inside the app from Online > Account > Settings > Account Management. The server disables sign-in, removes the public profile and username reservation, removes account-owned online game state, closes ephemeral trade/ad state, and retries incomplete cleanup automatically. The local app signs out and clears its saved online identity. Some device-only gameplay data may remain until you reset or remove the app.

You can also request deletion outside the app by following the steps on the ETHERFC 27 Account Deletion page. Completed deletion receipts retain no raw UID and expire after 30 days.

Your choices

• Use supported local features without linking an email account.
• Review ad privacy choices from the app when Google's privacy-options form is available.
• Keep optional product analytics disabled; it is not currently enabled.
• Block or unblock players through account settings.
• Delete your ETHERFC 27 online account in the app or request deletion through the public deletion page.
• Clear device-only data through app/device settings or uninstall the app.

Children and age requirements

The apps are not intended to bypass age, parental-consent, advertising, or store requirements. Account, consent, and advertising configuration must follow the age audience and regions declared for each released app. Contact us if you believe a child's information was processed inappropriately.

Security

We use authentication, server-owned economy mutations, App Check, access rules, replay receipts, bounded rate limits, and restricted logs to protect online data. No storage or transmission method is completely secure.

Third-party policies

Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Firebase Privacy and Security: https://firebase.google.com/support/privacy

Google AdMob: https://support.google.com/admob/answer/6128543?hl=en

Apple Privacy Policy: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/

Contact

For privacy questions or an account-deletion request, email etheriestudios@gmail.com. We may ask for limited information needed to verify the account and protect it from an unauthorized deletion request.