Pucki is a virtual pet game. This page states exactly what data the app handles, why, and what you can demand. It describes how the app actually works, not an intention.
Who is responsible#
Publisher: Paul Barthuel EI (BarthCave) — SIREN 130 626 245
Address: 39 rue de la Gare de Reuilly, 75012 Paris, France
Contact: contact@pucki.app
What Pucki handles, and why#
| Data | Why | Legal basis | Retention |
|---|---|---|---|
| Your email address, if you create an account | To find your pet again on another device. That is the only use: no newsletter, no marketing. | Performance of the service you asked for | Until you delete the account |
| Your game log: experience, gauges, games played, coins, items | To keep your pet alive and in sync across your devices. Without an account it never leaves the phone. | Performance of the service | Until you delete the account |
| Your Pucki Premium subscription, if you are signed in: the purchase identifier at Google or Apple, the plan, its status and its end date | To link the subscription to your account, so you find it on your other devices, and to know when it ends. The payment stays with Google or Apple: we never see a card or bank details. | Performance of the contract | Until you delete the account |
| The device advertising identifier | To show the rewarded ads you choose to watch. Handled by Google AdMob. | Your consent, asked on first launch and revocable | Per Google's policy |
| Crash reports and technical diagnostics | To fix what breaks. No account identifier is attached. | Legitimate interest in shipping an app that works | 90 days |
| The device time zone | To pick the sky of the day. It is not stored: it serves the weather request and goes with it. The weather provider only receives the coordinates of a city in your time zone, never your device. | Performance of the service | Not stored |
| What you write in the contact form: name, email address, topic, message | To answer you. The message reaches us by email; the server keeps no copy. | Legitimate interest in answering your request | As long as your request takes, one year at most |
| Your IP address | Inherent to any connection to our servers: routing the response, and limiting abuse (sign-in codes, feedback, contact messages). It is never linked to your account or your game journal. | Legitimate interest in securing the service | Host's technical logs, a few days; in-memory rate limiter, one hour |
Pucki asks for no location, no contacts, no photos, and nothing else on your device. The in-game weather is derived from the time zone, never from GPS.
The same processing applies when Pucki is embedded in a partner's app: there, that app's privacy policy informs you and names us; nothing more is collected.
Who else sees this data#
Only the providers needed to run the app, each for its own part: our host, in the European region, for synchronisation, Resend for sending emails (sign-in codes, contact messages), Google AdMob for ads, Google Firebase Crashlytics for crashes, Apple WeatherKit (or Open-Meteo as a fallback) for weather — called by our server, never by your device —, and Apple or Google for subscriptions. Your data is not sold, rented, or handed over for advertising beyond what the advertising identifier allows, and nothing is cross-referenced with other sources.
Ads and consent#
Ads are optional: one appears only when you ask for it, to retry a lost game or double a reward. On first launch a screen asks for your consent to ad tracking. Saying no takes nothing away from the game: ads simply become non-personalised, or disappear. You can change your mind at any time in your phone's settings. A "Pucki Premium" subscription removes ads entirely while it is active.
Children#
Pucki is not intended for children under 13 and does not knowingly ask them for any data. If you hold parental authority and believe your child has sent us data, write to contact@pucki.app and it will be deleted.
Your rights#
You may request access to your data, its correction, deletion, or portability, or object to a processing activity. One address for all of it: contact@pucki.app. Deleting your account erases the email and the game log attached to it; whatever remains on your phone goes with the uninstall. If you are in the EU you may also complain to your data protection authority.
Changes#
Any change to this page is dated at the top. A change that would broaden the use of your data will be announced in the app before it takes effect.
A question about this page? Write to us.