Air Hockey Arena — Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 18, 2026

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About this policy

This policy covers versions 2.0.1 and 2.0.2 of the ad-supported Air Hockey Arena app, previously named Air Hockey Arena FREE!, provided by Buzly Labs Ltd. (App Store ID 383021369). Air Hockey Arena Pro is a separate app with a separate policy.

Playing and saving progress

You can play solo or with a friend on the same device without signing in. Settings and your selected cosmetic appearance are stored on your device. Optional online multiplayer uses Apple Game Center. Players exchange game state, scores, and paddle and ball positions through Game Center to run the match.

When you connect Game Center to the shop, Firebase Authentication processes your Game Center identity to authenticate you. Our Firebase backend stores an account identifier, a purchase account token, coin balance, owned cosmetics, purchase and reward transaction records, and information needed to validate eligible solo match rewards. This supports saving progress, restoring purchases, preventing duplicate rewards, and detecting misuse. Firebase App Check and Apple App Attest help verify that requests come from the app. Server providers also process technical request and diagnostic information, such as IP addresses, for operation and security. The app does not include Firebase Analytics. Public solo leaderboards show a generated player code and qualifying win totals for each difficulty. They do not show your Game Center name. Your win totals are linked to your account so progress can be saved across devices.

Purchases

Apple processes in-app payments. We do not receive your card details. We verify Apple's signed transaction information, including product, transaction and account identifiers, purchase status, and refunds, to deliver coins, Remove Ads and Air Hockey Premium. Refunded purchases may result in the corresponding entitlement or coins being removed.

Advertising and optional reward videos

The app uses Google AdMob for advertising between matches and optional videos that award shop coins or double eligible match rewards. Google's advertising SDK may process IP addresses (including approximate location inferred from them), device or app identifiers, ad impressions and interactions, and diagnostic and performance information. Processing depends on your privacy choices and applicable device restrictions. The app does not request access to precise location, contacts, photos, camera, or microphone.

Where required, a consent message appears before ads are requested. You can revisit available choices under Game settings → Ad privacy choices. The app requests non-personalized ads and disables Google’s publisher first-party advertising ID. Version 2.0.1 does not request Apple’s advertising identifier or tracking permission. Version 2.0.2 introduces optional Meta advertising measurement, described below. Remove Ads stops automatic ads; reward videos remain optional. If you choose a reward video, an opaque reward ticket is sent to Google and a signed completion callback is sent to our server to validate and credit the bonus. The ticket is linked to your account in our backend; your Game Center name is not supplied as custom ad data.

Optional Meta advertising measurement (version 2.0.2)

When you tap Play, the app may ask for permission through Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt. If you allow tracking, we initialize the Meta (Facebook) SDK to measure how Facebook and Instagram ads lead to app activity and purchases. Meta may process your advertising and app/device identifiers, app activation and session activity, purchase events (such as product, amount and currency), device and operating-system information, language, time zone, network information including IP address, and SDK diagnostics. This information may be linked with information Meta holds to measure advertising conversions. We enable Meta's event-data usage limitation to restrict use to analytics and conversions.

If you decline or your device restricts tracking, our Meta integration is not initialized. Your choice does not affect access to the game, rewards or purchases. You can change permission in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking. The app rechecks permission when it returns to the foreground and disables automatic Meta event logging and advertising-identifier collection if permission is withdrawn. Previously received information remains subject to Meta's retention and privacy practices. We do not explicitly send your Game Center name, email or wallet account identifier to Meta. See Meta's Privacy Policy.

Providers, retention, and security

We use Apple for Game Center and purchases and Google Firebase/Google Cloud for authentication, cloud storage, and backend services. The game's Firestore database and backend functions are hosted in Belgium; providers may process service information in other countries under their own policies and safeguards. We retain account and transaction records as needed to provide the service, prevent fraud, handle refunds, and meet applicable legal requirements. We use access controls and encrypted connections, but no system is completely secure.

For details, see Apple's Privacy Policy, Firebase Privacy and Security, and How Google uses information from apps that use its services.

Your choices and rights

You may play without connecting to the shop or online multiplayer, decline optional reward videos, manage available ad privacy choices, and restore purchases using the Restore Purchases button pinned at the bottom of every shop tab. Deleting the app removes local data but does not automatically delete cloud progress or records held by Apple or Google. Contact us to request access, correction, or deletion of information we control. Depending on your jurisdiction, you may also have rights to restrict or object to processing, request portability, withdraw consent, or complain to a data protection authority. We may need to verify your account before acting on a request.

We process account, gameplay, and purchase information to provide the services you request; security information for our legitimate interest in preventing abuse; and consent-based advertising information where required. We may retain limited records when needed for legal obligations or fraud prevention.

Children and support

Parents can manage Game Center, purchases, and app access through Apple's parental controls. If you believe a child has provided information that should not be retained, contact us. If you email support, we use your email address and message to respond and resolve the issue. Please do not send passwords or payment details.

Changes and contact

We will update this policy when our practices change and provide further notice or seek consent where required.

Buzly Labs Ltd.
Privacy requests: info@buzlylabs.com