Privacy Policy
The short version. You can play Name More! without giving us your name or email address. You may optionally link an available sign-in provider; Firebase then receives the account details that provider shares, including your email address and sometimes a display name. If you turn on friend notifications, we store a push token, platform, and app language. The app sends minimized crash reports to Sentry so we can fix failures. Name More! has no advertising or cross-app tracking, does not currently use product analytics in the app, and never sells your data. You can delete your game data at any time; authenticated in-app deletion also deletes your Firebase sign-in account.
1. Who we are
Name More! (listed in the app stores as “Name More! — Word Game”) is a mobile word game published under the developer name Torsn. Torsn is a developer name, not a separate company or legal entity.
Data controller: Manal Gharrabou, France. The data controller is the individual legally responsible for the personal data described in this policy. This policy covers the Name More! apps for iOS and Android and the website playnamemore.com.
2. Data we collect
Player account and optional account linking
When you first open the mobile game, Firebase Authentication creates an anonymous sign-in with a random Firebase user ID. Our game server verifies Firebase's signed ID token, creates a separate random player ID, and links the two identifiers so it can save your progress. You do not need to provide an email address, phone number, or password to play.
You may optionally link an available sign-in provider. The provider and Firebase then process the account information shared during sign-in. This includes the provider account identifier and email address, and may include a display name or profile details supplied by the provider. Firebase stores this information in its authentication user record. Our game server continues to identify you by your Firebase user ID and does not receive or store your provider password.
The optional browser game uses a separate, scoped anonymous credential stored on that device. Our server stores a one-way hash of that credential.
Gameplay data
- The boards and rounds you play, scores, the answers you found and in what order, hints used, and timestamps.
- Progress: experience, level, streaks, achievements, and your balance and history of in-game Tokens.
- Multiplayer participation: which daily, quick-match, and friend rooms you joined, and the results.
The answers you type
Every guess you submit, right or wrong, is sent to our server and stored exactly as typed. The server decides whether it matches an answer. We use these submissions to run the game, to calculate how rare each answer is, and to improve answer matching (for example, to learn common spellings). Please do not type personal information into the game.
Notifications
Daily reminders are scheduled locally on your device. If you separately turn on friend notifications, the app sends our server an Expo push token, your platform (iOS or Android), and the app language so we can deliver the notification in the right language. We use this only for notifications you enabled. Turning friend notifications off removes the registered tokens for your player account; account deletion removes them as well. Expo and the Apple or Google push-notification service process the token and notification long enough to deliver it.
Crash and error reports
The mobile app uses Sentry to find and fix crashes and operational errors. A report may include the error and stack trace, app version and environment, game mode, device model, operating-system version, other technical device or app state, and your pseudonymous Firebase user ID so repeated errors can be correlated. Sentry is configured not to send default personal information, performance traces, interaction or network breadcrumbs, screenshots, view hierarchy, or the answers you type. Query strings and typed-answer fields are removed before an event is sent. Sentry and its network providers may still process technical connection data, such as an IP address, to receive and secure the report.
Device and technical data
- Your device language, which the app uses to pick its content language and, when friend notifications are enabled, sends with the push token.
- Your IP address and basic request information (time, requested address, app version, and browser or device type). These are processed by our servers and by Cloudflare to deliver the service and protect it from abuse.
Website visitors
When you visit playnamemore.com we measure page views with Vercel Web Analytics. It sets no cookies and stores nothing on your device. It records only the page address, referring site, approximate location (country and region), device type, operating system, and browser, together with a visitor identifier derived by hashing your request, which Vercel discards after 24 hours. We use it only for aggregate statistics about how the website is used. It does not record your IP address in its data points and cannot follow you across other websites or apps. Friend-room invite codes in page addresses are removed before anything is sent. Vercel also hosts the website, so it processes the technical request data (such as your IP address) needed to deliver the pages.
When you contact us
If you email us or use the deletion form, we receive what you send: your email address, your message, and any account reference you include. We use this only to answer you or to carry out your request.
3. Data we do not collect
- No name or email address is required to play. If you optionally link an available sign-in provider, it may provide Firebase with your email address and profile details as described above.
- No phone number, date of birth, postal address, contacts, photos, camera, microphone, or precise location.
- No advertising identifier (IDFA or AAID), no advertising SDKs, and no ads in the current version.
- No product-analytics SDK is active in the current app release. Sentry is used only for crash and error reporting as described above. PostHog is not active in the app today; we will update this policy and the app-store disclosures before enabling it.
- No cookies on this website.
- No tracking across other companies' apps or websites.
- No payment information. The current version has no in-app purchases, and Tokens are earned by playing.
4. How we use data
| Purpose | Data used | Legal basis (EU/UK GDPR) |
|---|---|---|
| Run the game: check answers, compute scores, run multiplayer rooms, save progress | Account, gameplay, typed answers | Performance of our contract with you (the Terms of Use) |
| Calculate how rare each answer is across all players | Typed answers, gameplay | Contract; legitimate interest in core game design |
| Improve answer matching and content | Typed answers | Legitimate interest in a fair, accurate game |
| Leaderboards and live matches | Generated player handle, scores | Contract |
| Security, fraud and cheating prevention, rate limiting, keeping the service up | Technical data, account | Legitimate interest in a secure service |
| Provide optional linked sign-in and restore progress across devices | Firebase user ID; provider identifier; email and profile details supplied by an available sign-in provider | Performance of our contract; your choice to link an account |
| Send friend notifications you enable | Push token, platform, app language | Your consent, which you can withdraw in the app |
| Diagnose crashes and operational errors | Crash and diagnostic data; pseudonymous Firebase user ID | Legitimate interest in keeping the game reliable and secure |
| Understand how the website is used (aggregate page-view statistics) | Website visitor data | Legitimate interest in improving the website |
| Answer support and deletion requests | What you send us | Legal obligation; legitimate interest |
We do not use your data for advertising, profiling, or automated decisions with legal or similarly significant effects.
5. What other players see
On leaderboards and in live matches, other players see an automatically generated handle (an adjective, an animal, and a short code), your scores, and the answers you claimed, shown by their official name. They never see what you actually typed. The game has no chat, no messaging, and no uploads, so you do not share content with other players.
6. Service providers and sharing
We do not sell or rent personal data, and we do not share it for advertising. We use the providers below to run the service. Some act as processors for us; a sign-in or notification provider may also process information under its own terms when you choose that service.
- Server hosting provider: hosts our servers and database.
- Vercel Inc.: hosts this website and provides its cookieless Web Analytics (website visitor data only, not app or gameplay data).
- Cloudflare, Inc.: network delivery, DDoS protection, and security filtering (IP address and request data).
- Google Firebase Authentication: anonymous and optional linked account sign-in, token issuance and account recovery (Firebase user ID, technical sign-in data, and account details supplied by an available sign-in provider).
- Sentry: crash and error reporting (the minimized diagnostic data described above).
- Expo Push Service: routes friend notifications to Apple Push Notification service or Firebase Cloud Messaging when you enable them.
- Apple and Google: app distribution, optional sign-in where offered, and push-notification delivery.
We may also disclose data if the law requires it, to protect the rights and safety of players or the service, or as part of a merger or sale of the game, in which case this policy continues to apply.
International transfers. Some providers may process data outside your country, including in the United States. Where the law requires it, these transfers are covered by appropriate safeguards such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses.
7. How long we keep data
- Account, gameplay, and typed answers: kept while your account exists, and deleted when you delete your game account.
- Nightly database backups: deleted database data may remain in nightly backups for up to 30 days after deletion.
- Linked sign-in details: kept in Firebase Authentication while the linked sign-in account exists. Authenticated in-app deletion deletes that Firebase account as well.
- Push token, platform, and app language: kept while friend notifications are enabled, until the token is reported invalid, or until the player account is deleted.
- Crash and error reports: kept only as long as needed to identify and fix reliability or security issues, subject to the retention configured for our Sentry project.
- Server and security logs: kept only as long as needed to operate, protect, and troubleshoot the service, subject to our hosting and security providers' retention settings.
- Website visitor statistics: the temporary visitor identifier is discarded after 24 hours. What remains is aggregated page-view statistics that do not identify you.
- Support emails: kept for up to 12 months after your request is resolved.
- Deletion requests: a minimal record of the request (the reference you entered, any note, its status, and dates) is kept so we can show that the request was honored.
- Aggregate statistics: after deletion, answer rarity percentages and matching rules learned from all players' guesses may remain. They are not linked to you or any account.
8. Delete your data
You can delete your account and all data linked to it at any time. It cannot be undone.
- In the app (immediate): open Name More!, go to Settings → Account → Privacy & data → Delete my data. If your game is linked to a sign-in provider, the app asks you to authenticate again, deletes the game data from the active database, then deletes the Firebase Authentication account and its linked email/profile record. For Sign in with Apple, the app also requests revocation of Name More!'s access where available. This does not delete the external provider account itself.
- Without the app: use the form on our account deletion page, or email hello@torsn.com.
Deleting your game account removes your player account, registered push tokens, progress, achievements, Tokens, run and match history, and every answer you submitted from the active database. Deleted database data may remain in nightly backups for up to 30 days. The public web form can delete the game account and game data, but it cannot by itself authenticate and delete a linked Firebase sign-in account; see the account deletion page for the difference between methods. Crash reports already received by Sentry expire under the retention described above and are not automatically removed by the in-app game-data deletion. Uninstalling the app does not delete your data on our servers.
9. Your rights
Depending on where you live (for example, the EU, the UK, or California), you may have the right to access, correct, delete, or receive a copy of your personal data, and to object to or restrict certain processing. To use these rights, email hello@torsn.com. Include your account reference, shown under Settings → Account → Privacy & data. If you linked a sign-in provider, you may also include the email address shown in the account screen. We answer within one month. We never sell or “share” personal data as defined by California law. You also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority.
10. Children
Name More! is intended for players aged 13 and over and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has used the game, contact us and we will delete the account.
11. Security
Traffic between the app and our services is encrypted with HTTPS/TLS. Firebase and the available linked sign-in provider handle sign-in credentials; our game server verifies signed Firebase tokens and stores the Firebase user ID, not your provider password. Access to operational systems is restricted. No system is perfectly secure, but we work to protect your data and will notify you and the authorities of a breach where the law requires it.
12. Changes to this policy
If we change how we handle data, for example by enabling PostHog product analytics or adding advertising or purchases, we will update this page and the relevant app-store disclosures before the change takes effect. For material changes we will also notify you in the app.
13. Contact
Data controller: Manal Gharrabou, France
Contact: hello@torsn.com