Privacy Policy
Effective date: 9 July 2026
Sumzi is a daily numbers puzzle game. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, how some information may be shown within the app, and how you can contact us.
This Privacy Policy applies to Sumzi, including daily puzzles, practice mode, leaderboards, friends, achievements, titles, VS mode, notifications, advertising features and any future paid features.
1. Information We Collect
When you create or use a Sumzi account, we may collect and store the following information:
Account Information
- Email address
- Username
- Password authentication information, such as securely hashed passwords used for login
- Account creation date
- Account settings and preferences
Your password is used to let you log in securely. We do not use your password for any other purpose, and your password should not be stored by Sumzi in plain text.
Gameplay Information
- Daily puzzle results
- Practice puzzle results
- Completion times
- Move counts
- Puzzle attempts
- Streaks
- Leaderboard positions
- Profile statistics
- Achievements
- Profile titles
- Game progress and performance history
Friends and Social Features
- Friend requests you send or receive
- Your friend list
- Friend leaderboard information
- Friend challenge information
- Basic profile information shown to friends, such as username, selected title, achievements and gameplay statistics
VS Mode Information
If you use VS mode, we may collect and store information needed to run the feature, including:
- Random challenge search status
- Random matchmaking queue information
- Friend challenge invitations
- Pending, active, completed or expired challenge status
- Opponent username and basic profile information
- Challenge puzzle results
- Challenge completion times
- Challenge move counts
- Challenge wins, losses and draws
- Challenge expiry times
- Recent challenge history
- Rivalry or head-to-head statistics
- Information needed to apply challenge limits and prevent abuse of the feature
Notifications
If notifications are offered in Sumzi, we may collect and store:
- Your notification preferences
- Whether you have enabled or disabled certain notification types
- Information needed to send reminders or app notifications
- Push notification tokens, if server-based push notifications are used
Technical, Diagnostic and Security Information
We may collect or receive basic technical, diagnostic, security or usage information needed to keep Sumzi secure, reliable and working properly. This may include:
- App version
- Device type or operating system version
- Crash logs
- Performance data
- Error reports
- Security logs
- Approximate timestamps of app activity
- Basic usage information about how app features are used
Hosting, database, security or infrastructure providers may also process technical information such as IP address, request logs or similar server data as part of providing and protecting the app.
Advertising Information
Sumzi shows ads in the app.
Ads may be shown in parts of the app, such as after completing a puzzle, within practice mode, before entering a random VS queue, or in other appropriate areas of the app.
For random VS mode, an ad may be shown before you are added to the random matchmaking queue. After the ad has finished, you may be added to the queue and VS mode should continue as normal.
Ads are not intended to be shown when challenging a friend in VS mode.
We or our advertising partners may collect or process advertising-related information, depending on the ad provider, device settings, consent choices and the type of ads being shown.
This may include information such as:
- Ad views
- Ad clicks
- Ad interaction information
- Device identifiers
- Advertising identifiers
- IP address
- General or approximate location information
- App interaction information
- Crash logs
- Performance data
- Diagnostic information
2. How We Use Your Information
We use your information to:
- Create and manage your Sumzi account
- Let you log in to the app
- Verify your account
- Help you reset your password if needed
- Keep your account secure
- Save your gameplay progress, streaks and statistics
- Show your leaderboard results, achievements and profile titles
- Enable friend requests, friend lists and friend leaderboards
- Enable VS mode, random challenges and friend challenges
- Match users in random VS challenges where this feature is used
- Show VS results, challenge history and rivalry statistics
- Apply challenge limits, expiry rules and fair-use rules
- Detect, investigate and reduce cheating, abuse, suspicious activity or leaderboard manipulation
- Provide, maintain and improve the core app experience
- Send important account-related messages, such as verification or password reset emails
- Send optional app notifications, where enabled, such as daily puzzle reminders, streak reminders, challenge updates or VS mode updates
- Show, manage, measure or improve advertising
- Understand and improve app performance, reliability and user experience
- Comply with legal, security and operational requirements
3. Public or Shared Information
Some information may be visible to other Sumzi users as part of the app’s leaderboard, friends, profile, achievements and VS mode features.
This may include:
- Username
- Selected profile title
- Leaderboard results
- Completion times
- Move counts where relevant
- Profile statistics
- Achievements
- Friend-related information where relevant to friend features
- VS mode challenge results
- VS mode win, loss or draw records
- VS mode challenge history and rivalry statistics where shown in the app
Your email address and password are not shown to other users.
If you take part in a random VS challenge, your username and relevant challenge information may be shown to the matched opponent so the challenge can work properly.
If you challenge a friend, your username, challenge status and results may be shown to that friend.
4. Third-Party Services
We do not sell your personal information.
We may use trusted service providers to help operate Sumzi, such as:
- Authentication providers
- Database providers
- App hosting providers
- Website hosting providers
- Email delivery providers
- App Store and Google Play services
- Diagnostics and crash reporting services
- Security and infrastructure services
- Push notification delivery services
- Advertising services
- Analytics or usage measurement services, if added in the future
These providers only process information as needed to provide, protect and support the app and related services.
Third-party advertising partners may process certain information from your device or app usage to deliver, measure, limit, personalise or improve ads, depending on your device settings, consent choices and the type of ads being shown.
5. Marketing Emails
Sumzi does not currently send marketing emails.
If this changes in the future, we will update this Privacy Policy and provide appropriate controls where required.
6. Notifications
Sumzi may offer optional notifications, such as:
- Daily puzzle reminders
- Streak reminders
- Challenge reminders
- VS mode updates
- Friend request updates
- Other app-related reminders or alerts
Notifications are only sent where permitted by your device settings and, where available, your in-app notification preferences.
You can control or disable notifications through your device settings. If Sumzi provides in-app notification toggles, you may also be able to adjust which types of notifications you receive from within the app.
7. Advertising, Analytics and Tracking
Sumzi shows ads in the app.
Ads may be shown in parts of the app, such as after completing a puzzle, within practice mode, before entering a random VS queue, or in other appropriate areas of the app.
For random VS mode, an ad may be shown before you are added to the random matchmaking queue. After the ad has finished, you may be added to the queue and VS mode should continue as normal.
Ads are not intended to be shown when challenging a friend in VS mode.
Ads may be provided by third-party advertising partners. These partners may receive or use certain information from your device or app usage to deliver, measure, limit, personalise or improve ads, depending on your device settings, consent choices and the type of ads being shown.
This may include information such as device identifiers, advertising identifiers, IP address, general location information, app interaction information, ad views, ad clicks, approximate usage data, crash logs, performance data and diagnostic information.
Where required, Sumzi will ask for permission or provide relevant controls before using advertising features that involve tracking or personalised ads.
You may be able to limit ad tracking or personalised advertising through your device settings or app permissions, depending on your device and operating system.
Sumzi does not sell your personal information.
If advertising, analytics or tracking features change or expand in the future, this Privacy Policy and the relevant App Store and Google Play privacy information will be updated where required.
8. In-App Purchases and Paid Features
Sumzi does not currently offer in-app purchases, subscriptions or paid digital features.
We may add optional in-app purchases, subscriptions or paid features in the future, such as cosmetic items, ad removal, expanded practice features, premium statistics, extra customisation options or other optional upgrades.
If in-app purchases, subscriptions or paid features are added, they will be processed through the relevant app store provider, such as Apple App Store or Google Play. Sumzi will not directly collect or store your full payment card details.
If paid features are introduced, this Privacy Policy and the relevant App Store and Google Play information will be updated where required.
9. Legal Basis for Processing
Where required by law, we rely on one or more legal bases to process your information, including:
- To provide the app and its features to you
- To perform our contract with you when you create and use a Sumzi account
- To pursue legitimate interests, such as keeping the app secure, preventing abuse, improving the app and maintaining leaderboards and game features
- To comply with legal obligations
- With your consent, where consent is required, such as for certain notifications, personalised advertising or tracking features
10. Data Security
We take reasonable steps to protect your information.
Passwords should be handled securely through authentication systems and should not be stored in plain text.
However, no method of electronic storage or transmission over the internet is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.
11. Data Retention
We keep your information for as long as needed to provide Sumzi, maintain your account, operate gameplay features, provide leaderboards and VS mode, protect the app, comply with legal requirements and resolve disputes.
Some gameplay records, leaderboard entries, VS results, challenge histories or statistical records may be kept for operational, security, anti-cheat or historical leaderboard purposes.
Advertising partners may retain advertising-related information according to their own privacy policies and retention practices.
When information is no longer needed, we will delete it or anonymise it where reasonably possible.
12. Account Deletion
You can delete your Sumzi account from within the app by going to Settings and using the Delete Account option.
You may also contact us at hello@sumzi.app to request help with account deletion.
When your account is deleted, personal information linked to your account, including your email address, account details, gameplay history, stats, streaks, friends, achievements and VS mode information, will be deleted or anonymised unless we are required or permitted to keep certain information for legal, security, anti-cheat, dispute resolution or operational reasons.
Some information that was previously visible to other users, such as completed challenge results or leaderboard history, may remain in anonymised or limited form where needed to preserve the integrity of the game.
Account deletion from Sumzi may not automatically delete information held separately by third-party advertising providers, app stores or other third-party services where they act independently. You may need to use those providers’ own privacy tools or device settings to manage that information.
13. Your Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights over your personal information. These may include the right to:
- Access the personal information we hold about you
- Ask us to correct inaccurate information
- Ask us to delete your information
- Ask us to restrict or object to certain processing
- Ask for a copy of your information in a portable format
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
- Complain to a data protection authority
To make a request, contact us at hello@sumzi.app.
14. International Processing
Sumzi and its service providers may process information in the United Kingdom or other countries where our service providers operate.
Where required, appropriate safeguards will be used to protect personal information transferred internationally.
15. Children
Sumzi is not intended to knowingly collect personal information from children where parental consent would be required by law.
If you believe a child has provided personal information to Sumzi without appropriate consent, please contact us at hello@sumzi.app.
16. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.
If we make significant changes, we may notify users in the app or by updating this page.
The effective date at the top of this Privacy Policy shows when it was last updated.
17. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, contact us at:
This Privacy Policy is intended to explain Sumzi’s privacy practices in a clear and practical way. It should be reviewed against the final app build, the actual services used, and the privacy requirements of the App Store and Google Play before full release.