Privacy Policy
Effective Date: July 19, 2026
This Privacy Policy describes how STATINDEX LLC ("STATINDEX LLC," "we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, stores, discloses, and protects information when you use GameThreads (the "App").
By downloading, accessing, or using the App, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
1. Information We Collect
Information You Voluntarily Provide
Depending on how you use the App, you may voluntarily provide:
- Display name
- Email address
- Profile picture (available to eligible Plus subscribers)
- Customer support communications
- Feedback you choose to submit
Providing your email address is optional.
If you choose to provide your email address, we may use it to:
- Send news and updates about GameThreads
- Notify you about new features
- Send promotional offers
- Deliver limited-time event announcements
- Provide customer support
- Verify eligibility for promotional rewards
You may unsubscribe from promotional emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in those emails.
Gameplay Information
To provide multiplayer gameplay and save your progress, we may collect:
- Anonymous player identifier
- Display name
- Match history
- Wins and losses
- Rankings
- Achievements
- Virtual currency balances
- Cosmetic items
- Subscription status
- Gameplay statistics
- Game preferences
Device and Technical Information
We may automatically collect:
- Device model
- Operating system version
- App version
- Language and region settings
- Device identifiers where permitted
- IP address
- Crash reports
- Performance diagnostics
- Network information necessary to operate multiplayer services
We do not access your contacts, microphone, camera, messages, or precise location unless you explicitly grant permission for a feature that requires it.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use information to:
- Operate and maintain the App
- Provide multiplayer gameplay
- Synchronize player progress
- Verify purchases and subscriptions
- Deliver purchased content
- Display player profiles
- Display profile pictures to other players
- Improve gameplay and performance
- Detect cheating, fraud, and abuse
- Respond to customer support requests
- Send promotional communications when you have chosen to receive them
- Comply with applicable legal obligations
3. Profile Pictures
Eligible Plus subscribers may upload a profile picture.
Profile pictures may be displayed to other players during gameplay, matchmaking, leaderboards, and other in-app features.
Uploading a profile picture is optional. You represent that you have the necessary rights to any image you upload.
We reserve the right to review, reject, remove, or restrict profile pictures that:
- Violate our Terms and Conditions
- Infringe intellectual property rights
- Are unlawful
- Contain sexually explicit, violent, hateful, or otherwise inappropriate content
- Impersonate another individual or organization
We may remove profile pictures without prior notice where reasonably necessary to protect users or maintain the integrity of the App.
4. Email Communications
If you voluntarily provide your email address, we may send:
- Product announcements
- Feature updates
- Promotional offers
- Event notifications
- News about GameThreads
- Account-related communications
You may opt out of promotional emails at any time by selecting the unsubscribe link included in those emails.
Opting out of promotional emails will not prevent us from sending essential service-related communications, such as important account, purchase, or security notices where applicable.
5. In-App Purchases and Subscriptions
GameThreads offers optional subscriptions and in-app purchases.
All payments are processed exclusively by Apple through the App Store.
We do not collect or store payment card information.
Apple may provide us with limited purchase information necessary to verify subscriptions, purchases, and restore purchased content.
6. Advertising
GameThreads may display advertisements through Google AdMob.
Google and its advertising partners may collect certain information, including device identifiers, IP address, and app usage information, in accordance with their own privacy policies.
Where required by applicable law, we will obtain any necessary consent before providing personalized advertising.
7. Third-Party Services
We use third-party providers to help operate the App, including services such as:
- Apple
- Google AdMob
- Supabase
- Analytics providers
- Crash reporting providers
These providers process information according to their own privacy policies.
8. Information Sharing
We do not sell your personal information.
We may share information only:
- With service providers operating the App
- To comply with legal obligations
- To protect our legal rights
- To investigate fraud or abuse
- In connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of assets involving STATINDEX LLC
9. Data Retention
We retain information only for as long as reasonably necessary to:
- Operate the App
- Maintain player accounts
- Preserve multiplayer functionality
- Verify purchases
- Provide customer support
- Comply with legal obligations
- Resolve disputes
- Enforce our agreements
We may delete inactive accounts and associated content after an extended period of inactivity, subject to applicable law and our operational needs.
10. Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.
However, no method of transmitting or storing information electronically is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
11. Children's Privacy
GameThreads is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under the age of 13.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 without any parental consent required by applicable law.
If we become aware that personal information has been collected from a child in violation of applicable law, we will take reasonable steps to delete that information.
12. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your location, you may have rights regarding your personal information, including the right to:
- Request access to your personal information
- Request correction of inaccurate information
- Request deletion of your personal information
- Object to certain processing where applicable
- Withdraw consent where applicable
- Request a copy of your personal information where permitted by law
To exercise these rights, please contact us using the information below.
13. International Data Transfers
Your information may be transferred to and processed in countries where our service providers operate.
By using the App, you acknowledge that such transfers may occur where permitted by applicable law.
14. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we will revise the Effective Date and provide additional notice where required by law.
Your continued use of the App after changes become effective constitutes acceptance of the updated Privacy Policy.
15. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact:
STATINDEX LLC
Email: support@gamethreads.app