Kaboum Privacy Policy

In short

Kaboum asks for no account and sends no data to us. Your scores and settings stay on your phone, and the game works without an internet connection.

Since version 2.0.2, Kaboum shows ads provided by Google AdMob. When your phone is online, Google receives technical data to choose and display these ads. They are requested as if for a child audience, whatever your age. Google therefore does not personalize them and does no interest-based advertising or remarketing, and Kaboum does not use your phone's advertising identifier.

Data that stays on your phone

To work, Kaboum stores a few things on your device, in the app's own storage.

• Your solo scores, that is the number of words defused in each game, with the date and time of the game.
• Your best score (your best game).
• Your Sound and Vibration settings, and the theme chosen for solo play.
• Counters that set the pace of the ads, such as the number of rounds played, the time of the last ad and today's bonus hints.
• If Google's consent form is shown, your answer, stored on the device by Google's tool.

Kaboum sends none of this information to us, and we have no access to it. Your answer to the consent form goes along with the ad requests sent to Google, so that Google applies it.

In two-player mode, the hidden word is kept in memory only for the current round, and the name of an "Other" category only for the current two-player game. Neither is saved or sent anywhere. The two players' score is not kept once you return to the home screen.

Ads

Kaboum is free. To fund it, version 2.0.2 shows ads provided by Google AdMob, Google's advertising network. Kaboum includes no other advertising tool. There are two formats.

• A full-screen ad (interstitial), in solo play, at most once every 4 rounds and at least 3 minutes after the previous one. It never appears during a round, never in two-player mode, and not before your 5th round since installing the app.
• A rewarded video, always optional. If you choose to watch it, the lightbulb lights up again and gives you one more hint for the current word.

Every ad request is tagged for "child-directed" and "under the age of consent" treatment, using the settings Google provides. In practice, Google does not personalize these ads, does no interest-based advertising or remarketing, and only offers ads rated G, suitable for all ages. On iPhone, Kaboum does not ask for permission to track your activity (App Tracking Transparency) and therefore has no access to the advertising identifier. On Android, the permission to access the advertising ID is removed from the app.

Data Google receives for ads

When Kaboum requests an ad, the Google tool built into the app (the Google Mobile Ads SDK) sends technical data to Google, encrypted in transit.

• Your IP address, which may be used to estimate an approximate location, at the level of a city or region. Kaboum has no access to your precise location.
• Information about the device and the app, such as the phone model and operating system, the language and the version of Kaboum.
• Non-advertising identifiers of the device or of the app installation.
• Your interactions with ads, for example an ad shown or tapped, or a video watched.
• Diagnostic data from the ad module, such as its loading time, hangs or crashes.
• Your answer to the consent form, when it is shown.

Kaboum does not send Google your scores, your settings or the words you play. Without an internet connection, no ad is requested and nothing is sent to Google.

Why this data is used

Google uses this data to show the ads and keep them from repeating too often, to measure their delivery and performance, and to detect fraud and abuse. For these uses, Google acts as a separate data controller, under its own rules. Google explains on a dedicated page how it uses information from sites and apps that use its services. The ads themselves must follow the AdMob program policies.

We only receive overall statistics from Google, such as the number of ads shown and the revenue they bring. They cannot identify you.

Your consent and your choices

In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, a Google form appears the first time Kaboum starts with a connection. It lets you accept or refuse certain uses, such as storing and reading information on your phone for advertising purposes. Your answer changes nothing in the game. If you refuse, Google may show limited ads that do without these uses, or no ads at all.

You can change your answer or withdraw your consent at any time, as easily as you gave it. On the home screen, tap the gear icon to open the settings, then "Ad privacy options". Outside these countries, the form and this line do not appear, and ads remain non-personalized.

Legal bases

For ads, we rely on your consent where Google's form collects it, in particular for storing and reading information on your device. Showing non-personalized ads, measuring them and fighting fraud rely on our legitimate interest in offering a free game funded by advertising. If you write to us, we use your message to reply, which is also based on our legitimate interest.

Transfers outside the European Union

Google processes advertising data on servers located around the world, including in the United States. According to its privacy policy, the controller is Google Ireland Limited for users in the European Economic Area and Switzerland, and Google LLC for users in the United Kingdom. Google states that it covers these transfers with the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, in which Google LLC participates, and with the European Commission's standard contractual clauses. See Google's privacy policy.

Device backups

If iCloud Backup or computer backup is turned on for your iPhone, the Kaboum data described above may be included in those backups, like the data of your other apps. These backups are managed by Apple according to your settings; we have no access to them.

On Android, if backup to your Google Account is turned on for your phone, the Kaboum data described above may be included in that backup, like the data of your other apps, and restored if you reinstall the app. These backups are managed by Google according to your settings; we have no access to them.

Information provided by Apple

If you have agreed, in your iPhone settings, to share analytics with app developers, Apple may provide us with anonymized crash reports and aggregated usage statistics. This sharing is handled by Apple under its own privacy policy; you can turn it off in Settings > Privacy & Security > Analytics & Improvements. Downloading Kaboum from the App Store is also governed by Apple's privacy policy.

Information provided by Google Play

If you have agreed, on your Android phone, to share usage and diagnostics data with Google, Google may provide us, in its developer console (Google Play Console), with anonymized crash reports and aggregated technical statistics. This sharing is handled by Google under its own privacy policy; you can turn it off in your phone's Google settings, under "Usage & diagnostics" (its location varies between devices). Downloading Kaboum from Google Play is also governed by Google's privacy policy.

Retention and deletion

Kaboum's data stays on your phone as long as the app is installed. To erase it, delete (uninstall) the app. Its scores, settings and ad counters are removed with it, apart from any copies in your device or Google Account backups (see above).

We keep no data from the app. Google keeps the data it receives for ads for its own retention periods.

Children

Kaboum is a game for everyone, and children may play it. That is why every ad request is handled as if the player were a child, whatever their age. Kaboum does not ask your age and collects no information such as your name, email address or photos.

If you are not old enough to give consent on your own in your country (15 in France) and the consent form appears, ask a parent to make that choice with you. Parents are welcome to write to us with any question.

Reporting an ad

Does an ad look inappropriate, especially for a child? Write to us at contact@shapi.fr and describe it, with a screenshot if you can. We can block an advertiser or a category of ads in our AdMob account. Most Google ads also carry a small information icon that leads to the choices Google offers.

What Kaboum does not do

• No account or sign-up.
• No in-app purchases.
• No data sent to any server of the publisher.
• No analytics or audience measurement tool added by us. Only Google's ad module sends data, as described above.
• No personalized ads, no remarketing, no use of the advertising identifier.
• No request to access your location, contacts, photos, camera, microphone or notifications. The internet connection is used only for ads.
• No partner other than Google receives data from Kaboum.

If you write to us

If you contact us by email, we use your address and your message only to reply to you, and we keep them only as long as needed to handle your request.

Your rights

Since we receive no personal data from the app, we hold nothing about you that we could access, correct or erase. For the data Google receives for ads, you can exercise your rights (access, erasure, objection) with Google, from its privacy policy, and change your choices in Kaboum as described above. You are also welcome to write to us with any question, or to lodge a complaint with the data protection authority of your country (in France, the CNIL, www.cnil.fr).

Changes

If this policy changes, for example because a future version adds an online feature, we will update this page before that version is released and change the date at the top. The previous version, dated November 4, 2026, covered versions 2.0.0 and 2.0.1 of Kaboum, which show no ads and do not connect to the internet.

Contact

Kaboum is published by 69pixl. For any question about this policy or your data, write to contact@shapi.fr.