Privacy Policy

BOOZEVERSE PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy explains how Boozeverse (“Boozeverse,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, discloses, retains, and protects information when you use the Boozeverse mobile application, visit boozeverse.app, contact us, or otherwise interact with our services (collectively, the “Services”).

By using the Services, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1. Information We Collect

Account and Profile Information

When a Boozeverse player account is created or accessed, we may receive or generate information such as:

  • A unique player or account identifier
  • Username or display name
  • Profile avatar or uploaded profile image
  • Authentication and session identifiers
  • Limited profile information made available through Apple Game Center, Google Play Games, or another sign-in service, depending on your settings and permissions

We do not receive or store your Apple, Google, or app-store password.

Gameplay and Account Activity

We collect information needed to operate the game and preserve player progress, including:

  • Card collection and inventory
  • Saved decks and showcased cards
  • Virtual currency and virtual items
  • ELO rating, leaderboard position, wins, and games played
  • Match participants, room identifiers, and match results
  • Dice rolls, attacks, defenses, eliminations, and other gameplay events
  • In-game sip counters and related game statistics
  • Rewards, crafting activity, and account preferences

References to “sips,” drinks, or drinking within the Services are gameplay mechanics and are not intended to represent medical information, health information, or a record of a player’s real-world alcohol consumption.

Purchase Information

When you make an in-app purchase, Apple or Google processes the payment. We may receive limited transaction information needed to verify and fulfill the purchase, including:

  • Transaction or purchase identifier
  • Product, card pack, or virtual currency purchased
  • Purchase date, status, and platform
  • Purchase-verification, fulfillment, and fraud-prevention records

We do not directly collect or store your complete payment-card number or banking information.

Support and Communications

If you contact us through Instagram, we may receive your Instagram username, the contents of your message, and any information you voluntarily provide, such as your Boozeverse display name, platform, or player ID.

Do not send your Apple or Google password, payment information, government identification, or other sensitive credentials through Instagram.

Messages sent through Instagram are also processed by Meta according to Meta’s own privacy policies and practices.

Device, Technical, and Usage Information

The Services and our service providers may automatically collect technical information such as:

  • Internet Protocol address
  • Device type, operating system, and app version
  • Browser type, language, and locale
  • Unique installation, device, account, or session identifiers
  • Connection status and general network information
  • Crash reports, diagnostic information, performance information, and server logs
  • Dates, times, and duration of activity within the Services
  • General geographic information derived from an IP address or device time zone, such as country or region

Website Analytics and Cookies

The Boozeverse website uses built-in visitor analytics to understand overall website traffic and performance. This may collect:

  • Pages visited
  • Referring website
  • Browser and device information
  • Country or region derived from browser settings or network information
  • Language or locale
  • Website performance measurements
  • A short-lived session identifier

The current analytics system uses a session cookie or similar storage mechanism that generally expires after approximately 30 minutes. It is intended to measure aggregate traffic and website performance rather than create advertising profiles or follow visitors across unrelated websites.

The Boozeverse app may also use local device storage to remember settings, preferences, cached content, and session information.

2. How We Use Information

We may use information to:

  • Create, authenticate, maintain, and protect player accounts
  • Provide multiplayer gameplay and private game rooms
  • Save collections, decks, statistics, rankings, and player progress
  • Operate leaderboards and display usernames, avatars, ELO ratings, and gameplay statistics
  • Process, verify, and fulfill in-app purchases
  • Detect cheating, fraud, abuse, security incidents, and technical problems
  • Respond to support requests and communicate with players
  • Diagnose errors and improve performance, reliability, and gameplay
  • Analyze aggregate use of the website and Services
  • Enforce our terms, rules, and policies
  • Comply with legal obligations and lawful requests
  • Protect Boozeverse, our users, and others

We do not use gameplay information to determine a person’s health, sobriety, or real-world alcohol consumption.

3. Information Visible to Other Players

Certain information is part of the multiplayer and community experience and may be visible to other Boozeverse players. This may include:

  • Username or display name
  • ELO rating and leaderboard position
  • Profile statistics and showcased cards
  • Actions and results occurring during a multiplayer match

Do not use a username or avatar containing information you do not want other players to see.

4. How We Disclose Information

Service Providers

We use companies that provide hosting, databases, cloud storage, multiplayer networking, authentication, website analytics, purchase verification, security, and technical support.

Depending on the platform and feature, these providers may include:

  • Apple, including the App Store and Game Center
  • Google, including Google Play and Google Play Games
  • Microsoft Azure and PlayFab
  • Photon and Exit Games
  • MongoDB and related hosting providers
  • Amazon Web Services or other cloud-storage providers
  • Lovable, which hosts and provides analytics for boozeverse.app
  • Meta, when a user contacts Boozeverse through Instagram

These providers may process information as necessary to provide their services to us and are subject to their own privacy and security obligations. The exact providers may change as the Services develop.

Other Players

We disclose the limited profile and gameplay information described above when necessary to provide multiplayer matches, leaderboards, and other social features.

Legal and Safety Reasons

We may disclose information when reasonably necessary to:

  • Comply with applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request
  • Investigate fraud, cheating, security incidents, or violations of our policies
  • Protect the rights, safety, and property of Boozeverse, our users, or others
  • Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims

Business Transfers

Information may be transferred as part of a merger, financing, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, or similar business transaction. Where required, we will provide notice before personal information becomes subject to a materially different privacy policy.

5. Sale of Information and Advertising

We do not sell personal information for money.

We do not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, and we do not currently use personal information to deliver personalized third-party advertising.

If these practices change, we will update this Privacy Policy and provide any choices required by applicable law.

6. Legal Bases for Processing

Where laws such as the European Union or United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation apply, we process personal information based on one or more of the following:

  • Performance of a contract, including providing the game, accounts, purchases, and multiplayer features
  • Our legitimate interests in securing, maintaining, analyzing, and improving the Services
  • Compliance with legal obligations
  • Your consent, where consent is required

You may withdraw consent at any time. Withdrawal does not affect processing that occurred before consent was withdrawn.

7. Data Retention and Account Deletion

We retain information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

Account, profile, collection, and gameplay-progression information is generally retained while your Boozeverse account remains active.

You may permanently delete your account from within the Boozeverse app:

  1. Open Boozeverse.
  2. Go to Settings.
  3. Select “Delete Account.”
  4. Confirm the deletion.

Deleting your account permanently removes your account and associated profile information, gameplay progress, decks, card collection, rankings, virtual currency, and virtual items.

Account deletion cannot be undone.

After an account is deleted, certain limited records may be retained where reasonably necessary for legal compliance, transaction verification, accounting, security, fraud prevention, dispute resolution, or enforcement of our agreements. Residual copies may temporarily remain in restricted backups until those backups are overwritten through our normal backup process.

Information that has been aggregated or de-identified so that it can no longer reasonably identify you may be retained for statistical, security, and operational purposes.

Instagram support messages may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to address the issue, maintain support records, protect the Services, or comply with legal obligations. Meta may separately retain information according to its own policies.

If you cannot access the in-app Delete Account option, you may also send a direct message to @boozeverse on Instagram to request assistance or account deletion. Include your Boozeverse display name, platform, and player ID if available. We may request reasonable verification before acting on a deletion request.

Never send us your Apple or Google password or payment information.

8. Your Choices and Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:

  • Request access to personal information we maintain about you
  • Request correction of inaccurate information
  • Request deletion of your account and associated personal information
  • Request a portable copy of certain information
  • Object to or restrict certain processing
  • Withdraw consent
  • Appeal a decision concerning a privacy request
  • Lodge a complaint with an applicable privacy or data-protection authority

We do not discriminate against users for exercising applicable privacy rights.

To submit a privacy request or ask a privacy-related question, send a direct message to @boozeverse on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/boozeverse/

Include your Boozeverse display name, platform, and player ID if available. We may request additional information to verify that you control the relevant account.

Do not send passwords, payment information, or other sensitive credentials through Instagram.

9. International Data Transfers

Boozeverse and its service providers may process information in the United States and other countries. These countries may have privacy laws that differ from those where you live.

Where required, we use appropriate safeguards for international transfers, such as contractual protections or other legally recognized transfer mechanisms.

10. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

These measures may include encrypted transmission, restricted administrative access, account authentication, access controls, logging, and secure cloud infrastructure.

No method of electronic transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

11. Age Restrictions and Children’s Privacy

Boozeverse is intended only for individuals who have reached the legal drinking age applicable in their location.

The game does not require or encourage alcohol consumption. Players may substitute non-alcoholic beverages or other non-alcohol-related penalties.

The Services are not directed to children under 13, or a higher minimum age where required by local law. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children below the applicable minimum age.

If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, send a direct message to @boozeverse on Instagram so we can investigate and delete the information where appropriate.

12. Third-Party Services

The Services may link to or interact with services operated by Apple, Google, Meta, or other third parties.

Their handling of information is governed by their own privacy policies and settings. Boozeverse is not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party websites or services that we do not control.

13. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes to the Services, technology, legal requirements, or our data practices.

When we make material changes, we will update the “Last Updated” date and provide additional notice where required.

14. Contact Us

Boozeverse
Operated by Jacob Fishman
Website: https://boozeverse.app
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/boozeverse/

For support, privacy questions, account-deletion assistance, or other problems using the Services, send a direct message to @boozeverse on Instagram.

When requesting assistance, you may provide your Boozeverse display name, platform, and player ID. Do not send passwords, payment information, or other sensitive credentials through Instagram.

15. Support

Boozeverse provides support through Instagram at @boozeverse. Send a direct message for help with the app, account issues, privacy questions, or anything else related to the Services.

You may provide your Boozeverse display name, platform, and player ID to help us assist you. Do not send passwords, payment information, or other sensitive credentials through Instagram.

16. Account Deletion

You may permanently delete your Boozeverse account from within the app:

  1. Open Boozeverse.
  2. Go to Settings.
  3. Select “Delete Account.”
  4. Confirm the deletion.

Deleting your account permanently removes your account and associated profile information, gameplay progress, decks, card collection, rankings, virtual currency, and virtual items.

Account deletion cannot be undone.

If you cannot access the in-app Delete Account option, send a direct message to @boozeverse on Instagram to request assistance or account deletion. Include your Boozeverse display name, platform, and player ID if available. We may request reasonable verification before acting on a deletion request.

Never send your Apple or Google password or payment information.