Sore Losers
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Short version: Sore Losers needs no account, and has no ads, no tracking and no analytics. The game does not ask for your camera, your location or your contacts. Almost everything it knows about you sits on your phone, or in your browser if you play on the web, and disappears with the app or the browser’s site data. The only things that leave your device are what it takes to play other people over the network, and what it takes to make a purchase work. In the browser you can choose to sign in with Google so that what you buy follows you to another browser. Playing never requires it.
Sore Losers is developed and operated by Olmo Technologies, a sole-trader business based in Norway.
For the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Olmo Technologies is the data controller for personal data processed in connection with Sore Losers.
Contact: contact@olmo-technologies.com
The app stores your settings and progress locally on your phone:
None of this is sent anywhere on its own. Delete the app and it is gone. We hold no backup.
The player ID is a random number generated on your phone. It is not tied to an Apple ID, a Google account, an email address, a phone number or your device, and it cannot be used to work out who you are.
If you play solo, the campaign, or around a single table, nothing is sent anywhere. Those modes work without a network connection.
When you open a room or join one, the following is sent to the game server:
Your name is shown to the others at the table. You pick it yourself, and it does not have to be your real one.
The room is deleted in full 45 minutes after the last activity, once nobody is connected. At that point the code, the names and the game are gone.
The game server runs on Cloudflare Workers. Cloudflare handles the connection and sees your IP address, as any provider of network infrastructure does.
Sore Losers can also be played in a web browser at play.sorelosersgame.com. The same rules apply there, with a few differences:
__stripe_mid and __stripe_sid, which Stripe uses to prevent fraud.The site is hosted by Cloudflare, which sees your IP address when your browser fetches the game, as it does for the game server.
We do not sell information about you, and we have nothing to sell.
In the app, purchases are handled by the App Store or Google Play. We never see your card, your address or any other payment details. The store only tells us that a purchase went through.
In the browser, purchases are sold through Link, the merchant of record service run by Stripe. At checkout Stripe asks for your email address, your payment details and your country. Stripe sends the receipt, works out and pays the VAT, and handles payment questions and refunds. We never see your card details. Stripe shows us the order itself: what was bought, the amount, the tax, your country and the email address you entered, which we use only to answer questions about that purchase.
To keep track of what you own we use RevenueCat. In the app it receives your player ID and the purchase details from the store. In the browser it receives the purchase ID described in section 4 instead, the purchase details from Stripe, and the email address you entered at checkout, which is kept with the purchase so that signing in with Google can find it again.
The numbered copy — Confiscated, of which only 500 exist — needs a little more. The game server asks RevenueCat whether the purchase is real rather than a test purchase, and stores the purchase's transaction ID against your number. This is what keeps your number yours, even if you change phones. That link is kept; it is the whole point of a limited edition.
Cloudflare hosts the game server that runs online rooms, and the web version of the game. The game server receives the room code, the name you chose, your player ID and the game itself, and sees your IP address as part of handling the connection. See the Cloudflare Privacy Policy.
RevenueCat manages purchases and restores them when you change device. It receives your player ID and the purchase details from the store, and in the browser your purchase ID each time the game starts and the email address you paid with. See the RevenueCat Privacy Policy.
Google confirms who you are if you choose to sign in with Google in the browser, and tells us your Google account ID and email address. See the Google Privacy Policy.
Apple and Google process the payment itself in the app. See the Apple Privacy Policy and the Google Privacy Policy.
Stripe and Link sell and process purchases made in the browser, as described in section 6. See the Stripe Privacy Policy and the Link Privacy Policy.
That is the entire list. There are no advertising networks, no analytics providers and no data brokers.
Game data on your phone is stored in the app's own storage, protected by your device's operating system. In the browser it is kept in the browser's local storage for play.sorelosersgame.com, which other websites cannot read.
Online rooms live on Cloudflare's network and are transmitted over encrypted connections. A room holds only what is listed in section 3, and only for as long as the game lasts.
The link between a purchase and a serial number is stored on the game server and contains no personal data beyond the store's transaction ID and your randomly generated player ID.
If you sign in with Google, the game server stores your Google account ID and the random purchase IDs of the browsers you signed in from. Nothing else: no name and no email address.
We process only what it takes to make the game work, on the basis of the agreement between you and us.
If you are in the EU or EEA you have the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict or port your personal data, and to object to processing.
For almost everything the answer is simple: it is all on your phone or in your browser, and you delete it by deleting the app or clearing the site’s data.
If you want to know what we hold, or want us to delete the link between your purchase and your numbered copy, or between your Google account and your purchases, write to contact@olmo-technologies.com. We respond within 30 days. Note that a deleted serial number is gone for good — we cannot give it back — and that without the Google link, purchases no longer follow you to a new browser.
Payment data from purchases in the browser is held by Stripe and Link. You can ask Link to delete it through Link support, or write to us and we will pass the request on.
You may also complain to the supervisory authority in your country. In Norway that is Datatilsynet.
Game data on your device is kept until you delete the app. In the browser it is kept until you clear the site’s data.
An online room is deleted in full 45 minutes after the last activity, once nobody is connected.
The link between a purchase and a serial number is kept for as long as the limited edition exists, so that your number stays yours across devices.
The link between your Google account and your purchase IDs is kept for as long as your purchases should keep working, or until you ask us to delete it.
Records of purchases are kept by RevenueCat, and for purchases in the browser by Stripe, for as long as the purchase should keep working and as accounting law requires.
The game has no chat and no way to enter text beyond the name you choose yourself. Playing needs no account. In the browser, signing in with Google is optional and only used to keep purchases. There is no way for anyone to reach you through the app.
We do not knowingly collect personal data from children. If you believe a child has provided us with personal data, contact us and we will delete it.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page. For significant changes, we will notify you within the app. Your continued use of Sore Losers after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how we handle your data, please contact:
Olmo Technologies
Norway
contact@olmo-technologies.com