Retro Golf privacy policy

Ruans Games · last updated 18 October 2026 · contact: ruansgym@gmail.com

Retro Golf is a turn-based golf game for Android. This policy explains what the game stores, why, who can see it and how to remove it.

What we collect

• Account: your email address and password, handled by Google Firebase Authentication. We never see your password, and your email is never shown to other players.
• Player profile: the display name you choose and a random player ID created by Firebase.
• Gameplay: your matches and every stroke (club, aim, power, impact, ball positions, scores, turn times), so turn-based games work across phones and can be resumed and checked for fairness.
• Statistics and records: your rounds, results, scores and hole-by-hole history, per season and course.
• Coins: your coin balance and a history of every coin you earned or spent (match rewards, Daily Challenge and tournament prizes, equipment purchases, rewarded ads). Coins have no cash value and cannot be bought with real money.
• Purchases: when you buy a premium course with Google Play, Google handles the payment. We receive a purchase token from Google Play, check it with Google, and store which course you own and the order number. We never see your card or payment details.
• Rankings and Daily Challenge: your skill rating and rating history, your best verified scores per course, and your Daily Challenge attempts and results.
• Find Golfers (optional): only if you choose to be discoverable: your display name, a short golfer ID and your rating. Also the invitations you send or receive, the golfers you block, and reports you make.
• Tournaments: if you register: your registration, the round you submit and your standing.
• Notifications: a push token and a random installation ID for each phone, so we can tell you it is your turn, about invitations, finished matches and tournaments. You choose which alerts you get in Settings → Notifications.
• Advertising (only when ads are switched on): Retro Golf can show ads from Google AdMob. When ads are on, Google collects device and advertising identifiers as described in its policy, and you are asked for your consent where the law requires it. You can change your choice under Settings → Privacy choices.

We do not collect your location, contacts or photos, and we do not sell your data. The game has no analytics or crash-reporting service of its own.

How it is used

To run the game: signing in, multiplayer turns, Play Computer, statistics, course records, rankings, Daily Challenges, tournaments, coins and purchases, notifications, and to detect cheating (we check that scores match the recorded strokes). Data is stored with Google Firebase (Cloud Firestore, Cloud Functions and Cloud Messaging, africa-south1 region), which processes it on our behalf, and is encrypted in transit.

Who can see what

• Other players: your display name, the matches you play together, your statistics (when they view your profile in a match lobby) and the course records you hold.
• Public leaderboards: your display name, rating and best scores appear on the world and course rankings. You can hide yourself from the public boards in World Rankings → Me.
• Find Golfers: nobody can find you unless you switch on "Let other golfers find me". You decide who may invite you, and you can block or report any golfer.
• Tournament standings: display name and score for registered players.
• Never shown to others: your email, coins, purchases, push tokens and the golfers you have blocked.

Service providers

Google Firebase (hosting, sign-in, database, functions, notifications), Google Play (payments and distribution) and, when ads are on, Google AdMob. We do not share your data with anyone else, except if the law requires it.

Keeping and deleting your data

We keep your data while you have an account. You can delete your account at any time in the app (Settings → Account → Delete account) or as described on the account deletion page. Deleting your account removes your sign-in, profile, statistics, personal records, coins and coin history, rating and history, directory listing, invitations, blocks, notification registrations and course ownership records. Matches and course records shared with other players are kept so their history stays complete, with your name replaced by "Deleted player". Records Google Play keeps about your purchases are held by Google. Abuse reports about a golfer may be kept for as long as needed to protect other players.

Children

Retro Golf is not directed at children under 13. If you believe a child has created an account without permission, contact us and we will delete it.

Changes

We will update this page, and the date above, if the game's use of data changes.