Privacy Policy

1. Who is responsible

TADAOGAME LTD, trading as TadaoGames, is the controller responsible for personal information processed for Smart Fool, also known as «Умный дурак». We are registered in England and Wales, company number 17469440.

For privacy questions, rights requests or account deletion, email support@tadaogames.com.

2. Information we use

• Account and profile: a technical account identifier, nickname, avatar, selected cosmetics, language and settings. Accounts without a linked email address also have an identifier; they are not necessarily anonymous to our systems.
• Online play and progress: friends and invitations, room membership, game actions and results, progress, balances and reward records. We use this information to provide multiplayer play, apply game rules, restore interrupted games and prevent duplicate rewards.
• Email, if you provide it: where email sign-in or recovery is available, we use the linked address for account access and recovery. We also receive your address when you email support.
• Support and diagnostics: the messages and attachments you choose to send, account identifiers, relevant transaction references and technical information needed to investigate errors, security incidents or disputed results.
• Advertising and purchases: the information described in sections 4 and 5, when those features are used.

Ordinary online guest play creates or restores an account with a technical account identifier and does not require a password or email address. Linking an email address is optional where account-access features are available. A guest account identifier is pseudonymous; it does not make account information fully anonymous.

Optional Google and Apple sign-in

Where offered by the installed version, you can sign in with Google, or with Apple on iOS. The provider supplies a verified account identifier and may supply an email address, name and profile-picture URL. Apple may supply a private relay email address. Our authentication provider, Supabase, processes this information to verify access and keep the selected sign-in method linked to your permanent Smart Fool profile. Authentication sessions and provider tokens are used for sign-in; provider credentials needed to revoke Apple access when an account is deleted are stored in protected server storage.

A matching email address alone does not authorise us to combine game profiles. Linking a method or choosing an existing profile requires an explicit action. Distinct profiles and balances are not silently added together. An unlinked guest profile may be lost after removing the app or losing the device. A linked profile can recover the progress confirmed as saved to our server; pending offline changes must finish syncing first.

Google Play Games on Android

Google Play Games uses your Google gaming profile, including its player identifier, gaming name and avatar, to connect the Android game to that service. This connection is separate from the optional Google sign-in used for your Smart Fool account. In this version, Play Games does not replace our progress storage, and we do not use its Saved Games service or import your Google contacts. The game displays our preset in-game avatars rather than copying a Google profile picture into your public Smart Fool profile.

Friend connections are made inside Smart Fool; the game does not import your device's address book. Current avatars and stickers are preset game artwork rather than uploaded personal photographs. Other participants receive the limited profile, game and reaction information needed for the interaction you choose.

Other players can see your nickname, avatar and the profile or game information needed to play together. Avoid putting private contact details in public profile information. Please do not send us passwords, one-time login codes or full payment-card details.

3. Why we use information

We use the account and game information necessary to provide the game service you request and maintain your progress. Where applicable, this processing is necessary to perform our contract with you.

We rely on our legitimate interests in keeping the service reliable, protecting accounts and balances, preventing abuse and duplicate rewards, and resolving support issues and disputed results. These interests must be balanced against your rights.

We process information where necessary to meet legal obligations, including responding to privacy requests and keeping required accounting records. Where consent is required for advertising storage or personalised advertising, it must be requested separately. You can withdraw consent without affecting the lawfulness of processing before withdrawal.

4. Advertising and your choices

Smart Fool integrates Google AdMob for rewarded advertising. Where an ad offer is available, you choose whether to watch it. A test ad is still provided through an advertising SDK and should not be assumed to involve no data processing.

Google's Mobile Ads SDK may collect and share your IP address, device or account identifiers such as an advertising ID, app and advertising interactions, and diagnostic information. An IP address can indicate an approximate location. Google uses this data for advertising, measurement and fraud prevention; the exact collection depends on SDK settings and consent choices.

Advertising partners, where used, are identified in the applicable consent message. Review that message and use the advertising privacy controls made available in the app to manage optional choices. You can also reset or delete the Android advertising ID in your device settings. Device controls may not stop every form of advertising-related processing. Contact us if you cannot access a privacy choice.

More information: Google Privacy Policy, Google Mobile Ads SDK data disclosure and Google My Ad Center.

5. Purchases, when available

Google Play handles Android purchases. Apple handles purchases in an available iOS version. The relevant store processes payment-card details. We use product identifiers, transaction references and purchase verification or refund results to deliver items, avoid duplicate processing, resolve disputes and meet accounting obligations.

Account deletion does not itself request a store refund. The store's purchase and refund rules continue to apply. In-app purchases are available in supported store versions. Availability and price depend on the store configuration and your account and region. Participation in an internal test does not by itself make a purchase free. A purchase is free only when the store explicitly identifies the payment method as a test method.

6. Who receives information

• Supabase: our authentication, game backend and database hosting provider.
• Google: optional Google sign-in, the separate Android Play Games service, Android store services and AdMob advertising, including the data described above.
• Apple: store services when an iOS version with those services is available.
• Spacemail by Spaceship: delivery and storage of emails sent to our support address.
• Other players: the limited profile and game information needed for multiplayer play.

We may also disclose necessary information to comply with a valid legal obligation, protect users or the service, or obtain professional advice where required. Providers may act as our processors or, for their own services, as independent controllers.

International processing

Our game database is configured in Supabase's eu-west-1 region (Ireland). Provider support, advertising and other processing can take place outside the UK or EEA, including in the United States. The database location does not mean all information stays in Ireland.

Supabase's published data-processing terms contain standard contractual clauses and a UK addendum for applicable transfers. Google describes its transfer mechanisms, including adequacy frameworks and contractual clauses, in its international-transfer information. These mechanisms depend on the provider, service and applicable agreement. You may contact us for information about the safeguards applicable to your data. Our review of the complete provider and transfer arrangements is ongoing during testing.

7. Keeping information secure

Connections to the online game backend use HTTPS to protect information in transit. Access to personal information should be limited to what is needed to run the service, investigate problems and handle your requests. No system can guarantee absolute security. Tell us at support@tadaogames.com if you believe your account or information has been compromised.

8. How long we keep information

Our retention policy is to keep information only for the service purposes described here or a necessary legal reason:

• Account information, profile, friends and personal files: while your account is active. Following a valid deletion request, our policy is to remove them without undue delay and no later than 28 days, subject to the specific exceptions below.

  We count the 28-day technical limit from receipt of a valid deletion request. A later internal approval does not restart that period. Our policy remains to remove the information without undue delay.

• Completed-game details: up to 90 days after the game ends. A valid deletion request can require earlier removal of your personal information. Active games are kept as needed to complete play.
• Minimal currency, reward, promotion, gift and settlement records: where needed to prevent duplicate rewards, resolve disputes or protect other players' results, up to 180 days after actual account deletion. An active offer's once-per-account marker can remain while the account is active.

  The retention periods for detailed game records and transaction details do not expire an active account's progress, achievements, purchases, collections or balance. The marker recording an active account's prior use of KITSTARTER remains while the account is active; removing older receipt details must not make that account eligible for a second award. The one-time offer is an account limit, not a way to identify every physical person.

• Security and audit records: up to 12 calendar months after the recorded event.
• Support correspondence: up to 12 calendar months after the case closes.
• Necessary purchase, refund and accounting records: 6 years after the end of the last financial year to which the records relate, subject to applicable legal exceptions. This applies to necessary financial records, not the whole profile or game history.

A specific legal claim, investigation or retention requirement may require a limited exception. We restrict such retention to the information needed. A hashed identifier is still treated as personal information if it can be linked to you.

Backup copies

Deleting active account data does not necessarily overwrite an existing backup immediately. Our current hosting plan keeps a rolling seven-day history of automated database backups. Separate encrypted manual recovery copies are restricted to authorised recovery work and do not necessarily expire on the automated seven-day cycle. We cannot promise an exact expiry date for every manual copy. Recovery work must check and reapply confirmed deletion requests before restored personal data is returned to active service. Contact us for the status of your request and any remaining recovery copies or applicable retention exception. A backup is not a guarantee that every recent, unsynchronised device change can be recovered.

9. Account and data deletion

You can request deletion from outside the app at any time through our account deletion page, or email support@tadaogames.com with the subject Smart Fool account deletion.

Include your player ID if you have it and your linked email address, if any. If you cannot access your account or do not know its ID, explain this. We may ask for the minimum additional information needed to locate the account and verify that it belongs to you. Do not send a password or one-time code.

Our policy is to stop account access and hide the public profile once deletion is confirmed, then remove the associated personal information as described above. Account deletion removes access to its saved progress and items; after deletion they cannot be restored through the deleted account. Limited records and backup copies may remain as explained in section 8. Uninstalling the app does not delete a cloud account.

Use email if the in-app deletion option is unavailable or does not complete. Deleting a Smart Fool account does not delete your Google, Apple or Play Games account. You may also request deletion of particular information without closing the whole account; we will explain if that information is necessary for a feature you want to keep.

10. Your privacy rights

Depending on applicable law, you may ask to access, correct or erase your personal information, restrict its use, receive a portable copy, or object to processing based on legitimate interests. You may withdraw consent where we rely on it. These rights can have legal limitations.

Send requests to support@tadaogames.com. We may need proportionate identity verification and will respond within the applicable legal time limit, normally one month. If a permitted extension is necessary, we will explain it.

You can complain to the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) or your local data-protection authority.

11. Adults only

Smart Fool is intended for people aged 18 and over. It is not directed at children. If you believe someone under 18 has provided personal information through the game, contact us so we can investigate and take appropriate action, including deletion where required.

12. Changes and contact

We will update this page when data practices change and show the new date above. Where required, significant changes will also be brought to your attention in the app, and new consent will be requested where necessary.