Privacy Policy

StationPulse — Play On, Never Miss Your Stop  |  Last updated: October 29, 2026

This Privacy Policy describes how Taner Şenyurt ("Developer", "we", "us", or "our") collects, uses, and protects information when you use the StationPulse mobile application ("App"). By downloading, installing, or using the App, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

1. Information Processed Only on Your Device

• Location: When you start a journey, the App uses your device's location to measure the distance to the destination you selected and to alert you when you are close. If you enable background alerts, location is also used while the App is in the background, only until you arrive or end the journey. Location data is processed on your device and is never sent to our servers.
• Wi‑Fi network identifier: On metro journeys the App reads the identifier (BSSID) of the station Wi‑Fi network your device is connected to, and compares it with a station list stored in the App. This happens on your device and is never transmitted.
• Motion data: On metro journeys the App may use motion sensors to detect when the train stops at a station. Motion data is processed on your device and is never stored or transmitted.
• Game progress and settings: Scores, levels, coins, unlocked items, saved places and preferences are stored locally on your device.

2. Information Sent to Our Servers

The App does not send individual events. At most once a day, when an internet connection is available, it sends a short summary to Google Firebase. If the connection fails, it tries again later (at most three times a day); the App keeps working offline in the meantime.

• Anonymous identifiers: The App signs in anonymously with Google Firebase, which creates a random identifier, and also creates a random installation identifier shown to you in Settings as a short user code (for example SP-7K3D9Q). Neither is linked to your name, email, or Apple ID. You can share the code with us when you contact support.
• Usage summary: Time spent in each game, number of sessions, best scores, highest levels reached, the order in which games were opened, how many journeys were started and completed (without any location or station names), and a few display settings (battery saver, frame rate, music).
• Player card: If you create a player card, the nickname you choose, the badge you pick (style and color) and the date the card was created. The nickname is a name you make up for the game; please do not use your real full name.
• Nearby-play statistics: For each game played together with nearby players: how many matches were started and finished, wins, losses and draws, time spent in these matches, whether you created or joined the table, table size, whether bots took part, and how often connections dropped or were restored. These are counts only; we do not receive the moves you make or who you played with.
• Technical data: App version and build, version history on this device, device model, iOS version, and language/region settings. Google Firebase may also process your IP address for service operation and security.
• Version check: Once a day the App reads the current version rules from our server to tell you about updates. This request contains no personal data.

You can turn off the usage summary at any time in Settings › Feedback and data › Share usage statistics. The version check and feedback keep working when it is off.

2a. Feedback You Send

If you choose to send a bug report, suggestion, or thank-you message, we receive the text you write, the type of message, your user code, the App version, and — only if you leave these options on — a screenshot of the game screen (which you can mark up or partially hide before sending) and game/device details (game name, score, level, device model, iOS version). Messages are stored on your device until a connection is available. Replies from us are shown in Settings › My feedback. Screenshots are deleted once the report is closed.

2b. Playing With Nearby Players

When you open a game's nearby-play lobby, the App uses Apple's local networking (Bluetooth and Wi‑Fi, no internet connection) to find other StationPulse players around you. While the lobby or a match is open, your nickname, badge, player code, the game and table you are in, and your App version are visible to nearby StationPulse users. Game moves and scores during a match are exchanged directly between the phones at the table and are not sent to our servers. Closing the lobby stops this. The App asks for Local Network permission the first time you use this feature.

3. Game Center

If you are signed in to Apple Game Center, your scores are submitted to Game Center leaderboards. Game Center is operated by Apple and governed by Apple's privacy policy. Your Game Center nickname may be visible to other players on leaderboards.

4. Information We Do NOT Collect

• Real names (beyond the nickname you choose yourself), email addresses, phone numbers, or physical addresses
• Your location history or the places you travel to
• Photos, contacts, microphone, or other personal files (a screenshot is sent only when you attach it to feedback)
• Financial or payment information
• Advertising identifiers (IDFA) or cross-app tracking data
• Health, fitness, or biometric data

The App contains no advertising and no in-app purchases.

5. How We Use Information

• Providing destination and arrival alerts
• Saving your progress and rewards
• Showing Game Center leaderboards
• Understanding aggregate usage to improve games and features
• Telling you about new versions and, when a version can no longer be supported, asking you to update
• Answering and fixing the feedback you send

We do not use your data for advertising, marketing, or user profiling.

6. Third-Party Services

• Google Firebase (Authentication, Firestore): https://firebase.google.com/support/privacy
• Apple Game Center: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/

7. Data Sharing

We do not sell, rent, or trade your information. We may disclose information only if required by law or to protect the safety, rights, or property of users or the public.

8. Data Retention and Deletion

• Local data: Deleted when you uninstall the App.
• Usage summary, player card and nearby-play statistics: Kept for as long as needed to improve the App, and at most 3 years after your last upload. Turning off "Share usage statistics" stops new uploads, including your nickname and badge.
• Feedback: Kept until the report is resolved; screenshots are deleted when the report is closed.
• To delete the data associated with your user code, email us with the code shown in Settings; we will process your request within 30 days.

8a. Where Data Is Stored

Data sent to our servers is stored by Google Firebase, whose servers may be located outside your country, including outside Turkey and the European Economic Area. Google applies its own safeguards for such transfers (such as Standard Contractual Clauses). By sharing usage statistics you consent to this transfer; you can withdraw at any time by turning off "Share usage statistics".

8b. Legal Basis

We process the usage summary, player card and nearby-play statistics on the basis of your consent (you can turn sharing off at any time) and our legitimate interest in keeping the App working and improving it. Feedback is processed to answer your request. Local processing on your device (location, Wi‑Fi identifier, motion data) is needed to provide the arrival alert you ask for.

9. Data Security

Data is transmitted over encrypted connections (TLS), and Firebase Security Rules allow each anonymous user to write only their own records. No method of transmission or storage is 100% secure.

10. Children's Privacy

The App is suitable for all ages and does not knowingly collect personal information from children. No account is required. The nickname on the player card is chosen freely and should not be a real name; parents can turn off "Share usage statistics" in Settings. If you believe a child has sent us personal information, email us and we will delete it.

11. Your Rights

Depending on your jurisdiction (including GDPR, KVKK, and CCPA), you may have the right to access, correct, delete, or object to the processing of your data. We do not sell personal information. To exercise your rights, email us at stationpulse@tsenyurt.com and include your user code.

12. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time and will update the "Last updated" date above.

13. Contact Us

The data controller is the developer, Taner Şenyurt (Turkey).

Taner Şenyurt
Email: stationpulse@tsenyurt.com