Effective November 7, 2026

World Clues Privacy Policy

World Clues is a geography game that can be played anonymously. If you use profiles or social features, the app stores the information required to provide those features through Apple CloudKit.

Information you choose to provide

This may include a username, profile photo, selected profile country, crest, kingdom membership, chat messages, and message reports. Profile photos, usernames, scores, leaderboard entries, crests, and kingdom information may be visible to other World Clues players.

Kingdom Chat

The app checks kingdom membership before displaying or sending Kingdom Chat messages. Messages and reports are stored in CloudKit's public database and should not be treated as confidential. Do not post passwords, financial information, precise addresses, or other sensitive information in chat.

Game and account data

World Clues stores an app-generated player identifier, points, completed-game history, rank, crest and kingdom activity, and social-game progress. The identifier is stored in the device Keychain so an anonymous identity may survive reinstalling the app.

Maps, storefront, and voice

World Clues uses Google Maps 3D for its noninteractive loading cinematic and Apple MapKit for Look Around clues, guessing maps, and terrain. The loading cinematic receives only unrelated presentation destinations and is never given the mystery answer coordinates. The app does not request your physical location. Your current App Store country may be used temporarily to favor nearby game locations and is not saved for that purpose. Speech recognition is optional and begins only after you tap the microphone. Recognized text is used for place search; World Clues does not retain audio recordings.

Google Maps 3D service data

The Google Maps 3D SDK automatically receives request and device metadata, SDK version information, IP address, a Maps 3D-specific pseudonymous identifier, and SDK crash metrics or stack traces to provide, secure, measure, and improve Google services. Camera interaction events may also be collected when the app runs the cinematic. Google handles this information under the Google Privacy Policy and Google Maps Platform Terms. World Clues does not use this information for advertising or cross-app tracking.

Purchases

Optional purchases are processed by Apple through StoreKit. World Clues receives verified entitlement status and does not receive your payment-card information.

Safety and retention

Kingdom Chat includes message filtering, reporting, and local blocking. A report may contain the reported message and app-generated player identifiers so abuse can be reviewed. Data is retained while needed to provide the service, meet safety obligations, or resolve support requests.

Sharing and tracking

World Clues does not sell personal information and does not include advertising or cross-app tracking. Apple processes CloudKit, MapKit, StoreKit, and optional speech-recognition data under Apple's terms. Google processes the limited Maps 3D service data described above under Google's terms.

Your choices and deletion

You may play anonymously, avoid social features, decline microphone or speech access, and block chat participants. Profile → Delete Profile and Data requests removal of your World Clues profile and associated content and resets the device to a new anonymous identity. A network and iCloud connection are required to remove cloud records. If deletion cannot finish or you need assistance, contact us.

See the World Clues Terms of Use for terms that apply to Google Maps content.

Contact

Privacy, safety, and deletion assistance: coop@kingcooplives.com