Privacy Policy
Meowa.app ("we", "us") runs the free online game at https://meowa.app and its apps. This policy explains what data the game uses, why, and the choices you have. You don't need an account to play, and we never ask for your email, real name or phone number. We don't sell your data.
Data kept on your device
The game saves these in your browser's storage (or the app's storage): the nickname you type, the flag you pick, language, fish, best score, sound and graphics settings, tutorial progress, ad counters and a random player ID. They stay on your device; clearing your browser data or uninstalling the app deletes them.
Data sent to our server while you play
- Nickname and country code: shown to other players. The country comes from the flag you picked, your device language, or the country Cloudflare derives from your connection.
- Random player ID: a number made on your device, so we can count each player once a day and keep one hall-of-fame entry per player. It is never shown to anyone.
- Your game inputs (steering, skills): used live to run the match and not stored.
What our server stores, and for how long
- Hall of fame (best runs): nickname, country, score, date and player ID. Kept until the run is no longer among the records, or until you ask us to delete it.
- Daily statistics: totals per day and per country (players, games, peak online, ads offered, watched and shown). They contain no names. Kept 90 days.
- Today's player list (player ID and country), used to count each player once a day: deleted at the end of the day (UTC).
- Backups of the above: one per day, the last 7 kept.
We do not store your IP address. It is needed to connect, and our hosting and Cloudflare process it to deliver the game and protect it from abuse.
Advertising
The game is free thanks to ads: on the web through Google AdSense (H5 Games Ads), in the apps through Google AdMob. Some games start after an ad. Google and its partners use cookies and device identifiers to show ads, measure them, prevent fraud and, where allowed, personalise them based on your visits to this and other sites.
- How Google uses data from sites and apps that use its services: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
- Turn personalised ads off: Google Ads Settings, or aboutads.info
- In the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland, Google's consent message asks you first; you can change your choice with "Privacy options" in the game menu. On iPhone and iPad the app asks for permission to track (App Tracking Transparency).
We count ad events only as daily totals per country (see above).
Services we use
- Cloudflare: content delivery, security and the country lookup (privacy policy).
- Google: ads (above); the web game may also load fonts for some symbols from Google Fonts (privacy policy).
- Our hosting provider, which runs the game server.
These providers may process data outside your country.
Legal bases (EEA, UK)
Running the game, keeping records and statistics and protecting the service rely on our legitimate interest in providing a working, fair game. Personalised advertising and the cookies it uses rely on your consent where the law requires it.
Your rights
You can ask us to access or delete data about you, for example to remove your hall-of-fame entry, and you can object to processing. Write to [email protected] with your nickname and roughly when you played: we don't know who you are, so that is how we find your data. You may also complain to your data protection authority.
Children
Meowa.app is a game for a general audience. It is not directed at children under 13 (under 16 in the EEA), and we don't knowingly collect their personal data. If you think a child has given us personal data, contact us and we will delete it.
Changes
We will update this page when the game changes how it uses data, and change the date below.