Historiq

1.Overview

Historiq is a daily history-trivia app with six quiz modes, a friends list, per-game stats, and ads shown after a finished game. What data exists about you depends entirely on how you use the app:

Everything below states plainly which of these apply to each kind of data.

2.Account information

If you sign in with Google, Apple, or Facebook, the app creates an account with:

• display name — shown on your profile and to friends on leaderboards
• email — your real address from whichever provider you signed in with (or a private relay address, if you chose Apple's "Hide My Email" option)
• profile picture — your real account photo from Google or Facebook, when available; Apple sign-in never provides one
• sign-in provider — which button you tapped ("google", "apple", or "facebook"), display-only
• friend code — a random 9-digit code other players can use to add you as a friend
• a unique account identifier tied to your device's session, so the app's database can tell your data apart from every other player's

3.Gameplay data

For every device — guest or signed in — the app stores:

• daily quiz progress for each of the six games (which questions you've seen, your answers so far) — so you can close the app mid-quiz and resume later
• your score for each game, for each day you've played it

This is what makes "once per game per day" and same-day resume work reliably, and lets that day's rank ("28th of 150 players today") be real rather than simulated — even for a guest, whose entry is tied only to an anonymous device session, never a name or email. Signed-in accounts additionally get lifetime aggregate stats — total games played, average score, and perfect-run count per game — which power the Profile screen and are never collected for guests.

4.Friends

If you send or accept a friend request, the app stores that connection (which two accounts are connected, and whether the request is pending or accepted) so your Friends leaderboard can show their scores and theirs can show yours. Only accepted friends can see each other's daily scores — no one else can. Friends requires a signed-in account; guest mode has no friend code and no friends list.

5.Advertising

Historiq shows an ad after a finished game, and offers a "watch an ad for a hint" option, using Google's AdMob network.

To select and measure ads, AdMob (and Google, its ad network) processes your device's advertising ID, general technical information about your device and app, and an approximate location derived from your IP address. Historiq itself never sees or stores this — it flows directly between your device, AdMob, and Google. Ads are not targeted at children and are not shown with child-directed treatment, since Historiq is a general-audience app.

You can limit ad personalization for your Google account at any time in your device's system settings ("opt out of ads personalization") or at g.co/adssettings.

If you're in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland, Historiq asks for your consent to ad personalization the first time you open the app, using Google's User Messaging Platform. On iPhone/iPad, Historiq also asks for permission before using your device's advertising identifier for tracking, as required by Apple's App Tracking Transparency framework. You can review or change your consent choice anytime from Settings → Privacy Choices.

6.Security audit log

Every sign-in is logged with its IP address, device/user-agent info, an event label (e.g. "sign_in"), and a timestamp. This log exists solely to detect abuse (e.g. one device mass-creating accounts) and is never readable by the app itself or any client — it's written by a server-side function with no read access granted to anyone, reviewed only through direct administrative access to the database when investigating a security concern.

7.On-device-only settings

Your language choice, whether haptic vibration is on, whether dark mode is on, and whether the daily reminder notification is on are stored only in the app's local settings on your device. None of these ever leave your device, whether you're signed in or playing as a guest.

8.Guest mode

Choosing "Continue without login" means the app never asks for, reads, or stores any identifying information about you, and never creates a display profile. Your device still gets an anonymous session so scores, daily rank, and the once-a-day play limit work correctly and are shared with no one — but nothing in it is, or can be turned into, your name, email, or any other identifying detail. There's no friend code and no friends list in guest mode, since there's no profile for anyone to connect to. This anonymous session is tied to this device; uninstalling the app or clearing its storage leaves that session unreachable, with no way to sign back into it.

9.Sharing & third parties

Historiq's own database (account, gameplay, and friends data) is never sold, rented, or shared with any third party, advertiser, or analytics service. One processor is used for a specific feature, described in full in the Advertising section above: Google/AdMob, to show ads. It never receives your name or email.

If you sign in with Google, Apple, or Facebook, that provider itself is the one exception: it processes your sign-in the same way it does for any app you grant it to, under its own privacy policy, independent of Historiq.

The app's "Share Results" feature is the other exception worth naming explicitly: tapping it hands an image and a line of text to whatever app you pick from your device's own share sheet (Messages, a social app, etc.) — that's a one-time action you trigger yourself, not ongoing data collection, and the app has no visibility into what happens after you choose where to share it.

10.Where data is stored

Accounts, gameplay data, friends, and the security audit log are stored in a hosted Postgres database (via Supabase). Access is restricted by row-level security rules scoped to your own account and, for scores specifically, your accepted friends — nobody else's client can read your data directly. Guest-mode sessions are stored the same way, but carry no name, email, or other identifying field at all.

11.Your choices & deletion

• Change your display name anytime from Settings.
• Turn off haptics or the daily reminder anytime from Settings — these take effect immediately and stay off until you turn them back on.
• Delete your account from Settings → Account → Delete Account. This permanently removes your profile, friends, stats, progress, and score history from the hosted database. This cannot be undone, and none of it can be recovered afterward. No longer have the app? You can request deletion by email instead.
• Guests have no profile to delete through the app, since nothing identifying was ever stored; contact us using the details below if you'd like an anonymous session's gameplay rows removed.

12.Children's privacy

Historiq is a general-audience trivia app and isn't directed at children under 13, and isn't listed as a Families app. The app doesn't knowingly collect personal information from children under 13, and ads are never shown with child-directed treatment or targeting. If you believe a child has provided personal information through the app, contact us using the details below and it will be removed.

13.Changes to this policy

If what the app collects or how it's used changes, this page will be updated and the "Effective" date at the top will change accordingly. Meaningful changes will also be reflected in the in-app description of this policy in Settings.