Privacy policy
Go Chat ! is played on a map: it needs a position to place you — yours, or one you choose. Here is exactly what we store, why, for how long, and how to get all of it back or erase all of it.
Who is responsible
The data controller is YAOHACHI, a French simplified joint-stock company (SAS) registered with the Paris Trade and Companies Register under number 952 817 799, whose registered office is at 35 rue de Nantes, 75019 Paris, France. For any question: hello@yaohachi.com.
What we store
Your position
The game needs to know where you are on the map: who is within reach of whom, where traps go off, where items to pick up appear. But “where you are” doesn't necessarily mean “where you really are”.
- You can play without moving. Once per game, you drop an anchor wherever you want — your city, another one, anywhere in the world — and play from there, moving with a joystick within a 2 km radius. While this mode is active, that chosen position is what the game uses, not your real position. You can switch back to GPS whenever you like, and return to your anchor as many times as you want.
- We keep your current position, not your movement history. Each update replaces the previous one: the server holds a single point per player.
- When you disconnect in GPS mode, your position is deliberately offset to a random point within a radius you choose (1 to 5 km, or off), so the exact place where you stopped playing isn't revealed. A chosen position doesn't need this offset: it isn't yours to begin with.
- Other players never see your raw coordinates — only what the game exposes: your presence within reach, your nickname, your role.
Your account
| Data | Why |
|---|---|
| Game Center or Google Play Games identifier | Recognise you from one session to the next, restore your progress on a new device |
| Device identifier (stored hashed, never in clear text) | Let you play without a platform account |
| Nickname | Identify you to other players and in leaderboards |
| App language | Send you notifications in your language |
| Push notification token | Alert you when you get tagged, when your trap goes off, when a game starts |
| Notification preferences | Respect what you turned off |
Your game
Current role and history of role changes, points, experience and level, in-game currencies, inventory, gear and its bonuses, traps placed, chests, Teuloo, active boosts, friends list, and the history of notifications received.
Your purchases
If you buy something, the transaction is verified with RevenueCat. We keep the transaction identifier, the product bought and the amount credited. We never see your payment method: it stays with Apple or Google.
On what legal basis
- Performance of the contract (the game's terms of use): position, account, game data, purchases. Without this data, the game cannot work.
- Your consent: push notifications, and access to your location — granted from your phone's settings, revocable at any time in the same place. Location is only used for GPS mode: playing from a chosen position doesn't use it.
- Legal obligation: keeping purchase records.
For how long
- Position: replaced at each update; erased when the account is deleted.
- Notification history: automatically erased after 90 days.
- Expired traps: automatically erased 24 h after expiry.
- Account and game data: kept as long as the account exists.
- Purchase records: kept under accounting obligations, even after the account is deleted.
- Aggregated game statistics (points and role histories): kept after the account is deleted, but detached from anything that could identify you.
Who else has access
We don't sell any data. Only the providers needed to run the service are involved:
| Provider | For what |
|---|---|
| Apple — Game Center | Sign-in, achievements and leaderboards on iOS |
| Google — Play Games | Sign-in, achievements and leaderboards on Android |
| Google — Firebase Cloud Messaging | Delivery of push notifications |
| RevenueCat | Verification of in-app purchases |
| OVH (France) | Hosting of the game server and database, in the European Union |
Your rights
You have the right of access, rectification, erasure, portability, restriction and objection. Two of them are built right into the app, nothing to ask for:
- Get all your data back: the app generates a file containing everything about you, readable without any special tool.
- Delete your account: from the app, or through the deletion page if you no longer have access to it.
For any other request, write to hello@yaohachi.com. We reply within one month. If you believe your rights aren't being respected, you can lodge a complaint with the CNIL, the French data protection authority (cnil.fr), or with the supervisory authority of your own country.
Minors
The game is for people aged 13 and over, in line with the age rating declared on the stores. If you are the parent of a child who created an account and you want it deleted, write to us at hello@yaohachi.com.
Security
Exchanges between the app and the server are encrypted. Device identifiers are never stored in clear text. Access to the database is restricted to the people who need it to operate the service.
Changes
This policy may evolve along with the game. In case of a significant change, you will be informed in the app before it takes effect.