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Tyamka Privacy Policy
Last updated 6 October 2026.
This policy explains what data Tyamka collects when you use the website tyamka.app, the game at play.tyamka.app and the game inside Telegram through the Tyamka bot, why we collect it, how long we keep it and what you can do about it. Tyamka is a set of short games for attention, memory and logic.
1. Who we are
Tyamka is an independent game project from Ukraine ("Tyamka", "we", "us"). We decide why and how your data is used, which makes us the controller of that data.
You can reach us about privacy at support@tyamka.app or by writing to the Tyamka bot in Telegram, the bot that opens the game.
2. The short version
- You can play without an account, a name or an email address.
- We do not ask for your phone number or your Telegram profile photo. We do not store your IP address or your Telegram name.
- We do not sell your data and we do not use advertising pixels.
- On the website tyamka.app we measure visits with Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity. Both set cookies only if you press "Accept" in the cookie banner; until then they work without cookies. The game has its own anonymous statistics, described in section 3.2.
- Ads are shown only on tyamka.app and play.tyamka.app, never inside Telegram and never to a player who bought anything. The ads are served by Google, which uses cookies as described in section 5.
3. What we collect and why
3.1 Data on your device
The game keeps your results, best scores, settings, the list of items you own and a random player identifier on your device, in the browser's local storage or in the app's storage. This data stays on your device unless you use an account (section 3.3). You can remove it at any time by clearing the site data in your browser or by deleting the app.
3.2 Game and website events
To learn whether people enjoy the games, which games hold attention and whether our advertising works, the website and the game send us short event records. Each record contains the following.
- A random player identifier created on your first visit and stored on your device. It is not linked to your name, email or Telegram account.
- A session identifier, the channel (website, web game or Telegram), the interface language and the time the server received the record.
- A short campaign label and, on the website, the standard campaign parameters of the link you followed (source, medium, campaign, content, term), if the link had them.
- What happened, for example that a page opened, a game started or ended, a shop screen opened, a buy button was pressed or an ad was shown, together with the game, level, score, time, number of mistakes and the product concerned.
We do not add your IP address, name or contact details to these records. When you buy something in Telegram, our server links the purchase to the random player identifier of the device you bought from, so that we can see which campaign led to a purchase; this link is deleted together with your account.
We keep event records for 13 months (395 days), after which they are deleted automatically.
Storing the random identifier on your device and sending these records do not need your consent. We rely on our legitimate interest in understanding and improving the games and measuring our advertising (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR). The records are anonymous statistics, carry no cookies and are never used for advertising or shared with advertisers. If you do not want to be counted, clear the site data; you can also ask us to delete the records of your identifier (section 7).
3.3 Account data
You do not need an account to play. An account is created only when you buy something, save your progress to our server or link the web game to Telegram.
- In Telegram, the game receives your Telegram user ID from Telegram when you open it. We use it to recognise you and keep your purchases and progress. Telegram also passes your name, username and language to the game when it opens; we check this data to confirm it comes from Telegram and do not store it, except the name for leaderboards if you turn on showing it yourself (below).
- On the web game, you can sign in with Telegram. We then receive the same Telegram user ID, so the web game and Telegram share one account.
- With an account we store your purchases and your best results per game and level (score and time) so that they appear on every device where you sign in.
- Your best results appear on public leaderboards. Unless you turned on showing your name, next to a score we show only a six-character label derived from your account, for example 3FA9C1, without your name or username. Your Telegram ID never appears on a leaderboard. The label is the same on every board, so anyone can see that results with the same label come from one player, but cannot tell who that player is.
- Showing your name on leaderboards is off until you turn it on yourself with the "Show my name on leaderboards" switch in the game profile or the /name command in the bot. Every leaderboard then shows your Telegram name instead of the label, that is, your first and last name or, if there is none, your username, up to 32 characters. Anyone who opens a leaderboard sees it, including without signing in. Only for this we store the name on our server and update it when you sign in to the game again. You can turn it off at any time in the same place, then the boards show the label again and the name is erased from our server.
- There are two kinds of leaderboard, the daily challenge board and a board for each game. A row shows the rank, the label or the name, the score and the time, for the top 100 players, and anyone can view the boards, including without signing in. Only players with an account appear on them.
- If you take part in the skin-of-the-day trial, we count your active play time from the game events to decide whether the trial is available to you.
Legal basis. Performance of our contract with you, that is, providing the games, the leaderboards and the items you bought (Article 6(1)(b) GDPR). For showing your name on leaderboards, your consent (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR), which you can withdraw with the same switch or command.
3.4 Purchases
Purchases inside Telegram are paid in Telegram Stars. Telegram processes the payment; we never see your card or wallet details. For each purchase we store the product, the price in Stars, the date, the Telegram payment ID and its status (active or refunded). For 90 days after a purchase we also keep a copy of the payment details Telegram sends us (the amount in Stars, the order and the payment IDs), without your name, username or language; after 90 days this copy is erased and only the purchase record remains. We keep the copy to resolve payment disputes and refund requests.
Legal basis. Performance of the contract (Article 6(1)(b) GDPR) and our legal obligations for tax and accounting records (Article 6(1)(c) GDPR).
3.5 Website statistics
On the website tyamka.app, and not in the game, we use Google Tag Manager to load Google Analytics 4 and Microsoft Clarity. Google Analytics counts page views and how visitors arrive (source, device type, country). Clarity shows how visitors use the pages through anonymous session replays, heatmaps and scroll depth; text you type is masked. Google Consent Mode keeps every Google storage switched off until you choose, and Clarity reads the same choice, so it also runs without cookies until you accept. Both providers receive your IP address as part of the connection and process the data under their own terms.
On your first visit to tyamka.app a banner asks whether we may use cookies for site statistics and ads. If you press "Accept", Google Analytics sets the cookies _ga and _ga_<ID> on your device, which keep for up to 2 years, Clarity sets the cookies _clck and _clsk, which link your page views into one session, and Google may use advertising cookies. With your acceptance Clarity may also share usage data with Microsoft Advertising. If you press "Decline", Google tags and Clarity stay without cookies and send only cookieless signals. We keep your choice in the local storage of your browser, and you can change it at any time through the "Cookie settings" link at the bottom of every page.
Legal basis. Your consent for Google Analytics and Clarity cookies and for advertising cookies (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR), which you can withdraw through "Cookie settings". Our legitimate interest in understanding how the website is used and improving it for the cookieless statistics (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR).
3.6 Technical data
To protect the service from abuse, our server counts sign-in requests per Telegram account and keeps that counter for up to one day. We do not store your IP address. Our hosting provider and our database provider process IP addresses and request details in their own technical logs to deliver and secure the service, under their terms.
Legal basis. Our legitimate interest in keeping the service secure (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR).
3.7 Support requests
If you write to us, we use your message and the contact details you used (email address or Telegram account) to answer you, and keep the conversation for up to 12 months after it ends, so that we can follow up on the same question.
Legal basis. Our legitimate interest in answering you (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR), or the contract, when the request is about a purchase.
4. Who else processes your data
| Recipient | What for | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Supabase | our database and server functions, where accounts, purchases, progress, leaderboards and events are stored | European Union, data centre in Ireland; Supabase Inc. is a US company, transfers are covered by the EU Standard Contractual Clauses in its data processing agreement |
| Vercel | hosting the website and the web game | global network with the company in the United States (Vercel Inc.); transfers are covered by the EU Standard Contractual Clauses in its data processing agreement |
| Google Analytics 4 and Google Tag Manager | on the website tyamka.app only, statistics described in section 3.5 | United States and Ireland (Google LLC, Google Ireland Limited); Google LLC takes part in the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework |
| Microsoft Clarity | on the website tyamka.app only, statistics described in section 3.5 | United States (Microsoft Corporation), which takes part in the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework |
| Google AdSense | showing ads on tyamka.app and play.tyamka.app | see section 5 |
| Telegram | running the bot and the Mini App and processing payments in Stars | Telegram processes this data under its own privacy policy |
We use Supabase and Vercel as processors under data processing agreements. Google, Microsoft and Telegram also process data for their own purposes under their own policies. We do not sell or rent your data to anyone.
5. Cookies, local storage and ads
Our own code does not set cookies. We store the random player identifier, your game data and your cookie choice on the website in local storage on your device, as described in sections 3.1, 3.2 and 3.5. Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity on tyamka.app set cookies only after you accept them in the cookie banner (section 3.5).
On tyamka.app and play.tyamka.app we show ads from Google AdSense after some rounds, to players who have not bought anything. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to our website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our sites and/or other sites on the Internet. You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google's Ads Settings at https://www.google.com/settings/ads, or opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalised advertising at https://www.aboutads.info. How Google uses data from sites that use its services is described at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
If you visit from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, a consent message from Google asks for your choice before personalised ads are shown. You can change your choice later through the "Ad privacy settings" link on the Skins screen in the game.
No ads and no advertising cookies are used inside the Telegram Mini App.
6. How long we keep data
| Data | How long |
|---|---|
| game data on your device | until you clear it or delete the app |
| event records | 13 months (395 days) |
| account, progress, best results and leaderboard entries | until you delete the account |
| name for leaderboards, if you turned on showing it | until you turn it off or delete the account |
| purchases of an existing account | until you delete the account |
| purchase records after the account is deleted, without any link to you | 3 years (1095 days) from the purchase |
| copy of the Telegram payment details | 90 days from the purchase |
| request counters per Telegram account | up to 1 day |
| support messages | up to 12 months after the conversation ends |
7. Your rights
Depending on where you live, you have the right to ask for access to your data, a copy of it in a portable format, its correction or deletion, to restrict or object to its processing, and to withdraw consent at any time where processing is based on consent. Where we rely on legitimate interest, you can object and we will stop unless we have a compelling reason. Residents of the EU and the UK have these rights under the GDPR and UK GDPR. Residents of Ukraine have similar rights under the Law of Ukraine "On Personal Data Protection".
To use any of these rights, write to support@tyamka.app or to the Tyamka bot in Telegram. Tell us which channel you play in; if you use Telegram, write from the same Telegram account so we can find your data without asking for anything else. We answer within one month.
Deleting your data
The game does not have a delete button yet. Until it does, send us a deletion request and we will delete your account, progress, results and leaderboard entries and unlink your purchases from you. Please note the following before you ask.
- Items bought with Telegram Stars belong to the account. After the account is deleted they cannot be restored.
- The purchase records remain without any link to you for the period in section 6, because we need them for tax and refund purposes.
- Event records carry only the random identifier from your device. If you send us that identifier (shown as "Player ID" on the Skins screen in the game), we delete its records too.
- Data stored only on your device is removed by clearing the site data or deleting the app.
Complaints
You can complain to the data protection authority of your country. In Ukraine this is the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights (https://ombudsman.gov.ua). We would appreciate the chance to resolve your concern first.
8. Children
Tyamka is made for a general audience and is not directed at children. You may use it only if you are at least 13 years old; inside Telegram, Telegram's own age rules apply as well. If you believe a child under 13 has given us data, write to us and we will delete it.
9. Security
Our database is hosted in the EU, is encrypted at rest by the provider and is accessible only through access rules that let each player read only their own data. Secret keys are kept only on the server.
10. Changes to this policy
When we change this policy we update the date at the top and, for important changes, tell players in the game or in the bot before the change takes effect.
11. Contact
Tyamka, support@tyamka.app, or the Tyamka bot in Telegram.