Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Effective date: September 18, 2026. Kuzhi 1 is a digital version of Pallankuzhi, the traditional South Indian board game. This page explains what information the app processes, where it is stored, and how it is used.

1. No account, no sign-up

Kuzhi 1 does not ask you to create an account, sign in, or provide your name, email, or phone number to play — offline against the computer, in local pass-and-play, or online with friends.

2. What the app stores on your device

  • Game settings — coin style, sound, music, haptics, animation speed, and the four-seed capture preference.
  • Player names you type in for local games (free-text, not linked to any account).
  • Your win/loss statistics, captures, and rounds played, kept locally on your device.
  • A randomly generated, anonymous device identifier (not your name, email, or any personal information) used only to tell your device apart from an opponent's inside a shared online game.

None of this data is linked to your identity, and none of it leaves your device except as described in Section 3 for online play.

3. Online play

If you choose "Online," the app creates a room identified by a short room code and sends the game's live state — pit contents, captures, and turn order, plus the display name you typed in — to our backend (Supabase) so it can be shared in real time with whoever you send that room code to. Anyone with a valid room code can read and write that room's game state; this is an intentional trade-off for a simple, no-signup way to play with friends, not a public matchmaking or chat feature. There is no in-game chat and no way to enter free text other than your display name and a room code.

Rooms that are abandoned or finished are automatically deleted from our backend after a short retention period.

4. Sound and haptics

Kuzhi 1 plays sound effects and, on supported devices, uses haptic feedback for sowing and captures. These run entirely on-device and do not involve your microphone, camera, or any recording — Kuzhi 1 does not record or transmit audio.

5. No ads, no analytics, no tracking

Kuzhi 1 contains no advertising SDKs, no third-party analytics or crash-reporting tools, and does not track you across other apps or websites.

6. Third-party service providers

Online play is powered by Supabase, which stores the shared game-room data described in Section 3 on our behalf. We do not share data with any other third party.

7. Children's privacy

Kuzhi 1 does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children. The app has no account creation, no user profiles, and no way to enter personal information beyond an optional display name.

8. Your choices

  • Deleting the app removes all locally stored settings, statistics, and preferences from your device.
  • Leaving an online game removes that room's data from our backend once it's finished or abandoned.
  • You can contact us at any time to request deletion of a specific online room's data.

9. Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, we'll update the effective date above and, for material changes, note them here.

10. Contact

For privacy questions or data-deletion requests, email support@udo-apps.com or visit udo-apps.com/kuzhi1.