Privacy Policy

• No sign-up, no email, no password. The App gives each installation a random, anonymous account ID. We never ask for your real name, email address or phone number.
• We do not access your device's location (GPS), contacts, microphone or files. The "locations" in the App are positions on the fictional map of the game, not places in the real world.
• Ads and analytics wait for your choice. Where the law requires consent (for example the EEA, the UK and Switzerland), ads are not personalised and analytics stays off unless you agree. On iPhone and iPad, we only use your device's advertising identifier if you allow tracking.
• Pro subscribers see no ads. Payments are handled by Apple or Google. We never see your card or bank details.
• Photos are only sent when you choose to attach one to a spawn location you submit.
• We do not sell your personal information for money. In some US states, using data for personalised ads can count as "selling" or "sharing"; you can opt out (see Section 8).
• You can ask us to delete your data at any time (see Section 14).

The App is operated by:

For the purposes of the EU and UK General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR"), India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 ("DPDP Act") and similar laws, we are the controller (or "data fiduciary") of the personal data described in this policy, except where a third-party provider acts as an independent controller of data it collects through its own software (see Section 11).

The App has no sign-in screen. The first time you open it, our authentication provider (Google Firebase Authentication) silently creates an anonymous account for that installation and gives it a random account ID. That ID is what connects your installation to anything stored on our servers, such as spawn locations you submit or, for Pro subscribers, your backed-up pins.

• The first 8 characters of your account ID are shown in the App under Profile → Settings → Account. You will need them if you ask us to access or delete your data.
• Because the account is anonymous, deleting the App or moving to a new phone creates a new account. Pro subscribers can use Restore purchases to carry their subscription, pins and saved locations across to the new account. To do this, we ask our subscription provider (RevenueCat) which earlier account bought the subscription, and we move that account's data to the new one. We keep a record of the earlier account IDs so a transfer can be checked or undone.
• If two people share one Apple ID or Google account, a restore on one person's device can move the other person's pins to it. Please avoid sharing a store account if this matters to you.

4.1 Information you give us

Please do not include personal information (yours or anyone else's) in pin labels, notes, submissions, feature requests or reports - apart from the optional email field on a feature request, which is there for exactly that.

4.2 Information collected automatically

Note on photo metadata. Photos can carry hidden information ("EXIF metadata") such as the date, the camera model and - if your camera is set to record it - the GPS location where the photo was taken. On iPhone and iPad, the App re-saves the photo before uploading it, which removes this information. On Android, some of it, including any GPS location, can remain in the uploaded file. We do not read or use photo metadata. For your privacy, we recommend attaching in-game screenshots rather than camera photos, or turning off location tagging in your camera settings.

4.3 Information stored only on your device

The App keeps the following in its own storage on your device and does not send it to us unless described above: your preferences, pins (free plan), saved items, ad unlocks (each lasts 12 hours), a cache of the game catalog, and a copy of the game map for offline use. When you share an item, the share image is created on your device and sent through your device's own share sheet; we do not see who you share it with.

The App does not:

• ask for or collect your real name, email address, phone number, postal address, date of birth or government ID;
• access your device's precise or approximate location (GPS or location services);
• access your contacts, calendar, microphone, messages, call logs, health or fitness data, or browsing history;
• scan, browse or upload your photo library - it only receives the single photo you pick;
• read your clipboard (it only writes to it when you tap Copy);
• collect payment card or bank details;
• collect sensitive personal data such as racial or ethnic origin, religious beliefs, health, sexual orientation or biometric data; or
• collect the Android Settings ID (SSAID) through Google Analytics - we have switched that off.

The App asks for a permission only at the moment it is needed, and every permission is optional. If you refuse, the rest of the App keeps working.

The App does not request microphone access.

We use information to:

1. 1Provide the App - show the map, catalog, cheats and your own pins and lists; unlock item details after a rewarded ad; download and store the map for offline use.
2. 2Run Pro - confirm your subscription, remove ads, unlock Pro features, back up your pins and lists, and restore them on a new device.
3. 3Run the community map - review your submissions, publish approved spawn locations, and act on reports and feature requests.
4. 4Show ads to free users and measure them (see Section 8).
5. 5Understand and improve the App through analytics, where permitted (see Section 9).
6. 6Keep the App safe - detect and prevent fraud, spam, abuse, invalid ad traffic and attacks; apply rate limits; enforce our Terms of Service.
7. 7Keep the App working - find and fix crashes and errors from crash reports, and require an update when an old version can no longer work correctly.
8. 8Communicate with you - reply to your emails.
9. 9Meet legal obligations - for example tax and accounting records, responding to lawful requests, and handling copyright notices.

We do not use your information for automated decisions that have legal or similarly significant effects on you.

Legal bases (EEA, UK and Switzerland)

You can withdraw consent at any time (see Section 14). Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that took place before.

Free users can unlock an item's full details by watching a rewarded video ad. Pro subscribers are not shown ads, and the App does not request ads for them.

• Who shows the ads. Ads are served by Google AdMob. AdMob runs an auction in which Meta Audience Network (Meta Platforms) may also bid to fill the ad. These companies receive your advertising identifier (if available), your IP address, device information and ad-interaction data directly from their software in the App, and use it under their own privacy policies.
• Information stored on your device. To serve and measure ads, these third parties may store and read information on your device - such as identifiers and settings kept by their software, which work like cookies on a website - and may use your device's advertising identifier. Where the law requires it, they do this only with your consent (see below). Their privacy policies: Google: https://policies.google.com/privacy and https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites; Meta Audience Network: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy and https://www.facebook.com/ads/about
• Consent. In the EEA, the UK, Switzerland and other places where the law requires it, a consent form from Google's User Messaging Platform appears after the welcome tour, before any ad is requested. You choose whether ads may be personalised and whether information may be stored on your device. In US states with privacy laws that require it, the same tool lets you opt out of the "sale" or "sharing" of personal information for targeted advertising.
• iPhone and iPad tracking. If you have not refused device storage on the consent form, iOS asks whether you allow the App to track you. Your answer only changes how relevant the ads are; it does not change what you can unlock. You can change it at any time in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking.
• Android. You can delete or reset your advertising ID in Settings → Privacy → Ads (or Settings → Google → Ads, depending on your device).
• Limited Data Use. We turn on Meta's "Limited Data Use" option, so Meta applies the restrictions required by US state privacy laws to users in those states.
• If you use Facebook or Instagram. Meta may recognise that you use its products and use information it already holds about you to choose the ads it shows you in the App. You can control this in Meta's ad preferences: https://www.facebook.com/adpreferences.
• Google's ad controls. You can see and change how Google personalises ads for you at https://myadcenter.google.com.
• Ad fraud. AdMob and Meta use device and interaction data to detect invalid traffic. Deliberately generating false ad views or clicks breaks our Terms of Service.

We do not choose or control the content of individual ads. If you see an ad you think is inappropriate, please tell us at [email protected].

We use Google Analytics for Firebase to understand how the App is used. Collection is switched off when the App is installed and turns on only as follows:

What we record is listed in Section 4.2. Once Analytics is on, it also reads your device's advertising identifier (on iPhone and iPad only if you allow tracking), and Google uses your IP address to work out your approximate location. Analytics data is linked to a separate app-instance ID - we do not send your account ID to Analytics. We do not send your display name, pin labels or notes, feature requests, coordinates, or anything else you type to Analytics - the only exception is search words typed into the App's search boxes, which are searches for game content. Google's policy on how it uses data from apps that use its services: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

VI6 Pro is sold as an auto-renewing subscription through the Apple App Store or Google Play. Your payment is processed entirely by Apple or Google under their terms and privacy policies; we never receive your card or bank details, billing address, or store account email.

We use RevenueCat (RevenueCat, Inc.) to manage subscriptions. RevenueCat receives your anonymous account ID, store purchase receipts and transaction IDs, the products you bought, purchase and renewal dates, your country or storefront, device and app information, and IP address, and tells our servers whether you are entitled to Pro. RevenueCat's privacy policy: https://www.revenuecat.com/privacy.

We do not sell personal information for money, and we do not share it with data brokers. We share information only as described here.

11.1 Service providers and partners

Service providers may use the information only to provide their service to us, except where a provider (such as Google or Meta for advertising) acts as an independent controller of information collected through its own software, in which case its own privacy policy also applies. We choose providers that commit to protecting personal data to a standard at least as high as this policy.

11.2 Other sharing

We may also disclose information:

• If the law requires it, or in response to a valid legal request from a public authority;
• To protect rights and safety - to enforce our Terms, investigate fraud or abuse, or protect the rights, property or safety of our users, the public or us;
• In a business transfer - if the App is sold, merged or transferred, the information may move to the new owner, who will remain bound by this policy or tell you about any change; and
• With your permission, or at your direction.

• Spawn location submissions are reviewed by us before anything is published. If we approve a submission, its position, details, notes and photo may appear on the community map for all users, and may be edited by us. Your account ID and display name are never shown with it.
• Feature requests, reports, display names, pins, saved items and your collection are private. Only you (in the App) and we (in our admin tools) can see them.
• Anything you share using the App's Share buttons goes to whoever you choose, through your device's share sheet.

We keep personal information only for as long as we need it for the purposes in this policy, then delete or anonymise it.

We may keep information for longer where the law requires it, or to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

In the App

• Ad and analytics consent: Profile → Settings → Ad privacy choices (shown wherever the consent form applies) lets you change or withdraw your choices at any time. Withdrawing consent switches analytics off straight away.
• Tracking (iOS): iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking.
• Advertising ID (Android): Settings → Privacy → Ads, or Settings → Google → Ads.
• Photos and camera: you can withdraw access in your device's settings at any time.
• Your content: delete individual pins, saved items and collection entries in the App; Settings → Clear everything saved clears your saved list.
• No ads at all: subscribe to Pro.
• Stop all collection: uninstall the App. This deletes everything stored on your device but does not delete data stored on our servers - see below.

Deleting your account and data

Because there is no sign-in, we cannot verify you by email or password. To ask us to delete the data linked to your account:

1. 1Open the App and go to Profile → Settings → Account, and note the account code shown (for example "Account 1a2b3c4d").
2. 2Email [email protected] with the subject "Delete my VI6 data" and include that code. If you are a Pro subscriber, also include a store receipt or order ID for your subscription - this helps us find data left by earlier installations.
3. 3We confirm and complete the deletion within 30 days, and tell you when it is done.

We will delete your anonymous account, your display name, game preferences stored with your account, backed-up pins, saved locations and collection, and your feature requests, reports and pending submissions, and we will delete or permanently separate approved submissions from your account ID. We may keep limited information where the law requires it (for example subscription and tax records). If you have already uninstalled the App, email us anyway with any details you have (such as a store receipt) and we will do our best to find your data.

Deleting your data does not cancel a subscription. Cancel it in your Apple or Google account settings (see our Terms of Service).

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:

• access the personal information we hold about you and receive a copy;
• correct inaccurate information;
• delete your information;
• object to or restrict certain processing, including processing based on legitimate interests;
• data portability - receive your information in a commonly used, machine-readable format;
• withdraw consent at any time;
• opt out of the "sale" or "sharing" of personal information, and of targeted advertising; and
• complain to a data protection authority.

To use any of these rights, email [email protected] with your account code (see Section 14). We will reply within the time the law requires - usually within 30 days (45 days in US states with such laws). We will not treat you differently for using your rights. If we cannot verify that the data is yours, we may ask for more information or be unable to act on the request.

EEA, UK and Switzerland

You have all the GDPR rights above. You can complain to your local data protection authority - in the EU: https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/about-edpb/members_en; in the UK: the Information Commissioner's Office, https://ico.org.uk; in Switzerland: the FDPIC, https://www.edoeb.admin.ch.

United States (California and other states with privacy laws)

This section applies to residents of California and other US states with consumer privacy laws (including Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Virginia).

In the last 12 months we have collected the following categories of personal information:

We do not collect sensitive personal information as defined by California law. Sources: you, your device, and our service providers and partners. Purposes: those in Section 7. Retention: Section 13.

Opting out of sale, sharing and targeted advertising: use Profile → Settings → Ad privacy choices in the App (shown in states where it applies), turn off tracking on iOS, delete your advertising ID on Android, or email us. You may use an authorised agent to make a request; we may ask for proof of their authority. If we deny a request, you may appeal by replying to our decision; if we deny your appeal, you may contact your state Attorney General.

We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of consumers under 16.

India

Under the DPDP Act you may access, correct, complete, update and erase your personal data, withdraw consent, nominate another person to exercise your rights, and seek redress for grievances. Grievance contact: [email protected]. If your grievance is not resolved, you may complain to the Data Protection Board of India.

Brazil, Canada, Australia and elsewhere

You may have similar rights under laws such as Brazil's LGPD, Canada's PIPEDA and Australia's Privacy Act. Email us and we will respond as your local law requires.

Children

The App is about a video game rated for mature audiences and is intended only for people aged 16 and over - 18 and over in India, or older where the age rating your app store shows for the App is higher (see our Terms of Service). It is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 16 (or under 18 in India). If you believe someone below these ages has given us personal information, email [email protected] and we will delete it.

Security

We protect information with measures that include encrypted connections (HTTPS/TLS) for all traffic, signed access tokens on every request to our servers, strict server-side access rules, limited administrator access, keeping payment processing with Apple and Google, and checks on uploaded files. No system is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security. If a data breach affects you, we will notify you and the authorities where the law requires.

International transfers

We and our providers process information in the United States, the European Union and other countries, which may have different data protection laws from yours. Where the GDPR or similar laws apply, we rely on safeguards such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses, the UK International Data Transfer Addendum, the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (where the provider is certified) or adequacy decisions.

Links to other sites

The App links to other websites, such as official Rockstar Games pages and the sources behind catalog entries. Their own privacy policies apply, and we are not responsible for them.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy, for example when the App or the law changes. We will change the "Last updated" date above and, for significant changes, tell you in the App or the store listing before they take effect. Where the law requires your consent to a change, we will ask for it.

Please include your account code (from Profile → Settings → Account) in any privacy request. We aim to reply within 7 days, and always within the time limit set by law.