Privacy Policy
This policy describes how Pokeka Tracker ("we", "the operator") handles your information in our iOS app, website (web.pokeka.app) and LINE MINI App (together, "the Service").
1. Operator
The Service is operated by Pokeka Tracker. We will disclose the operator's name and address without delay on request to the contact address below.
2. Information We Collect
Account information
The iOS app can be used without an account; an anonymous user ID is created automatically. If you sign in with Apple, Google or an email address, we store the identifier needed to sign you in, your email address and, if the service provides it, your name. If you choose Apple's "Hide My Email", we store Apple's relay address.
LINE information (LINE MINI App)
If you log in with LINE in the LINE MINI App, we receive your LINE user identifier (user ID) from LY Corporation and store it to link LINE to your account. We do not store your LINE display name or profile image, and we do not obtain your chats or friend list.
Data you add
We store the data you enter, such as your collection (products, purchase prices, purchase dates, quantities), sales records, watchlist, price alerts and lottery entries and results. Only you can use this data; it is not visible to other users.
Approximate location
Only when you turn on nearby lottery notifications or "Use current location", we store an approximate location rounded to about 10 km, on our servers or in a cookie on your device. We do not store your exact location or movement history. In the iOS app, your device's location may be sent to Apple's map service to look up the name of your area.
Search keywords
Keywords you enter in product search are sent with your user ID to our search provider (Algolia) and are used to show and improve results and to count searches on the free plan.
Lottery result statistics
When you record a lottery win or loss, the result is used, without identifying you, to compute win rates. You can turn this sharing off in settings.
Purchases
We store the status of your Pokeka Pro purchase (plan, expiry, transaction ID, payment-provider customer ID and similar). Apple processes payments in the iOS app and Stripe processes payments on the website; we do not store card numbers or other payment details.
Reports and feedback
We store reports you send (for example, about a wrong price), survey answers and the content of your inquiries.
Device and usage information
We collect a device token for push notifications (Firebase Cloud Messaging), app usage (Firebase Analytics), diagnostics when the app crashes (Firebase Crashlytics) and checks that requests come from our genuine app (Firebase App Check). Usage and diagnostics include your device type, OS and app version, language and an approximate region estimated from your IP address, and are recorded with your user ID. The website uses cookies to keep you signed in (up to 400 days, removed when you log out) and to remember settings such as theme, currency and search options.
3. Information We Do Not Collect
- Contacts
- Photos or media (card scanning processes the camera image on your device; images are not sent)
- Precise location
- Advertising identifier (IDFA)
- LINE chats or friend list
4. How We Use Information
We use the information to:
- Provide the Service (collection tracking, price alerts, lottery information, product search and more)
- Authenticate your account and link it to LINE
- Send push notifications
- Provide the paid plan and check purchase status
- Prevent abuse
- Investigate problems and improve the Service
- Respond to inquiries
- Send important notices and surveys about the Service
- Create statistics that do not identify you (such as lottery win rates)
We do not use your information to serve ads.
5. Sharing With Third Parties
We do not provide your personal information to third parties except:
- With your consent
- When required by law
- When we entrust handling to the providers listed in "6. External Services", to the extent needed for their work
Sharing in the LINE MINI App
When you use the Service as a LINE MINI App and agree on LINE's consent screen, information obtained through the LINE MINI App is provided to LY Corporation as follows.
- Recipient: LY Corporation
- Information provided: content sent to and from the LINE MINI App (messages, URLs, images and similar) with its format, count and time; your IP address, identifiers, time and frequency of use, taps and clicks on links, browsing history in LINE's in-app browser and other usage history
- When: from the time you agree on LINE's consent screen, each time you use the LINE MINI App
- LY Corporation's purposes: preventing abuse, providing, developing and improving services, and providing optimized services including the display of ads
For how LY Corporation handles this information, see the LY Corporation Privacy Policy.
6. External Services
The Service uses the following external services and entrusts each provider with information to the extent needed for the feature.
- Firebase and Google Cloud (Google LLC): authentication, data storage and processing, push notifications, usage analytics, crash diagnostics, abuse protection (App Check, reCAPTCHA)
- Google (Google LLC): Sign in with Google, website usage analytics (Google Analytics)
- Algolia (Algolia, Inc.): product search
- Cloudflare (Cloudflare, Inc.): website delivery, website analytics
- Stripe (Stripe, Inc.): payments on the website
- Apple (Apple Inc.): Sign in with Apple, App Store purchases, map and place-name lookup
- LINE (LY Corporation): LINE MINI App, Log in with LINE
- Slack (Slack Technologies, LLC): internal notifications to the operator (such as reports and purchases), including your user ID
Providers outside Japan
Your data is stored mainly on servers in Japan (Tokyo), but Google, Algolia, Cloudflare, Stripe, Apple and Slack also handle information outside Japan, mainly in the United States. Through their data processing terms and similar contracts, these providers maintain systems that meet the standards of Japan's Act on the Protection of Personal Information. We take the measures needed to keep their handling appropriate and will tell you about these measures on request. For information on personal data protection systems in other countries, see the Personal Information Protection Commission of Japan (in Japanese).
7. Data Storage and Security
Your data is protected so that only you, once signed in, can read and change it. All connections are encrypted with SSL/TLS. On our side, access to data is limited to the services and permissions that need it, and we take measures against abuse.
8. Data Deletion and Retention
You can delete your account at any time from the settings screen in the iOS app, or from the account page on the website and in the LINE MINI App. Deletion removes your collection, sales records, watchlist, price alerts, lottery records, LINE link, the link between your purchases and your account, your payment-provider customer record and your sign-in credentials from our servers.
Reports, survey answers and purchase records are kept for accounting and statistics with your user ID removed. Payment records held by Apple and Stripe are handled under their own policies.
Other information is deleted after the periods below, even if you delete your account earlier:
- Server logs: 30 days
- Crash diagnostics (Firebase Crashlytics): 90 days
Usage analytics (Google Analytics) are kept without a fixed end date, for statistics and to improve the Service. They are linked to your user ID but do not include your name or email address, and they are not deleted when you delete your account.
9. Children's Privacy
The Service is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
10. Website Analytics
When you visit pokeka.app, we count page views without cookies or local storage. Each view records the page, the referring site, your country, device type and network provider, and an anonymous visitor ID that changes every day and every month. The ID is a one-way hash of your IP address and browser, so neither can be recovered from it, and IP addresses are not stored. This data is processed on Cloudflare, our hosting provider, and is used only to understand how many people visit the site.
On web.pokeka.app, our server sends page views and feature usage to Google Analytics without cookies: linked to your user ID while you are signed in, and to an anonymous ID that changes every day when you are not.
11. Policy Changes
We may update this policy as needed. Significant changes will be announced on this page.
12. Contact
For privacy questions; requests to be told the purpose of use, or to disclose, correct, add to, delete or stop using or sharing your personal data; or complaints, contact us at the address below. After confirming your identity, we will respond without delay and free of charge.