# Privacy Policy for MyVerse
**Last Updated:** August 31, 2026
**MyVerse** ("Application", "we", "our", or "us"), developed by **Yusuf Osman ERÇELİK**, is committed to protecting your privacy and personal data. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, store, share, and protect your information when you use the MyVerse mobile application, available on Android and iOS platforms.
By downloading, accessing, or using MyVerse, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We comply with applicable international data protection standards, including the **General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)**, **California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)**, and the Turkish **KVKK** (Law on Protection of Personal Data No. 6698).
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## 1. Information We Collect
MyVerse is a cultural tracking and social journaling application designed to help users track, rate, review, and share their consumption of games, movies, TV series, and books. To provide these services, we collect the following categories of data:
### A. Personal and Account Information
* **Email Address:** Required for account creation, authentication, password recovery, and security notices.
* **Display Name and Username:** Used to identify your profile within the MyVerse community and enable search functionality.
* **Profile Picture & Bio (Optional):** Provided voluntarily by you to customize your public profile.
* **Google Sign-In Data:** When you choose to authenticate using Google Sign-In, we receive your basic public profile information (such as your name, verified email address, and profile picture URL) provided by Google LLC.
### B. User Content and Activity Data
* **Cultural Library Logs:** Items you add to your library across all categories (Games, Movies, Series, Books), including status (e.g., *Want to*, *In Progress*, *Completed*, *Dropped*), star/numerical ratings (1–10 scale), written reviews, playtime in hours, seasons/episodes watched, and reading progress.
* **Custom Collections & Lists:** Custom themed lists created by you, including titles, descriptions, and curated items.
* **Social Activity:** Posts published to the feed, likes, comments, author replies to comments, and follower/following relationships.
### C. Technical, Device, and Diagnostic Data
* **Device Information:** Operating system version (Android / iOS), device model, app version, and language preferences.
* **Crash & Performance Diagnostics:** Automated error logs and performance metrics provided by Google Firebase to help diagnose crashes and maintain application stability.
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## 2. How We Use Your Information
We process your information for the following legitimate purposes:
1. **Provide and Maintain the Service:** To create, authenticate, and manage your account and deliver your personalized cultural library.
2. **Analytics and Insights:** To compute cultural metrics and statistics (e.g., total playtime, completion counts, rating distributions, and category breakdowns).
3. **Social and Community Features:** To power social feeds (Following & Global), display community reviews on media detail pages, and enable interactions (likes, comments, author replies).
4. **In-App Notifications:** To notify you in real-time when another user likes your post, comments on your review, replies to your comment, or follows your profile.
5. **Security and App Optimization:** To detect, prevent, and address technical issues, security vulnerabilities, or violations of our terms.
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## 3. Third-Party Services and Infrastructure
We use industry-standard, secure third-party services to operate MyVerse:
### A. Google Firebase (Google LLC)
* **Firebase Authentication:** Handles secure user login, password management, and OAuth token validation.
* **Cloud Firestore:** A secure, encrypted NoSQL database used to store user profiles, library items, collections, social posts, and notifications.
* **Firebase Cloud Storage:** Secure cloud storage for uploaded user avatars and images.
### B. Cultural Metadata Providers (Public APIs)
To provide cover art, descriptions, release years, and media details, the application queries public metadata APIs:
* **The Movie Database (TMDB)** – Movie & TV Series metadata.
* **RAWG / IGDB** – Video Game metadata.
* **Google Books & Open Library** – Book metadata.
*(Note: These metadata API queries are strictly anonymous and do not transmit any personal user information to these third parties).*
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## 4. Data Sharing and Disclosure
* **We Never Sell Your Data:** MyVerse **does not sell, rent, trade, or monetize** your personal data to advertisers, data brokers, or any third parties.
* **Public Profile and Content:** Content you choose to make public (such as your public profile, ratings, reviews, feed posts, comments, and public collections) will be visible to other MyVerse users.
* **Legal Requirements:** We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or government agency).
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## 5. Data Retention and Security
* **Security:** Your data is protected using industry-standard security measures, including SSL/TLS encryption in transit and encrypted data storage provided by Google Cloud and Firebase Security Rules.
* **Retention:** We retain your personal data for as long as your MyVerse account remains active.
* **Account and Data Deletion:** You have the right to request the permanent deletion of your account and all associated data at any time through the in-app Settings or by contacting us directly. Upon account deletion, all personal data, reviews, lists, and images are permanently purged from our databases.
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## 6. Your Rights and Choices (GDPR & CCPA Compliance)
Depending on your jurisdiction, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:
* **Right of Access:** You can request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
* **Right to Rectification:** You can update or correct your profile information directly within the app at any time.
* **Right to Erasure (Right to Be Forgotten):** You can request the complete deletion of your account and data.
* **Right to Restrict or Object to Processing:** You may object to or restrict certain types of data processing.
* **Right to Data Portability:** You may request to receive your library data in a structured, machine-readable format.
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## 7. Children's Privacy
MyVerse is not directed to children under the age of 13 (or 16 in certain European jurisdictions). We do not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and become aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us immediately so we can take steps to remove such information.
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## 8. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or applicable laws. Any updates will be posted on this page with an updated "Last Updated" date. Continued use of the application following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.
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## 9. Contact Information
If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or your personal data, please contact us at:
* **Developer / Data Controller:** Yusuf Osman ERÇELİK
* **Application:** MyVerse
* **Email:** yusufisulasim@gmail.com