Privacy Policy — Higher or Lower Israel (יותר או פחות – ישראל)

Last updated: 2026-10-30

Higher or Lower Israel is made by Magmanet. In short: your scores stay on your device, unless you choose to join the online leaderboard. The app also sends anonymous usage statistics, which you can turn off.

What we collect

By default, only anonymous usage statistics (see below). The game has no sign-up, no advertising and no tracking. We never sell or share your data. The other exception is the optional online leaderboard (below): if, and only if, you join it, the nickname, city and daily results you choose to publish are sent to the Magmanet leaderboard server.

Where your data is stored

Your best streaks and stats, daily-challenge results and times, chosen categories and settings are saved only on your device, in the app's private storage. Uninstalling the app removes them. The facts used by the game are built into the app.

Sharing

When you tap "Share", the app builds a short text (your score, coloured squares, for the daily challenge your time and day streak, and a link to the game – no answers) and opens your phone's share sheet; it is also copied to the clipboard. It goes only where you choose. Magmanet never receives it. The Copy backup feature copies your data as text to your clipboard; where you paste it is up to you.

Online leaderboard (optional, off until you join)

The daily challenge has a public leaderboard (in your city, your region, Israel and the world; today and this week). The first time you open it, the app asks whether you want to take part. If you choose "Not now", nothing is ever sent to the leaderboard.

If you join:

• What is sent: a nickname you pick, the city you pick from a list (outside Israel: the country you pick), the district of that city, and for each daily challenge you finish on its day: the number of right answers and the time it took. To check results are plausible, the challenge number and which pairs were right are sent too. Endless games and older days' challenges are never sent.
• What is not sent: no email, phone number, real name, contacts, GPS or network location, advertising or device identifiers. The account is anonymous: the server creates a random user id and access tokens, stored on your phone. A random number made at install time (not a device identifier) is sent once when the account is created, so the server can limit abuse.
• Who sees it: your nickname, city and results appear in the public tables, for every player of the app.
• Where it goes: the Magmanet leaderboard server, hosted in the European Union (Contabo), over HTTPS. It is not sent to Google or any other third party, and it is not used for advertising or profiling.
• How long: until you delete it.
• Change or delete: Settings → Leaderboards lets you change your nickname or city, stop sending results, or Delete my leaderboard data, which deletes your account, profile and results from the server at once. Uninstalling the app does not delete online data, so delete it in the app first, or contact us (below) with your nickname.

Internet use

• Update check: once a day the app asks the Magmanet server whether a newer version exists. The request carries only the app name, its version and how it was installed. If the server is unavailable, the app reads the public version file from GitHub Pages (GitHub may see your IP address). You can turn this off in Settings.
• Anonymous usage statistics: see below.
• Leaderboard: only if you join it (above).

Anonymous usage statistics

Higher or Lower Israel sends anonymous usage statistics over HTTPS (a short daily ping, plus batched usage events) to Magmanet's own server in the EU (Contabo). They include the app name and version, Android version, phone manufacturer and model, language, how the app was installed, a random install ID, and which screens and features are used (for example "daily challenge finished" with its score, or the length of an endless streak). The ID is hashed on the server, no IP address is stored, and raw data is deleted after 400 days. The data is never used for ads and never sold or shared.

It's on by default. You can turn it off in Settings ("Share anonymous usage statistics"); doing so stops sending and deletes the random ID and any unsent events.

Permissions

• Internet: for the update check, anonymous statistics and the optional leaderboard.

No location, camera, microphone, contacts, notifications or storage permissions are requested.

Children

Higher or Lower Israel is not directed at children under 13.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, we'll update the date above. Questions: https://github.com/Shauls/magmanet-apps/issues