Privacy policy

Last updated 19 September 2026 · Applies to the Manaforge app for iPhone and Android, and to this website.

Who we are

Manaforge makes the app this policy covers and runs this website. For anything about your privacy, write to support@manaforge.co.

What stays on your phone

When you use the app, it keeps a few things on your phone, and only there:

• Your ten most recent results — which quiz, when you took it, how many questions it asked and what you scored. The questions themselves, and the answers you gave, are counted into the tallies below and then let go.
• A daily tally for the last 30 days — how many quizzes you took each day, your average, best and worst, by subject, track and vendor, and how many questions in each category you got right. Anything older is deleted for good, and once a result leaves the recent ten, nothing finer than a day's tally remains of it.
• The quiz you saved — or, ad-free, the quizzes — in full, so you can take it without a connection. The few you opened most recently are kept as one line each — the title, and what a search result shows — not as the quiz.
• Whether you went ad-free (see Purchases), so ads stay off from the first screen.
• Housekeeping — your colour-scheme and text-size choices, your answer to the iPhone tracking prompt — and, kept on the phone by Google's software, your answer to its consent message — when the last Stats ad played, and which version of the terms and this policy you agreed to, and when.

None of this is uploaded to us, synced by us, or seen by us. Deleting the app deletes all of it. Your phone's own backup (iCloud or Google) may include the app's data, as it does for any app — that is between you and Apple or Google.

Backups you make

Stats has a Backup button. It packs everything above into one file and offers it three ways: attached to a new email, attached to a new text message, or through your phone's share sheet — and you choose where it goes: a cloud drive, another phone, AirDrop. We never receive it, and wherever you send it is covered by that service's own policy. The file is sealed so that the app notices if a byte of it changes and other apps cannot casually read it — but it is not protected by a password: anyone with the file and the app can restore it, so treat it like any file that holds your results. Restoring replaces what is on that phone with what the file holds; the app asks first.

What reaches our server

The app fetches quizzes from our service. When you search, it sends the words you typed; when you open a quiz, its name. Like every request on the internet, these arrive with your IP address and the standard technical details a request carries. We use them only to answer you and to enforce fair-use limits, and we keep none of it: no request logs, no record of who asked for what, no accounts, no cookies, no identifiers of any kind. Once a quiz is on your phone, taking it needs no connection at all.

Our service runs on cloud infrastructure in the United States. The companies that provide it see the same connection details any host on the internet sees and handle them under their own policies; a request from elsewhere in the world is processed there.

This website is served the same way. It sets no cookies, loads nothing from anyone else, and keeps no record of your visit beyond what is described above.

Ads

Unless you have gone ad-free, the app shows ads from Google AdMob, a service of Google LLC. There are two places for them, and only two: a short ad before Stats opens, at most once every 20 minutes, and an ad before a quiz starts, which you can decline with “Go back”. Nothing is ever shown on the start screen, in search, or beside a question. If an ad cannot load, or you are offline, the app simply carries on.

Whether an ad is chosen for you or for everyone turns on what you have allowed. Wherever the law where you live asks for your consent — the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, and the US states with a privacy law — Google's consent message appears once, before the first ad, and asks; what you answer there is what the ads follow, and until you have answered it the app asks Google for no ad at all. Everywhere you have not allowed an ad chosen for you, the app asks Google for non-personalised ads — chosen from context, not from a profile of you. To serve an ad of either kind, Google's software inside the app receives your IP address and a coarse location derived from it, details about your phone and the app, and how you interact with the ad — whether you closed it or watched it through — and may use your phone's advertising identifier to avoid repeating ads and to detect fraud. Where you have allowed tracking, Google also uses that identifier to choose ads for you from what it knows about you elsewhere. Google describes what it collects and how it uses it in its privacy policy and in how Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.

On iPhone, the app asks once, before the first ad, whether it may track you across other companies' apps and websites. Allow it, and Google may use your advertising identifier to choose ads for you — where the consent message applies to you, only if you allowed that there as well; decline, and every ad stays non-personalised, Google cannot read the identifier, and ads may repeat more often. The app reads your current answer each time it opens, so you can change it at any time under Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking. Apple's SKAdNetwork lets advertisers measure installs without identifying you. On Android, the phone has no tracking prompt of its own. Where the consent message applies to you, your answer there decides. Elsewhere your phone's own ads setting does: opt out of ads personalisation, or delete the advertising identifier, in your phone's Google settings under Ads, and every ad is non-personalised; otherwise Google may use the identifier to choose ads for you. The app declares the advertising-ID permission Google's ads library requires, for the repeat-avoidance and fraud checks above. Changing your mind. Where the consent message applied to you, the app's Settings has an Ads section with the way back to your choices, and the next ad follows the new answer; the tracking prompt and the ads setting are your phone's own, as described above.

Going ad-free removes ads entirely: the app then never starts Google's ad software at all.

Purchases

Going ad-free — the one-off purchase that turns ads off, described in the terms — is bought through the App Store or Google Play. The store takes your payment and holds your receipt; we never see your name, your card or your address. The app keeps one thing on your phone: whether you own it, so ads stay off from the first screen. At every launch, and when you tap Restore purchases, the app asks the store what you own, a request that goes to Apple or Google under their own terms (Apple, Google); a refund takes it away again.

Sources you open

Some questions cite a source. Tap a citation and the page opens in a browser sheet inside the app — Safari on iPhone, a Chrome tab on Android. The website you open sees your visit like any other visit and applies its own policy; we do not record which pages you open. Only pages on the sites the app allows can be opened this way.

Permissions

The app uses the internet to fetch quizzes and ads. On iPhone it asks the tracking permission described above; on Android it declares the advertising-ID permission. Your mail app, your messaging app, the share sheet and the file picker appear only when you save or restore a backup, and only for that one file; the app reads no contacts and sends nothing on its own. The app does not ask for your location, contacts, photos, camera, microphone or notifications.

What we do not do

• No accounts, sign-in or profiles.
• No analytics or crash-reporting libraries, and no tracking of our own. The one piece of third-party software in the app that learns anything about you is Google's ad software, described under Ads.
• No selling, renting or trading of personal data, and no data brokers.
• No mailing lists: the only email is the one you send us.

If any of this changes, this policy changes first.

Children

The app's quizzes are study material for certifications, licences and school and college subjects; it is not directed at children under 13, or under 16 in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children; the app collects none from anyone. If you believe a child has sent us something, write to support@manaforge.co and we will delete it.

Your rights and choices

• Everything the app holds is on your phone: delete the app to delete it, or restore a backup to replace it.
• Ads: go ad-free; change your answer to Google's consent message under Ads in the app's Settings, where it applied to you; or manage the tracking permission and the advertising identifier in your phone's settings, as described under Ads.
• If you live in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland or another place with data-protection law, you may have the right to access, correct, delete, restrict or export personal data about you, to object to its processing, and to complain to a supervisory authority. Because we hold no personal data about you, there is usually nothing to find, but write to us and we will answer. Where a legal basis is needed: our legitimate interest in answering your requests and protecting the service from abuse, and your consent, given through Google's consent message and, on iPhone, your phone's tracking prompt, for the advertising identifier — which you can withdraw as described under Ads.
• If you live in California or another US state with a privacy law: we do not sell your personal information. Where Google may use your advertising identifier to choose ads for you — on iPhone if you allow tracking, on Android unless you have opted out in your phone's Google settings — your state's law may count that as sharing for cross-context behavioural advertising. Decline the prompt, opt out in your phone's settings, or, where Google's consent message applies in your state, say so there — the way back to it is under Ads in the app's Settings — and no such sharing happens.

Security

Connections to our service are encrypted. There are no accounts and no personal data stored on our side, so there is no account to breach. Backups are sealed against tampering as described above. No system is perfect; if you believe something is wrong, write to support@manaforge.co.

Changes to this policy

We post any change here and move the date at the top. A change that matters is also noted in the app's release notes, under About and changes, and the app opens on its first screen again, where the button is the agreement, before you go on.

Contact

Manaforge · support@manaforge.co · Terms of use