Effective date: October 26, 2026
Globi (“the app”) is a geography learning game. This policy explains what information the app collects, why, who receives it, how long it’s kept, and the choices you have.
The short version:
In this policy, Settings means the screen you open by tapping the gear icon on the Profile tab.
Globi is developed and run by Eugene Barnes, an independent developer (“we”, “us”).
Questions, requests, or concerns: ejbarness@icloud.com
The whole game works without signing in. The app saves the following only on your device:
Apart from the few details included in anonymous usage events (section 2), none of this leaves your device unless you create an account (section 3). Your age answer never leaves your device, even with an account. Settings → Data → Reset Progress erases your progress, settings, cosmetics, drill scores and challenge progress. It keeps your age answer and a few small flags, such as whether you’ve answered “Where did you hear about Globi?” and whether the first Globi Pro offer has been shown, so the app doesn’t ask or offer again. Deleting the app erases everything stored on the device.
The app also stores a few technical items on your device:
When you first set up the app, it reads your device’s language setting (on the device) to choose English, Spanish or French.
What it is. The app records a small set of usage events and sends them to our own database, which Supabase hosts. We use them to see where people get stuck, whether they come back, and how the Globi Pro screen performs. We built this ourselves. It is not a third-party analytics or advertising SDK, and we never share the events with anyone else.
It’s on by default, starting the first time you open the app. You can turn it off at any time (see “Turning it off” below).
Each event contains these fields and nothing else:
| Field | What it is |
|---|---|
| Random install ID | A random ID the app creates on your device the first time analytics runs. It is not your Apple advertising ID (IDFA), not Apple’s per-vendor device ID (IDFV), and not your account ID. |
| Event name | One of the events listed below. |
| Event details | A few short details about the event (listed below). |
| App version | For example, 1.3.0. |
| Platform | iOS or Android. |
| Time | When the event happened, according to your device’s clock, and the calendar date on your device. Our database also records when it received the event. |
The events, and the details sent with each:
| Event | When it’s recorded | Details sent |
|---|---|---|
| App opened | The app starts or comes back to the foreground | None |
| Setup step | You move through first-time setup | Which step (introduction, age question, “Where did you hear about Globi?”, regions, or name and avatar); how many regions you picked; whether you skipped the “Where did you hear” question; whether you entered a name (yes or no). Your age answer and the name itself are not sent. |
| Setup completed | You finish first-time setup | Whether you skipped picking regions; whether you kept the region the app suggested from your device’s region setting (yes or no); the app language (English, Spanish or French) |
| Where you heard about Globi | You answer “Where did you hear about Globi?” during first-time setup (skipping sends nothing) | The option you picked: TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, App Store or Google Play search, friend or family, teacher or school, or something else |
| Lesson started | A quiz screen opens | The game mode (such as a lesson, Daily Challenge, Review, Survival, Map Mode or a drill); the region and topic; whether you resumed a quiz; whether it’s the first quiz straight after setup |
| Lesson, Daily Challenge or Survival completed | You finish a quiz | The game mode; your score; the number of questions; whether it was perfect; whether you levelled up; your total number of lessons completed |
| Challenge viewed / challenge round completed | You open a dated challenge (such as GeoWeek), or finish one of its rounds | Which challenge; whether it’s upcoming, live or over; which round; how many rounds you’ve finished; whether you’ve finished them all |
| Pro screen viewed or closed | You open or close the Globi Pro screen | Which part of the app sent you there (such as Settings, the shop, or a locked topic); on open, whether you already have Pro |
| Purchase started, succeeded or failed | You tap subscribe, a purchase or free trial starts, or a purchase fails (cancelling isn’t recorded) | The plan (monthly, yearly or lifetime); whether a free trial was offered; which part of the app sent you there; for failures, whether the payment is still pending |
| Sign-in completed | You sign in or create an account | How: email, new email account, Apple or Google. Not your email address or account ID. |
| Share tapped / share finished | You tap Share on a results screen, and the share sheet closes | Which results screen (quiz or Survival); whether you shared or cancelled; if you shared, the kind of share target your device reports (for example Messages, or another app’s share extension), never who you shared with |
| Rating prompt shown | Apple’s “rate this app” prompt appears | What led to it (such as a perfect lesson or a streak milestone) |
| Notification permission | The app asks for permission to send reminders | Whether you allowed notifications; what the permission was before you were asked |
| Reminder opened | You open the app by tapping a notification | Which kind (streak, “we miss you”, or the trial-ending reminder) |
| App error | The app shows its “Something went wrong” screen | The screen’s general location in the app (for example “/event/[id]”, never the ID itself) and the type of error (for example “TypeError”). No error message and no technical trace, since those could contain personal details. The same error on the same screen is recorded once per app session, and at most 10 per session. |
What the events don’t contain: your account ID, email address, display name, age answer, or any text you type. They also don’t include your advertising ID, your location, or your contacts, photos or other content. The table that stores the events has no column for your account or your IP address.
“Where did you hear about Globi?” New installs see this question once, during first-time setup. It’s optional: you can skip it, and skipping sends nothing. Your answer is sent once as a usage event (above), so it’s covered by the same switch: with Share anonymous usage off, nothing is sent. We use the answers only to see which ways of finding Globi work.
App errors. The “App error” event is how we find out a screen is crashing, so we can fix it. It’s a usage event like the others: it has the same random install ID, and it isn’t sent when Share anonymous usage is off. (Separately, the app-update service can receive the message of an error that stopped the app from starting: see section 8.)
How they’re sent. Events wait on your device, which holds up to the 200 most recent. The app sends them in small batches: when it starts, every 30 seconds or so while you’re using it, and when you leave it. Like any internet request, sending them shows your device’s IP address to our hosting provider. If you’re signed in, the request also carries your normal sign-in session. Neither of these is saved in the analytics table (see “Connection information” below).
Why we collect them. We use the events to fix confusing setup steps, see which lessons people finish, and decide which features to build. We don’t use them to profile you, to target ads, or to make decisions about you.
Turning it off. Go to Settings → Preferences → Share anonymous usage and switch it off. The app stops recording and sending events, and deletes any events still waiting on your device. It also stops Apple Ads attribution (section 5) from the next time the app starts. Events already sent stay in our database until they’re deleted automatically (see “How long we keep information”). Reset Progress also gives you a new random install ID, so a fresh start can’t be linked to the old one.
You don’t need an account to play. An account lets you back up your progress, sync it between devices, and appear on the global leaderboard. Accounts are only available on a device whose age answer is 13 or older (see “Children”). You can sign up with an email address and password, Sign in with Apple, or Sign in with Google.
What we store for your account:
Supabase also keeps standard records about your account, such as when you created it and when you last signed in.
Every account has a leaderboard profile. It contains your display name, avatar, level, all-time XP, this week’s XP and current streak, along with your random account ID and the time the profile was last updated.
Globi Pro is optional. It’s sold through Apple’s App Store as a subscription (monthly or yearly) or a one-time lifetime purchase.
We use this information only to give you the Pro features you paid for and to understand subscription numbers, such as how many people subscribe or cancel.
Apple Ads attribution (iPhone only, 13 and older, with Share anonymous usage on). We may advertise Globi in the App Store with Apple Ads. To see which ads lead to installs and subscriptions, the app asks RevenueCat to collect Apple’s ad attribution token.
If you allow notifications, the app schedules streak reminders on your device. By default they arrive at 7 PM, are scheduled up to a week ahead, and are followed by a couple of “we miss you” reminders if you haven’t played for a while. Your device’s operating system creates and delivers them. The app doesn’t use a push-notification server and doesn’t send a notification token anywhere. If you open the app from a reminder, that’s recorded as an analytics event, unless you’ve turned analytics off.
If you start a Globi Pro free trial and have already allowed notifications, the app also schedules one reminder on your device two days before the trial ends, saying how to cancel. The Daily Reminders switch doesn’t cover this one; your device’s notification settings do. The app never sends notifications advertising offers or sales.
Small fixes and content updates can reach the app without a new App Store version. They’re delivered by Expo (EAS Update), a service run by 650 Industries, Inc.
Whenever the app talks to Supabase, RevenueCat or Expo, those services receive standard connection information. This includes your IP address and, for Supabase when you’re signed in, your sign-in session. They may keep this information in their own logs for security and operations. It travels over encrypted (HTTPS) connections.
We share information only with the companies below. Each one receives information only to run part of Globi for us, as described in this policy.
| Provider | What it does for Globi | What it handles |
|---|---|---|
| Supabase | Hosts our database, runs account sign-in, and stores analytics events | Account and leaderboard data, synced progress, anonymous analytics events, connection information |
| RevenueCat | Manages Globi Pro subscriptions; Apple Ads attribution (13 and older, iPhone only) | Anonymous purchase ID, your account ID if you’re signed in, subscription details from Apple, basic device information, Apple’s ad attribution token and the attribution details Apple returns, connection information |
| Expo (650 Industries, Inc.) | Delivers app updates (EAS Update) | Random update install ID, platform, build and update versions, the message of an error that crashed the app at startup, connection information |
| Apple | App Store distribution and payments, Sign in with Apple, notifications, the rating prompt, Apple Ads attribution and App Store campaign statistics | Covered by Apple’s privacy policy |
| Sign-in, only if you choose Sign in with Google | Covered by Google’s privacy policy | |
| GitHub | Hosts this website (the privacy policy, terms and support pages) | Standard visitor information, such as your IP address, when you view these pages |
Apple may also send us summary statistics about the app. If you’ve chosen in your device settings to share crash reports with app developers, Apple may send us those too.
We may also disclose information when the law requires it.
| Information | How long |
|---|---|
| Data on your device | Until you use Reset Progress or delete the app (Reset Progress keeps your age answer: see section 1). Deleting your account does not erase progress saved on the device. |
| Anonymous analytics events | Deleted automatically 90 days after we receive them. If you turn analytics off, events still waiting on your device are deleted right away. |
| Account, leaderboard profile and synced progress | Until you delete your account. If someone answers under 13 on a device where the account was signed in, it’s deleted at once if they choose, otherwise 30 days later unless the account is signed in to again before then (see “Children”). While it waits, we keep a record of the account ID and the date it was queued. We don’t otherwise delete inactive accounts automatically. |
| Expo update records | Kept by Expo under its own policies. We see only totals, such as launches and crashes per update. |
| Subscription records at RevenueCat | Kept by RevenueCat for as long as our RevenueCat account holds them. Deleting your Globi account doesn’t remove them, but you can email us to ask for your RevenueCat record to be deleted. |
| Purchase records at Apple | Kept by Apple under Apple’s own policies. |
When you delete your account or data, it’s removed from our live database right away. If we turn on database backups in the future, deleted data could remain in those encrypted backups for up to 7 days before it’s overwritten.
Depending on where you live, you may have other rights, such as the right to object to how we use your information or to complain to your local data-protection authority.
The person responsible for your information (the “controller”) is Eugene Barnes, contactable at the email address below. We rely on these legal bases:
You can ask us to access, correct, delete, restrict or export your information, or object to how we use it, by emailing us. You can also complain to your local data-protection authority.
Globi is rated 4+ on the App Store and is meant for players of all ages, including children. It isn’t part of the App Store’s Kids category.
The app asks every player for their birth month and year: during first-time setup, or, for people who set up an earlier version, once when they first open the updated app. Nothing is preselected, and the game itself plays the same whatever the answer.
When the answer is under 13, the app switches to under-13 mode on that device:
These still happen in under-13 mode, and none of them includes a name, email address, contact details or the age answer:
If someone answers under 13 on a device where a Globi account is signed in:
If the device is offline, the app finishes these steps the next time it’s online.
If that account was linked to RevenueCat, the device keeps the same RevenueCat ID (the random account ID, not an email or name) so a Globi Pro purchase keeps working. Deleting the account doesn’t delete the RevenueCat record; a parent can ask us to (below).
If you’re a parent or guardian and want your child’s account deleted sooner, or your child made an account on an older version of the app, email ejbarness@icloud.com with the email address the account signs in with. For Sign in with Apple this may be an address ending in privaterelay.appleid.com, which your child’s Apple Account settings show under Sign in with Apple. We’ll delete the account, its leaderboard profile and synced progress, and, if you ask, its RevenueCat purchase record, and reply when it’s done. We can’t cancel a subscription for you: do that in your Apple Account’s subscription settings.
Our database is hosted by Supabase in the United States (Virginia). RevenueCat and Expo (650 Industries, Inc.) are also based in the United States. Your information may be stored and processed in the United States and in other countries where these providers or their own providers operate. Those countries may have different data-protection laws from the country where you live.
If we change this policy, we’ll update this page and the effective date at the top. If a change is significant, such as collecting a new kind of information, we’ll also mention it in the app’s release notes.
What changed on October 26, 2026 (Globi 1.3):
What changed on October 19, 2026: this version describes two features the previous policy left out:
The previous version, dated July 4, 2026, said the app had no analytics and didn’t mention RevenueCat. It was out of date.
Questions or requests: ejbarness@icloud.com