ConeM Labs Inc. — Privacy Policy
Effective date: 29 October 2026 (last updated 29 October 2026)
This privacy policy describes how ConeM Labs Inc. ("we", "us", or "our") collects, uses, protects, or otherwise handles your Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in accordance with our website and mobile applications. Contact: support@conemlabs.com · https://conemlabs.com
Overview: We build privacy-respecting, native, local-first applications. We do not sell your personal data. Dedicated policies for specific applications (such as SomaFocus, Tambola Play & Win, and Chess Advisor) describe their tailored on-device architecture and minimal data usage below.
1. Information We May Collect
Depending on which website features or mobile applications you access, the following technical and usage information may be collected:
- Your device's IP address and general geographic location.
- Technical information about your computer or mobile device (operating system version, device model, web browser).
- Preferences and configuration settings (language, locale, time zone).
- Unique pseudonymous identifiers (such as an anonymous installation ID).
- Diagnostic logs, features accessed, session durations, and crash reports.
2. How We Use Information
We use collected technical information in the following ways:
- To deliver, maintain, and optimize application performance and lexicon databases.
- To identify and fix bugs, errors, and system crashes across device hardware configurations.
- To respect your opt-outs and user preferences.
- We use your email address only when you communicate directly with support or request specific services.
3. Information Shared with Third-Party Providers
We work with trusted infrastructure, platform, and advertising providers:
- Advertising: Ad-supported applications (such as free tiers of Pocket Thesaurus or Tambola) use Google AdMob to serve advertisements. Ad networks may use device advertising identifiers under the platform's privacy controls. You can reset or limit personalized ads at any time in your device system settings.
- Analytics: Aggregated diagnostic and crash reporting services help us track application stability and resolve defects.
- Legal Requirements: We may disclose information where required by law, subpoena, or legal process to protect our rights, safety, or users.
- What We Never Share: We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal contact details, email addresses, phone numbers, or payment card numbers with third-party data brokers.
4. Cookies and Web Tracking
Our static website does not use cookies for tracking purposes. When accessing third-party links or services, those providers may utilize cookies in accordance with their respective privacy policies.
5. Application-Specific Privacy Policies
Our applications feature dedicated, tailored privacy policies reflecting their specialized local-first architectures:
- SomaFocus Privacy Policy: Details our 100% local-first SQLite architecture, zero personal data collection, volatile-memory sensor processing, and complete on-device privacy.
- Tambola Play & Win Privacy Policy: Outlines anonymous guest player accounts, optional Google account linking, multiplayer room handling, and AdMob integration.
- Chess Advisor Privacy Policy: Details local Caissa chess engine analysis, local-first game review, optional narration voice downloads, and RevenueCat subscription management.
- Pocket Thesaurus Privacy Policy: Covers the offline thesaurus, the AI assistant, the Worldwide Searches map and Word Arena online play. A summary of online play is in section 6 below. To delete a multiplayer account and its data, see Delete your Pocket Thesaurus account.
6. Pocket Thesaurus multiplayer
This section applies to the online multiplayer features of the Pocket Thesaurus Android app (package com.conem.app.pocketthesaurus), published by ConeM Labs Inc. It supplements the sections above. The full Pocket Thesaurus policy is at conemlabs.com/pt/privacy, and its terms of use are at conemlabs.com/pt/terms. The single-player parts of the app work without an online account.
Information collected
- Profile: your chosen username, a country flag (chosen by you, or derived from your SIM or device locale), and your avatar.
- Game data: rating, statistics, achievements and match history.
- Participation records: your entries in daily boards, leagues, challenges and multiplayer rooms.
- Safety data: reports you file or that are filed about you, and the players you block.
- Notifications: a push notification token for your device.
- Account and purchases: your Google account email if you choose to link one, and a purchase verification token from Google Play Billing when you buy something.
- Device and diagnostics: device identifiers handled by Firebase and AdMob, plus crash and analytics data.
- Location: for the app's existing search map feature, a location rounded to roughly 1 km.
Why we use it
- To create and operate your multiplayer account, matchmaking, ratings, leaderboards, leagues, challenges and rooms.
- To moderate the service, handle reports and blocks, and prevent abuse.
- To send notifications you have allowed, such as challenge and room invitations.
- To verify purchases and restore entitlements.
- To show advertising in ad-supported versions, and to find and fix crashes and measure app stability.
- To provide the map-based search feature.
What other players can see
Opponents and other participants can see your username, country flag, avatar and rating. Your email address, push token and purchase information are not shown to other players.
Service providers (processors)
- Google Firebase and Google Cloud: authentication, database, backend functions, push messaging, Crashlytics and Analytics.
- Google Play Billing: purchases and purchase verification.
- Google AdMob: advertising in ad-supported versions.
- DeepSeek and Meta: used to generate quiz questions. No personal data is sent to these providers. Only words are sent.
Retention
- Your profile, username, rating and statistics are kept until you delete your account.
- Match results shared with other players expire within 24 hours.
- Daily board records are kept for 14 days, challenges for 8 days, and league records for 35 days.
- When you delete your account we delete your multiplayer profile, username, rating and statistics, league, daily and challenge records, reports, push tokens and your Firebase account.
- Anonymous analytics and crash data are retained according to Firebase's own retention settings and are not tied to your username after deletion.
Your rights and choices
You can access and correct your username, country and avatar in the app, block other players, disable notifications in your device settings, and reset or limit your advertising ID in your device settings. You can request deletion of your account and data at any time, in the app (Play hub or Settings, then Online account, then Delete account) or on the web without the app installed: https://conemlabs.com/pt/delete-account. You can also write to support@conemlabs.com to ask about the data we hold about you. We respond to requests within 30 days.
7. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
ConeM Labs Inc.
Email: support@conemlabs.com
Website: https://conemlabs.com
Headquarters: Oshawa, ON, Canada