Privacy Policy Taktiko

Note on languages. This is the English version of the privacy policy. A German version (Datenschutzerklärung) is available as well. Both versions are meant to say the same. If you notice a difference, please write to hallo@mk-mc.eu.

This policy covers the iOS app Taktiko (App Store name “Taktiko: Tactics Board”, iPhone and iPad), a tactics board for football (soccer) and basketball, in its current version. It does not cover the website www.ki-agent.pro. That website has its own privacy policy (in German).

An Android version of the app is in preparation. What applies to it is described in section 13.

1. Controller

The controller within the meaning of the GDPR and the publisher of the app (called “the publisher” below) is:

MKMC | marketing & consulting
Owner: Matthias Grevelding Kiesche
Zu den Birken 14a, 51515 Kürten
Germany
E-mail: hallo@mk-mc.eu

The app has no server of the publisher, no accounts and no login, and it contains no analytics software of its own. The app does not send personal data to the publisher, so the publisher does not receive personal data from the app. What leaves your device while you use the app is traffic of third-party software and services: Google’s ad and consent software in the free version, and Apple for purchases and, if you switch it on, iCloud sync. These are described below. Aggregated statistics and crash reports that Apple makes available to developers are described in section 11.

When you write to the publisher

If you write to the publisher, for example through the support page, the publisher processes your e-mail address and the content of your message to answer your request. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR where your request concerns a purchase or a comparable contractual relationship, and otherwise Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The legitimate interest is to answer requests about the app. The data is deleted once the request is dealt with, unless statutory retention periods apply.

The publisher’s legal notice is available at the page Impressum (in German).

2. Overview

  • A tactics board. You place players, opponents and the ball on a field, build movements scene by scene, draw runs, and manage everything in a playbook with teams and squads.
  • No accounts, no own server. The app has no login, no required details and no server of the publisher.
  • Your content stays on your device. Tactics, folders, teams and squads (player names, shirt numbers, positions) are saved locally. The publisher has no access to them (section 3).
  • Optional iCloud sync. With Premium you can switch on iCloud sync. It is off by default. If you switch it on, this data is additionally stored in your own private iCloud storage at Apple, which the publisher cannot access either (section 4).
  • No analytics, no tracking prompt. The publisher uses no analytics or tracking of its own, and the app shows no App Tracking Transparency prompt (section 6).
  • Exports. Images, videos and PDFs are created on your device and leave it only if you share them through the iOS share sheet (section 3).
  • Advertising in the free version. Ads are delivered by Google AdMob. They are requested as non-personalised, limited to content for a general audience, and are not shown on the tactics board, during replay or on the TV. In the EEA, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, Google asks for your consent first (section 5).
  • Premium. With Premium the app shows no ads and does not start Google’s Mobile Ads SDK (section 8).

3. Data stored on your device

The app saves its content in the local storage of your device (Apple SwiftData). The app does not send this data to the publisher or to third parties. It is:

  • your tactics with their scenes and drawings, and the folders of your playbook;
  • your teams and squads with the details you enter about players: name, shirt number and position;
  • in the free version, entries of Google’s software, in particular your consent choice (section 5). The app itself neither reads nor writes these entries.

Settings of the app, for example the selected field style, are saved in the local preferences storage of your device (UserDefaults).

The data stays until you change or delete it in the app or delete the app. Deleting the app removes it from your device. If you back up your device (for example to iCloud or to a computer), iOS may include the app’s data in the backup. You control this in iOS settings. The optional iCloud sync of the app is a different thing and is described in section 4.

Because this data is only on your device and the publisher has no access to it, the publisher does not process it itself. Where the storage of your content and settings nevertheless counts as processing by the publisher, it is based on Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR (providing the app functions you use) and on Section 25(2) No. 2 TDDDG, because it is strictly necessary for the service you expressly requested.

Exports, sharing and AirPlay

The app creates images (PNG), videos (MP4) and PDF files on your device. They leave the device only if you pass them on through the iOS share sheet, for example to another app, by message or by e-mail. You decide what goes to whom. The terms of the app or service you choose apply to its processing. Exports of the free version carry a logo. With Premium you can switch it off in the settings (“Logo auf Exporten”, logo on exports).

If you save an export to Photos from the share sheet, iOS asks once for permission to add photos. The app can only add to your library, not read it. The app requests no other access (camera, microphone, contacts, location).

If you show a tactic on a TV via AirPlay, the transmission runs locally between your devices. It does not run through the publisher.

4. Optional iCloud sync (Premium)

With Premium you can switch on iCloud sync in the settings. It is off by default. If you switch it on, your tactics, folders, teams and squads (including the names, shirt numbers and positions of players) are stored in your own private iCloud storage (Apple CloudKit, private database) and synchronised with your devices.

  • No access for the publisher. The data is in your private area at Apple. The publisher cannot see it, and it does not pass through a server of the publisher.
  • Apple as the provider. Apple provides iCloud and processes the data under its own privacy policy (section 11).
  • Removing it from iCloud. In the settings of the app, “Remove data from iCloud” (German: “Daten aus iCloud entfernen”) removes the copy in iCloud. Switching sync off alone keeps the copy that is already stored in iCloud.

Sync runs only if you switch it on yourself. The storage in your iCloud takes place at your initiative and in your own account. The publisher does not process this data. Where the function nevertheless counts as processing by the publisher, it is based on Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR (providing the function you chose).

5. Advertising (Google AdMob)

The free version of the app shows ads. With Premium they are gone. Ads are not shown on the tactics board, during replay of a tactic or on the TV. They appear in three places:

  • as a banner at the bottom of the playbook;
  • as one row marked “Ad” in the playbook’s list of tactics;
  • as a full-screen ad after sharing an export or when switching to another tactic, at most every five minutes, not in the first minute after opening the app, and without video ads.

Two components from Google are built into the app for this:

  • Google Mobile Ads SDK (Google AdMob): loads, shows and measures the ads.
  • Google User Messaging Platform (UMP): determines whether a consent form is required for your region, shows it and stores your choice.

The provider is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Google may also process data through affiliated companies, for example Google LLC in the USA (section 11). The components connect your device directly to Google. The data does not pass through the publisher.

How it works

Before the app requests ads, these steps run:

  1. The app checks whether you have Premium (section 8). If so, neither Google’s consent software is contacted nor the Mobile Ads SDK started, and no ads are requested.
  2. Otherwise the app asks Google’s consent software at launch whether a consent form is required for your region. This check is itself a connection of your device to Google’s servers. If a form is required and you haven’t decided yet, Google shows it the first time you open the playbook, so never over the tactics board.
  3. Only if Google’s consent software allows ads, the Google Mobile Ads SDK is started and requests ads.

Without clearance from Google’s consent software the app requests no ads. The check may be repeated when you return to the app.

Non-personalised ads and content rating

The app requests ads with the privacy treatment “non-personalised” (publisher privacy treatment). The ads are then not tailored on the basis of your past usage behaviour. Even non-personalised ads require Google to process certain data (see below). How Google implements this in detail is determined by Google and explained in its privacy information.

The app also tells the SDK to serve only ads up to the content rating “G” (general audiences). The setting is applied before the SDK starts. The ads themselves come from advertisers on whom the publisher has no influence.

The publisher itself makes no automated decisions, including profiling (Art. 22 GDPR). What Google does beyond that as an independent controller is determined by Google and explained in the consent form and in its privacy information.

What Google can process

For every request your device connects to Google’s servers. Like every request over the internet, this inherently involves your IP address and technical device and connection data. According to Google’s information about its SDK, the processing for advertising can include:

  • the IP address and a coarse location derived from it;
  • device and app identifiers;
  • interactions with ads (impressions and clicks);
  • performance and diagnostic data.

The app itself does not request location access from iOS and passes no location to Google. How Google determines a coarse location is outside the control of the app. The privacy details of the app in the App Store (“App Privacy”) also cover data collected through the Google Mobile Ads SDK.

Google is responsible for this processing. Which signals Google processes in detail, how long it keeps them and how it transfers data is described by Google itself.

Consent form (Google UMP)

In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, Google shows a consent form the first time you open the playbook (Google User Messaging Platform under the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework, TCF) before ads are requested. It offers equal choices: “Consent” and “Do not consent”. In regions where no form is required, it is not shown.

Google’s component stores your choice locally in the app (as a consent string in the IAB TCF format), and Google’s ad code reads it there. If you choose “Do not consent”, the app does not decide by itself whether ads are shown. It asks Google’s consent software. Only if that allows ads does the app request them. The tactics board and all other functions work unchanged. You can change your choice at any time (section 7).

Tapping an ad

Tapping an ad usually opens the advertiser’s page or the App Store outside the app. Depending on the ad, an overlay of the SDK or of the App Store may appear instead. What is processed there is outside the publisher’s control. The privacy policy of the advertiser and of Apple applies.

Legal basis

Where Google’s consent form is shown, the advertising is based on your consent: on Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR for the processing of personal data and on Section 25(1) TDDDG (the German Telecommunications Digital Services Data Protection Act) for storing information on your device or reading it from there. Consent is voluntary. If you refuse or withdraw it, the app stays fully usable. Whether and which ads may still be requested after a refusal is decided by Google’s consent software. Google names the legal bases for this in its privacy information and in the form.

Where the check whether a consent form is required already processes personal data, the publisher relies on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The legitimate interest is to obtain and respect your consent decision lawfully.

Where Google processes data under its own responsibility, Google names the legal bases in its privacy information and in the form. In regions where no form is required, Google’s terms and the law applicable in each case apply.

Responsibility and Google’s information

The integration of Google’s software is the publisher’s decision. For the processing by Google, Google’s own privacy information applies. How responsibility is divided between Google and the publisher in detail is governed by Google’s terms for AdMob. You can direct questions about advertising in the app to the publisher at any time. Where Google processes data under its own responsibility, you can also exercise your rights directly against Google. Google’s information:

6. App Tracking Transparency

App Tracking Transparency is an iOS dialog in which apps must ask for permission before they may use the advertising identifier (IDFA) of your device. Taktiko does not show this dialog and does not ask for this permission. As long as no permission is given, iOS does not release the advertising identifier to the app or to Google’s components. The app requests ads as non-personalised (section 5). The app itself neither reads nor stores an advertising identifier.

You can change your choices at any time. A withdrawal takes effect for the future. Processing carried out before remains lawful (Art. 7(3) GDPR). The publisher cannot change your consent for you, because it has no access to your choice. This is only possible in the app:

  • In the app. In the settings you find “Ad privacy choices” (German: “Datenschutz bei Werbung”) as soon as Google requires consent for your region. The row opens Google’s form, where you can change or withdraw your choice.
  • With Premium. The app shows no ads and does not start Google’s Mobile Ads SDK (section 8). Data that Google already holds and the consent entries on your device are not affected (section 10 and section 12).
  • Deleting the app. This removes the consent data stored on your device. It only affects data on your device.

8. Premium: subscription and one-time purchase

With Premium the limits of the free version are lifted and the app shows no ads. You can get Premium as a monthly subscription, as a yearly subscription or as a one-time purchase. Apple handles the purchase through the App Store and StoreKit and supplies the price in localised form. Apple alone processes your payment and account data. Neither the app nor the publisher gets to see it.

Automatic renewal and cancellation

Subscriptions renew automatically for the booked period unless you cancel in your Apple Account settings at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Cancellation is possible only there. Cancelling directly with the publisher is technically not possible.

Checking and restoring

The app receives only signed transactions from Apple and checks them on the device. Whether Premium is active is decided by the check with Apple. The settings have a “Restore Purchases” function (German: “Käufe wiederherstellen”). It asks Apple for earlier purchases and may ask you to sign in with your Apple Account. The app itself sends nothing to the publisher in the process.

If you have Premium, the app shows no ads and does not start Google’s Mobile Ads SDK. Data that Google already holds and the consent entries on your device are not affected (section 10 and section 12).

The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR (performing the purchase you made), insofar as the publisher processes any data at all. The data that Apple processes for the purchase is Apple’s responsibility under its own terms (section 11).

9. Children and player data

Taktiko is a tool for coaches, trainers and teachers. It is not directed at children and not intended for the Kids category of the App Store.

You enter the squads into the app yourself. This can involve names, shirt numbers and positions of children and young people, for example if you coach a youth team. This data stays on your device or, if you switch on iCloud sync, in your own iCloud storage (section 3 and section 4). The publisher does not receive it. You decide what you enter, for example whether you use first names only. Whether and under which conditions you may record data of players, for example under the rules of your club or with the consent of parents or guardians, is your responsibility.

If you are a parent or guardian and have questions, write to hallo@mk-mc.eu.

10. Retention

  • Tactics, folders, teams, squads and settings on your device: until you change or delete them or delete the app.
  • Copy in your iCloud (only with sync switched on): until you remove it in the app with “Remove data from iCloud”. Switching sync off alone keeps it.
  • Consent choice and other data of Google’s software on your device: until you change it or delete the app. How long Google keeps data from ad requests and consent checks is described by Google in its privacy information.
  • Data at Apple (purchase, iCloud): under Apple’s terms.
  • E-mails to the publisher: until your request is dealt with, and where a contractual relationship exists, longer in accordance with statutory retention periods.
  • From the app itself: the publisher stores nothing, because it receives nothing.

11. Recipients and transfers to third countries

Google

Recipient of the data that arises with advertising and the consent check is Google (section 5). The data goes directly from your device to Google, not through the publisher. Google may also process data in the USA and in other countries outside the European Economic Area. On which basis and with which safeguards Google transfers data is governed by Google in its privacy and contract terms. The publisher refers to these and cannot make commitments of its own on this.

Advertising partners

Further providers can be involved through Google in delivering and measuring ads (advertising partners, for example providers of advertising technology, and advertisers). Google gives further information in the form and in its privacy information. The publisher has no influence on the selection of these partners.

Apple

Apple is involved in distributing the app in the App Store, in the purchase (StoreKit) and, if you switch it on, in iCloud sync (CloudKit). Apple processes the data it receives under its own privacy policy. Apple belongs to a group based in the USA. Processing there or in other third countries is possible. Apple’s terms apply to the safeguards.

Reports from Apple

Apple makes sales and download figures available to developers in App Store Connect. Aggregated app analytics and crash reports are available only for users who have switched on in iOS the sharing of diagnostics and usage data with app developers. You control this in iOS settings. The publisher uses no analytics components of its own.

Links that open outside the app

The links in the app to help, the privacy policy and the legal notice open in Safari. The app does not fetch these pages itself. The browser does, only when you tap. Opening them is a visit to www.ki-agent.pro. The website’s hosting provider processes connection data such as the IP address in server logs. Details are in section 2 of the privacy policy of the website (in German). Tapping an ad usually opens the advertiser’s page or the App Store (section 5).

The publisher itself passes no data from the app on to further recipients, because it receives none from the app. Recipients of data that arises when you use the app are the third parties named above: Google and the advertising partners (section 5), Apple and, if you pass on an export or tap an ad or a link, the respective recipients and the operators of the pages that open.

12. Your rights

You have the right of access (Art. 15 GDPR), rectification (Art. 16 GDPR), erasure (Art. 17 GDPR), restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR) and data portability (Art. 20 GDPR). You also have the right to object to processing based on legitimate interests (Art. 21 GDPR). You can withdraw consent at any time with effect for the future (section 7).

Please contact the publisher at hallo@mk-mc.eu. Because the publisher receives no personal data from the app and cannot identify you as a user of the app (Art. 11 GDPR), it cannot give access to data that is only on your device, in your iCloud, at Google or at Apple, and can neither correct nor delete it. For the data on your device and in your iCloud you have the options described in section 3, section 4 and section 7. For data processed by Google or Apple, please contact these companies; their privacy documents explain how. If you provide additional information that would allow the publisher to identify you, it will review your request accordingly (Art. 11(2) GDPR). The publisher gladly gives information about your e-mail correspondence with it.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR), in particular in the EU member state of your habitual residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement. The authority responsible for the publisher is the State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information of North Rhine-Westphalia (Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit Nordrhein-Westfalen).

13. Android version (in preparation)

An Android version of Taktiko is in preparation and not yet available on Google Play. The same applies to it as to the iOS app: no accounts, no server of the publisher, no analytics or tracking of its own, and your content stays on your device. Apple’s services are replaced by these equivalents:

  • Distribution. Google Play instead of the App Store. Google processes the data that arises when you download and update the app under its own terms.
  • Data stored on your device (section 3). Tactics, folders, teams, squads and settings are saved in Android’s local app storage. If you back up your device, Android may include app data in your Google backup (Android Auto Backup), depending on the settings of the app and of your device. You control this in Android settings. You share exports through the Android share sheet.
  • iCloud and AirPlay (section 3 and section 4). These are Apple features. Whether the Android version will offer a sync or a way to show tactics on a TV has not been decided yet. If such a feature is added, this policy will be updated first.
  • Advertising (section 5). The free version on Android also shows Google AdMob ads, requested as non-personalised, with Google’s consent form (UMP) in the EEA, the United Kingdom and Switzerland.
  • No advertising ID, no App Tracking Transparency (section 6). Android has no App Tracking Transparency prompt like iOS. The Android version does not even request the advertising-ID permission (Android Advertising ID), so Google's Mobile Ads SDK cannot read it. Ads stay non-personalised, the same as on iOS.
  • Premium (section 8). Subscriptions and the one-time purchase go through Google Play Billing instead of Apple. Google processes the payment; your payment and account data are processed by Google alone. The app only learns whether a purchase exists. You cancel subscriptions in Google Play. You restore earlier purchases with “Restore Purchases” in the app, or the app recognizes them automatically when you are signed in with the same Google Account.
  • Children (section 9). The Android version is not directed at children either. Section 9 applies unchanged to squad data.
  • Recipients (section 11). Google takes Apple’s place: Google Ireland Limited (Ireland) or Google LLC (USA) for distribution through Google Play and for purchases through Google Play Billing, under Google’s privacy policy. Processing in the USA or other third countries is possible. Google provides developers with aggregated statistics in the Google Play Console.

If the Android version differs from this when it is released, this section will be updated beforehand.

14. Changes and date

This policy is updated when the app, the services it uses or the legal requirements change. The version at this address applies. Last updated: 4 November 2026.