MyLottoBuddy Privacy Policy
Effective date: 11-03-2026
Last updated: 11-03-2026
This Privacy Policy explains how Tarkka Labs Inc. (“MyLottoBuddy,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, discloses, and protects personal information when you use the MyLottoBuddy app and related services (the “Service”). It applies to users in the United States, Canada, Europe, South America, and Australia, subject to local law.
The Service is free because it shows ads. We and our advertising partners use information about your device and how you use the Service to show and measure ads, and we may sell or share that information for targeted advertising. You can opt out at any time: Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. In Europe and the UK, we only do this with your consent.
Contents: 1. Who is responsible · 2. Information we collect · 3. How we use information · 4. Text messages and email · 5. How we disclose information · 6. Advertising, and selling or sharing information · 7. Retention · 8. Your privacy choices and rights · 9. International data transfers · 10. Security · 11. Children and age restrictions · 12. Third-party services · 13. Europe and the UK · 14. California privacy notice · 15. Changes · 16. Contact us
1. Who is responsible for your information
The organization responsible for the Service and your personal information (the “controller” under European law) is:
Tarkka Labs Inc.
Address: 6901 Professional Parkway E, Sarasota, Florida 34240
Privacy contact: [email protected]
2. Information we collect
Information you provide. When you create an account or use the Service, we collect:
- Name
- Email address
- Phone number
- Your choices, such as whether you want promotional emails or texts and your advertising and privacy choices, with the date you made them.
We use these details to create and manage your account, provide app features, respond to support requests, and send service-related messages.
Information collected automatically. When you use the Service, we and our advertising partners collect:
- Device and online identifiers, such as your device’s advertising ID, cookie or similar IDs, and your IP address.
- Approximate location, such as your country, region, or city, worked out from your IP address. We do not collect your precise location.
- Device information, such as device type, operating system, browser, language, and time zone.
- Usage and advertising information, such as the screens and features you use, the ads you see, and whether you tap them.
We collect this information using cookies, local storage on your device, software development kits (SDKs), and similar technologies.
Information from others. Advertising partners may tell us how ads performed and may use their own information about you to decide which ads to show, according to your choices.
Inferences. We and our advertising partners may draw conclusions from the information above about interests you may have, to choose which ads to show.
Tickets and numbers stay on your phone. The lottery tickets, saved numbers, results and settings you keep in the app are stored only on your device. We do not receive or store them on our servers, and we do not use them for advertising. If you choose to back up your data, the backup file is saved where you put it, not with us.
Sensitive information. We do not collect or use sensitive personal information, such as precise location, government ID numbers, financial account details, health information, or information about race, religion, or sexual orientation.
3. How we use information
We may use personal information to:
- Provide, maintain, and improve the Service.
- Create and secure accounts and verify users.
- Respond to questions, feedback, and support requests.
- Send important service, security, or policy updates.
- Send promotional messages only where permitted and, when required, with your consent.
- Show ads, including ads based on your information where you have not opted out (or, where required, where you have consented), and measure how ads perform.
- Detect fraud, abuse, security incidents, or violations of our Terms of Service.
- Meet legal obligations and protect our legal rights.
We will use information for other purposes only where permitted by law and, when required, after giving notice or obtaining your consent.
4. Text messages and email
We may use your email address or phone number for account-related and service-related communications.
We will send promotional emails or text messages only as permitted by applicable law and according to your choices. You can unsubscribe from promotional emails using the unsubscribe link, or turn promotional emails and texts off in the app under Me. You can stop promotional text messages by replying STOP, if that option is available in your region. Message and data rates may apply. Stopping promotional messages does not stop essential service or security notices.
We do not sell or share your email address or phone number with advertising partners.
5. How we disclose information
We may disclose personal information:
- To service providers that help us operate the Service, such as hosting, customer support, communications, security, or analytics providers. They may use the information only to provide services to us and as otherwise permitted by law.
- To advertising partners, such as ad networks, ad exchanges, and ad measurement companies, as described in section 6 and according to your choices.
- When you ask us to share it or direct us to connect with another service.
- To comply with law, legal process, or a valid government request.
- To protect users, the public, our rights, or the security of the Service.
- In connection with a business transaction, such as a merger, financing, or sale of assets, subject to applicable law.
We do not use your name, email address, or phone number to enter a lottery or claim a prize on your behalf unless the app clearly explains that feature and you separately authorize it.
6. Advertising, and selling or sharing information
We support the Service by selling advertising. We display ads in the Service, and we and our advertising partners collect device identifiers, approximate location, device information, and usage and advertising information to show ads that may interest you, to limit how often you see an ad, and to measure ads.
We may sell or share this information with advertising partners for targeted advertising. Where we can, we remove direct identifiers first, so that what we provide does not include your name, email address, or phone number. Because ad partners can still link this information to your device, laws such as California’s treat it as a “sale” or “sharing” of personal information, and we do too. Advertising partners use the information under their own privacy notices.
Your choice.
- Opt out at any time using Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, linked at the bottom of the Me page in the app and on our website, or by emailing [email protected]. You do not need an account to opt out.
- Global Privacy Control. If your browser or device sends a Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal, we treat it as a valid request to opt out, for that browser or device and for your account if you are signed in.
- Europe and the UK. If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, we do not use your information for personalized ads, or sell or share it, unless you agree. The app asks you, and saying no is as easy as saying yes. You can withdraw your consent at any time on the same page.
- If you opt out or don’t consent, you will still see ads, but they will not be based on your information. Opting out does not change how the rest of the Service works for you.
Your device may also let you reset your advertising ID or limit ad tracking in its settings.
7. Retention
We keep personal information only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Policy, including to provide the Service, maintain records, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, and meet legal requirements.
- Account information and your choices: while your account is open, and for 12 months after an account is closed.
- Device, usage, and advertising information: no longer than 12 months after it is collected.
Advertising partners keep the information they receive according to their own retention policies.
You may request deletion as described below. We may retain some information where required or permitted by law.
8. Your privacy choices and rights
Depending on where you live and the laws that apply, you may have rights to request access to, correction of, deletion of, or a copy of your personal information; to object to or restrict certain uses; to withdraw consent; or to opt out of the sale or sharing of your information or of targeted advertising. Some rights have exceptions and may depend on the circumstances.
In the app, under Me, you can change your name, turn promotional emails and texts on or off, download a copy of your tickets and numbers (“Back up my data”), and delete your account and data. To opt out of the sale or sharing of your information, use Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information.
To make any other request, contact [email protected]. We may need to verify your identity and your connection to the information before responding, usually by confirming the email address or phone number on your account. You may use an authorized agent to make a request for you; we may ask the agent for proof of your permission and ask you to confirm your identity. We will not treat you differently for exercising your rights.
If you are in Europe, you may have the right to complain to your local data protection authority. If you are in Australia, Canada, South America, or a U.S. state with privacy rights, you may have additional rights under local law, including a right to complain to the applicable privacy regulator.
Where local law gives you the right to appeal a decision about a privacy request, you may do so by contacting [email protected].
9. International data transfers
We and our service providers may process or store information in countries other than the country where you live, including the United States. Those countries may have different data-protection laws.
Where required, we use appropriate safeguards for international transfers, such as an adequacy decision, contractual protections, or another lawful transfer mechanism. To ask about applicable safeguards, contact [email protected].
10. Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect personal information. No method of storage or transmission is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.
If a data incident affects your information, we will provide notice when required by applicable law.
11. Children and age restrictions
The Service is intended only for people who are legally permitted to use it and participate in lottery-related activities in their location, and who are at least 18 years old. It is not intended for children.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone who is not old enough to use the Service under applicable law, and we do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of anyone under 16. If you believe a child has provided us personal information, contact [email protected] so we can review and take appropriate action.
12. Third-party services
The Service may link to or work with third-party services. Their privacy practices are governed by their own notices. We encourage you to review those notices before providing information to them.
Service providers we use: Clerk (accounts and sign-in), Brevo (email and text messages), and Cloudflare (security and hosting services). Advertising partners: ad networks, ad exchanges, and ad measurement companies that show and measure ads in the Service.
13. Europe and the UK
If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, we rely on these legal bases to use your information:
| What we do | Legal basis |
|---|---|
| Create and run your account, and provide the Service | Performing our contract with you (the Terms of Service) |
| Send service, security, and policy messages | Performing our contract with you, and our legitimate interest in keeping the Service secure |
| Send promotional emails and texts | Your consent |
| Show personalized ads, and sell or share information with advertising partners | Your consent |
| Show ads that do not use your information, and keep the Service secure and prevent fraud | Our legitimate interests in funding and protecting the Service |
| Meet legal obligations | Legal obligation |
Where we rely on consent, you can withdraw it at any time, without affecting anything we did before. Where we rely on legitimate interests, you can object, and you can always object to direct marketing. You also have the rights in section 8, including access, correction, deletion, restriction, and a copy of your information in a portable format, and the right to complain to your data protection authority.
Choosing ads based on your interests is a form of profiling. We only do it with your consent, and we do not make decisions that have legal or similarly significant effects on you based solely on automated processing.
Giving us your name and an email address or phone number is needed to create an account. Everything else is optional.
14. California privacy notice
This section applies to California residents and supplements the rest of this Policy. It is also our notice at collection under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
What we collect, and who we sell or share it with. In the past 12 months we have collected the following categories of personal information:
| Category | Examples | Sources | Why we use it | Sold or shared with | How long we keep it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Identifiers | Name, email address, phone number | You | Account, service messages, promotional messages with your consent, security | Not sold or shared | While your account is open, plus 12 months |
| Identifiers | Advertising ID, cookie or similar IDs, IP address | Your device; advertising partners | Showing and measuring ads, security | Advertising partners | Up to 12 months |
| Internet or other electronic network activity | Features used, ads seen and tapped | Your device; advertising partners | Improving the Service, showing and measuring ads | Advertising partners | Up to 12 months |
| Geolocation data (approximate only) | Country, region, or city from your IP address | Your device | Showing ads that fit where you are, security | Advertising partners | Up to 12 months |
| Inferences | Interests you may have | Drawn from the information above | Choosing which ads to show | Advertising partners | Up to 12 months |
We also disclose each category to our service providers for business purposes, such as hosting, sign-in, messaging, and security. We do not collect or use sensitive personal information, so we do not offer a “Limit the Use of My Sensitive Personal Information” option.
Your California rights. You have the right to:
- Know and access the personal information we have collected about you, its sources, why we use it, and who we disclose, sell, or share it with.
- Delete personal information we collected from you, subject to legal exceptions.
- Correct inaccurate personal information.
- Opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information, using Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information or a Global Privacy Control signal.
- Not be discriminated against for exercising these rights. We do not charge different prices or provide a different quality of service if you exercise them.
How to make a request. Use the options in the app under Me, use the opt-out page, or email [email protected]. We will confirm receipt within 10 business days and respond within 45 days, or tell you if we need up to 45 more days. We verify requests to know, delete, or correct by matching the email address or phone number on your account. An authorized agent may make a request for you, as described in section 8. Opt-out requests do not need verification.
Minors. We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of consumers under 16.
Financial incentives. We do not offer financial incentives in exchange for personal information.
15. Changes to this Policy
We may update this Policy from time to time. We will post the updated version and change the “Last updated” date. If required by law, we will provide additional notice or obtain consent before applying a material change.
16. Contact us
Questions or privacy requests can be sent to:
Tarkka Labs Inc.
6901 Professional Parkway E, Sarasota, Florida 34240
[email protected]
Terms of Service · Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information