In short: Cookie Crush stores game progress on your device. It uses Google Firebase Analytics to understand app usage and Google AdMob to provide optional rewarded advertising. It does not require an account or ask for your name, address, contacts, precise location, photos, microphone, or camera.
1. About this policy
This Privacy Policy explains how Horia Valentin Rath ("we", "us", or "our") handles information when you use Cookie Crush, an Android game with the package name com.horiaonedev.cookiecrush (the "Game").
2. Information handled by the Game
Information stored locally
The Game stores scores, unlocked levels, lives and life-recovery times, tutorial progress, and sound, haptic, and accessibility preferences locally on your device. We do not receive this local game data. You can remove it by clearing the Game's storage or uninstalling the Game.
Firebase Analytics
We use Google Analytics for Firebase to understand general usage, improve gameplay, diagnose problems, and measure the performance of the Game. Depending on your device and settings, Firebase may process:
- app interactions, sessions, launches, and engagement information;
- device and app information such as device model, operating-system version, app version, language, and general technical configuration;
- identifiers associated with the app installation or device, where permitted;
- diagnostic and performance information; and
- coarse geographic information inferred from an IP address. The Game does not request precise location permission.
Google AdMob
The Game uses Google AdMob to offer optional rewarded ads, such as an ad a player may choose to watch to receive a life. AdMob may process advertising identifiers, IP address, device and app information, ad impressions, ad interactions, and diagnostic information to deliver, secure, limit the frequency of, and measure ads.
For users who are old enough and where legally permitted, advertising may be personalized only when the required consent has been obtained. Personalized advertising may use information about activity and interests to select ads. Where consent is not available, ads may be non-personalized or limited.
3. Children and families
Cookie Crush has family-friendly content and may be used by a general audience aged 3 and older. We do not knowingly ask children to provide direct personal information, and the Game does not provide accounts, chat, or user-generated content.
We do not intend to serve personalized or interest-based advertising to children below the applicable age of digital consent or to users treated as children. Advertising for those users must use restricted, child-appropriate treatment. A parent or guardian who believes that a child has provided personal information may contact us so that we can investigate and take appropriate action.
4. Why information is used
Information processed through the services above is used to operate and secure the Game, provide optional rewarded ads, remember progress on the device, understand aggregated gameplay and technical performance, fix defects, prevent fraud and abuse, comply with legal obligations, and improve the player experience.
5. Sharing and service providers
We do not sell personal information. Information described above may be processed by Google as our service provider through Firebase Analytics and Google AdMob, and may be disclosed where required by law, to protect rights and safety, or in connection with a legitimate transfer of the Game. Google's handling of information is governed by its applicable terms and privacy disclosures.
6. Legal bases and privacy choices
For users in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and other regions with similar requirements, processing may rely on consent, our legitimate interests in operating and improving the Game, performance of the service requested by the player, and compliance with legal obligations. Where processing relies on consent, you may withdraw it through the privacy choices presented by the Game or your device settings. Withdrawal does not affect processing that occurred before withdrawal.
You may also reset or limit your device's advertising identifier and advertising personalization through Android or Google settings. Availability and names of these controls depend on your device and operating-system version.
7. Retention and deletion
Local game progress remains on your device until you clear the Game's storage or uninstall it. Analytics and advertising information is retained under the settings and retention periods provided by Google and only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described above, including security, measurement, and legal obligations.
The Game has no player accounts and we generally cannot associate locally stored progress with a particular person. You may request access to or deletion of information that we control by emailing horia95@gmail.com. We may need enough information to verify and locate the relevant record. We will respond in accordance with applicable law.
8. Security and international processing
We use reasonable administrative and technical safeguards appropriate to the nature of the information. Communications with Google services use encrypted network connections where supported. No method of electronic transmission or storage is completely secure.
Google and its service providers may process information outside Romania or your country. Where required, applicable safeguards are used for international transfers.
9. Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to request access, correction, deletion, restriction, portability, or objection to certain processing, and to withdraw consent. You may also complain to your local data-protection authority. In Romania, the supervisory authority is the National Supervisory Authority for Personal Data Processing (ANSPDCP).
10. Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy when the Game, its service providers, or legal requirements change. We will publish the revised policy at this address and update the effective date. Material changes may also be communicated within the Game or its store listing where appropriate.
11. Contact
For privacy questions or requests, contact:
Horia Valentin Rath
Romania
horia95@gmail.com