Privacy Policy — JELLY POP
This app is a game that requires no account. We do not directly collect personally identifiable information such as your name, phone number, or email address. The data handled by the app is described below.
1. Advertising (Google AdMob)
The app shows ads served by Google AdMob. To serve and measure ads and prevent fraud, Google may process your advertising ID, device information, and approximate location derived from your IP address. See the Google Privacy Policy and How Google uses data from partners. You can reset your advertising ID or limit ad personalization in your device settings.
On iOS you choose whether to allow tracking in the App Tracking Transparency prompt. If you decline, you will see non-personalized ads instead; gameplay is unaffected.
2. Leaderboard & Tournaments
When you use the leaderboard or tournament features, the following is stored on our server (Supabase):
- a randomly generated player ID (not linked to your name, phone number, or any account)
- a nickname (auto-generated, changeable anytime)
- your game score and profile character (avatar) number
- for tournaments: the sequence of moves you made in that round, plus your tournament score and match record
The move record is used only so the server can re-simulate the round and confirm the score came from normal play. This data is used solely to display rankings and prevent cheating, and is not shared with third parties.
3. In-App Purchases
Payments are processed by the store you downloaded the app from (Google Play, Apple App Store, or ONE store). We never have access to your payment details, and your purchase history is managed in that store account.
Entitlements that persist after purchase — such as ad removal — are stored on our server together with the player ID above, so they can be restored when you reinstall or change devices. Only the fact that you hold the entitlement is stored; no payment details are.
4. Local Data
Game progress (stage records, items, diamonds, settings) is stored only on your device and is deleted when you uninstall the app.
The items described in sections 2 and 3 above (leaderboard and tournament records, and paid entitlements such as ad removal) are, by necessity, also stored on our server.
5. Children’s Privacy
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.
6. Data Deletion
How to request
- Email hiddencatgame@gmail.com.
- Use the subject line “Data deletion request”.
- Include the nickname you use in the game (you can find it under Settings → Profile).
- Tell us whether to delete only your leaderboard records, or your paid entitlements as well.
What is deleted
- Leaderboard: player ID, nickname, score, avatar number
- Tournaments: entry records, tournament score and match record, move records
- (if requested) paid entitlements such as ad removal
Retention
Unless you ask us to delete it, the data above is kept for as long as we operate the service; there is no separate automatic expiry. Once we receive a deletion request we delete the data within 30 days, and in practice we act as soon as the request is confirmed.
After deletion, copies may remain in automatic server backups for up to 30 days and disappear once that backup cycle passes.
Data stored only on your device (section 4) never reaches our server, so it is removed immediately when you uninstall the app.
Deleting your paid-entitlement record makes purchased benefits such as ad removal unrecoverable.
7. Changes
Any changes to this policy will be posted on this page.