Privacy policy
In short. Sticky Cozy asks for no account and no email address, and we collect no personal data. Your progress (levels, stars, scores) and your settings stay on your phone. Technical services receive information: Google AdMob, for the ads in the free version; RevenueCat, with the App Store or Google Play, for the “No ads” purchase; Expo, for app updates.
Who is responsible
Shadowlink Digital, publisher of Sticky Cozy. Contact: shadowlinkdigital@gmail.com.
What stays on your phone
- your results: unlocked levels, stars, precision and care scores, “Clever mind” stars;
- the tips you have already seen;
- your settings: sounds, vibration;
- the last known state of your “No ads” purchase.
This data is stored by the app and sent to no one. Uninstalling the app erases it; “Settings → Reset progress” erases your results.
The motion sensor
The game reads your phone’s motion sensor (the accelerometer) for one thing only: letting notes whose glue has worn out slide when you tilt the device. These readings are used on the spot, on your phone; they are never stored or sent, to us or to anyone else.
Ads (free version)
The free version shows a banner at the bottom of the screen and a full-screen ad between two levels, at most once every two completed levels and never while you are handling notes. They are provided by Google AdMob (Google Ireland Limited in Europe).
Your consent. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, a Google consent form appears before any ad: you choose whether ads may be personalized. You can change your mind at any time in “Settings → My ad choices”. On iPhone, the app then asks for Apple’s tracking permission (App Tracking Transparency); if you decline, Apple’s advertising identifier is never shared and you still see ads, just less tailored ones. On Android, you can reset or delete your advertising ID in your phone settings.
To show, measure and select ads, and to fight fraud, Google’s SDK receives technical information: IP address, device model and system, language, advertising identifier if you allowed it, ad interactions and diagnostics. This processing falls under Google’s policies. Ads are limited to content rated “PG”.
With the “No ads” purchase, the ad component does not start.
The “No ads” purchase
Payment is handled by the App Store (Apple) or Google Play: we never see your payment details. RevenueCat (RevenueCat, Inc.) checks the purchase and makes it restorable on your other devices; it receives an anonymous identifier created by the app, purchase receipts and technical device information.
App updates
At launch, the app asks Expo’s servers (EAS Update, 650 Industries, Inc.) whether an update is available. As with any connection, those servers then see the device’s IP address, its system and the app version. No game data is sent.
What we do not do
- no account, no email, no location, no contacts, no photos, no microphone;
- no analytics or tracking tool of our own;
- no sale of data.
Your rights
You can ask to access, correct or erase data about you, or object to its processing, by writing to shadowlinkdigital@gmail.com. Ad consent choices are in the app; for Google, see also myadcenter.google.com. You may also contact your data protection authority.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes too; any important change is announced in the app.