The short version
- There are no accounts. The game never asks for your name, email address, phone number, contacts or photos.
- Your progress and settings are stored on your device. We run no server and cannot see them.
- Unless you buy Premium, the game shows ads from Google AdMob. Google and its partners receive some device and usage data to deliver and measure those ads.
- You decide about tracking: the game asks first, and you can change your mind at any time.
- Purchases and Game Center are handled by Apple. We do not sell your personal information.
1Who we are
Cyphre: Brain Puzzle Rings (“Cyphre”, the “game”) is a puzzle game for iPhone and iPad, made and published by PAUL CRP - App Development Studio (“we”, “us”). This policy explains what information the game uses, who else receives it, and the choices you have.
Questions about privacy: devpaulcrp@gmail.com
2What stays on your device
So that you can continue where you left off, the game keeps the following only in its own storage on your iPhone or iPad. It is not sent to us:
- Progress: completed levels, stars, best move counts, hints, your daily puzzle streak and the tutorials you have seen
- Settings: sound effects, music, haptics, color-blind symbols, reduced motion and the theme you chose
- Purchase status: whether Premium is unlocked
- Ad counters: how many full-screen ads have been shown, used to space out the occasional offer to remove ads
You can erase all of it at any time with Settings › “Reset all progress” in the game, or by deleting the game. Apple may include the game’s storage in the device backups you have switched on.
3Advertising and the data it uses
The free version shows ads through Google AdMob: a banner on the level list, a full-screen ad now and then between levels, and short videos that you can choose to watch to earn hints or to continue a level. To deliver, limit, measure and protect those ads, the Google Mobile Ads software inside the game collects the data below and sends it to Google and its advertising partners. We do not receive this data in a form that identifies you.
| Data | Used for | Linked to you | Used to track you |
|---|---|---|---|
| Device identifiers (such as the advertising identifier, if you allow it) | Third-party advertising, our own advertising, analytics | Yes | Yes, with permission |
| Advertising data (which ads were shown and tapped) | Third-party advertising, our own advertising, analytics | Yes | No |
| Product interaction (app launches and activity in the game) | Third-party advertising, our own advertising, analytics, making the game work | Yes | No |
| Approximate location (derived from your internet address; never GPS) | Third-party advertising, our own advertising, analytics, making the game work | Yes | No |
| Crash data | Analytics | No | No |
| Performance data (loading times, energy use) | Third-party advertising, our own advertising, analytics, making the game work | No | No |
| Other diagnostic data | Third-party advertising, our own advertising, analytics | No | No |
This is the same list you see under “App Privacy” on the game’s App Store page. The game contains no other advertising, analytics or social-media software.
How Google uses this information: How Google uses information from apps that use its services and the Google Privacy Policy.
4Your choices
Tracking permission
iOS asks whether the game may track your activity across other companies’ apps and websites. If you choose “Ask App Not to Track”, ads are still shown, but the advertising identifier is not used to personalize them. You can change this at any time in the Settings app under Privacy & Security › Tracking.
Consent in Europe
If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland or another region where it is required, the game first shows a consent message from Google. You can accept, decline, or manage each purpose and partner separately. You can reopen that message whenever you like in the game under Settings › “Privacy & ad choices” (shown where it applies). If you decline, you may still see ads, but they are not personalized.
Other controls
- iOS Settings › Privacy & Security › Apple Advertising and › Tracking limit advertising across all your apps.
- Google’s ad settings: My Ad Center.
- Buying Premium removes the ads. On later launches the advertising software is not started at all, and the consent and tracking questions are not shown.
5Purchases
The game offers Premium (a one-time purchase that removes the ads and unlocks every theme) and packs of hints. All payments are handled by Apple. We never see your card details or your Apple Account; the game only checks with Apple, on your device, whether a purchase succeeded, so it can unlock what you bought.
- Premium can be restored on your devices with “Restore purchases”. Purchases made in earlier versions of Cyphre are recognized and unlock Premium.
- Hints are used up as you spend them and are stored only on the device. They cannot be restored once the game is deleted.
- Refunds are handled by Apple under Apple’s terms.
6Game Center and Apple
If you are signed in to Apple’s Game Center, the game sends your scores (levels completed, stars, perfect levels and daily streak) and your achievement progress to Apple, so they can appear on the leaderboards and in your profile under your Game Center name. This is optional: the game works without Game Center, and you can sign out in the Settings app.
If you chose to share analytics with app developers in the Settings app, Apple may give us aggregated, anonymous statistics and crash reports. Apple processes all of this under the Apple Privacy Policy.
7What the game does not do
- It does not ask for your name, email address, phone number, contacts, photos, camera, microphone or precise location.
- It has no accounts, no chat and no way of posting content.
- It does not send your progress to us or to anyone else, and it uses no server of ours.
- It does not build a profile of you or make automated decisions that affect you.
- We do not sell personal data for money.
8Children
Cyphre is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. In some countries a higher age applies for agreeing to the use of personal data (for example 16 in parts of Europe); there, please ask a parent or guardian to decide about the consent message. Parents can switch off tracking requests and in-app purchases with Screen Time in the Settings app. If you believe a child has given personal information through the game, write to us and we will help.
9Legal bases and your rights
Where the GDPR or a similar law applies, the data described above is processed on these grounds:
- Your consent for personalized advertising and the use of the advertising identifier. You can withdraw it at any time, as explained in section 4.
- Legitimate interests in running a free game: showing non-personalized ads, limiting how often they appear, preventing fraud and keeping the game working.
- Performance of a contract to provide the game and what you buy.
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, delete or move your data, to restrict or object to its use, to withdraw consent, and to complain to your data protection authority. Because we keep no personal data about you on any server, most requests are best made with the tools above or directly to Google and Apple, but you can always write to us and we will help.
United States residents: we do not sell your personal information. Ad personalization by Google can count as “sharing” or “targeted advertising” under some state laws. You can opt out with the choices in section 4.
10Keeping, transferring and protecting data
Data on your device stays there until you reset your progress or delete the game. Google and Apple keep the data they receive for the periods set out in their own policies, and may process it in countries other than your own, including the United States, using safeguards such as standard contractual clauses or approved data protection frameworks.
Your game data sits in the game’s protected storage and is covered by the security features of iOS. No method of storing or sending data is perfectly secure, so we cannot promise absolute security.
11Hints, stars and progress
Hints, stars, themes and anything else you earn or buy in the game are for play only. They have no cash value and cannot be exchanged for money. We may rebalance levels, rewards and prices in later versions. Because progress is stored only on your device, we cannot recover it if the game is deleted or the device is lost.
12Changes and contact
We may update this policy when the game or the law changes. The new version will be published on this page with a new date, and applies from then on.
Write to us at devpaulcrp@gmail.com.
By installing or playing Cyphre you confirm that you have read this policy. Use of the game is also covered by Apple’s standard license agreement.