The short version
- You play without an account. We never ask for your name, email address, contacts or photos.
- Your levels, stars, best scores and settings are saved on your device. We run no server and cannot see them.
- The game is free because it 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.
- Premium, a one-time purchase, removes the ads.
1Who we are
Pop Pop Aliens (the “game”) is made and published by PAUL CRP - App Development Studio (“we”, “us”). For the limited data described below, we are the controller together with the service providers named in this policy.
Questions about privacy: devpaulcrp@gmail.com
2What stays on your device
The game keeps the following only in its own storage on your iPhone or iPad. It is not sent to us:
- cleared levels, stars and best scores in the levels, Endless, the Daily and Weekly Challenges and the seasonal events
- counters used for achievements and the alien collection (aliens popped, combos and the like), and the skin you chose
- settings such as sound, music and vibration, and which instruction cards you have read
- whether you own Premium
If you delete the game, this information is deleted with it. Progress cannot be brought back afterwards. Premium can be restored with “Restore purchase”. Apple may include the game’s storage in the device backups you have switched on.
3Advertising and the data it uses
The game shows two kinds of ads through Google AdMob: a full-screen ad now and then after a finished game, and a short video that you can choose to watch to carry on after losing. 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 itself contains no other advertising or analytics 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
Before any ad is requested, iOS asks whether the game may track your activity across other companies’ apps and websites. If you choose “Ask App Not to Track”, the advertising identifier is not shared and ads are not based on tracking. 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 or Switzerland, the game first shows a consent message from Google. You can consent, refuse, or manage each purpose and partner separately. You can reopen that message whenever you like in the game under Settings › “Privacy options”. If you refuse, you may still see ads, but they are not personalised.
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. From the next start of the game the advertising software is not started at all.
5Purchases
The game offers one purchase: Premium, bought once, which removes the ads, lets you carry on after losing without watching a video, and unlocks the Ghost skin. All payments are handled by Apple. We never see your card details or your Apple Account; the game only learns from Apple whether a purchase succeeded, so it can unlock what you bought.
- Premium can be restored on your devices with “Restore purchase”.
- There is nothing else to buy: no coins, no subscriptions.
- Refunds are handled by Apple under Apple’s terms.
6Game Center
If you are signed in to Apple’s Game Center, the game sends your scores and achievement progress to Apple so they can appear on the leaderboards and in your profile. This is optional: the game works without Game Center, and you can sign out in the Settings app. Apple processes that information 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.
- We do not sell personal data for money.
8Children
Pop Pop Aliens is a family game for a general audience. It is not directed specifically at children under 13 (or the higher age set by the law of your country), and we do not knowingly collect personal data from them. Parents can switch off tracking requests and in-app purchases for a child’s device with Screen Time in the Settings app. If you believe a child has given personal data 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 personalised advertising and tracking. You can withdraw it at any time, as explained in section 4.
- Legitimate interests in running a free game: showing non-personalised ads, limiting how often they appear, preventing fraud and fixing faults.
- Performance of a contract to deliver 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, 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: sharing an advertising identifier for personalised ads can count as “sharing” or “selling” under some state laws. You can opt out by refusing the tracking permission described in section 4.
10Keeping, transferring and protecting data
Data on your device stays there until you 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 the safeguards those policies describe.
The game uses the protections built into iOS and Apple’s and Google’s official software. No method of storing or sending data is perfectly secure, so we cannot promise absolute security.
11Stars, skins and progress
Stars, skins, scores and anything else you earn in the game are for play only. They have no cash value and cannot be exchanged for money. We may rebalance levels and rewards 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
If this policy changes, the new version will be published on this page with a new date. If a change is important, the game or its App Store page will say so.
Write to us at devpaulcrp@gmail.com.
By installing or playing Pop Pop Aliens you confirm that you have read this policy. Use of the game is also covered by Apple’s standard licence agreement.