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Hollow Harvest Privacy Policy

Summary

• Hollow Harvest keeps your game progress only on your device.
• Gamaedor runs no server for the game. We do not receive your data.
• The game shows ads from Google AdMob. Google collects some device data to show ads, measure them and prevent fraud.
• In the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom and Switzerland, Google's consent message asks for your choice before ads load. You can change your choice later in Settings > Privacy Options.
• The game has no accounts, no sign-in, no chat, no user-generated content and no in-app purchases.

1. Who we are

This policy covers the Android game Hollow Harvest (package name com.gamaedor.hollowharvest), published on Google Play by Gamaedor ("we", "us"). You can reach us at info@hollow-harvest.com.

2. Data the game keeps on your device

The game saves your progress in the app's private storage on your device. The save holds:

• the levels you have reached, the stars you have won and how many levels you have won;
• your coins, your booster counts and which boosters you have unlocked (coins are earned only by playing; they cannot be bought);
• crate counters, your win streak and which tutorials you have seen;
• the level you are playing, so that closing the game in the middle of a level counts as giving up that level;
• a count of levels completed since the last between-levels ad;
• your music, sound and vibration settings.

The save holds no name, email address, phone number, contacts, photos, location or payment details. The game does not send the save to us or to anyone else. We cannot see it.

If backup is turned on for your device, Android may include the save in your device backup in your Google Account. Android may restore it when you install the game again, or copy it when you move your data to a new phone. Google runs that backup under your Google Account. We have no access to it.

3. Data we collect

We do not collect, receive or store personal data from the game. We run no server for it. The game's own code sends nothing over the internet. The game uses no analytics or crash-reporting service of its own, and the Unity engine's analytics, crash-reporting and ads services are turned off.

We do not sell or rent data about you.

Google's ads and consent software, described in sections 4 and 5, collects data on your device and sends it to Google. That data goes to Google, not to us. From AdMob we receive only summary reports, such as how many ads were shown and what they earned. These reports do not identify you.

4. Ads from Google AdMob

The game shows two kinds of ads:

• a video ad that you choose to watch, to triple the coins from a level or to get a free continue;
• a full-screen ad between levels, at most once every 7 levels, starting from level 8.

The ads come from Google AdMob, a Google service. The game includes Google's Mobile Ads SDK and Google's consent tool, the User Messaging Platform.

According to Google, the Mobile Ads SDK collects this data automatically:

• your IP address, which can be used to estimate the general location of your device;
• how you use the app and the ads, such as app launches, taps and video views;
• diagnostic data, such as app launch time, hang rate and energy use;
• device identifiers: the Android advertising ID, the app set ID and, where applicable, other identifiers related to signed-in accounts on the device.

Google uses this data for advertising, for analytics (for example, measuring how ads perform) and for fraud prevention. Google may also use it to show ads based on your interests. In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, that needs your consent (see section 5). Elsewhere, you can limit it with your device's ad settings (see section 7). Google says this data is encrypted in transit using TLS.

Google and its advertising partners may place and read cookies or similar storage on your device, and may use device identifiers and your IP address, to serve and measure ads.

Google handles this data under its own policies:

• Google Privacy Policy
• How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services
• Google Business Data Responsibility

On devices that offer them, Google's ads SDK may also use Android's own ad privacy features: ad topics, app-suggested ads and ad measurement. You can turn each one off in your device settings (see section 7).

5. Your consent choice in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland

Each time the game starts, it asks Google's consent tool whether you need to see a consent message. This check goes to Google over the internet, so Google receives your device's IP address even in a session where no ad loads. If you are in the EEA, the UK or Switzerland, Google shows a consent message before ads load. The message lists Google's advertising partners and asks for your choice about how Google and those partners may use your data for ads. Google's tool stores your choice on your device. After you choose, the message does not appear again unless Google's tool asks for a new choice.

• If you consent, Google may show personalized ads.
• If you do not consent, Google may show non-personalized or limited ads. Limited ads do not use personal data to personalize ads.
• If Google's tool says that ads may not be requested, the game shows no ads in that session. You can still play. The ad offers simply do not appear.

You can change or withdraw your choice at any time. On the home screen, tap the gear (Settings), then tap Privacy Options. Google's form opens and you can make a new choice. The Privacy Options button appears when Google's consent tool says it is required for you. Withdrawing consent affects ads requested after that. It does not undo earlier processing.

6. Children

Hollow Harvest is made for players aged 13 and older.

Hollow Harvest is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from them. The game itself collects no personal data from any player. If you believe a child under 13 is playing, contact us and we will help you use the ad controls in section 7.

If you are a parent or guardian and have a question about your child's use of the game, contact us at info@hollow-harvest.com.

7. How long data is kept, and how to delete it

Your game save

• It stays on your device until you remove it.
• Settings > Reset Progress erases your progress. It keeps your music, sound and vibration settings.
• Uninstalling the game deletes the save from your device. So does clearing the app's storage in your device settings (Settings > Apps > Hollow Harvest > Storage).
• If device backup is on, a copy may remain in your Google Account backup. You manage it in your device's backup settings and in your Google Account.

Data we hold

We hold no player data, so we have nothing to keep or delete.

Data Google collects through ads

Google keeps this data as described in its privacy policy and in How Google retains data we collect. You can:

• reset or delete your advertising ID. In your device's Settings, open Privacy > Ads (on some devices: Google > All services > Ads), then tap Reset advertising ID or Delete advertising ID. After you delete it, apps receive a string of zeros instead of an ID.
• turn off ad topics, app-suggested ads and ad measurement. In your device's Settings, open Google > All services > Ads > Ads privacy. See Google's help page Manage your ad privacy settings on Android.
• manage ad personalization for your Google Account in My Ad Center.

8. Security

• The save is kept in the app's private storage on your device. Android stops other apps from reading it.
• We run no server for the game, so we hold no player data that could be exposed.
• Google says its ads SDK encrypts the data it sends using TLS.
• No method of storage or transfer is completely secure. We keep the game's data handling to a minimum.

9. App permissions

Hollow Harvest asks for these Android permissions:

• Internet and network state: used by Google's ads and consent software, and to check whether a connection is available.
• Vibrate: for vibration in play. You can turn vibration off in Settings.
• Advertising ID, and Android ad services (ad ID, attribution and topics): used by Google's ads SDK.
• Wake lock and foreground service: added by Android libraries that Google's ads SDK uses to schedule its own background work. The game's own code does not use them.

The game does not ask for location, camera, microphone, contacts, photos, files or phone permissions.

10. Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights over your personal data. These can include the right to access, correct or delete it, and to object to or limit how it is used. In some US states you may have the right to opt out of targeted advertising, or of the "sale" or "sharing" of personal data.

• We hold no personal data about you, so we usually cannot find any data linked to you. You can still contact us at info@hollow-harvest.com, and we will answer.
• For data that Google collects through ads, use the controls in sections 5 and 7, or Google's tools described in the Google Privacy Policy.
• If you are in the EEA, the UK or Switzerland, you can also complain to your local data protection authority.

11. Links to other sites

Ads may link to other apps or websites. Their own privacy policies apply there. The Privacy Policy link in Settings opens this page in your web browser. That is an ordinary website visit, outside the game. Like any website, hollow-harvest.com, and Cloudflare, which hosts it, receive your device's IP address when the page loads.

12. Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we will post the new version on this page and change the effective date at the top. If a future version of the game collects new kinds of data, we will update this policy before that version is released.

13. Contact

Gamaedor
Email: info@hollow-harvest.com
This policy: https://hollow-harvest.com/privacy/