Privacy Policy

Warmaze TD, version 3 of this policy.

Operated by Polytelic Labs GmbH.

The short version

The game asks for no name, email, phone number or account. It does not read your contacts, photos, location, microphone or camera.

Your progress stays on your device. Four things can reach the internet: your rankings entry, play statistics if you agree to them, ads, and purchases. Each is explained below.

1. Saved on your device

Your progress, coins, gems, settings and the name and avatar you choose are saved in a file on your device. We cannot see it. Deleting the game or its data deletes it.

2. Rankings

When you finish an Endless raid, the game sends your best wave to the rankings so other players can see it. Sent with it: the name you chose (or "Raider" and four digits), your avatar and border, the score and the time.

To do this the game creates a random, anonymous id for your install. It is not linked to your real identity.

Rankings are run with Google Firebase on servers in the European Union. Like any internet service, Google's servers see your IP address when the game connects.

Other players can see your name, avatar, border and score. They cannot see your id.

You can remove your rankings entries and the anonymous id at any time: Settings, DELETE ONLINE DATA.

3. Play statistics

The game asks whether it may send play statistics. It sends nothing of this kind unless you say yes, and you can switch it on or off at any time: Settings, PLAY STATISTICS.

If you agree, the game reports how it is played: which battles are started, won, lost or left, how long they take, which steps of the tutorial are reached, which buildings and features are used, coins spent inside the game, how smoothly the game runs, and whether a start failed. With these come the device model, the system version, the language and the app version.

Google also works out roughly where you are (country, region and city) from your IP address when a report arrives. The IP address itself is not stored with the statistics.

The statistics are collected with Google Analytics for Firebase and are linked to a random id that it creates for your install. This means they are not fully anonymous: reports from the same install can be connected to each other, and they count as personal data. We do not link them to your name, your rankings entry or your purchases, and the advertising id is not read for them.

We use the statistics only to find where the game is too hard, unclear or slow, and to fix it. They are not used for advertising.

Google processes the statistics on our behalf, on servers that may be outside your country. Reports linked to an install id are kept for at most 14 months, in Google Analytics and in the copy we keep for our own analysis. Totals that no longer point to a single install, for example how many players cleared a level, can be kept longer.

Switching the statistics off stops the reports and resets the random id on your device. Reports sent before that stay until they expire as described above. If you want them deleted sooner, send us the report from Settings, COPY REPORT, before you switch off: it carries the id we need to find them.

How Google handles this data: https://firebase.google.com/support/privacy

4. Ads

In versions of the game that show ads, video ads come from Google AdMob. To show and measure ads, Google may collect your device's advertising id, your IP address, device and app details, and how you interact with ads, and may use them to choose ads for you.

Where the law asks for it (for example in the EU, the UK and Switzerland), Google's consent screen asks you first, and you can change your choice later under Settings, PRIVACY CHOICES. You can also reset or delete your advertising id in your device settings.

There are no ads in your first battles, and the No Ads Pass removes them for good.

How Google uses this data: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites

5. Purchases

If you buy something, Google Play handles the payment and keeps its own record. We never receive your card details. The game stores on your device what you bought so it can give it to you.

6. What we do not do

We do not sell your data. Without your yes, the game sends no play statistics.

7. Children

The game is not made for children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect data from them.

8. Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to see, correct or delete data about you, or to object to its use. The data we hold is your rankings entry, which you can delete yourself in Settings, and, if you agreed, play statistics, which you can stop in Settings. For anything else, contact us.

9. Changes

If this policy changes in a way that matters, the game will show it to you again.

10. Contact

Write to us: domenik@polytelic.at