Privacy policy

Who is responsible

Bounce Court and this website are published by eiilo games, the developer named on the app’s Google Play listing. For any question about this policy or your data, write to hi@eiilo.com.

What the app keeps on your device

The app saves these things in its private storage on your device:

• your best score and your progress (records such as bricks broken and your longest run);
• the achievements you have earned and the themes you have unlocked;
• which premium themes you have bought (the product names only, so they work offline);
• your settings, such as whether sound is on.

They are never sent to us. Uninstalling the app, or clearing its data in Android’s settings, deletes everything it saved.

Advertising

The app uses the Google Mobile Ads SDK (AdMob) to show ads: a banner on menu screens, an occasional full-screen ad between runs, and optional rewarded videos you can choose to watch in exchange for a reward in the game. Ads are never shown during a run.

To serve and measure these ads, Google may collect:

• your device’s advertising ID, which you can reset or delete in Android’s settings;
• your IP address and the approximate location derived from it;
• device and app details such as model, operating system version, language, screen size and the app’s package name;
• which ads were shown, viewed or tapped, and whether a rewarded video was watched to the end.

We do not receive this data ourselves. It is processed by Google under Google’s privacy policy, and Google explains its ad practices in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.

Your consent and choices

If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, the app asks for your consent through Google’s consent form (the User Messaging Platform) before requesting any ad, and honours the choice you make. Personalised ads are shown only if you agree to them. If the consent form cannot be loaded, for example without a network connection, the game starts anyway and shows no ads until it can.

You can change or withdraw your consent at any time: tap the Privacy options button on the main menu to open the consent form again. The button appears wherever the law requires this choice.

Anywhere in the world, you can limit ad personalisation by resetting or deleting your advertising ID: open Android’s settings, then Google, then Ads (on some devices, Settings, then Privacy, then Ads). A reset gives your device a new, unrelated ID; deleting it stops apps from using one at all.

Usage statistics

The app includes the Google Analytics for Firebase SDK. It tells us, in aggregate, how many people play, how often and for how long, how many come back, on which kinds of devices and in which countries, and how many ads are seen per session and what they earn. We use this only to improve the game and to understand how the ads perform. We do not use it to identify you.

To do this, Firebase collects:

• a random app-instance ID created when the app is first opened, which is reset if you uninstall the app or clear its data;
• your device’s advertising ID, which links app usage with the ads shown, and which you can reset or delete in Android’s settings;
• app events such as first open, session start, time spent in the app, screens viewed and ad impressions;
• device and app details such as model, operating system version, language, app version, and your country or region, derived from your IP address, which is not stored.

The data is processed by Google on our behalf and shared with AdMob, both linked to the same Google account, under Google’s privacy policy and the Firebase privacy and security information. We see it only as reports and charts in the Firebase and AdMob consoles. Google Analytics keeps user-level data for at most 14 months before deleting it.

In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, the consent form described above also governs usage statistics: Firebase reads your choice and limits what it stores, and how it may be used for advertising, accordingly.

Google Play Games

The leaderboard and achievements work through Google Play Games, a service provided by Google. When the app starts, it asks Play Games whether you are signed in. Android may sign you in automatically if you use Play Games on your device; if you are not signed in, you can sign in from the leaderboard or achievements button, or not at all. The game plays the same either way.

While you are signed in:

• your scores are sent to the game’s leaderboard;
• the achievements you unlock, and your progress towards them, are sent to your Play Games profile;
• Google processes your Play Games player ID and profile (your gamer name and avatar) to show them.

Other players may see your gamer name and score on the leaderboard, depending on your Play Games profile settings. All of this is handled by Google under Google’s privacy policy, and you can manage or delete it from the Play Games app or your Google account. We can see the leaderboard like any player, and we never receive your name, e-mail address or contacts. Play Games data is not linked to the usage statistics above.

When you are not signed in, nothing is sent to Play Games.

In-app purchases

The game is free. It offers optional premium themes, which change how the game looks and sounds, never how it plays. They are sold through Google Play’s billing system:

• Google takes the payment and processes your payment details, Google account and purchase history under Google’s privacy policy and the Google Play terms. We never see your card, bank or billing details.
• We receive a record of the purchase from Google (which theme, when, and an order number), which we use only to deliver the theme, to restore it if you reinstall, and to handle refunds.
• The app remembers which themes you bought on your device, as described above.

Refunds are handled by Google Play, under its refund policy.

Permissions

The app asks for internet access and the ability to check whether you are connected, the Google SDKs it includes declare the advertising ID permission, and the Google Play Billing library declares the billing permission. These exist only so ads, usage statistics, Google Play Games and purchases can work; the game itself plays fine offline. It does not ask for your location, camera, microphone, contacts, files or notifications.

What we never do

• We do not sell data. We hold none of our own to sell.
• We do not run analytics or crash reporting beyond Google Analytics for Firebase, described above.
• We do not combine usage statistics with anything that identifies you by name.
• We do not track you across other apps or websites.

This website

The site is a set of static pages. It sets no cookies, includes no analytics or tracking scripts, and everything it shows (its pictures and its font included) is served from this site, so your browser makes no requests to anyone else while you read it.

The site is hosted on GitHub Pages. Like any web server, it receives your IP address, the page you asked for, the time and your browser’s user agent with every request, and GitHub may keep these in logs for security and to keep the service running. GitHub describes this in the GitHub General Privacy Statement. We do not receive or read these logs.

Children

Bounce Court shows ads and collects usage statistics, so it is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. Parents or guardians who believe a child has used the app and have concerns can contact us at hi@eiilo.com and we will help.

Keeping and deleting data

What the app saves lives only on your device and disappears when you uninstall it. Usage statistics are kept by Google Analytics for at most 14 months at user level, then only as aggregate reports. Data processed by Google for ads, and your leaderboard scores, achievements and Play Games profile, are kept according to Google’s own rules and can be managed through your Google account, the Play Games app and Android’s ad settings. We keep nothing of our own to delete.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, delete or restrict the use of personal data about you, to object to its processing, to withdraw your consent, and to complain to a data protection authority. Because we do not hold your data ourselves, most of these requests are best made to Google through the links above. You can still write to us and we will help you find the right place.

Changes and past versions

If the app ever starts handling information differently, for example if crash reporting is added, this page will be updated, with a new effective date at the top, before that version of the app is released. Earlier versions stay online so you can see what changed.

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