Puzzle Throne App Privacy Policy

Overview

This policy covers the Puzzle Throne Android app (com.puzzlethrone.puzzle_throne) from version 1.1.0 onward. It is a catalogue of puzzle mini-games that ship inside the app and are played entirely on your device.

The app does not require sign-in or account creation, and it no longer loads the Puzzle Throne website. The website is a separate product with its own accounts and features — if you use it in a browser, the Puzzle Throne website policy applies there, not this one.

The games themselves need no internet connection. The app does use the internet for the analytics, session replay and advertising described below.

Effective date: July 28, 2026. Contact: puzzlethrone@gmail.com

Information The App Stores On Your Device

Puzzle Throne saves gameplay-only information locally, in app preferences and WebView local storage:

• Best scores and per-game progress, including saved runs you can resume.
• Your chosen language and in-app settings.
• Counters used to decide when to show the Google Play rating card, so you are not asked repeatedly.

This stays on your device and is deleted when you uninstall the app. There is no cloud save, so it cannot be recovered or moved to another device.

Analytics

The app uses Google Analytics for Firebase to understand which games people play and where they get stuck. It collects:

• Gameplay events — the app being opened, which game is opened, started, saved, resumed or ended, the score reached, the menu being opened, the language being changed, and use of the share and rate buttons.
• What you type into the app's game-search box, so we can see which games players look for. Please do not type personal information there.
• Basic device and app information, such as device model, operating-system version, app version and language.
• An automatically generated app-instance identifier, and your Android advertising identifier. These identify a device or app install, not you by name.
• Approximate, coarse location derived by Google from a masked IP address.

The app does not ask for or send your name, email address or any account identity, because it has no sign-in.

Session Replay And Heatmaps

The app uses Microsoft Clarity to record how the game screens are used, so we can find confusing or broken layouts. Clarity captures:

• Your interactions with the game screens — taps, scrolls, pointer movement, selections and screen resizes — replayable as a session recording, and aggregated into heatmaps.
• The structure and layout of the game screens as they render, so the recording can be played back.
• Identifiers for your session and app install, stored on your device as first-party cookies inside the app's WebView.
• Approximate location, which Clarity derives from your IP address.
• Script and image errors and performance measurements.

Text you type into input boxes is masked by Clarity and is not uploaded. The game screens contain no personal information.

Microsoft acts as an independent data controller for Clarity data rather than only as our processor, so this is a sharing of data with Microsoft. Microsoft's handling is governed by the Microsoft Privacy Statement and the Clarity terms of use. You can opt out of Clarity telemetry by selecting Microsoft at optout.aboutads.info.

Advertising

The app shows a full-screen Google AdMob app-open ad when you launch it and when you return to it. To serve and measure those ads, the Google Mobile Ads SDK collects and shares with Google:

• Your Android advertising identifier and app set identifier, which you can reset or delete in your Android settings.
• Your IP address, which Google uses to estimate approximate location.
• Your interactions with the app and with ads, and app performance information.

Google uses this for advertising, analytics and fraud prevention. See how Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services. You can limit ad personalisation in your Android settings under Privacy → Ads.

Notifications

The app sends a daily reminder notification to suggest coming back to a puzzle. These reminders are composed and scheduled entirely on your device — they collect nothing, send nothing, and need no internet connection. On Android 13 and later the app asks for notification permission, and you can turn notifications off at any time in your device settings.

What The App Does Not Collect

Puzzle Throne does not ask for or receive your name, email address, phone number, contacts, photos, camera, microphone, precise location, payment information or login credentials. It has no sign-in, so there is no account, no profile and no user-generated content stored on our servers. It does not create or publish games, and it does not send anything to an AI provider.

Permissions And Network

Puzzle Throne requests:

• Internet access — used for the analytics, session replay and ads described above. The games work without a connection.
• Notifications (Android 13 and later) — used only for the local daily reminder.
• Run at startup — used only to re-arm the local reminders after your device restarts.

The games are served to the app's WebView by a small server that runs inside the app and is reachable only from your own device. That traffic never touches a network.

Data Retention And Deletion

Gameplay progress lives only on your device; uninstalling the app deletes it. Analytics, session-replay and advertising data are retained by Google and Microsoft under their own retention schedules.

Because the app has no sign-in, the data it sends is not tied to your identity and we have no way to look up one player's records, so we cannot action an individual deletion request. You can, however, reset or delete your advertising identifier in your Android settings, and opt out of Clarity using the link above. If you have a question about your data, contact puzzlethrone@gmail.com.

Children's Privacy

Puzzle Throne is a general-audience game and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe we have received personal information from a child, contact us at puzzlethrone@gmail.com and we will review the request.

Data Safety Summary

This matches the app's Google Play Data safety declaration from version 1.1.0 onward.

All data the app collects is encrypted in transit using TLS.

Third-Party Services

• Google Analytics for Firebase — gameplay analytics.
• Microsoft Clarity — session replay and heatmaps.
• Google AdMob — app-open advertising.
• Google Play services — the in-app rating card and app updates.

Each service processes data under its own privacy policy. See Firebase's data processing terms and the Microsoft Privacy Statement.

Changes

We may update this policy as the app evolves. Material changes will be reflected here and, where required, in the Google Play Data safety section before release. The effective date above indicates when this version took effect.