Play Nook Privacy Policy

Overview

Play Nook (package com.shapesort.game) is a collection of small games — arcade, puzzle, precision and sorting — gathered into one app. It does not require sign-in, account creation, or any personal information. It contains no advertising and no in-app purchases.

Every game ships inside the app and is played entirely offline. The games are served to the app's own game view from local storage on your device, and that view is configured to refuse every other source — a game cannot reach the internet even if it tried to. The app does hold the Android internet permission, and it uses it for one purpose only: sending anonymous gameplay statistics to Google Analytics for Firebase, described below.

This app was previously published as "Shape Sort" and then "Sort Anything". It is now Play Nook. The package name is unchanged, so this page — which has always been that package's policy — now describes Play Nook.

Effective date: September 20, 2026. Contact: puzzlethrone@gmail.com

Information The App Stores On Your Device

Play Nook saves gameplay-only information on your device so you can pick up where you left off:

• Per-game progress — scores, best results, in-progress boards and whatever currency or unlocks an individual game keeps. Each game keeps its own, in its own format.
• Which games you have marked as favourites, and which you have opened recently.
• Your settings, such as sound.

This is stored locally, in the app's own storage and in the game view's local storage, and is never uploaded. Uninstalling the app deletes it. There is no cloud save and no account, so this information cannot be recovered or transferred to another device.

Analytics: What Is Sent

The app uses Google Analytics for Firebase so we can see which games people open and which ones they come back to. The events the app sends are the complete list below — nothing else is sent, and every value is a short label the app itself defined:

• app_open — that the app was opened. This is a standard Firebase event.
• collection_opened — that the game collection finished loading and is ready to play.
• game_opened — which game was started, as a game_id such as blast or cannon. This is the app's own internal name for that game.

Individual games do not send analytics of their own. Your scores, your progress and how you played are not transmitted — they stay on your device.

The only place to type anything in Play Nook is the box used to search the game list, and what you type there is never collected or sent. We do not send a name, an email address, an account identifier, or anything you have written.

Analytics: What Firebase Collects Automatically

Separately from the events above, the Firebase SDK automatically collects a standard set of information in order to produce its reports. This includes a randomly generated app instance identifier, your device model and operating system version, your app version, your language setting, and an approximate region derived from your IP address. Google processes the IP address to work out that region and does not store it in our reports.

The SDK may also read the Google Play install referrer — the tag Google Play attaches to an install — so that installs can be counted against where they came from. This is supplied by Google Play, not read from your device.

Play Nook does not collect the Android advertising ID. The advertising-identifier permissions that the analytics SDK would normally add are explicitly removed from the app, so the app cannot read that identifier. Nothing collected is used to build an advertising profile, and nothing is sold.

You can stop analytics entirely by uninstalling the app. Google's handling of this data is covered by Firebase's privacy and security terms.

Permissions

• Internet and network state — used only to deliver the analytics events listed above. No game content is ever downloaded.
• Prevent sleeping — added by the analytics SDK so a queued report can finish sending. The app does not keep your screen awake while you play.
• Install referrer — lets the analytics SDK ask Google Play where the install came from.

Play Nook does not ask for and cannot access your location, contacts, photos, camera, microphone, files, or payment information. It does not send notifications and does not run in the background.

Children's Privacy

Play Nook is a general-audience game collection. It does not knowingly collect personal information from children, and it collects no personal information from anyone of any age — the analytics described above are gameplay statistics, not personal data. If you believe a child's personal information has somehow been provided to us, contact puzzlethrone@gmail.com.

Data Safety Summary

Data is encrypted in transit. There is no account, so there is no account to delete; uninstalling the app removes everything stored on your device and stops any further collection.

Third-Party Services

Play Nook embeds one third-party SDK: Google Analytics for Firebase. There is no advertising SDK, no crash-reporting service, no session recording, and no social login. Credits for the game libraries and music bundled in the app can be read offline inside the app, under About & credits. This privacy policy is hosted on Puzzle Throne, and visits to this web page may be processed according to Puzzle Throne's website privacy practices. Downloading the app from Google Play is governed by Google's own privacy policy.

Changes

We may update this policy as the app evolves. Play Nook currently shows no advertising. If a future version adds advertising, in-app purchases, or online features, this page and the Google Play Data Safety section will be updated before that version is released — advertising in particular would reintroduce the advertising identifier that this version deliberately removes. The effective date above indicates when this version took effect.