Squishy Blast Privacy Policy
This policy explains what the mobile game Squishy Blast ("the game") does with information. The short version: Squishy Blast never asks for your name, email or any account. Your game stays on your phone, and purchases are handled by Google Play. It also shares play data (how the game is played, never who you are) with Google Analytics, so we can make the game better. The game asks you to agree to this before your first level.
What the game stores, and where
The game saves the following on your device, in storage only Squishy Blast can read:
- your progress: the levels you have played, your stars, your lives and your place on the map;
- your settings: sound, vibration and phone alerts;
- which version of the terms and this policy you agreed to on the welcome card;
- your in-game coins, power-ups, squishy collection, Squishy Pass and Squishy Hunt progress, which have no real-money value outside the game;
- a record of each purchase it has delivered (a one-way code made from Google's purchase token, never the token itself), so nothing is delivered twice;
- a small log of game events (for example "a level was won") that stays on your phone.
Apart from the play data you agree to share (below), the game does not send this information to us or to anyone else.
Play data (Google Analytics for Firebase)
Before your first level, the game asks you to agree to the terms, this policy and sharing play data. Once you agree, it uses Google Analytics for Firebase, a Google service, to send us statistics about how the game is played. That data includes:
- what happens in the game: levels started, won and lost, moves, stars, power-ups and coins used, gifts and prizes collected, and the screens you visit;
- purchases: which item was bought and its price (never your payment details);
- when the game was first opened, how often and how long it is played, the game's version, your phone's model, Android version and language;
- your country or region, which Google works out from your internet address (Google does not keep the address itself);
- an app-instance ID: a random number Google Analytics gives this installation of the game. It is not linked to your name, email or Google account.
We use play data to see where players get stuck, which levels are too hard or too easy, and what to improve. We don't sell it, and it is not used for advertising: the game has no ads, does not use the advertising ID, and tells Google Analytics not to use play data for ads. Google processes the data for us under the Google Analytics terms and Google's Privacy Policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy); see also how Google uses data from apps that use its services (https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites). Google Analytics keeps play data for 14 months, then deletes it.
Sharing play data is part of playing Squishy Blast. If you don't want to share it, don't agree on the welcome card, or uninstall the game: it then sends nothing more.
Purchases
You can buy coins, the Starter Pack, the Coin Jar and the Squishy Pass with real money. Every purchase goes through Google Play's own payment system: Google handles your payment details, and we never see them. When you buy something, Google Play tells the game the purchase went through, and the game delivers it on your phone. The game adds no information of its own to a purchase.
Google's handling of payments is covered by Google's Privacy Policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy) and the Google Payments Privacy Notice.
What the game does not do
- It asks for no account, name, email, phone number or photo.
- It has no advertising and no social service, and it doesn't track you across other apps or websites.
- It does not use the advertising ID.
- It does not ask for your precise location, contacts, camera, microphone or files.
Android permissions
- Vibration, for optional haptic feedback (you can turn it off in the game's settings).
- Notifications, only if you say yes: reminders such as "Your lives are full!" or "Your daily gift is ready!", made on your phone (you can turn them off in the game's settings or in Android Settings).
- Internet and network state, which Google Play's payment library needs to reach Google Play for purchases, and which Google Analytics uses to send play data.
Children
Squishy Blast is made for players aged 13 and over. It never asks anyone for their name, email or any other personal details.
Google Play
You download Squishy Blast through Google Play, which processes information such as your Google account, your device and your installation under Google's Privacy Policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy). If you have chosen to share usage and diagnostics data with Google, Google Play may give us statistics (for example, install counts) and crash reports (for example, the phone model, Android version and the point in the game where it stopped). We use these only to find and fix problems. They don't identify you to us.
Deleting your data
Everything else is on your phone. To delete it, uninstall Squishy Blast, or clear the app's storage in Android Settings > Apps > Squishy Blast > Storage. We keep no copy, so we can't restore it. Purchases stay in your Google Play account (Google Play > Payments & subscriptions > Budget & history).
Play data: uninstalling the game stops it. Google Analytics deletes it after 14 months. To ask us to delete play data sooner, write to nyxonalpha@gmail.com.
Changes
If this policy changes, we will update this page and its effective date. When a change matters, the game asks you again before you play on.
Contact
Questions about this policy: nyxonalpha@gmail.com