Rangoli Boom – Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

Rangoli Boom is made by Sparkplay Studio, the studio name of Mohd Aqib, an individual developer in India. In this policy, "we" and "us" mean Mohd Aqib, trading as Sparkplay Studio. "The app" means Rangoli Boom: Block Puzzle for Android.

For any privacy question, write to support@sparkplaystudio.com.

2. What the app keeps on your phone

The app saves these things in its own storage on your phone. The app does not send them to us.

• Game progress: your best score, games in progress, Daily Puzzle days solved, Journey levels and stars, event progress, and simple game stats (for example how many games you finished).
• Settings: language, dark mode, sound, music, vibration, board style, tile shapes, the style of the praise words, and whether you finished the tutorial.
• Purchases: whether you bought Remove ads, how many hints and row clears you have, and the Google Play purchase codes ("tokens") of purchases already given to you. This stops a purchase being given twice.
• Time check: the last time read from the internet and an ID for the current start-up of your phone, which Android changes at each restart. The app uses it to know if the phone's clock was changed. The app never sends it to anyone (Android backup may copy it, see below).
• Ad consent: if you saw Google's consent form, your answers are stored on the phone by Google's consent tool.

Android backup

If you turned on Google backup on your phone, Android may copy the app's saved data (including the items above) to your Google account backup. Android does this, not us. We cannot see your backup. You can turn backup off or delete backups in your phone's Settings and in your Google account.

3. What other companies collect

The app uses a few services from Google. These services collect some data directly from your phone. We do not receive this data about you as a person. We only see totals, such as how many ads were shown and how much they earned, and the purchase order records described below.

What the app does not use

• No separate analytics or crash reporting tool (such as Google Analytics for Firebase or Crashlytics). Google's ad tool does collect data for its own analytics, as described above.
• No account, sign-in, chat or social features.
• No access to your exact location, contacts, photos, camera, microphone or files. The app does not ask for these permissions.
• No notifications.

Links you open

In Settings you can open this policy, the terms, an email to us, and the app's Google Play page. These open in your browser, email app or Google Play. If you email us, we receive your email address and what you write, and we use it only to reply.

Data outside your country

Google may process this data on its servers in India and in other countries, including the United States. Google's policies explain how it protects data it moves.

If you are in the EEA, the UK or Switzerland, Google may move your data to the United States and other countries. Google relies on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (and its UK and Swiss versions) and on Standard Contractual Clauses for this. We are in India: order records and any email you send us come to us in India. We use them only for the purposes in this policy.

4. Personalised ads and your choices

Personalised ads are ads Google picks based on your past activity. Here is how you can control them.

If you are in the EEA, the UK or Switzerland

• When you first open the app, Google's consent form appears. You choose whether to allow personalised ads. No ad is requested before this choice.
• If you are under the age of digital consent in your country (16 in most EEA countries, 13 in the UK), ask a parent or guardian before you answer, or choose not to allow personalised ads.
• To change your choice later, open Settings > Privacy choices (in Hindi: सेटिंग्स > गोपनीयता विकल्प) in the app. Close and reopen the game afterwards so the change fully applies.
• If you say no, you may still see ads, but they are not personalised.

Everywhere else (including India)

• Ads may be personalised. You usually do not see a consent form.
• You can reset or delete your advertising ID in your phone's Settings. On most phones it is Settings > Google > Ads, or Settings > Privacy > Ads. The exact menu depends on your phone.
• On newer Android phones you can also turn off Android's ad features under Settings > Privacy > Ads privacy (or similar).
• You can manage ad personalisation for your Google account at My Ad Center.

Remove ads

If you buy Remove ads, the app stops showing banner ads and ads between games. Reward videos stay. You only see one when you choose to watch it, but the app still loads one in the background so it is ready. Google's ad tools therefore keep collecting the data described above, as they do without Remove ads.

5. Children

The app is meant for people aged 13 and over. It is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 13.

If you are a parent and you think your child under 13 used the app, contact us at support@sparkplaystudio.com. Apart from purchase order records and emails, we hold no data about players, so we will explain how to delete the data on the phone and point you to Google's tools for the data Google holds.

In India, the law treats people under 18 as children. If you are under 18, please use the app with the knowledge of a parent or guardian.

6. How long data is kept, and deleting it

• On your phone: data stays until you delete it. To delete the data on your phone, go to Settings > Apps > Rangoli Boom > Storage > Clear storage in your phone's settings, or uninstall the app. This deletes your progress on the phone. The app has no "delete my data" button of its own.
• Google backup: a copy may stay in your Google account backup until Android replaces it or you delete it. If backup is on, Android may put the saved data back when you reinstall the app. To stop this, delete the app's backup in your Google account.
• Google AdMob, consent tool, Firebase and the time check: Google keeps this data as its own policies say (links above). We cannot see or delete it ourselves. You can reset or delete your advertising ID at any time.
• Purchases: Google Play keeps your purchase records with your Google account. If you reinstall, you can get Remove ads back with Settings > Restore purchases (in Hindi: सेटिंग्स > खरीदारी बहाल करें).
• With us: the app has no server, and we hold no profile about you. If you buy something, Google Play gives us an order record (no payment details). We keep order records for as long as Indian tax and accounting law requires, then delete them. We keep emails you send us for up to 12 months after your question is solved. Ask us and we will delete them sooner.

7. Security

• All data the app or Google's tools send over the internet uses encrypted connections (HTTPS).
• Data on your phone is kept in the app's private storage. Android keeps other apps out of it.
• There are no passwords and no account to hack.

No method is perfectly safe, but we try to collect as little as we can.

8. Your rights

Players in India

Under India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, you have the right to:

• ask what personal data about you is processed, and with whom it is shared;
• ask for your data to be corrected, completed, updated or erased;
• withdraw consent you gave. In India the app does not show a consent form. To stop personalised ads, delete your advertising ID (on most phones Settings > Google > Ads > Delete advertising ID) or turn off ad personalisation in My Ad Center;
• have a complaint (grievance) answered by us;
• name another person to use these rights for you if you die or cannot act.

Please send any complaint to us first (see Contact). We will answer within 30 days. If we do not solve it, you can complain to the Data Protection Board of India, through the Board's online complaint process.

Players in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland

Under the GDPR, the UK GDPR and the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP), you have the right to access, correct or delete your data, to limit or object to its use, to receive a copy of it, and to withdraw your consent at any time (use Settings > Privacy choices). Where the law needs consent, such as for personalised ads, we ask through Google's form. For the rest, such as keeping the game's settings up to date, the time check and stopping fraud, we rely on our legitimate interest in running a working and fair game. For purchases, we use order records to deliver what you bought and to handle refunds (to perform our contract with you), and we keep them as Indian tax law requires (legal obligation). For emails you send us, we rely on our legitimate interest in answering you. You also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority (in the UK, the Information Commissioner's Office; in Switzerland, the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner).

How to use your rights

Write to support@sparkplaystudio.com. We will reply within 30 days. Apart from order records and emails, we do not have your data on our own systems, so for most requests we will explain how to use the phone settings and Google's tools described above. For data Google holds, you can also go to Google directly through its privacy policy.

9. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy, for example when the app changes. We will post the new version on this page and change the effective date at the top. If a change is important, we will also say so in the app's Google Play listing.

10. Contact

Sparkplay Studio (Mohd Aqib, individual developer), India
Email: support@sparkplaystudio.com

This email is also where you can send a grievance under India's data protection law.