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Bubble Bloom

Privacy Policy

Effective date:

The short version

Bubble Bloom ("the app") is published by Devflovv. The app is a native Android bubble shooter puzzle game for one player that plays fully offline, with endless generated levels, themed seasons, a daily puzzle, daily rewards and three extra modes. We collect no personal information and no usage data.

  • We collect no data, and the app sends none to us or to anyone else.
  • No account, no login, no sign-in.
  • No analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising SDKs, no tracking.
  • No internet permission, and no network connections.
  • The app is free, with no in-app purchases and no ads, and no ad network is contacted.
  • Your progress is stored by the app on your device. If you use Android device backup or device transfer, Android may copy it into your own backup or to your new device.

What we collect

Nothing. The app does not collect, transmit or share any personal or usage data, and we never receive your progress, your player name or your settings. It contains no advertising, analytics or crash reporting software development kits (SDKs), and no other third-party code that collects data. It does not access your contacts, photos, location, microphone or camera.

Permissions

The app does not request the internet permission and makes no network connections, so the app itself cannot connect to any server, ours or anyone else's.

It declares one permission for its own features:

  • Vibration (VIBRATE), for light haptic feedback when bubbles pop and when you win. It is on by default, and you can turn it off with the Vibration switch in Settings or the Haptics switch in the pause menu.

An internal permission added by Android libraries

The AndroidX libraries the app is built with also add one internal permission, DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION. It belongs to the app itself, is limited to apps signed with the same key, and keeps the app's internal messages private. It gives the app no access to your personal information and no internet access.

What is stored on your device, and why

To keep your progress, the app saves the following in a single small save file in its private storage on your device. Only the app can read it, and none of it is sent to us.

  • Your game progress: the levels you have unlocked and the stars you earned on each, the power-ups you hold, your daily reward progress and streak, the season milestones and achievement rewards you have claimed, and whether you have seen the tutorial.
  • Your statistics, such as bubbles popped, your biggest drop in one shot, games played and your best scores in Arcade, Time Attack and Zen.
  • The player name you can type on the Stats screen (up to 16 characters, "Player" until you change it). You do not have to change it, and you do not need to use your real name.
  • Your settings, such as sound effects, music, vibration, colourblind mode, the long aim guide and language.

Android backup and device transfer

Android backup is turned on for this app. The app has no internet permission, so this is done by Android, not by the app, and only if backup is on for your device.

If you use Android device backup, your device may include the app's save file in your personal backup, for example your Google account backup. The same file may be copied when you move to a new device with Android's device transfer. It holds everything listed in the section above, including your player name.

If a backup or transfer is restored, your saved game and settings can return, for example after you reinstall the app or set up a new phone.

Whether this happens, and where a backup is kept, depends on your device settings and your backup service. We never receive your backup and cannot view or delete it. Your backup provider, such as Google, handles it under its own privacy policy.

Purchases and ads

The app is free. It has no in-app purchases and shows no ads. Power-ups come only from playing: from stars, daily rewards, season milestones and achievements. No payment is ever taken, nothing is charged, and Google Play's billing system is not used. No ad is ever loaded and no ad network is contacted.

Before any advertising or billing SDK is added to the app, this policy will be updated to describe it.

The daily puzzle and daily rewards

The daily puzzle and daily rewards use only your device's date and clock. The day's puzzle is generated on your device from the date, so it is the same board for everyone on the same day, but nothing is fetched from a server and your scores are never sent anywhere or compared with anyone else's.

The app opens no web pages, store pages or other apps, has no share button and sends no notifications. It contains nothing that links to anything outside it.

Sharing and selling

We do not share, sell, rent or trade any data, because we do not collect any.

Third parties

The app contains no advertising networks, analytics services or crash reporting services. If you install the app from Google Play, Google handles the download and updates under Google's own privacy policy.

Children's privacy

The game is made to be suitable for everyone, and it collects no personal information from anyone, children included, and that includes children under 13. It has no chat, no user-generated content and no way to contact other people. The only text a player can type is the player name, which is saved with the game and never sent to us. Because nothing is collected, there is no personal information about a child for us to hold, review or delete.

How to delete your data

You can remove the app's data from your device at any time:

  • Use "Reset progress" in the app's Settings. This erases your levels, stars, power-ups, daily reward progress, claimed rewards and statistics, and sets your player name back to "Player". Your settings are kept. It cannot be undone.
  • Clear the app's storage in your device's Android settings, which also removes your settings.
  • Uninstall the app to delete all of its data from your device.

Copies in a backup

None of the steps above removes a copy already held in your device backup, and we cannot remove it for you. To delete one, use the backup settings on your device or in your backup account.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new effective date. If the app ever starts collecting data, this policy will be updated before that version is released.

Contact

Questions about this policy? Email hello@devflovv.com.