Privacy policy
In short. PaperDunk asks for no account and no email address. Your progress (levels, stars, points) and your settings stay on your phone. Technical services receive information: Google AdMob (and, on Android, our own Tals Ads network), for the ads in the free version, and RevenueCat with the App Store or Google Play, for the “No ads” purchase.
Who is responsible
Shadowlink Digital, publisher of PaperDunk. Contact: shadowlinkdigital@gmail.com.
What stays on your phone
- your results: unlocked levels, number of throws, stars, points;
- your game statistics (throws, baskets, streaks) and your best daily challenge score;
- the tips you have already seen;
- your settings: sounds, vibration;
- the last known state of your “No ads” purchase.
This data is stored by the app and sent to no one. Uninstalling the app erases it; “Settings → Reset progress” erases your results.
Ads (free version)
The free version shows a banner at the bottom of the screen, a full-screen ad when you move on to the next level (never during a throw, and no more than one every 45 seconds), and a video when you choose to skip a level. They are provided by Google AdMob (Google Ireland Limited in Europe).
Your consent. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, a Google consent form appears before any ad: you choose whether ads may be personalised. You can change your mind at any time in “Settings → My ad choices”. On iPhone, the app then asks for Apple’s tracking permission (App Tracking Transparency); if you decline, Apple’s advertising identifier is never shared and you still see ads, just less tailored ones. On Android, you can reset or delete your advertising ID in your phone settings.
To show, measure and select ads, and to fight fraud, Google’s SDK receives technical information: IP address, device model and system, language, advertising identifier if you allowed it, ad interactions and diagnostics. This processing falls under Google’s policies. Ads are limited to content rated “PG”.
Tals Ads (Android). On Android, the free version may also show, within some pages (home, level map, statistics — never during a game), a Tals Ads banner, our own ad network, presenting other Shadowlink Digital apps. It is loaded from Tals Ads’ servers (hosted by Netlify and Supabase), which receive the IP address, the device model and system, the language and the app’s name, and anonymously count the impressions and taps of each ad. No cookies, no advertising ID. A tap opens the advertised app’s page on Google Play. On iPhone, this banner does not exist.
With the “No ads” purchase, the ad component does not start and the Tals Ads banner does not appear.
The “No ads” purchase
Payment is handled by the App Store (Apple) or Google Play: we never see your payment details. RevenueCat (RevenueCat, Inc.) checks the purchase and makes it restorable on your other devices; it receives an anonymous identifier created by the app, purchase receipts and technical device information.
What we do not do
- no account, no email, no location, no contacts, no photos, no microphone;
- no analytics or tracking tool of our own (Tals Ads only counts its ads’ impressions and taps, with no identifier);
- no sale of data.
Your rights
You can ask to access, correct or erase data about you, or object to its processing, by writing to shadowlinkdigital@gmail.com. Ad consent choices are in the app; for Google, see also myadcenter.google.com. You may also contact your data protection authority.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes too; any important change is announced in the app.