Privacy Policy

Information stored locally

Penumbloom stores game progress and preferences primarily on your device, including puzzle progress, Seeds, Sanctuary state, settings, and bounded local diagnostic events.

Penumbloom does not currently provide account sync or cloud save. Clearing the app’s data or uninstalling it may remove locally stored progress.

Optional testing and usage analytics

During Open Testing, Penumbloom uses Firebase Analytics to understand where players get stuck and how features are used. Collection is off until you are shown the balanced choice “Share testing data” or “Don’t share” and choose to share. You can turn sharing off later in Settings.

When sharing is on, limited events may include session activity, tutorial progress, puzzle starts and completions, puzzles left or resumed, Reveal use, feature discovery, rewarded-ad requests and rewards, and Sanctuary or Greenhouse interactions. When sharing is off, Penumbloom does not send its custom gameplay or testing events to Firebase Analytics.

Penumbloom disables Firebase Analytics Advertising ID collection, automatic screen reporting, and ad-personalization signals. Google may still process technical information associated with Analytics, such as app-instance or device-related identifiers, app and version information, general device information, app activity, and approximate location derived from network information such as an IP address.

Rewarded advertising and Google AdMob

Penumbloom uses Google AdMob and the Google Mobile Ads SDK for optional rewarded ads. The current build has no banners, interstitials, forced ads, or app-open ads. Where required, Google’s User Messaging Platform presents advertising consent or privacy choices.

The Mobile Ads SDK may collect or share information needed to provide, measure, secure, and prevent fraud involving ads. This can include IP address and approximate location, app interactions, diagnostic information, and device or other identifiers—including the Android Advertising ID where available. The current Android build includes the Advertising ID permission for Google Mobile Ads.

AdMob data handling is separate from Penumbloom’s “Share testing data” setting. Turning off that setting stops Penumbloom’s optional custom Firebase gameplay events; it does not disable data processing performed by the Mobile Ads SDK for optional rewarded ads.

Data we do not intentionally collect

Penumbloom does not intentionally send Firebase Analytics your name, email address, contacts, messages, photos, audio, files or documents, precise location, free-form text, or a custom user or account ID. Penumbloom has no usernames, passwords, email login, OAuth, Google sign-in, purchases, billing, Play Games cloud saves, or online leaderboards in the current build.

How information is used

Optional testing data is used to understand gameplay progress, difficulty, feature use, and testing quality. AdMob-related information may be used for advertising and ad measurement, analytics, fraud prevention, security, and compliance.

Data sharing and third-party services

Optional testing data and rewarded-ad data are processed by Google services according to their applicable terms and policies. Learn more from Privacy and Security in Firebase, Google’s Mobile Ads SDK data-disclosure information, and Google’s Privacy Policy. Penumbloom does not sell your personal information.

Data security

Data transmitted to Google Firebase and AdMob services is encrypted in transit.

Data retention and your choices

You can stop future custom gameplay analytics at any time by turning off “Share testing data” in Penumbloom’s Settings. Local game data can generally be removed by clearing the app’s data or uninstalling Penumbloom. Because Penumbloom has no accounts, it does not currently provide an account-deletion system.

Retention of information processed by Firebase, AdMob, or other Google services is governed by Google’s applicable policies and service settings.

Children and audience

Penumbloom is a general-audience puzzle game. Advertising and consent behavior is configured through Google’s mobile advertising and privacy tools. Store audience declarations and advertising treatment may be updated as the release configuration is finalized.

Changes to this policy

This policy may be updated when Penumbloom’s features, testing program, or service providers change. The revised policy will keep the same public page and show an updated date.

Contact

For privacy or support questions, visit the Penumbloom Support page or use the developer contact email shown on the Google Play listing.