Privacy Policy

This policy explains that in full. Jingle Drop is a Christmas game for Android made by Nilbyte Studio ("I", "me"), for everyone from 3 to 99. Its Android package name is com.nilbytestudio.jingledrop.

What the game stores on your phone

Jingle Drop keeps a few small settings in its own private storage on your phone:

• Your ten best runs: the score, how many gifts you delivered, your best streak, and the date and time you played
• Whether you have seen the how-to-play cards
• Whether sound is on

Jingle Drop sends none of this anywhere. I never see it, and uninstalling the app deletes it.

What Jingle Drop does not do

• No user accounts, sign-up or login — nothing is linked to your identity
• No servers or cloud storage operated by me
• No analytics or tracking. Jingle Drop does not measure how you play. The analytics, crash-reporting and performance-reporting services of the Unity engine, which the game is built with, are switched off
• No remote crash reporting, to me or to anyone else
• No advertising, no advertising SDK, and no use of the Android advertising ID
• No in-app purchases
• No network connections of any kind
• No chat, no sharing and no links out of the game
• No sale or sharing of personal information — there is none to sell
• No location, contacts, storage, camera or microphone access

Children

Jingle Drop is made for children as well as adults, and it is listed on Google Play for every age group. It collects no personal information from anyone, so it collects none from children: there is nothing for a parent to consent to, review or have deleted, beyond uninstalling the game.

The game has no chat, no way to contact anyone, no purchases and no links that leave the game, so a child playing it cannot reach the internet or anyone else through it. This is how it meets Google Play's Families policy and children's privacy laws such as the US COPPA and the GDPR's rules for children.

Backups

One thing is outside the game's control. If you have turned on Android's own device backup, Android may include Jingle Drop's high scores and settings in your backup to your Google account, as it does for most apps, and may restore them if you reinstall. Google runs that backup, under its own terms; Jingle Drop itself never sends your data anywhere, and I never receive it.

If that backup is off, uninstalling Jingle Drop removes your high scores for good.

Permissions

Jingle Drop asks for no permissions. It does not request internet access, location, contacts, storage, the camera or the microphone.

For completeness: the app's manifest declares one internal, signature-level permission that Android's own support libraries add so that only the app itself can send messages to its own components. It is not shown to you, and it gives the game no access to your data or your phone.

Contacting support

If you email me, I have your email address and whatever you wrote, kept only as long as it takes to answer you. That correspondence is the only personal information about you I ever hold. Please don't send a child's personal details; a description of the problem and the phone model is all I need.

Retention and deletion

Your high scores and settings stay on your phone for exactly as long as you keep the game. Uninstall it and they go with it. A copy in Android's device backup is managed by Google through your Google account. Because I hold no copy, there is no retention period on my side and no deletion request to make.

Your rights

Data-protection laws including the GDPR and the California Consumer Privacy Act give you rights to access, correct, delete and port your personal information, and to opt out of its sale or sharing.

Jingle Drop satisfies these by design rather than by process. I never receive your game data, so there is nothing of it on my side to access, correct or export; deleting it is uninstalling the game, and there is no sale or sharing to opt out of. If you email me about a support question, you can ask me to delete that correspondence at any time.

Who is responsible for your data

For your game data, nobody but me needs naming — it never reaches me, so there is no controller of it in the legal sense. Support correspondence is the one exception. If you email me, Nilbyte Studio is the data controller for your address and whatever you wrote:

You also have the right to complain to a data protection authority. Nilbyte Studio is established in Sweden, so the lead authority is Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten (IMY). If you live or work elsewhere in the EEA or the UK, you may complain to your own country's supervisory authority instead — you do not need to raise it with me first. Though if something here concerns you, I would rather hear about it and fix it.

Changes to this policy

If the game ever changes in a way that affects this policy — for example if ads are added — I will update this page and change the date at the top before the change ships.

Contact

Questions about this policy or the game: jingledrop@nilbytestudio.com