PRIVACY POLICY
(Last Updated: Oct 2018 with effective date 17 June 2026)
This Privacy Policy applies to Sudoku Offline Application. This Privacy Policy explains how we, and affiliated companies (collectively, or "we", "us", "our") collect, use, secure, and/or disclose end users’ (“you” or “your”) or otherwise processes your personal information when you use our Services.
The data controller is Desmond Yip, with an address at 19 Ting Kok Road Hong Kong.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW
Our Services are designed to avoid collecting information such as your name, address, email address or other similar contact data unless you provide such data to us. The information we collect include:
Device Information
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When you download and use our Services, we automatically collect information on the type of device you use, operating system, resolution, application version, and the mobile device identifiers (such as your device ID, advertising ID), language and time zone and IP address, Coarse Location.
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Usage Information
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We collect information automatically about your activity through our Services, for example date and time you used a service, features you have used advertising that you click on. In addition, your interaction with the app, like your preference of the theme. Your selection of input method, your preference on using rewarded advertisement.
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Information we obtain from third partiesWe may receive information about you from our analytic service providers with data they collect through our Services in accordance with their own privacy policies. A list of the third parties that operate in our Services can be found in the APPENDIX below.
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Information that you provide
We collect some information from you when you provide it to us directly, such as via an online form or when you contact us when you send us an email directly.
Advertisement serving technologies
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We and our advertising networks and their partners may use cookies and similar technologies to provide and personalize our Services and provide targeted advertisements. Some of these technologies can synchronize behavior across different mobile apps, devices, and websites so that advertisements can be tailored to your interests. This process is called personalized advertisement experience.
- Pseudonymous Account Identifiers (Firebase UID)
If you utilize our leaderboard or online features without creating a permanent account (e.g., using guest or anonymous mode), we automatically generate a unique, randomized alphanumeric identifier (a Firebase User ID) via our backend provider. This identifier allows us to track your high scores, game progress, and leaderboard rankings without requiring personal details like your name or email address. This is processed as pseudonymous data.
PURPOSES FOR WHICH WE WILL USE YOUR INFORMATION
We have set out below a description of the ways in which we plan to use your information, the legal bases we rely upon to do so and provide opt-out, where applicable:
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To provide and maintain our Services and to perform essential business operation, our legal basis for processing is performance of a contract with you which you entered into with us when you download our Services and accept our Terms of Use.
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To administer and protect our Services (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, support, fraud, reporting and hosting of data), our legal basis for processing is legitimate interests for running our business, provision of administration and services.
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To notify you about changes to our Services, to allow you to participate in new features of our Services when you choose to do so and to understand how you use our Services so that we can continuously improve our offerings, our legal basis is legitimate interests to keep our users updated about our Services and our new features in accordance with your preference, and to continue to improve the Services we offer.
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To advertise our Services and products and to send push notifications, our legal basis is legitimate interests to be able to advertise our Services and products to our users.
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To serve personalized advertisements in our Services using third-party advertising networks, our legal basis is legitimate interests to run our business.
For European Economic Area, Norway or Switzerland, our third-party advertising networks, rely on your consent to process Personal Data in order to provide personalized advertising to you, therefore you will be asked whether you consent to the tracking that enables personalized advertisement experience.
To opt-out of receiving personalized advertisements, see below ‘Opt-out of targeted advertising’.
RETENTION OF DATA
We will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
We will also retain Usage Information for internal analysis purposes. Usage Information is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to improve the functionality of our Services, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.
Your Personal Data will be deleted when they no longer serve one of the above-mentioned purposes. In any event, your Personal Data, high scores, and leaderboard entries will be automatically deleted after 90 days of consecutive inactivity in your use of our Services.
This cleanup is necessary to purge "ghost data" from inactive, anonymous backend profiles and to optimize our leaderboard performance. Once we have deleted your Personal Data or purged an inactive anonymous profile after 90 days, you will not be able to exercise the right to access, the right to erasure, the right to rectification, or the right to data portability, as the data will no longer exist on our servers.
Your Personal Data will be deleted when they no longer serve one of the above-mentioned purposes. In any event, your Personal Data, high scores, and leaderboard entries will be automatically deleted after 90 days of consecutive inactivity in your use of our Services.
This cleanup is necessary to purge "ghost data" from inactive, anonymous backend profiles and to optimize our leaderboard performance. Once we have deleted your Personal Data or purged an inactive anonymous profile after 90 days, you will not be able to exercise the right to access, the right to erasure, the right to rectification, or the right to data portability, as the data will no longer exist on our servers.
YOUR RIGTHS AND OPTIONS
Access personal data we hold about you.
You have the right to request access to your personal data. This can be done by using “Contact us” through the in-app support feature in our Services. Following your request, we will provide you a copy of your personal data in an electronic format if any.
Other rights.
You also have other rights such as to correct your data, have your data deleted, object how we use or share your data, and restrict how we use or share your data. You also have the right to withdraw consent where you have previously given your consent to the processing of your personal data, for example by turning off camera access in your mobile device settings. This will not affect any data processed before such a withdrawal.
Opt-out of targeted advertising.
To show you personalized advertisements in our apps we use specific advertising networks and their partners to deliver advertisements that are tailored to you based on a determination of your characteristics or interests. To do so they use personal and non-personal information such as advertising identifiers, such as the Android advertising ID and/or Apple's ID for advertising (IDFA), and/or other tracking technologies to enable and optimize this advertising procedure. For further information on advertising networks go to ‘APPENDIX A - Advertising networks and their partners’below.
You can opt-out from personalized advertisement experience, at any time by checking the privacy settings of your Android or iOS device.
For Apple Devices:
- Open Settings
- Select Privacy
- Select Advertising and enable "Limit Ad Tracking"
For Android Devices:
- Open Settings
- Select Google
- Select Ads and enable "Opt out of Ads Personalization"
When you choose to opt-out, advertising networks will consider this choice as a withdrawal of consent to personalized advertisement experience and they will show contextual advertisements and not personalized advertisements based on your interests.
Exercise these rights.
Any requests to exercise your rights should be made through our support feature located in our apps. You can also send us an email at thisisfunnyhouse@gmail.com, however we may still redirect you to make the same request through the in-app support feature or we may request additional information in order to accommodate your request. These requests can be exercised free of charge and will be addressed by us as early as possible and always within one month. You may also contact your local data protection authority within the European Economic Area for unresolved complaints.
Please note that because anonymous or guest accounts are not linked to a verified real-world identity (such as an email address), we cannot verify your ownership of an anonymous account. Consequently, we cannot fulfill manual data access or erasure requests for anonymous leaderboard profiles unless you can provide your exact backend Firebase User ID from within the app's settings prior to losing access or becoming inactive.
STORAGE, DISCLOSURE, TRANSFER AND SHARING OF YOUR INFORMATION
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Share with our service providers and partners
We use third parties to help us operate and improve our Services. These third parties assist us with various tasks, including hosting and maintenance, on-going development, analytics, customer care, marketing, advertising. We may also share information with advertising partners who distribute advertising in our Services.
For further information on advertising networks go to ‘APPENDIX A - Advertising networks and their partners’ below and for further information on analytics service provides go to ‘APPENDIX B - Analytics service providers’ below.
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When required by law
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We may also share information if we also under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of our business, our customers or others.
To enforce legal rights
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We may also share information: (i) if disclosure would mitigate our liability in an actual or threatened lawsuit; (ii) as necessary to protect our legal rights and legal rights of our users, business partners or other interested parties; (iii) to enforce our agreements with you; and (iv) to investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing.
With your consent or at your request
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We may ask for your consent to share your information with third parties. In any such case, we will make it clear why we want to share the information.
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AGE LIMITS
We appreciate the need to provide extra privacy protections to users who are children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18 years of age. In order to request the deletion of personal data, for any reason, please use the in-app support feature in our Services or contact us at the address provided below and we will take reasonable measures to promptly delete such personal data from our records.
AGE LIMITS
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
Our Privacy Policy may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the privacy terms of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy terms or practices of any third-party sites or services.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy may change from time to time, and we encourage you to review it periodically. Your continued use of our Services signifies your acceptance of changes to this Privacy Policy.
In some cases, we may notify you of changes to this Privacy Policy with a prominent notice on our Services (for example by way of a notification or pop-up), before the changes become effective and update the "effective date" at the top of this Privacy Policy.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us via thisisfunnyhouse@gmail.com which is the preferred method to be able to quickly respond you your requests .
APPENDIX A - Advertising networks and their partners
Below, you can find a list with all third-party advertising networks and their partners, with whom we work to provide you with a personalized advertisement experience within our apps. The advertising networks listed below, are independent data controllers in respect of your personal data and you can learn more about how each handles your data by accessing their respective privacy notices using the hyperlinks below.
In order to provide personalized advertisements to our users, those listed below use device information that include personal and non-personal information, such as advertising (or ad) identifiers, IP address regarding the delivery of advertisements and your interaction with them and/or other tracking technologies to enable and optimize this advertising procedure. Ad identifiers are non-permanent device identifiers such as the Android advertising ID and/or Apple's ID for advertising (IDFA).
AdMob by Google and their partners
AdMob by Google is provided by Google Inc. (US)
For more information on how AdMob uses the collected information, please visit the Privacy Policy of Google: http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
For more information on AdMob Partners, please visit: https://support.google.com/admob/answer/9012903
You can opt-out from AdMob by Google service by following the instructions described by Google: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en
APPENDIX B - Analytics service providers
We use your information to perform our own analytics and to enable analytics provided by third parties. We use analytical information for supporting business analysis and operations, business intelligence, product development, improving the Services, personalizing content, providing advertising, and making recommendations. In order to learn about how your information is used by our analytics service providers, you can follow the hyperlinks in the list below to each provider’s privacy notice.
Firebase
Firebase is analytics service provided by Google Inc. (US)
You may opt-out of certain Firebase features through your mobile device settings, such as your device advertising settings or by following the instructions provided by Google in their Privacy Policy: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
Facebook
We use Facebook Analytics to record events and understand how users are utilising our apps. For example, to understand which of our recipes are most popular. Third party analytics companies like Facebook, receive information from our Apps to provide measurement services and they reserve the right to utilise the information for ad targeting. Facebook also allow users to opt-out of which companies can utilise their information, by visiting the following link https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=privacy and here is facebook privacy policy https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy
For more information on how AdMob uses the collected information, please visit the Privacy Policy of Google: http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
For more information on AdMob Partners, please visit: https://support.google.com/admob/answer/9012903
You can opt-out from AdMob by Google service by following the instructions described by Google: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en
Terms Of Use
Terms of Service
Last updated July 20, 2018
All sections of these Terms of Use that, by their nature, should survive termination will survive termination, including, without limitation, the sections entitled User Content, Indemnity, Disclaimer of Warranty and Limitation of Liability, and General.
Introduction
By accessing and using the Services, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy. If you do not accept these Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy, you are not authorized to use the Services. We may modify these Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy at any time and such modification will be effective upon posting to the Services.
Use of the Services
The Services include using the application to provide a Sudoku playing and competitive leaderboard experience. The Application is for personal, non-commercial entertainment use only.
By using the Services, you represent and warrant that you are 13 years of age or older. (Note: If you are located in a region where the age of digital consent is higher, such as 18 in relation to our data collection policies, you must meet those requirements to use online features). Your account or leaderboard access may be terminated without warning if we believe you do not meet these age requirements.
Guest Accounts & Risk of Leaderboard Data Loss
You may be permitted to post scores to our leaderboards as a "Guest" using an anonymous account. Your scores and game progress are tied strictly to a temporary token stored locally on your specific device.
You acknowledge and agree that if you uninstall the application, clear your device or browser cache, lose or replace your device, or remain inactive for more than 90 consecutive days, your local token will be lost.
This will permanently disconnect you from our backend, and your high scores, progress, and leaderboard standings will be permanently lost or purged. We are under no obligation to recover, restore, or manually transfer lost anonymous data. To secure your scores, we recommend linking your account to a permanent sign-in method if made available within the application.
Right to Maintain and Reset Leaderboards
To maintain database integrity, prevent system bloat, and ensure fair competition, we reserve the absolute right, at our sole discretion, to prune, wipe, reset, or modify leaderboard entries.
We routinely delete "ghost data" (entries tied to deleted, unlinked, or permanently abandoned anonymous accounts after 90 days of inactivity). We bear zero liability to you or any third party for the loss of rankings, scores, or virtual achievements resulting from these automated system maintenance and cleanup procedures.
Indemnity
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold us harmless from and against any claims, actions or demands, including, without limitation, reasonable legal and accounting fees, arising or resulting from your breach of these Terms of Use or your uploading of, access to, or use or misuse of the Services. We shall provide notice to you of any such claim, suit, or proceeding and shall assist you, at your expense, in defending any such claim, suit or proceeding. We reserve the right to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter which is subject to indemnification under this section. In such case, you agree to cooperate with any reasonable requests assisting our defense of such matter.
Disclaimer of Warranty and Limitation of Liability
WE MAKE NO WARRANTY THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE AVAILABLE ERROR FREE OR THAT THE SERVICES ARE FREE OF COMPUTER VIRUSES OR SIMILAR CONTAMINATION OR DESTRUCTIVE FEATURES. IF YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES RESULTS IN THE NEED FOR SERVICING OR REPLACING EQUIPMENT OR DATA, WE SHALL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THOSE COSTS.
THE SERVICES AND CONTENT ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. WE HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE WARRANTY OF TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, NON INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTIES' RIGHTS, AND FITNESS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
IN NO EVENT SHALL WE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, INCIDENTAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOST PROFITS, OR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM LOST DATA OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) RESULTING FROM THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICES AND THE CONTENT, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, IN EXCESS OF ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS, EVEN IF A WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
Some states do not allow exclusion of implied warranties or limitation of liability for incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitations or exclusions may not apply to you. IN SUCH STATES, OUR LIABILITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
Use of the Services
The Services include using the application to provide a Sudoku playing and competitive leaderboard experience. The Application is for personal, non-commercial entertainment use only.
By using the Services, you represent and warrant that you are 13 years of age or older. (Note: If you are located in a region where the age of digital consent is higher, such as 18 in relation to our data collection policies, you must meet those requirements to use online features). Your account or leaderboard access may be terminated without warning if we believe you do not meet these age requirements.
Guest Accounts & Risk of Leaderboard Data Loss
You may be permitted to post scores to our leaderboards as a "Guest" using an anonymous account. Your scores and game progress are tied strictly to a temporary token stored locally on your specific device.
You acknowledge and agree that if you uninstall the application, clear your device or browser cache, lose or replace your device, or remain inactive for more than 90 consecutive days, your local token will be lost.
This will permanently disconnect you from our backend, and your high scores, progress, and leaderboard standings will be permanently lost or purged. We are under no obligation to recover, restore, or manually transfer lost anonymous data. To secure your scores, we recommend linking your account to a permanent sign-in method if made available within the application.
Right to Maintain and Reset Leaderboards
To maintain database integrity, prevent system bloat, and ensure fair competition, we reserve the absolute right, at our sole discretion, to prune, wipe, reset, or modify leaderboard entries.
We routinely delete "ghost data" (entries tied to deleted, unlinked, or permanently abandoned anonymous accounts after 90 days of inactivity). We bear zero liability to you or any third party for the loss of rankings, scores, or virtual achievements resulting from these automated system maintenance and cleanup procedures.
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