This Privacy Policy describes how Betterman Solutions LLC, doing business as Nodnarb Games ("Nodnarb Games," "we," "us," or "our") handles information for Critter Grid.
Information You Provide
Critter Grid does not require an account and does not ask you to provide your name, email address, phone number, contacts, photos, camera, microphone, or precise location. If you contact Nodnarb Games for support or a privacy request, we may receive the information you choose to include in that communication.
Critter Grid offers optional purchases of virtual coins through Google Play. You do not enter payment-card or bank-account information into Critter Grid. Google Play processes payment credentials and the payment transaction under Google's own terms and privacy practices. Nodnarb Games does not receive or store your full payment-card or bank-account information.
Information Stored on Your Device
The app may store gameplay information on your device, such as level progress, coin balance, unlocked or selected critters, settings, and similar game state, to provide core game functionality. This local gameplay data remains on your device unless you clear the app's data, reset your progress, or uninstall the app.
To fulfill consumable coin purchases reliably and avoid granting the same purchase more than once, Critter Grid also stores limited purchase-fulfillment information on your device. This may include a cryptographic hash derived from the store and transaction identifier, together with temporary recovery state needed to complete or reconcile a purchase after an interruption. Critter Grid does not store payment-card credentials in this local purchase ledger.
Unity Analytics
Critter Grid uses Unity Analytics to understand how players use the game and to improve gameplay, balance, reliability, and player experience. Unity Analytics may automatically process information such as an SDK-generated installation or user identifier, approximate location derived from network information, device and app information, platform, app version, session information, and usage events.
Critter Grid also sends limited gameplay and commerce-related events to Unity Analytics. These events may include:
- The level being played;
- Level starts, completions, restarts, and loss or out-of-hearts states;
- Elapsed gameplay time for a level attempt;
- Use of optional rewarded-ad features and associated in-game rewards;
- Rewarded-ad impressions and successful rewarded-ad completions;
- Coin-pack purchase events, such as purchase started, completed, failed, or cancelled;
- The purchased product ID and virtual-coin quantity;
- Localized purchase price and currency when available;
- A limited purchase failure reason when a purchase does not complete; and
- Limited technical context associated with those events, such as app version and platform.
Critter Grid's gameplay analytics events do not intentionally include your name, email address, precise location, contacts, photos, microphone data, camera data, the contents of files on your device, full payment-card information, Google Play purchase receipts, or Google Play purchase tokens. Purchase receipts and tokens may be processed locally as needed to verify and fulfill a purchase, but they are not sent through Critter Grid's gameplay analytics events.
In-App Purchases
Critter Grid offers optional purchases of virtual coins through Google Play. These coins are used only inside Critter Grid, have no cash value, cannot be transferred to another player, and cannot be withdrawn or redeemed for money. Coin purchases provide fixed quantities of virtual coins; Critter Grid does not use paid loot boxes, gacha mechanics, mystery rewards, or other randomized paid rewards.
When you make or attempt an in-app purchase, Critter Grid and its service providers may process purchase-history information needed to provide the purchase, prevent duplicate fulfillment, troubleshoot failures, and measure purchase activity. This may include the product ID, virtual-coin quantity, purchase outcome, localized price and currency, and a limited failure reason.
Google Play processes the payment transaction and payment credentials. Critter Grid may receive store purchase data needed to verify and fulfill the transaction, but Nodnarb Games does not receive or store your full payment-card or bank-account information.
Information Processed Automatically
In addition to Analytics, the app may use Unity crash reporting. If the app crashes, technical diagnostic information may be sent to Unity and made available to Nodnarb Games, including crash logs, stack traces, app version, device model, operating system version, and other information needed to diagnose and fix app stability issues.
Critter Grid uses Unity LevelPlay to mediate banner and optional rewarded advertisements. Participating advertising providers currently include Google Mobile Ads (AdMob), Unity Ads, and ironSource Ads. The app also uses Google's User Messaging Platform (UMP) to present and store privacy choices where required.
These services may automatically process information such as:
- Device and advertising identifiers, when permitted;
- IP address and approximate location derived from the IP address;
- Device model, language, operating system, app version, and network information;
- Ad requests, impressions, views, clicks, rewards, and other interactions with ads;
- SDK-generated user IDs or other personal identifiers used by advertising services;
- Consent choices and related privacy signals; and
- Crash, performance, fraud-prevention, and diagnostic information.
The information actually processed depends on your region, device settings, privacy choices, and the advertising provider that serves an ad. Nodnarb Games does not receive your name, email address, or precise location from these advertising services.
How We Use Information
Local gameplay information is used to save your progress and support core game features. Analytics, gameplay-event, and purchase-event information may be used to:
- Measure game usage, engagement, and player progression;
- Understand which levels players start, complete, restart, or struggle with;
- Evaluate level difficulty and identify confusing or frustrating gameplay patterns;
- Understand use of optional rewarded-ad features;
- Measure rewarded-ad completion in connection with gameplay rewards;
- Provide and reconcile in-app coin purchases;
- Prevent duplicate purchase fulfillment and recover interrupted purchases;
- Measure purchase starts, completions, failures, and related commerce activity;
- Investigate gameplay or purchase problems and improve game balance and design; and
- Support, maintain, and improve Critter Grid.
Crash and diagnostic information is used to find, troubleshoot, and fix bugs and crashes. Advertising and device information may be used to:
- Request, deliver, and display advertisements;
- Personalize ads when you have permitted personalization;
- Deliver non-personalized, contextual, limited, or technical ads when applicable;
- Measure ad performance and apply frequency controls;
- Detect fraud, abuse, and security issues;
- Provide optional in-game rewards after a rewarded ad; and
- Support and maintain the game.
Sharing Information
Information may be processed by Unity and its affiliated services, including Unity Analytics, Unity LevelPlay, Unity Ads, ironSource Ads, and participating advertising demand partners. Google may process information through Google Mobile Ads (AdMob) as an advertising provider, through UMP for consent and privacy-message services, and through Google Play for in-app purchase processing. These companies process information under their own privacy policies and may act as service providers, processors, or independent controllers depending on the service and activity.
For in-app purchases, Google Play processes payment credentials and the payment transaction. Critter Grid may process and send limited purchase-history and analytics information as described in this policy, but Critter Grid's gameplay analytics events do not include full payment-card information, purchase receipts, or purchase tokens.
For more information, review:
- Unity's Game Player and App User Privacy Policy
- Google's Privacy Policy
- Google's Advertising Technologies information
We may also disclose information when required by law, to respond to valid legal process, or to protect the rights, safety, and security of players, Nodnarb Games, or others.
Sale, Sharing, and Targeted Advertising
Nodnarb Games does not sell personal information for money. Advertising providers may use or disclose device and activity information to deliver or measure personalized advertising when permitted. Some privacy laws may define this activity as "selling," "sharing," or processing for targeted advertising even when no money is exchanged for the information.
Where required, you can opt out or change advertising-related choices through the privacy message displayed by the app or through an in-game privacy choices control when such a control is provided for your region and build. You may also use your Android device's privacy and advertising controls to delete or reset the advertising ID and manage ad personalization settings.
Advertising and Privacy Choices
In regions where a privacy message is required, Google UMP may present available advertising privacy choices before the app requests ads. When a privacy-choices entry point is available in your region and app version, you may use it to revisit those advertising choices.
Declining personalized advertising does not necessarily remove advertisements. Depending on your choices, region, and available advertising inventory, the app may continue showing non-personalized, contextual, limited, or technical ads. These ads may still use limited information for functions such as delivery, frequency controls, aggregate measurement, security, and fraud prevention. If applicable consent or another legal basis is unavailable, the app will not request ads.
Analytics and Privacy Choices
Unity Analytics is separate from advertising consent. A choice about personalized advertising does not automatically apply to Unity Analytics.
The current version of Critter Grid does not provide a universal in-game control that allows every player to disable Unity Analytics collection. Where applicable law gives you rights regarding Analytics data or requires a consent or opt-out mechanism, Nodnarb Games will honor those requirements using available app, platform, service-provider, or request-based mechanisms. You may contact Nodnarb Games for assistance with applicable Analytics privacy or deletion requests.
Unity provides mechanisms that can allow applications using Unity Analytics to stop certain data collection and request deletion of Analytics data where appropriate. The availability and handling of those rights may depend on your region, the information available to identify the relevant SDK-generated data, and applicable law.
Data Retention and Deletion
Gameplay progress stored on your device remains there until you delete the app, clear its data, or reset progress through device or app controls if available. Limited local purchase- fulfillment records may also remain on the device to prevent duplicate grants and reconcile interrupted purchases.
Nodnarb Games retains support communications and information available through service dashboards only as long as reasonably necessary for support, analytics, security, legal compliance, debugging, improvement, purchase reconciliation, and operation of the game. Unity, Google, and other service providers retain information according to their own policies and applicable law.
Critter Grid does not use player accounts. Analytics data, when collected, is generally associated with SDK-generated identifiers rather than an account that you create with Nodnarb Games. Depending on the request and information available, Nodnarb Games may not be able to independently identify a particular person in third-party service data.
You may contact us for assistance identifying privacy and deletion options that apply to information reasonably associated with your request. Where supported and applicable, Analytics data collection may be stopped and an Analytics data-deletion request may be initiated through Unity's provided mechanisms. For data controlled independently by an advertising, app-store, or other third-party provider, you may also need to use that provider's own privacy controls or request mechanism using the links above.
Security
We use reasonable administrative and technical safeguards for information handled by the app. Information transmitted to service providers is sent over secure connections where supported. No method of electronic transmission or storage is completely secure.
International Processing
Unity, Google, and their advertising partners may process information in countries other than the country where you live. Those countries may have different data-protection laws. The providers are responsible for using appropriate safeguards where required by applicable law.
Children's Privacy
Critter Grid is not directed to children under 13, or under the minimum age required by local law, and Nodnarb Games does not knowingly collect personal information directly from children. If you believe a child has provided personal information through the app, please contact us so we can review the request and take appropriate action.
Your Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information; to object to or restrict certain processing; to withdraw consent where processing is based on consent; or to opt out of targeted advertising, sale, sharing, or certain Analytics processing. The availability and method for exercising a right depends on applicable law and the services involved.
You may use privacy controls made available in the app, by your device or platform, or by the relevant service provider, and you may contact Nodnarb Games for assistance. You may also have the right to appeal a decision or complain to your local data-protection authority.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Updates will be posted on this page with a new "Last updated" date.
Contact
To ask questions about this Privacy Policy or request assistance with applicable privacy or deletion options for Critter Grid, contact developer@nodnarbgames.com. For game support, email support@nodnarbgames.com.