📱 Information stored on your device

Your game progress (current level, stars, coins, best score, player name, chosen avatar colour, language and sound settings) is stored locally on your device. This data stays on your device unless you choose to connect a Google account.

🔑 Signing in with Google (optional)

If you tap "Sign in with Google", the game asks Google for permission to access:

• Your name, email address and profile picture (scopes openid, email, profile) — used only to show your name and picture inside the game and to know which account is connected.
• Google Drive files created by this game (scope drive.file) — the game creates one small file named puzzol_save.json in your Google Drive to back up your progress (levels, stars, coins). The game cannot see, read, edit or delete any other file in your Drive.

This lets you restore your progress on a new phone or after reinstalling. After you connect, the game stores a sign-in token on your device so you stay connected. Your name, email and picture are not sent to any server other than Google's.

🚫 What we do not do

• We do not sell, rent or share your personal information with anyone, other than the ad data described below.
• We do not operate our own server that stores your data. Cloud backup is stored only in your own Google Drive.
• We do not share your Google sign-in name, email or profile picture with ad networks.

📢 Advertising (Google AdMob)

Puzzol Game shows ads through Google AdMob to keep the game free to play. The game shows two kinds of ads:

• Rewarded ads (optional): when you don't have enough coins, you can choose to watch a short ad to get a free extra life, shuffle or hammer. You only get the reward if you watch the whole ad, and you never have to watch one.
• Interstitial ads: a full-screen ad may appear between levels, from level 4 onwards, at most once every few levels.

To show and measure ads, AdMob and its advertising partners may process:

• Advertising ID — a resettable device identifier used for ad delivery and fraud prevention.
• Approximate location — estimated from your IP address, used to show relevant ads.
• App interaction data — such as which ads are shown, tapped or completed.
• Crash logs and diagnostics — used to keep ads and the game running correctly.

This data is processed under Google's own Privacy Policy; Osman IT does not receive or store it. You can reset or delete your advertising ID, or turn off ad personalisation, from your device's Settings → Google → Ads (or Settings → Privacy → Ads).

✅ Your ad consent choices

If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, the game asks for your consent the first time it opens, using Google's consent form, before it shows personalised ads. You can choose to allow or refuse personalised ads.

You can change your choice at any time with the Privacy button on the game's home screen (top right). In other regions this button is not shown, and you can control ad personalisation from your device's Google ad settings described above.

🔒 Google user data (Limited Use)

The game's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Google user data is used only to provide the sign-in and backup features described above.

📤 Sharing

The "Share" button lets you send a text message about your score through apps you choose (for example WhatsApp or Facebook). The game only hands the text to the app you select; it does not collect your contacts or any other information.

🌐 Internet permission

The game requests internet access for Google sign-in, Drive backup and to show ads through Google AdMob.

🗑️ Deleting your data and disconnecting

• Disconnect: in the game's home screen tap "Sign out" to remove the sign-in token from your device.
• Remove access: visit myaccount.google.com/permissions and remove "Puzzol Game".
• Delete the backup: delete puzzol_save.json from your Google Drive.
• Delete local data: uninstall the game or clear its data in your device settings.

See our full Delete account & data page for step-by-step instructions.

🧒 Children

The game is intended for players aged 13 and over and is not directed at children under 13. It does not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child under 13 has signed in with Google, contact us and we will help remove the data. Google sign-in is optional.

🔄 Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be published on this page with an updated date.