Don't Tap the Ladybug — Privacy Policy
Summary: Don't Tap the Ladybug has no accounts and we don't run our own servers. Your progress stays on your device. The game shows optional video ads from Google AdMob, and Google collects some data to serve them, as described in section 2. If you allow tracking when iOS asks, those ads may be personalised.
1. Data stored on your device
- The app saves your best score, daily streak, daily missions, splatter collection and sound setting locally on your device.
- This data is never sent to us. It may be included in your own device or iCloud backups.
- Deleting the app removes it.
2. Advertising (Google AdMob)
- When you lose your last life you can choose to watch a video ad to continue your run. Ads are provided by Google AdMob.
- To show ads, measure them and prevent fraud, Google's Mobile Ads SDK collects data from your device, including:
- your IP address and approximate location derived from it
- device and app information (model, OS version, app version)
- ad interaction data (which ads were shown and tapped)
- diagnostic and crash data from the ads SDK
- device identifiers, including the advertising identifier (IDFA) only if you allow tracking
- This data goes to Google, not to us. See how Google uses information from apps that use its services and the Google Privacy Policy.
3. Your choices
- Tracking: On first launch iOS asks whether the game may track your activity across other companies' apps and websites. If you choose "Ask App Not to Track", the advertising identifier is not shared and ads are not personalised using it. You can change this any time in Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking.
- EU, EEA, UK and Switzerland: you're asked for consent before any ads load, and you can change your choice with "Privacy" on the start screen.
- US states with privacy laws (such as California): you can opt out of the sale or sharing of your data for advertising with "Privacy" on the start screen.
- Watching an ad is always optional; the game is fully playable without it.
4. What we don't do
We have no accounts, no analytics of our own, no servers, and we never sell your data. The only third-party SDK is Google's Mobile Ads SDK (with Google's consent SDK).
5. Your rights (GDPR / KVKK)
If you are in the EEA, the UK or Türkiye, you have the right to access, correct, delete or object to the processing of your personal data, and to complain to your data protection authority. Since we hold no personal data ourselves, requests about advertising data are handled by Google; you can also contact us and we'll help.
6. Children
Don't Tap the Ladybug is a general-audience game and is not directed at children under 13. We don't knowingly collect personal information from children.
7. Changes
If this policy changes, the update will be posted on this page with a new effective date.
8. Contact
Questions about this policy: bozkurt15@itu.edu.tr