Pugduko — Privacy Policy

Pugduko asks for one thing: a name, which can be your own or one the app makes up for you. It collects no email, account, location, contacts, advertising ID or device serial numbers.

What the app stores

Your progress — which levels you have solved, your stars and times, your coins and what you bought with them, your daily streak, an unfinished level, and your settings — is written to the app's own private storage on your device, and deleted when you uninstall the app.

What the app sends

The first time it runs, the app makes up a random number for this install. It is not derived from your phone or account, and a reinstall makes a new one. With that number the app sends to pugduko.app, the game's own server:

• Your name and pug — the name you typed or had made up, and the pug picture you chose. They are shown to Linus next to your progress, to friends in challenges, and to every player on the leaderboard together with your points.
• Play statistics — the app version, how many levels you have solved, your current and best daily streak, your total time with the app open, how many times the app was opened, how many levels were lost, whether the daily reminder is on (and how many reminders were shown and tapped), and the phone's model and Android version. No serial number or other device identifier.
• Level times — the first time you solve a level: when, how long the level was on screen over every attempt, and how many lives the winning attempt lost.
• Daily Pugduko — when you solve the day's level, your time. It is shown on the day's top list under your name.
• Challenges — when you join one, your score in it.
• Feedback — only what you write and send yourself.

The version downloaded from pugduko.app also checks there for a newer version; the version from Google Play is updated by Google Play. The statistics are used only to see how many people play and which levels are too hard. The app shows no advertising, has no third-party analytics, and nothing is sold or shared. Everything is sent encrypted (HTTPS).

Permissions

• Notifications — only to show the daily reminder you switch on yourself.
• Vibration — feedback while you play.
• Run at startup — to re-book your reminder after the phone restarts.
• Internet — for the statistics, challenges, feedback and updates described above.
• Install apps — only in the version from pugduko.app, to install an update when you tap Update. The Google Play version does not ask for it.

The website and the web version

The web version at pugduko.app/play keeps your progress in your browser. It makes up a random number of its own and sends how far you have got, your time in the game and your level times, so Linus can see how many play. It asks for no name. The pages on pugduko.app may show ads from Google, which may use cookies; you are asked for consent first, and ads are never shown while you play a level.

Deleting your data

Uninstalling the app deletes everything on your phone. To have what was sent deleted from the server too, email the address below with the ID shown at the bottom of Settings in the app, and it will be removed.

Children

The game is suitable for all ages. It asks no one, children included, for personal details beyond a name, which can be made up. Ads on the website are not personalised for children.

Contact

Questions: [email protected]