Ludo Saga
Privacy Policy
Ludo Saga
1. The short version
Ludo Saga is a single-device board game. There are no accounts, no sign-in, no servers of our own, and no online multiplayer. Your name, progress, statistics and unlocked items are stored only on your device and are never transmitted to us.
We do not collect your name, email address, phone number, contacts, photos, files, or precise location. We do not sell personal data.
The app uses two Google services — Google AdMob for advertising and Google Play Billing for purchases. Those services collect data of their own, described in section 4.
2. Who we are
This policy is issued by Rhythm Themes ("we", "us"), the developer of Ludo Saga. For any question about this policy or your data, write to apps.rhythmthemes@gmail.com.
Where data protection law applies, we act as the controller for the limited processing described in section 3. For advertising, Google acts as an independent controller of the data it collects through the AdMob SDK.
3. Data stored on your device
The following is written to the app's private storage area on your device and is never sent to us:
| Data | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Display name and chosen crest | Shown on the board and profile screen |
| Coin balance and XP | The in-game economy |
| Match statistics (wins, losses, captures, matches played) | The profile screen |
| Campaign progress and star ratings | Story mode progression |
| Unlocked cosmetics and Power Cards | Restoring what you own between sessions |
| Settings (sound, music, vibration, theme, animation speed) | Remembering your preferences |
| A cached record of your purchases | Knowing whether ads are removed without a network call |
Deleting it. Uninstalling Ludo Saga removes all of it. You can also erase it at any time from Settings → Reset progress inside the app, which does not affect purchases.
Backups. If you have Android Backup enabled for your Google account, the game database and settings file may be included in your device backup so your progress survives a device change. That backup is controlled by you and Google, is encrypted by Google, and is not accessible to us.
4. Data collected by third parties
4.1 Google AdMob — advertising
Ludo Saga shows two kinds of advert: an occasional full-screen advert between matches, and optional rewarded videos you choose to watch in exchange for in-game rewards.
To serve, cap and measure these, the Google Mobile Ads SDK collects and processes:
- Advertising ID (AAID) — a resettable identifier used for ad delivery, frequency capping and measurement;
- Device and app information — device model, operating system version, app version, language, country, and network type;
- Approximate location derived from your IP address — country or region level. The app does not request or receive GPS or precise location;
- Ad interaction data — whether an advert was requested, shown, viewed, clicked, or completed.
Android Privacy Sandbox. On devices that support it, the Google Mobile Ads SDK may also use Android's Privacy Sandbox APIs, which the SDK declares on the app's behalf:
- Topics API — supplies coarse interest categories, derived on your device, to help select relevant adverts without tracking you across apps;
- Attribution Reporting API — measures whether an advert led to an install or action, using privacy-preserving aggregate reporting;
- Ad ID access — reads the advertising identifier described above.
This data is processed by Google as an independent controller. See Google's advertising privacy notice at https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads and how Google uses data from apps that use its services at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
Your controls.
- You can reset or delete your Advertising ID at any time in Android Settings → Privacy → Ads. Deleting it stops personalised advertising.
- On supported devices you can manage Privacy Sandbox settings in Android Settings → Privacy → Ads → Ad privacy.
- If you are in a region covered by the GDPR, the UK GDPR, or similar rules, Ludo Saga shows a consent form on first launch, provided by Google's User Messaging Platform. You may change your choice later from Settings → Ad privacy options, where that option is available in your region.
- Purchasing Remove Ads permanently disables all full-screen advertising. Rewarded videos remain available only if you actively choose to watch one; they are never required.
4.2 Google Play Billing — purchases
When you buy something, the transaction is handled entirely by Google Play. Google receives your payment details and account information. We never see or store your payment method, card number, or billing address.
Ludo Saga receives back only a purchase token and the product identifier, which it uses to unlock what you bought. That token is cached on your device so purchases keep working offline.
See Google Play's terms at https://play.google.com/intl/en/about/play-terms/.
4.3 No analytics
This version of Ludo Saga includes no analytics SDK — no Firebase Analytics, no Crashlytics, and no third-party measurement or attribution SDK beyond the AdMob functionality described above. If that changes in a future release, this policy and the Play Data Safety declaration will be updated before that release ships.
5. Permissions the app uses
Some permissions are declared by the app; others are added automatically by the Google Mobile Ads and Play Billing libraries. For transparency, the complete list in the published app is:
| Permission | Declared by | Why |
|---|---|---|
INTERNET | App | Loading adverts and contacting Google Play |
ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE | App | Checking connectivity before requesting an advert |
VIBRATE | App | Haptic feedback, which you can switch off in Settings |
AD_ID | App | Declared explicitly so it matches the Data Safety declaration |
ACCESS_ADSERVICES_AD_ID | Ads SDK | Privacy Sandbox access to the advertising ID |
ACCESS_ADSERVICES_TOPICS | Ads SDK | Privacy Sandbox Topics API |
ACCESS_ADSERVICES_ATTRIBUTION | Ads SDK | Privacy Sandbox attribution measurement |
FOREGROUND_SERVICE, WAKE_LOCK | Ads SDK | Keeping the screen active during a rewarded video |
com.android.vending.BILLING | Billing SDK | Processing purchases through Google Play |
The app requests no access to location, camera, microphone, contacts, storage, files, photos, calendar, call logs, or SMS.
6. Children's privacy
Ludo Saga is rated for a general audience and contains no content directed specifically at children.
The app does not knowingly collect personal information from children. It never asks for a name, age, email address or any other identifying detail, and it has no chat, no user-generated content, and no way for players to contact one another.
Because the app serves advertising, it is not enrolled in Google Play's Designed for Families programme and is not directed to children under 13 within the meaning of COPPA, nor to children under the applicable age of digital consent in the EEA and the UK.
If you believe a child has provided personal information through this app, please contact us at the address above and we will investigate and delete anything found.
7. Data retention
- Data stored on your device is retained until you delete it or uninstall the app.
- We operate no servers and therefore retain nothing ourselves.
- Data held by Google (AdMob, Play Billing) is retained under Google's own policies, linked in section 4.
8. Security
Game data is held in the app's private storage area, which Android isolates from other apps. Purchases are verified through Google Play rather than trusted from local storage, so a modified device cannot grant itself entitlements. All communication with Google's services uses encrypted connections provided by those SDKs.
No method of storage or transmission is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
9. Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, port, or restrict processing of your personal data, to object to processing, and to withdraw consent.
Because Ludo Saga stores nothing about you outside your own device, you can exercise most of these directly:
- Delete everything — uninstall the app, or use Settings → Reset progress.
- Advertising — reset or delete your Advertising ID in Android settings, and change your consent choice in Settings → Ad privacy options where available.
- Purchases — managed through your Google Play account.
For data held by Google, please contact Google using the links in section 4. For anything else, write to apps.rhythmthemes@gmail.com. If you are in the EEA or UK, you also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority.
California residents. We do not sell or share personal information as those terms are defined by the CCPA/CPRA. We do not knowingly collect personal information from consumers under 16.
10. International transfers
Google may process the data described in section 4 in countries other than your own, including the United States, under the safeguards described in Google's own privacy documentation.
11. Changes to this policy
If this policy changes materially, we will update the effective date above and publish the new version at this URL before the change takes effect. Continued use of the app after that point means you accept the updated policy.
12. Contact
Google Play requires a working contact address and a publicly reachable policy URL.
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