Aurora Cells — Privacy Policy
Aurora Cells is a puzzle game made and operated by TglZone (“we”, “us”). This policy explains what data the game handles, why, who receives it and the choices you have. Contact for privacy questions and requests: cto@tglzone.com.
The game has no accounts and no sign-in. We never ask for your name, email address, phone number, contacts, photos, microphone, camera or precise (GPS) location.
1. Data kept on your device
To let you continue playing, the game stores in its private app storage on your device: level progress, stars and scores, the unfinished game, the daily-challenge calendar and streak, lamp outfits, daily tool allowances, your settings (language, sound, vibration, auto-mark, colour-blind patterns), the “Remove ads” purchase status, ad timing, a local event log and local crash reports (app version, time, thread and error stack trace). This data does not leave your device by itself. Android backup is turned off for the game. Clearing the app’s data or uninstalling the game deletes it, together with your progress.
2. Usage analytics (operated by TglZone)
Aurora Cells can send usage events to an analytics service that we run ourselves (self-hosted Aptabase at analytics.tglzone.com, on a server in Vietnam). We do not use a third-party analytics company. An event contains:
- the event name and time, for example game opened, level started, completed or failed, hint used, daily challenge, ad shown, purchase status, consent status, or an error;
- game values such as level number, board size, result, play time and mistakes; for errors only the error type, thread and top code line (not the full crash file);
- app version, app language, the country code from your phone’s language settings (not GPS), whether it is a test build, and a random session code created each time the game starts and never stored.
Events never include your name, email, phone number, device ID, Android ID or Advertising ID. When your device connects, the server sees your IP address: the analytics service uses it to derive an approximate country/region and a pseudonymous daily visitor code, and does not store the IP address in the analytics database. Analytics events are deleted automatically 5 years after they are recorded. We use them only to understand how the game is played and to fix problems, never for advertising and we do not sell them.
3. Advertising (Google AdMob)
Aurora Cells includes the Google Mobile Ads SDK (AdMob) to show optional rewarded ads and, between levels, occasional interstitial ads. Ads are only requested after the consent step described below; players who bought “Remove ads” do not see interstitial ads. When ads are requested, Google may collect and process your IP address (which can indicate approximate location), the Advertising ID and app set ID, ad and app interactions, and diagnostic information, for advertising, ad measurement, analytics and fraud prevention. Google acts under its own policies: Google Privacy Policy and How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.
Consent and choices. The game uses Google’s User Messaging Platform (UMP). Where the law requires it (for example the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland) you are asked for consent before any ad is loaded, and you can change your choice at any time in Settings → Privacy options. You can reset or delete your Advertising ID, or opt out of personalised ads, in your Android settings. Rewarded ads are always optional.
4. Purchases (Google Play)
The one-time “Remove ads” purchase is handled by Google Play Billing. Google processes your payment; the game never sees your card or bank details. The game receives the product ID, purchase state, a purchase token and acknowledgement state to unlock and restore the purchase. Purchase analytics events contain only the product and the status, never the purchase token. Deleting the game’s data does not delete your Google Play purchase history or refund a purchase.
5. Who receives data
- TglZone: analytics events (section 2), stored on our own server in Vietnam.
- Google: advertising and consent data (section 3) and purchase data (section 4), as an independent provider under its own policies; Google may process data in other countries.
We do not sell personal data and we share no other data with anyone, unless the law requires it.
6. Security and retention
Data sent by the game to our analytics service and to Google travels over encrypted connections (HTTPS/TLS). Our web server keeps technical access logs (IP address, time, requested address and browser/app identifier) for up to 14 days to keep the service running and secure, then deletes them. Analytics events are kept for up to 5 years (section 2). On-device data stays until you clear the app’s data or uninstall the game.
7. Children
Aurora Cells is not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 (or the minimum age required in your country). If you believe a child has provided personal information through the game, contact us and we will delete what we can identify.
8. Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct or delete personal data, object to or restrict its processing, and withdraw consent. Write to cto@tglzone.com. Because the game has no accounts and analytics events use a random session code, we may not be able to link events to you; we will tell you what we can and cannot do. Please never send us your purchase token or Advertising ID by email. For data held by Google, use Google’s own tools and policies. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.
9. Changes
If the way the game handles data changes, we will update this page and its effective date, and ask for consent again where required.
10. Contact
TglZone — cto@tglzone.com