Privacy Policy for Blockosaurus: Dino Puzzle
App name: Blockosaurus: Dino Puzzle
Package name: com.babar.blockosaurus
Developer: Babar Imran (individual developer)
Contact email: papajohn3432@gmail.com
Last updated: 19 September 2026
Effective date: 19 September 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how the app Blockosaurus: Dino Puzzle
("Blockosaurus", "the app", "we", "us", or "our"), published on Google Play by
the individual developer Babar Imran, handles information when you install
and use it. This policy applies only to Blockosaurus: Dino Puzzle
(com.babar.blockosaurus) and to no other app or service.
By downloading or using the app you agree to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use the app.
1. Summary
Blockosaurus: Dino Puzzle is a single‑player block puzzle game that works fully on your device and offline, with no account needed. We do not sell your personal information.
Signing in with Google is optional. If you choose to, it enables cloud save and the online monthly leaderboard, provided by Google Firebase (see Section 3.4). If you never sign in, nothing about your game leaves your device except what Google's advertising and billing services process (Sections 3.1 and 3.2).
The app shows advertisements and offers optional in‑app purchases. Those features are provided by Google (Google AdMob and Google Play Billing), and Google processes a limited amount of device and usage data to make them work, as described below.
2. Information the app itself collects
Unless you choose to sign in (Section 3.4), none of it leaves your device.
The app stores the following locally on your device only (using the device's standard app‑storage / "shared preferences" mechanism), so that your game works between sessions:
- Game progress: current stage, chapter, star ratings, endless‑mode best score, monthly best score.
- Your in‑game currency ("gems") and unlocked items (themes, dinosaurs).
- Achievement progress.
- Settings: sound and music volume, selected difficulty mode, selected theme.
This information never leaves your device, is never transmitted to us, and is permanently deleted when you uninstall the app or clear the app's data from Android Settings. We have no ability to access it and keep no copy of it.
The app does not collect your name, email address, phone number, contacts, photos, precise or approximate location, microphone or camera input, files, or call/SMS logs.
3. Information collected by third‑party services
3.1 Advertising — Google AdMob
The app uses Google AdMob to display banner, interstitial, and rewarded advertisements. To serve and measure ads, the Google Mobile Ads SDK may collect and process:
- Your device's advertising identifier (Android Advertising ID / AD_ID).
- IP address and coarse location derived from it.
- Device information such as device model, operating system version, language, and general usage/diagnostic data.
- Ad interaction data, such as which ads were shown, viewed, or clicked.
Google uses this data to deliver ads, limit the number of times you see the same ad, detect invalid activity and fraud, and — depending on your device settings and consent — to personalise the ads you see. Google may act as an independent data controller for this data.
- Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
- How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
- AdMob / Google Ads data practices: https://support.google.com/admob/answer/6128543
Your choices: - You can reset or delete your Advertising ID and opt out of ad personalisation in Android Settings → Privacy → Ads (wording varies by device). - Where required by law (for example in the European Economic Area, the UK, and Switzerland), the app presents a Google‑certified consent message before personalised ads are shown, and you can change your choice later from the app's settings.
3.2 In‑app purchases — Google Play Billing
The app offers optional in‑app purchases (for example gem packs and an ad‑removal purchase). All payments are processed by Google Play Billing. We do not receive or store your credit/debit card number or other payment details. From a completed purchase we receive only a purchase token and product identifier from Google so the app can unlock what you bought and so purchases can be restored on a new device.
Google's handling of purchase data is governed by the Google Payments Privacy Notice: https://payments.google.com/legaldocument?family=0.privacynotice
3.3 Google Play Services
Google Play distributes the app and provides core services (such as delivery, integrity checks, and crash collection at the platform level). This is governed by Google's Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
The app does not include Google Analytics for Firebase, Crashlytics, or any social‑network, attribution, or third‑party analytics SDK.
3.4 Optional Google sign‑in, cloud save and leaderboard — Google Firebase
Only if you tap Continue with Google, the app uses Firebase Authentication and Cloud Firestore (Google LLC) to:
- sign you in with your Google account and receive your name, email address, profile photo link and a unique account ID;
- back up your game progress (stage progress, stars, collection, coins and gems, settings) so it can be restored on another device or after reinstalling;
- publish your display name and best monthly score to the shared monthly leaderboard, which other signed‑in players can see. Your email address is not shown to other players.
This data is stored on Google's servers, encrypted in transit, and used only to provide these features. It is not used for advertising and is not sold.
Deleting it: in the app go to Settings → Delete account. This permanently deletes your account, your cloud save and your leaderboard entry. You can also request deletion at https://papajohn3432-pixel.github.io/delete-account.html or by email (Section 12). Signing out keeps everything stored until you delete.
Firebase is Google's service; see https://firebase.google.com/support/privacy and https://policies.google.com/privacy.
4. How information is used
| Purpose | Data involved | Who |
|---|---|---|
| Save and restore your game progress and settings | Local game data (Section 2) | On your device only |
| Show advertisements and prevent ad fraud | Advertising ID, IP, device info, ad interactions (Section 3.1) | Google AdMob |
| Personalise advertisements (only with consent where required) | Same as above | Google AdMob |
| Process and restore in‑app purchases | Purchase token, product ID (Section 3.2) | Google Play Billing |
| Sign in, cloud save and the monthly leaderboard (optional) | Google account name, email, profile photo link, account ID, game progress, best score (Section 3.4) | Google Firebase |
We do not use any data for profiling that produces legal or similarly significant effects, and we do not sell personal information.
5. Data sharing
We do not sell your information and we do not share it with anyone for their own purposes. The only data we hold is what you choose to store by signing in (Section 3.4), and it is used solely to run those features.
The third‑party services listed in Section 3 (Google AdMob and Google Play Billing) receive the data described there directly and process it under their own privacy policies. We do not receive that data from them in an identifiable form.
We may disclose information only if required to do so by law, regulation, or valid legal process — but in practice we hold no user data to disclose.
6. Data retention and deletion
- Local game data: kept on your device until you delete the app or clear its data.
- Account, cloud save and leaderboard data (only if you signed in): kept until you delete your account (Settings → Delete account), after which it is permanently removed.
- Advertising data held by Google: retained and deleted according to Google's policies. You can reset your Advertising ID at any time (Section 3.1). To exercise data rights against Google, use Google's own tools at https://myaccount.google.com and https://policies.google.com/privacy.
- Purchase records: retained by Google as required for billing, tax, and fraud‑prevention purposes.
If you have any question about data associated with this app, email papajohn3432@gmail.com and we will respond within 30 days.
7. Children's privacy
Blockosaurus: Dino Puzzle is intended for a general audience aged 13 and over and is not directed to children under 13 (or the equivalent minimum age in your country). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. The app is not enrolled in the Google Play "Designed for Families" programme. If you believe a child has provided information through the ads or billing features, contact us and we will help you direct a request to the appropriate service.
8. Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or restrict the processing of personal data, or to object to it, under laws such as the EU/UK GDPR and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA/CPRA).
If you signed in, you can delete your account and all data we hold in the app (Settings → Delete account) or by emailing us. For advertising and billing data, which Google controls, direct requests to Google:
- Google: https://policies.google.com/privacy and https://myaccount.google.com
- Ad settings: https://adssettings.google.com
You can still contact us at papajohn3432@gmail.com with any privacy question and we will assist where we can. We do not "sell" or "share" personal information as those terms are defined under the CCPA/CPRA.
9. Security
The game data stored on your device is protected by Android's standard application sandbox. Data transmitted by the Google advertising and billing SDKs is encrypted in transit by those SDKs. No method of storage or transmission is 100% secure, but we design the app to collect as little as possible — effectively nothing on our side.
10. International users
The app can be used worldwide. Any processing performed by Google (ads, billing, Play Services) may involve transfer of data to servers in the United States or other countries, under the safeguards described in Google's Privacy Policy.
11. Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will change the "Last updated" date at the top and post the new version at the same URL used in the Google Play store listing. Material changes will be reflected there before they take effect. Continued use of the app after an update means you accept the revised policy.
12. Contact
Developer: Babar Imran
App: Blockosaurus: Dino Puzzle (com.babar.blockosaurus)
Email: papajohn3432@gmail.com
This Privacy Policy is specific to Blockosaurus: Dino Puzzle and matches the app and developer identified on its Google Play store listing.