1. Developer and contact
Developer: Aleksandar Harlov
Country: Bulgaria
Privacy and support contact: stoned.gymrat@gmail.com
You can use this address to ask questions about the game, report a problem, or exercise privacy rights. Gem Rondo does not require a player account. We do not send newsletters or promotional emails to people who contact us.
2. Game information stored on your device
Gem Rondo stores information locally to operate the game, resume progress, remember settings, and show statistics. Depending on the feature used, this may include your board, upcoming gems, game seed and configuration, score, level, energy, run identifiers and timestamps, completed-run history, lifetime records, match and cascade counters, special-gem and revive events, tutorial progress, diagnostic gameplay counters, and audio preferences.
The Android app uses app-private native checkpoint storage and WebView storage. Detailed local diagnostics describe gameplay rather than full crash stacks. Google Play may provide Android vitals reports through platform services, depending on device and user settings. The current version does not send those gameplay records to a developer-operated server, and it does not contain a separate remote gameplay-analytics service or a Firebase Crashlytics integration. Information processed by Google's advertising and consent software is different and is described below.
You may choose to export some statistics to a file. Exporting does not automatically send that file to us. Exported files can contain identifiers and timestamps and are not necessarily anonymous. If you choose to send or share an export, the recipient can receive its contents.
Android backup: Android Auto Backup is enabled. Depending on the device, operating-system settings, and backup or transfer provider, copies of eligible game data may be backed up or transferred to another device and may be restored after reinstallation. We do not operate a separate cloud-save server.
3. Optional rewarded advertisements
Gem Rondo includes an optional advertising-supported revive. You can continue playing, finish a run, and start another run without watching an advertisement. During testing, the Android build uses Google's official demonstration advertising identifiers and serves test advertisements; these are not revenue-generating production advertisements.
The app uses Google AdMob through the Google Mobile Ads SDK. Google's published SDK disclosures describe processing that may include IP addresses (which can indicate approximate location), interactions with the app and advertisements, technical diagnostics, and applicable device or advertising identifiers. Google and eligible advertising partners may use information for advertising operations, measurement, security, and fraud prevention according to applicable settings, choices, and their privacy notices. Such SDK communications may occur independently of a decision to watch an advertisement, including during consent-status requests or SDK startup.
Gem Rondo configures all native ad requests with Google's TEEN age-restricted treatment, maximum ad-content rating G, and publisher-side advertising personalization disabled, including for adult players. These settings are designed to limit advertising personalization; they do not mean that the advertising SDK processes no information or uses no identifiers.
The developer has selected Google's automatically managed list of commonly used advertising partners in AdMob. Google manages that list, which may change. Information about eligible partners and relevant privacy choices is presented through Google's consent interface where applicable. See Google Privacy Policy, Google's information about partner sites and apps, and Google Mobile Ads SDK (Legacy) data disclosure.
4. Advertising consent and choices
Gem Rondo uses Google's User Messaging Platform (UMP) to request up-to-date privacy information when the app starts. If you request an advertising-supported revive, a relevant consent or privacy message may be presented before the app initiates an advertising request. Whether advertisements can be requested is determined using UMP's eligibility information. A refusal of personalized advertising does not necessarily mean that every type of advertisement is unavailable.
The testing version uses Google's demonstration advertising App ID. The availability and presentation of privacy messages during testing may differ from later releases.
Where Google indicates it is required, you can revisit Settings → Privacy → Advertising privacy choices. The app also provides Settings → Privacy → Refresh advertising privacy to retry updating privacy information. Ordinary gameplay remains available if you decline to watch an ad or an ad cannot be served. Choosing not to watch an ad does not necessarily stop all technical communications by Google SDKs, and changing your privacy choices does not delete information already held by Google.
6. International processing and transfers
The service providers described above may process information in countries other than your own, including outside the European Economic Area. Applicable safeguards depend on the relevant entity, service, destination, and contractual terms. These can include legally recognized adequacy arrangements and standard contractual clauses when applicable.
Google describes its arrangements at Google Data Transfer Frameworks. Cloudflare publishes its Data Processing Addendum and Privacy Policy. These references describe providers' published arrangements; they are not a claim that one particular contract or safeguard applies to every transfer.
Contact us at the email above for information available to us about transfers for which we are responsible and applicable safeguards.
7. Purposes and legal bases
Where the EU or UK GDPR applies to processing for which we are responsible:
- Operation of the game, local progress, preferences, and limited technical diagnostics: our legitimate interests in providing reliable functionality, preserving requested progress, and protecting game integrity, to the extent such processing is subject to GDPR and the interests are not overridden by users' rights. Game records are not uploaded to our servers in this release.
- Responding to ordinary support inquiries: our legitimate interest in answering messages that you voluntarily send us.
- Handling applicable data-protection rights requests: compliance with legal obligations, where applicable.
- Delivering and protecting the Privacy Policy website: our legitimate interests in providing a secure, accessible public information page.
- Advertising and device access: where legally required, applicable consent is requested through the relevant Google privacy process. Other processing carried out by Google or advertising partners may be subject to the legal bases stated in their notices. The app's advertising restrictions and UMP status are not substitutes for legally required parental authorization or other regional safeguards.
These explanations do not override separate rules about storing or accessing information on a device, nor do they remove additional protections applicable to younger users. Contact us with questions about how these grounds apply to your information.
8. Retention and deletion
Local game records: Current progress, lifetime totals, and settings do not have a scheduled time-based expiration. The default local limits are up to 20 completed player-run summaries and 100 detailed gameplay-diagnostic run records; the configured limits can differ, and older entries may be removed as newer records are added or storage is constrained. These are count limits, not guaranteed deletion deadlines.
Delete Player Statistics: This existing action removes player totals and recent player history, resets high scores, and starts a fresh run. It does not necessarily remove detailed diagnostics, tutorial records, sound preferences, advertising-consent information, or Android backups.
Delete All Local Data: In Settings → Privacy, this action lets you clear application-owned local game data, including saved runs, high scores, gameplay and diagnostic statistics, tutorial records, special-gem guide acknowledgements, audio preferences, developer configuration and presets, and the application's native and WebView checkpoint copies. You must confirm the action. The game returns to default settings and a fresh state after deletion succeeds. If deletion is interrupted, the game attempts to complete it when reopened; storage errors are shown rather than reported as success. Advertising consent choices are preserved and remain separately available. This does not delete files you previously exported, operating-system/cloud backups, Google-held advertising information, or the device's advertising identifier. Prior backups could in some circumstances restore earlier game data.
To request deletion of personal information you have provided to us, such as support correspondence, please email stoned.gymrat@gmail.com with the subject "Gem Rondo Data Deletion Request".
A small local deletion-status record remains to prevent old saves from returning through ordinary app storage. It contains no gameplay history and is not sent to a developer-operated server. Starting again creates new game records.
You can also use Android Settings → Apps → Gem Rondo → Storage → Clear storage/Clear data to reset the app's active local storage. Uninstalling normally removes active app-private data, but backups and separately exported or shared copies may remain.
Support emails: We retain ordinary support and privacy correspondence for no longer than one year from receipt, and then delete copies under our control. Google's own retention policies may apply to data held by Gmail, AdMob, or other Google services. See Google data retention.
Policy website requests: We do not create our own analytics database or request-log export. Cloudflare's published retention criteria include the processing purpose, the nature and sensitivity of the information, risks, less intrusive alternatives, and applicable legal or contractual obligations. The provider controls its operational and security records under the applicable service terms and settings. We do not set a separate developer retention period for those records. We cannot delete Cloudflare-controlled records merely by clearing local game data. Contact us for information about records under our control or available through our account. See Cloudflare's Privacy Policy.
9. Data security
Gem Rondo uses Android app-private storage and WebView storage for local game information. Game-save files are not separately encrypted by a Gem Rondo-specific encryption system. Android and any configured backup service provide their own security mechanisms. The Privacy Policy website is intended to be served through HTTPS, and Google states that its Mobile Ads SDK uses encryption in transit for the data it transmits. No system can be guaranteed completely secure.
10. Your privacy rights
Depending on your location and the applicable law, you may have rights to obtain information about personal data, access it, correct it, request deletion or restriction, object to certain processing, obtain portability, or withdraw consent where processing relies on consent. You may also complain to an appropriate data protection authority.
Contact us at stoned.gymrat@gmail.com to make a request. We may ask for proportionate information needed to verify a request; please do not send identity documents unless specifically necessary. We will respond within applicable legal time limits (normally one month for requests governed by the GDPR, subject to permitted extensions). We cannot remotely access gameplay records that remain exclusively on your device. Information independently controlled by Google or other providers may need to be managed through those providers' privacy controls.
11. Age and intended audience
Gem Rondo is intended for users aged 13 and older. It is not specifically directed to children under 13. We do not ask players to enter their date of birth or maintain player age profiles. Advertising requests are configured using a conservative TEEN treatment for everyone, but this does not itself determine a player's legal capacity to consent. Additional legal requirements may apply to minors in particular countries.
If you believe a child under 13 has provided personal information to us through a support message or another channel, please contact us so we can review the situation appropriately.
12. Privacy Policy website
The Privacy Policy website is a static HTML/CSS page. It does not intentionally use web analytics, advertisements, remote fonts, tracking pixels, third-party scripts, or website-created tracking cookies. Cloudflare still processes technical information needed to deliver and protect the site. Links to external providers lead to websites governed by their own policies.
13. Future features and policy changes
In the future, Gem Rondo may offer optional, consent-based aggregated gameplay statistics, Daily Rondo challenges, public leaderboards with optional nicknames, and additional crash reporting. These are not active remote collection features in this release. If implemented, we will review and update this policy and relevant store disclosures before enabling any materially different collection, and obtain any consent required by applicable law.
We may update this policy when the game, the services it uses, or legal requirements change. The effective date at the top identifies the policy version. Material changes will be communicated when required. The approved policy will be linked through Gem Rondo's Settings and its Google Play listing.