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Privacy Policy for Cosmo Crush

Effective date: 27 August 2026  ·  Last updated: 27 August 2026

This policy explains what Cosmo Crush ("the app", "the game") does with your information. It is written to be read, not to be skimmed past.

Who we are

Cosmo Crush is published by Kenneth Withers ("we", "us"), who is the data controller for the purposes of the GDPR and equivalent laws.

Contact: jeneidix@gmail.com

The game was created by Mohammad Jeneidi. Advertising in the app is served through his Google AdMob publisher account; see "Advertising" below.

Information stored on your device

The game saves the following in local storage inside the app. It stays on the device, is not backed up to any service we control, and is not readable by us:

• Your high score, and the state of an in-progress game so you can resume where you left off.
• Your Stardust balance, unlocked badges, owned power-ups, and lifetime play statistics (games played, drops, merges, purchases made with in-game currency, and similar counters).
• A record of completed in-app purchases, kept on the device so the same purchase is never credited twice.
• Your settings, such as whether sound is on.

There is no way for us to see this data, and no way for us to restore it if you delete the app, reinstall it, or switch devices.

Advertising

The app displays ads from Google AdMob (Google Ireland Limited / Google LLC), including full-screen ads between games and optional rewarded ads you can choose to watch to continue a run. Ads are served through the AdMob publisher account of Mohammad Jeneidi.

To serve and measure these ads, Google's advertising SDK may collect and process:

• Your device's advertising identifier (the IDFA on iOS, or the Advertising ID on Android) and other device identifiers;
• Device information such as device model, operating system version, language, and network type;
• Approximate location inferred from your IP address — the app itself never requests or uses your device's GPS location;
• Usage and interaction data relating to the ads themselves: that an ad was requested, shown, viewed, or tapped.

Google uses this to select ads, limit how often you see the same ad, measure ad performance, and detect fraud. Google acts as an independent controller for much of this processing. What Google does with the data is described in Google's Privacy Policy and in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.

Your choices about ads

• On iOS, the app asks for your permission before tracking you across apps and websites (Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt). If you decline, you will still see ads, but they will not be personalized using your advertising identifier.
• You can change that choice at any time in Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking.
• On Android, you can reset or delete your Advertising ID and opt out of ad personalization in Settings → Google → Ads.
• You can opt out of personalized Google advertising generally at adssettings.google.com.

In-app purchases

The app offers optional in-app purchases of consumable in-game Stardust, the currency used to buy power-ups. These purchases are processed entirely by Apple through the App Store. We never see, receive, or store your payment card details, billing address, or Apple ID.

Apple provides us only with aggregated, anonymized sales and payout reporting — how many units of an item were sold in a period — which does not identify individual purchasers. Apple's handling of your purchase is governed by Apple's own privacy policy.

Purchased Stardust is consumable and is recorded only in the on-device save data described above. If you delete the app, purchased Stardust is lost along with the rest of your progress; there is no account and no cloud backup to restore it from. For refunds, contact Apple through reportaproblem.apple.com — we cannot issue App Store refunds ourselves.

What we do not do

• We do not collect your name, email address, phone number, or contacts.
• We do not use analytics, attribution, or crash-reporting services.
• We do not have accounts, logins, leaderboards, multiplayer, chat, or any social features.
• We do not access your camera, microphone, photos, contacts, or GPS location.
• We do not sell or share your personal information for money, and we receive no personal information from Google about you.

The app does use your device's vibration/haptics for feedback when a planet drops or merges, and loads a webfont from Google Fonts when it starts. Neither involves any data collection by us.

Legal bases (for users in the EEA and UK)

Where the GDPR or UK GDPR applies:

• Storing your game progress on your own device is necessary to provide the game you asked for (Article 6(1)(b), performance of a contract).
• Showing non-personalized ads relies on our legitimate interest in funding a free game (Article 6(1)(f)).
• Personalized advertising, and any access to information stored on your device for advertising purposes, relies on your consent. On iOS that consent is the App Tracking Transparency prompt described above, which you can withdraw at any time in Settings. You can also withdraw consent for personalized Google advertising at adssettings.google.com.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, delete, or receive a copy of your personal information, to object to or restrict certain processing, and to complain to a data protection authority.

In practice, we hold no personal information about you at all — there is no account and no server, so we have nothing to look up, export, or delete. You can delete everything the game stores by deleting the app from your device. For data held by Google in connection with advertising, use the Google controls linked above, or contact Google directly.

If you live in California, we do not "sell" or "share" your personal information as those terms are defined by the CCPA/CPRA, and we do not use it for cross-context behavioral advertising other than through the AdMob personalization you can decline as described above.

If you would like to exercise any right, or simply want to ask what we hold, email jeneidix@gmail.com and we will respond within 30 days.

Children

Cosmo Crush is rated 4+ but is not directed at children under 13 (or under 16 where local law sets that threshold), and it is not listed in the App Store Kids Category. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided information through the app, contact us at jeneidix@gmail.com and we will address it. Parents can restrict advertising tracking on a child's device through iOS Screen Time and the Tracking setting described above.

Data retention and security

Because game data never leaves your device, we retain nothing and there is nothing for us to secure on your behalf. Data retained by Google in connection with advertising is governed by Google's own retention policies.

International transfers

We transfer nothing. Google may process advertising data in the United States and other countries under its own safeguards, described in Google's privacy policy.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy we will update the "Last updated" date at the top and, for a material change, note what changed. The current version always lives at this URL.

Contact

Kenneth Withers
jeneidix@gmail.com