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COCOBOUM! Privacy Policy
In short
- COCOBOUM! is a game. There is no account to create and the publisher has no server that receives your data: your progress, coins, nickname, avatar and year of birth stay on your phone.
- The game shows ads through Google AdMob. Google then receives some technical data (for example your IP address and device identifiers).
- On first launch, the game asks for your year of birth to adapt ads to your age: under 16, no personalised ads.
- Purchases go through Apple's App Store or Google Play. The publisher never sees your payment details.
- Any questions: contegamesstudio@gmail.com.
1. Who is responsible?
COCOBOUM! is published by Anthony Conte, sole trader (French « entrepreneur individuel »), trading as CONTE GAMES STUDIO (SIRET 490 066 602 00056), 42 C rue du Général de Gaulle, 42400 Saint-Chamond, France. Contact: contegamesstudio@gmail.com.
The publisher is the "controller" within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for its own part. Google, Apple and Unity decide some processing themselves: they are then responsible for it, under their own policies (see section 3).
2. Data that stays on your phone
This data is stored in a save file on your device. It is not sent to the publisher:
- your progress (levels, stars, scores, records), coins, lives and power-ups;
- your nickname (with a number such as #1234) and the avatar chosen from the game's pictures;
- your year of birth (see section 6);
- your settings (language, sound, vibration);
- your privacy choices (stored by Google's consent tool).
If you uninstall the game, this data is deleted from your device. The game has no online save: progress cannot be recovered afterwards.
3. Data processed by our partners
3.1 Ads: Google AdMob
The game shows rewarded ads, which you choose to watch to earn a bonus, and ads between levels. The "No ads" purchase removes the latter; rewarded ads always stay optional. Only ads rated for all audiences are requested.
To do so, Google's Mobile Ads SDK is built into the game. According to Google, it may collect: your IP address (which gives an approximate location, not a precise address), device identifiers (advertising ID, other app-related identifiers), interactions (app launches, taps, ads viewed) and diagnostic and performance data. This data is used to show ads, measure their effectiveness, produce statistics and prevent fraud. It is encrypted in transit.
- Personalised ads: only for players aged 16 or over who accept them in the consent message shown on first launch (in Europe, the UK and Switzerland).
- If you refuse, or if you are under 16: Google shows non-personalised or limited ads. The game stays exactly the same.
- On iPhone, the game does not ask for Apple's tracking permission: Apple's advertising identifier is not used.
- Google processes this data under its own rules, as a controller for its own part: Google Privacy Policy and How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.
3.2 In-app purchases: Apple, Google and Unity
Optional purchases (coins, packs, unlimited lives, "No ads") are paid through Apple's App Store or Google Play. Apple and Google process the payment under their own rules; the publisher never receives your payment details. The game only receives the purchase confirmation to give you your content.
The Unity In-App Purchasing module (Unity Technologies) connects the game to the store. According to Unity, it may process technical purchase-related data (player and installation identifiers, device information, country, purchase history) to make purchases work and for statistics. See Unity's Game Player and App User Privacy Policy.
3.3 Game engine: Unity
The game is built with the Unity engine. No Unity analytics service (Unity Analytics, crash reporting) is enabled in the game.
3.4 Game Center (iPhone)
On iPhone, if the game uses Apple's Game Center and you are signed in, it may send your scores (level total, weekly points, duels won) to Game Center for leaderboards, and show other players' best scores with their Game Center name. You can sign out of Game Center in your iPhone settings. This data is processed by Apple: Apple Privacy Policy.
4. Purposes and legal bases
| Purpose | Legal basis (GDPR) |
|---|---|
| Running the game and its save on your phone | Performance of the service you request (no data is sent to the publisher) |
| Adapting ads to your age | Legal obligation to protect minors; the answer stays on your phone |
| Personalised ads, access to device identifiers where the law requires it | Your consent, which you can withdraw at any time |
| Non-personalised ads, fraud prevention, Google statistics | Under Google's rules (see 3.1) |
| In-app purchases | Performance of the purchase contract; legal obligations (accounting) |
| Answering your messages | The publisher's legitimate interest in replying to you |
5. Your choices and how to withdraw consent
- In the game: Settings > "PRIVACY & ADS" reopens Google's consent message so you can accept or refuse again (this button appears where the law of your country requires it).
- On Android: in your phone settings, under Google ads, you can reset or delete your advertising ID.
- Buying "No ads" removes ads between levels.
Withdrawing consent changes nothing in the game and does not affect what was done before.
6. Children and teenagers
COCOBOUM! is a game for all ages. On first launch, the game asks for the player's year of birth, without suggesting an answer and without saying what the answer changes. This information stays on the phone. As the day of birth is not asked, the game always assumes the youngest possible age.
- Under 13: ad requests are marked as directed to a child; only non-personalised ads suitable for all ages are shown; no consent request is shown.
- 13 to 15: in France, a minor under 15 cannot consent alone to the processing of their data for this kind of service, and other European countries set this age up to 16. The game therefore only shows non-personalised ads until 16, with no consent request.
- Purchases: we recommend that parents turn on App Store parental controls ("Ask to Buy") or Google Play purchase approvals.
- The publisher does not collect personal data from children. If you think a child has sent us data (for example by email), write to us and we will delete it.
7. How long
- Data on your phone: until the game is uninstalled.
- Data processed by Google, Apple and Unity: under their own policies (links above).
- Your messages to the publisher: 3 years after the last exchange.
8. Recipients and transfers outside the European Union
The data described in section 3 is processed by Google (Google Ireland Limited and Google LLC), Apple and Unity Technologies. Some of it may be transferred outside the European Union, in particular to the United States. These companies state that they cover such transfers with the safeguards provided by the GDPR (for example the European Commission's standard contractual clauses or the EU–US Data Privacy Framework): see their privacy policies.
The publisher does not sell your data.
9. Your rights
You have the right to access your data, have it corrected or erased, restrict its use, object to it, receive it (portability), withdraw your consent and give instructions about it after your death. As the publisher holds almost no data about you, most of these requests are made directly to Google, Apple or Unity (links in section 3); the publisher can help you.
Contact: contegamesstudio@gmail.com. We reply within one month.
You can also lodge a complaint with the French data protection authority, the CNIL (www.cnil.fr), or with the authority of your country.
10. Security
Data sent by our partners is encrypted in transit. Game data stays on your device, protected by your own settings (passcode, fingerprint, etc.).
11. Changes
If this policy changes (for example when an online leaderboard arrives), the new version will be published at the same address with its date, and announced in the game if the change is significant.
12. Contact
Anthony Conte – CONTE GAMES STUDIO – SIRET 490 066 602 00056
42 C rue du Général de Gaulle, 42400 Saint-Chamond, France
contegamesstudio@gmail.com