PRIVACY POLICY

WHO WE ARE

Grissett Games operates Brewbound and is the controller of the personal information described here. Contact us about privacy, access, corrections or deletion at GrissettGaming@gmail.com.

WHAT WE COLLECT, IN SHORT

• A game account ID, created for every player, including guests.
• Your game progress, which is saved on your device and backed up to our cloud save.
• Purchase records needed to deliver what you buy.
• If you link Google Play Games: your Play Games identifier, and the achievements and leaderboard scores you earn.
• Advertising data, handled by our advertising partners, in line with the ad choice you make in the game.
• Anything you send us when you contact support.

We do not ask for your name, email address, contacts, photos, microphone, camera or precise location inside the game.

GAME ACCOUNTS

The game uses Unity Authentication to create a player ID, including for guest play, and stores sign-in credentials on your device. If you choose to link or sign in with Google Play Games on Android, Google processes the Play Games sign-in and Unity Authentication links its identifier to your game account. Other supported builds may use Unity Player Accounts. The game uses a temporary authorization code to complete sign-in; it does not store your Google password. Grissett Games does not receive your password.

SAVED PROGRESS AND CLOUD SAVE

Your progress, heroes, equipment, upgrades, currencies, story choices, settings and purchase-delivery history are stored in an encrypted save file on your device, associated with your player ID.

The game also keeps a backup copy of that encrypted save file in Unity Cloud Save, under your player ID. This applies to every game account, including guest accounts. The copy is uploaded while you play (at most every few minutes when your progress changes), shortly after a purchase or a Portal entry, and when the app goes to the background. When the game starts it checks for that copy, so your progress can follow you to a new device or return after a reinstall when you sign in to the same account. If the cloud copy and the device differ, the game asks which progress to keep. A guest account exists only on the device that created it; link Google Play Games to carry progress to another device.

The cloud copy is deleted when you erase your progress in the game or delete your game account. We use it only to restore and protect your progress, and to investigate cheating or support requests about your account.

GOOGLE PLAY GAMES, ACHIEVEMENTS AND LEADERBOARDS

If you link Google Play Games, the game sends your achievements and leaderboard scores to Google Play Games. Leaderboard entries can be visible to other players together with your Play Games profile name, according to your Play Games settings. Google handles this information under its own policy. You can manage or hide your Play Games profile and activity in the Google Play Games app.

PURCHASES

Google Play processes Android payments. The game receives product identifiers, transaction identifiers, receipts and purchase status to deliver items, avoid duplicate delivery and restore eligible permanent purchases. Delivery history in your save includes hashed transaction identifiers. Grissett Games does not receive your full card details. Store transaction records are handled by Google under its policies.

ADVERTISING AND YOUR AD CHOICE

Brewbound shows rewarded ads only: an ad plays when you choose to watch one in exchange for a reward. There are no banners and no ads that interrupt play.

The game integrates Unity LevelPlay mediation with the Unity Ads and ironSource networks. Before any advertising service starts, the game asks every player for an ad choice:

• Allow personalised ads: our advertising partners may use your device's advertising ID, IP address, approximate location inferred from it, device and network information, and your ad views and interactions to select, deliver and measure ads, limit how often you see them and prevent fraud.
• Use non-personalised ads: we tell the advertising services that you have not consented to personalised advertising and that your information must not be sold or shared for advertising. Ads may still be shown using limited information such as general context, and the partners may still process data needed to deliver the ad, count it and prevent fraud.

Advertising services are not started until you have answered. You can change your answer at any time in Settings > Privacy & Account Deletion > Ad choices. Your choice is stored on your device.

The game does not request precise GPS location. A purchase that removes ads does not erase information already processed by advertising services.

NOTIFICATIONS

Reminders, such as when your idle earnings are full, are scheduled on your device by the game itself. We do not run a push-notification server and do not collect a notification token. You can turn notifications off in the game's Settings or in Android settings.

FAIR PLAY CHECKS

The game checks on your device that its save file and clock have not been tampered with. These checks run locally. They can affect rewards in the game, and information about a tampered save can reach us only as part of the saved progress described above or if you contact support.

ANALYTICS

We do not include a separate analytics or tracking SDK of our own. Unity and Google may collect diagnostic and usage information needed to run the services listed in this policy.

HOW INFORMATION IS USED AND OUR LEGAL BASES

We use information to provide the game you asked for (accounts, saved progress and its cloud backup, purchases, achievements and leaderboards you opted into), which is necessary to perform our agreement with you; to keep the game secure, prevent fraud and cheating, and answer support requests, which is in our legitimate interests; to meet legal obligations such as tax and transaction records; and, with your consent, to show personalised advertising. Where we rely on consent you can withdraw it at any time, and doing so does not affect earlier processing.

If you contact us, we use your email address, player ID and the information you supply to respond and verify ownership. Please do not send passwords, access tokens, payment card numbers or unnecessary sensitive information.

PROVIDERS AND DISCLOSURES

We use Unity for authentication, cloud save and advertising, and Google Play for Android distribution, payments and optional Play Games features. These providers and their advertising partners may process information outside your country, including in the United States, using safeguards such as standard contractual clauses where required. We do not sell your personal information for money. Sharing data with advertising partners for personalised ads may count as a "sale" or "sharing" under some US state laws; choosing non-personalised ads opts you out of it. We may disclose information when necessary to comply with law, protect players, investigate fraud or complete a business transfer subject to appropriate privacy protections.

Provider privacy notices:

Unity: https://unity.com/legal/game-player-and-app-user-privacy-policy

Unity / ironSource advertising: https://unity.com/legal/ironsource-mobile-privacy-policy

Google: https://policies.google.com/privacy

YOUR CHOICES AND RIGHTS

In the game: Settings changes notification, audio and vibration preferences; Settings > Privacy & Account Deletion lets you copy your player ID, change your ad choice and delete your game account. Android settings let you reset or delete your advertising ID and control notification permission.

Depending on where you live, you have rights over your personal information:

• European Economic Area, United Kingdom and Switzerland (GDPR and UK GDPR): access, correction, deletion, restriction, portability, objection to processing based on legitimate interests, and withdrawal of consent, plus the right to complain to your data-protection authority.
• United States (state privacy laws, including California): to know what is collected, to access, correct and delete it, to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information and of targeted advertising, and not to be treated unfairly for using these rights. Use the ad choice in the game to opt out, or contact us. We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of players under 16.
• Brazil (LGPD): confirmation of processing, access, correction, anonymisation or deletion, portability, information about sharing, and withdrawal of consent.
• Canada, and other countries with similar laws: access, correction and withdrawal of consent, as your law provides.

To use any of these rights, contact GrissettGaming@gmail.com. We may need reasonable proof that an account belongs to you. We answer within the time your law requires. Processing needed to operate requested game features or prevent fraud may continue where permitted by law.

ACCOUNT AND DATA DELETION

In the game, open Settings > Privacy & Account Deletion > Delete Game Account, read the warning and choose Delete Permanently. You must be signed in and online. The game requests permanent deletion of the selected Unity Authentication game account, deletes the cloud save copy, and removes that player's local save and its backup, temporary, recovered and retired copies from this device. Local currencies, gear, upgrades and purchase-delivery history in that save are removed. A failed online request does not erase the local save.

To request deletion without reinstalling the game, email GrissettGaming@gmail.com with the subject "Brewbound account deletion". Include your player ID if available, and tell us whether you are requesting account deletion, other data deletion, or both. If you do not know your ID, describe the sign-in method you used so we can help identify the account. We will verify ownership before deleting account information. Never send a password or access token.

In-app deletion does not automatically remove local files on other devices. Remove the app's data on those devices and contact us for help. For associated advertising or support information, contact us so we can coordinate applicable requests with service providers. Your separate Unity Player Account and Google account, and your Google Play Games achievements and leaderboard entries held by Google, are not deleted by deleting the Brewbound game account; manage those with Google. Google Play purchase records remain with Google; consumed purchases are not refunded or restored by deletion. Eligible permanent purchases may be restored by the store account.

RETENTION

Local saves remain until you delete them or clear the app's data. The cloud save copy and game authentication data remain until you erase your progress or delete the game account. We keep support correspondence only as needed to handle your request and resolve related issues. Information that must be retained for legal obligations, transaction records, security or fraud prevention is limited to that purpose and kept only for the required period. Providers apply their own retention rules to information they independently control. Contact us for details about a specific record or deletion request.

SECURITY

The save file is encrypted on your device and its cloud copy is the same encrypted file, sent over encrypted connections. We also rely on our service providers' security measures. No storage or transmission method is completely secure. Keep your device and sign-in credentials protected.

CHILDREN

Brewbound is not directed to children under 13, or under the age at which your country requires parental consent for online services (up to 16 in parts of Europe). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children below that age. If you believe a child has supplied personal information through the game, contact us and we will investigate and delete it as required. A parent or guardian may contact us about a child's information.

CHANGES

We may update this policy when the game or its services change. The updated date appears above. Material changes will be communicated in the game or on our website where required.