Privacy Policy
In short: Ping Win has no account and we run no servers for it. Your progress stays on your device. The free game shows ads from Google AdMob, which collects some device data to show and measure them, and uses Google Analytics for Firebase to count how the game is played (for example, which chapters are finished) so we can improve it. Achievements and leaderboards are optional and go through Google Play Games or Apple Game Center.
Ping Win: Penguin Journey Home (“Ping Win”) is a game for iPhone, iPad and Android, made by Aebyra (“we”, “us”). This policy explains what the game collects, why, who processes it, and the choices you have. It covers the Ping Win app and these Ping Win pages on aebyra.com.
1. What is collected
| Data | What it is | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Advertising | Collected by Google AdMob: device and app information (such as device model, operating system and app version), IP-based approximate location, how you interact with ads, diagnostics, and your device’s advertising identifier, only where you allow it. | Showing ads, limiting how often you see them, measuring them, and preventing fraud. |
| Game analytics | Collected by Google Analytics for Firebase: a random app-instance identifier (not your name or advertising identifier), device and app information (such as device model, operating system, app version and language), approximate location (country or region, from your IP address), and play events such as starting or finishing a chapter, the time and stars, where a run ended, and Endless scores. | Understanding how the game is played so we can fix problems and balance the chapters. Shown to us only as totals and trends, never to identify you. |
| Achievements and leaderboards | Only if you sign in to Google Play Games (Android) or Game Center (Apple): your player ID and name, the achievements you unlock and the scores you post. | Showing your achievements and your place on the leaderboards. Handled by Google or Apple. |
| Game progress | Chapters finished, stars, best times, challenges, fish, looks, Endless records, achievement progress, settings, and which hints and movies you have seen. | Remembering where you are in the journey. Stored on your device, and in your own Play Games or iCloud account if you are signed in (see section 4). |
We (Aebyra) do not receive your name, email address, contacts, photos or precise location. We see analytics only as aggregated reports in Google’s tools, and we do not link them to your identity or to your advertising identifier.
2. Ads in Ping Win
- A full-screen ad can play on the results screen after a run. Never while you play, while the game is paused, during the movies, or during the first-run tutorial, and at most about once every few runs.
- A small banner ad can sit at the bottom of the menus (title, chapter select, pause menu and result cards). Never during a run, on the death screen, in the movies, or during the first-run tutorial.
- You can choose to watch an ad to double the fish you caught on a results card, or, after a death past the halfway point of a chapter, to restart from halfway. Both are always optional.
- Ping Win uses no ad network other than Google AdMob.
3. Your choices
- EEA, UK, Switzerland and regulated US states: on first launch Google’s consent message asks whether ads may be personalised and whether your data may be used for them. You can change your choice any time with PRIVACY on the chapter select screen.
- iPhone and iPad: Ping Win asks for permission before using your advertising identifier (App Tracking Transparency). If you decline, ads are not personalised. Change it any time in Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking.
- Android: you can reset or delete your advertising ID in your device’s Google settings (Settings → Google → Ads, or Settings → Privacy → Ads).
- Game analytics: in the EEA, UK and Switzerland, analytics follows the choice you make in Google’s consent message, and you can change it with PRIVACY on the chapter select screen. Anywhere, you can ask us to delete the analytics data linked to your copy of the game (see section 9); deleting the app also resets its app-instance identifier.
- Achievements and leaderboards: optional. If you don’t sign in to Play Games or Game Center, nothing is sent to them; achievements are kept on your device until you do.
4. Where your progress is saved
Your game progress (section 1) lives in a small save file on your device, and deleting the app deletes that copy.
Cloud save: if you are signed in to Google Play Games (Android) or iCloud (iPhone, iPad), the game also keeps a copy of the same save in your own Play Games Saved Games or iCloud key-value storage, so your progress follows you to a new device. It holds only game progress, no personal details, and we cannot read it; Google or Apple store it under their own policies. If you are not signed in, nothing is uploaded. Your device’s own backup (iCloud or Google) may also include the save, depending on your settings.
5. Who processes data
- Google AdMob and Google’s consent tools: ads and ad consent (how Google uses data from apps that use its services).
- Google Analytics for Firebase: game analytics (Firebase privacy and security). Event data is kept for up to 14 months and then deleted automatically.
- Google Play Games (Android) and Apple Game Center (iPhone, iPad): achievements and leaderboards, and cloud save in your own Play Games Saved Games or iCloud, if you are signed in.
- Apple App Store and Google Play: downloads and updates under their own terms. They may share anonymous statistics with us, such as download counts and crash reports from people who chose to share them.
These providers may process data outside your country. Data is encrypted in transit.
6. What we never do
- We do not sell your personal data.
- We do not ask for an account, and we have no servers that hold your data.
- We do not show ads while you are playing a run.
7. These web pages
The Ping Win pages on aebyra.com use no cookies, no analytics and no third-party scripts or fonts. Like any website, our host (Google Firebase Hosting) processes standard request data, such as your IP address and browser type, to deliver the pages and keep them secure.
8. Children
Ping Win is not designed for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their data. If you think a child’s data has been collected through the game, contact us and we will help.
9. Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct or delete personal data, to object to or restrict its use, and to complain to your local data protection authority. We hold no personal data on our own servers. For analytics data, contact us and we will ask Google to delete the data for your app-instance identifier; for anything else we will point you to the right tool at Google or Apple, or contact them for you.
10. Changes
If we change this policy in a meaningful way, we will update this page and its effective date before the version of the game that needs it is released.
11. Contact
Questions or requests: hi@aebyra.com