In short: Ludo Everest has no ads, no accounts and no in-app purchases. To find crashes and see how the game is played, it sends anonymous crash reports and usage statistics to Google Firebase. You can turn this off in Settings.
It never collects your name, email, contacts, photos, precise location or advertising ID. Your settings, statistics and saved game stay on your phone.
This policy explains how the Android game Ludo Everest (package com.latokosero.ludo, "the app") handles information. The app is made by latokosero ("we", "us").
Information we collect
While "Share crash reports and usage" is on in the app's Settings (it is on when the app is first installed), the app sends two kinds of anonymous information:
- Crash reports, through Firebase Crashlytics: when the app crashes or hits a serious error, the technical details of the error, the app version, the graphics quality in use, the phone model, Android version, free memory and storage at that moment, and a random installation ID used to count how many installs a crash affects.
- Usage statistics, through Google Analytics for Firebase: which screens are opened; when a match starts and ends (how many players and computer players, the computer's level, the house rules, whether a person or the computer won, how long it took); which achievements are unlocked; and the graphics quality the phone runs at. Google Analytics also records the phone model, Android version, language, the app version, a random app-instance ID, and the country or region, which Google works out from the network address. Google Analytics does not store the network address itself.
We do not collect your name, email address, phone number, contacts, photos or files, precise location, the advertising ID, or anything you type. The app has no accounts, so none of this information is linked to who you are.
How we use it
Only to find and fix crashes and to understand which parts of the game are played, so we can make it better and keep it running well on low-end phones. We do not use it for advertising, do not build profiles of players and do not sell it. Advertising features and ad personalisation are switched off in the app.
Analytics
The usage statistics above are collected with Google Analytics for Firebase, a Google service. In the app it is set up to collect as little as possible:
- it records only the game events and device details listed above, never anything you type, and no names, email addresses or other personal details;
- it does not collect the advertising ID, and advertising storage, ad user data and ad personalisation are switched off in the app, so the statistics are not used for advertising;
- it is used only by us, to see which parts of the game are played and how well it runs;
- it runs only while "Share crash reports and usage" is on in Settings, and only in the released app.
Google processes this data as our service provider. You can read how Google uses data from apps that use its services at How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.
Advertising
Ludo Everest shows no ads. The app does not include Google AdMob or any other advertising network, and this website does not use Google AdSense or any advertising or tracking cookies. Nothing about you or your device is shared with advertisers, the advertising ID is removed from the app, and there is no ad personalisation, remarketing or cross-app tracking. If we ever plan to show ads, this policy will be updated before that version is released.
Your choice
Open Settings > Data and turn off Share crash reports and usage. From then on the app sends neither crash reports nor usage statistics. Turning it back on starts sending again.
How long it is kept
Crash reports are kept by Firebase Crashlytics for 90 days. Detailed usage events are kept by Google Analytics for 2 months; after that only totals remain (for example "120 matches were played on Tuesday"), which say nothing about any single player.
What the app stores on your device
To work as a game, the app saves a small amount of data in its private storage on your phone:
- your settings (look, sound, music, vibration, house rules and similar choices);
- game statistics, streaks, achievements and unlocked collection items;
- the game in progress, so you can continue it later.
This data never leaves your device through the app and we never see it. You can reset your statistics in the app's Settings, and uninstalling the app or clearing its storage deletes all of it.
Android backup
If you have turned on backup in your phone's settings, Android may include the app's saved settings and progress in your device backup to your Google account, so they come back when you set up a new phone. That backup is run by Google under Google's privacy policy; we cannot access it. You can turn it off in your phone's backup settings.
Permissions
The app uses internet access only to send the crash reports and usage statistics described above; the game itself plays fully offline. It does not use your location, camera, microphone, contacts, photos or files. It can vibrate and keep the screen on during a game, which need no permission, and both can be switched off in Settings.
Children
Ludo Everest is suitable for all ages, including children under 13. Children are treated like everyone else: the app collects no personal information from them, only the anonymous crash reports and usage statistics above, used solely to keep the game working and improve it. The advertising ID is never collected, and the app shows no ads, offers no purchases, has no chat and contains no links that leave the app. A parent can turn the sharing off in Settings at any time.
Third parties
Crash reports and usage statistics are processed for us by Google, as our service provider, under the Firebase privacy and security terms and Google's privacy policy. Firebase encrypts the data while sending it. We do not share it with anyone else. The open-source libraries the app uses for graphics, sound and local storage run only on your device and share nothing.
Deleting your data
Because the information is anonymous and not linked to an account, we usually cannot pick out one person's records. Turning off sharing stops new data; uninstalling the app also discards its random IDs, so a new install starts fresh. If you have a question or a request about your data, write to us at the address below and we will help.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new effective date. If a future version of the app needs to collect any other data, this policy will be updated before that version is released.
This website
This website is a set of static pages. It sets no cookies and uses no analytics, trackers, advertising or third-party fonts and scripts. The contact form does not send anything over the internet: it only opens your own email app with a message you can review before sending. Like every web server, the hosting provider may keep standard access logs (such as the IP address and the page requested) for security and reliability.
Contact
Questions about this policy or the app: support@latokosero.com
See also our Terms of Use.