Privacy Policy

Information Collection and Use

The Application does not ask for your name, email address, or any other contact details, and it has no accounts. The Service Provider does not run its own servers for the Application and does not use analytics or crash-reporting services in it.

Information connected to the Application is handled in the following ways:

• Game progress, stats, and settings are stored only on your device. See "On Your Device" below.
• Google processes device and advertising information when ads are requested or shown. See "Advertising" below.
• Google Play processes purchase information when you buy or restore Remove Ads. See "Purchases" below.
• If you share a Daily Tick result, the text goes only to the app you choose. See "On Your Device" below.
• If you email the Service Provider, your email address and the contents of your message are used to answer you.

The Application requests only these Android permissions:

• Internet and network state, so it can load ads and connect to Google Play Billing.
• Advertising ID, so Google's ads SDK can use your device's advertising ID where you allow it.
• Google Play Billing, so you can buy and restore Remove Ads.
• Vibration, for optional haptic feedback, which you can turn off in Settings.

The Application does not request access to your location, camera, microphone, contacts, photos, or files.

Advertising

The Application is free to play and shows ads through Google AdMob:

• A banner on the home screen, result screens, and menus. Banners never show while a round is being played.
• Occasional full-screen ads when you leave some result screens. They never appear after the Daily Tick, a PERFECT, a rank-up, or a new best.
• Rewarded videos you can choose to watch for in-game benefits, such as doubling your Ticks, continuing a Ladder run, or earning a streak freeze.

Buying Remove Ads turns off banners and full-screen ads, and rewarded videos stay optional. The Application asks Google to limit ads to content suitable for teens.

When ads are requested or shown, the Google Mobile Ads SDK may collect and process information such as:

• Your device's advertising ID.
• Your IP address, which can indicate your approximate location.
• Device and operating system details, such as model, language, and screen size.
• Information about the Application and about how you interact with ads, such as views and taps.

Google uses this information to deliver and measure ads, limit how often the same ad appears, and detect fraud and abuse. Where you allow it, Google also uses it to show personalised ads. Google acts under its own privacy policy, linked in "Third Party Access" below.

Your Ad Choices

Where the law requires it, for example in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, the Application uses Google's User Messaging Platform to ask for your consent before ads are requested. When those privacy options apply to you, a "Privacy choices" button in the Application's Settings lets you review or change your choices at any time.

You can also reset or delete your advertising ID, or opt out of personalised ads, in your Android device settings. You can manage how Google personalises ads in My Ad Center.

In-App Purchases

Remove Ads is a one-time in-app purchase processed by Google Play. Google handles your payment details, and the Service Provider never receives your card or billing information.

To unlock Remove Ads, and to restore it with "Restore purchases" in Settings after reinstalling or on a new device, the Application receives confirmation details from Google Play. These include the product purchased, a purchase token, and an order ID. This check happens on your device. The Service Provider does not store purchase records on its own servers.

Data On Your Device

The Application saves the following in its private storage on your device:

• Your rank, XP, Ticks, and best scores.
• Your Daily Tick attempts, streak, and streak freezes.
• A history of your recent stops and daily average error, used for your stats charts.
• Your timer skins, tick sounds, and settings.
• Whether Remove Ads is active, and counters that pace how often ads appear.

This data is not sent to the Service Provider and is excluded from Android device backups. It is deleted when you clear the Application's data or uninstall it. A Remove Ads purchase can still be restored through Google Play.

The "Share result" button on a Daily Tick result opens Android's share sheet with a short text summary: the day's number, how close each attempt was, your streak, and a link to the game on Google Play. It never reveals the day's target. The Application shares it only when you tap the button, and only with the app you choose. If sharing is not available, the summary is copied to your clipboard instead.

Legal Bases

Where the GDPR or UK GDPR applies, information is processed on these legal bases:

• Your consent, for personalised advertising and for storing or accessing information on your device for advertising where consent is required.
• Legitimate interests in keeping the Application free, measuring ads, and preventing fraud, for non-personalised advertising.
• Performance of a contract, for delivering and restoring in-app purchases.
• Legitimate interests in helping you, for answering messages you send.

Your Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:

• Access, correct, or delete your personal data.
• Restrict or object to how it is used.
• Receive a copy of your data.
• Withdraw consent at any time.
• Complain to your local data protection authority.

The Service Provider does not keep gameplay or advertising data on its own servers. So you can act on most of these rights directly: clear the Application's data, change your "Privacy choices", or use your device's advertising ID settings. For anything else, including help with information Google processes, contact the Service Provider at contact@zipistudios.com.

Your California Privacy Rights (CCPA/CPRA)

If you are a California resident, you have these rights:

• To know what personal information is collected.
• To delete or correct it.
• To opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information.
• Not to be discriminated against for using these rights.

The Service Provider does not sell personal information for money. Information collected by the ad SDK for personalised advertising may count as "sharing" under California law. You can opt out by turning off ad personalisation or deleting your advertising ID in your device settings, or by contacting contact@zipistudios.com.

Third Party Access

The Application relies on third-party services that handle data under their own privacy policies:

• Google Privacy Policy, which covers Google AdMob, Google's User Messaging Platform, and Google Play Billing.
• How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.
• Google Play Terms of Service.

The Service Provider may disclose information it holds, such as support emails:

• As required by law, such as to comply with a subpoena, or similar legal process.
• When it believes in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect its rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request.
• With trusted service providers who work on its behalf, do not have an independent use of the information, and have agreed to follow this privacy policy.

International Data Transfers

Google may process information in countries other than your own, including the United States. Where the law requires safeguards for these transfers, they rely on recognised mechanisms. These include adequacy decisions and Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission. Data protection laws in other countries may differ from those where you live.

Opt-Out Rights

You can stop the Application from processing information at any time by uninstalling it. Uninstalling removes the data stored on your device. It does not delete information Google has already received, which Google keeps under its own policies.

Data Retention Policy

• Data on your device: kept until you clear the Application's data or uninstall it.
• Support emails: kept for as long as needed to help you, and for no more than 24 months after the conversation ends, unless the law requires longer.
• Advertising and purchase information held by Google: kept according to Google's own retention policies.

Children

The Application is not directed at children under 13 and is not part of Google Play's Families program. The Service Provider does not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you are below the age at which you can consent to data processing in your country, please use the Application only with a parent or guardian's permission.

If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has sent the Service Provider personal information, please contact contact@zipistudios.com. It will be deleted.

Security

Data saved by the Application stays in its private storage, which Android's app sandbox protects from other apps. Google's SDKs use encrypted connections to communicate with Google's services. No method of storage or transmission is completely secure, but the Service Provider keeps the information it handles to a minimum.

Data Breach Notification

If a data breach occurs that affects your personal data, the Service Provider will notify you as the law requires. Where required, that notice will explain what happened and what is being done about it.

Changes

This privacy policy may be updated from time to time, for example when the Application's features or services change. Updates are posted on this page with a new "Last updated" date. Where the law requires it, the Service Provider will ask for your consent to material changes before they take effect.

This privacy policy is effective as of 2026-09-14.

Your Consent

Where processing is based on consent, you give it through the consent form and the "Privacy choices" option. You may withdraw consent at any time, and doing so does not affect processing that happened before you withdrew it.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about privacy while using the Application, or about these practices, please contact ZiPiStudios at contact@zipistudios.com.