Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

BrushPush (“the game”) is made by the independent developer madlocalhostdev (“we”, “us”). We are responsible for this policy. Contact: madlocalhostdev@gmail.com.

This policy covers the BrushPush app on Android and iOS and this website.

2. What the game keeps on your phone

To work, the game saves two small files in its private storage on your device:

• Progress: the levels and pictures you have finished, your best stars, which lessons you have seen and the picture you played last.
• Settings: your language, sound and vibration choices, and whether “No ads” is bought.

These files never leave your device and are not sent to us. They are deleted when you delete the game. We have no servers, no accounts, no analytics and no crash reporting of our own.

3. Advertising (Google AdMob)

The game is free and shows ads: a banner under some levels, a full-screen ad now and then between levels, and an optional video you can choose to watch for a hint. The ads come from Google AdMob, provided by Google LLC (or Google Ireland Limited for users in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland).

To show ads, limit how often you see them, measure them and prevent fraud, the AdMob software in the game collects and sends to Google:

• device identifiers, such as the advertising ID on Android or, if you allow tracking, the IDFA on iOS;
• your IP address, and from it your approximate location (country or city level);
• information about your device and the app: model, operating system, language, screen, app version;
• how you interact with ads: which ads were shown, taps on them;
• diagnostic data about how the ad software performs.

With your consent where the law requires it, Google may use this data for personalised ads, chosen by your interests. Without it, you see non-personalised ads, chosen from the context only. We ask Google for ads suitable for teens (rating PG).

We do not receive this data and cannot link it to you. Google's use of it is described in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services and in the Google Privacy Policy.

4. Your choices

Consent (EEA, UK, Switzerland)

On first start, the game shows Google's consent form before any ad is requested. You can accept, refuse, or choose purpose by purpose. To change your choice later: main menu → i → Privacy choices.

US states

If you live in a US state with a privacy law (for example California), you can opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of your personal information for targeted advertising: main menu → i → Privacy choices.

iPhone and iPad

The game asks for permission to track (App Tracking Transparency). If you tap “Ask App Not to Track”, the IDFA is not shared and ads are not personalised with it. You can change this in Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking.

Android

You can reset or delete your advertising ID, or opt out of personalised ads, in your phone's Settings → Google → All services → Ads (on some phones Settings → Privacy → Ads).

No ads at all

Buying No ads in the main menu removes the ads for good. From then on the game does not start the AdMob software, so it collects nothing.

5. Purchases

The only purchase, “No ads”, is processed by Google Play or the Apple App Store under their own terms and privacy policies. We never see your name, email or payment details. The game only learns from the store whether the purchase is owned, so it can remove the ads and restore them on a new phone.

6. Legal basis (GDPR)

Where the GDPR or the UK GDPR applies, storing and reading identifiers on your device for ads, and personalised ads, rely on your consent, given in Google's consent form and withdrawable at any time. Showing non-personalised ads, limiting their frequency and preventing fraud rely on the legitimate interest in funding a free game, as described in Google's consent form. Keeping your progress on your device is needed to provide the game you asked for.

7. Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, delete or move your personal data, to object to or restrict its use, to withdraw consent, and to complain to your data protection authority. Since we hold no personal data about you, most requests concern Google: use the choices above or Google's privacy controls. You are always welcome to write to us, and we will help.

8. Children

BrushPush is meant for players aged 13 and over and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect data from children. If you think a child has used the game in a way that sent data to our ad partner, write to us.

9. Data transfers and retention

Google may process ad data on servers outside your country, including in the United States, with the safeguards described in its privacy policy, and keeps it for the periods set there. Data on your device is kept until you delete the game.

10. This website

This site is hosted by GitHub Pages, which may log your IP address for security, as described in GitHub's privacy statement. Its font comes from Google Fonts. The site has no cookies and no analytics of ours.

11. Changes

If we change this policy, we will update it on this page with a new date. If the game starts to handle data differently, we will say so here before that version is released.

12. Contact

Questions about privacy, or a request about your data: madlocalhostdev@gmail.com.