Privacy Policy — Puzzle Season

Who we are

Sehaj Softworks develops and publishes Puzzle Season. For privacy questions about this app, contact us at sehajsoftworks@gmail.com. We do not operate a separate corporate privacy portal; email is the primary way to reach us.

Summary

Puzzle Season is a free puzzle app. Optional interstitial ads may appear between completed sessions for free users. Optional rewarded ads may unlock an extra hint or continue when you ask. Unlimited (monthly, yearly, or lifetime) turns ads off and unlocks unlimited hints and free continues. The app does not require an account. Puzzle progress is stored on your device.

Information we collect

We do not operate our own account system and do not ask for your name or email inside the app.

The app stores locally on your device:

• Puzzle progress and settings (for example, completed days, season progress, music preference, trophies, Unlimited entitlement)
• Optional ambient music preference
• Soft prompts state (rating ask, Unlimited ask, daily reminder preference)

This data stays on your device unless you back up your device with your platform’s backup tools (for example Android backup), which is controlled by you and your device vendor—not by a Puzzle Season server.

Local reminders

If you turn on Daily reminder, the app schedules a local notification on your device (once per day at a time you choose) about Daily Challenges. These reminders are not sent from our servers. You can turn them off anytime in Support. The operating system may ask for notification permission.

Ads and third parties

If you do not have an active Unlimited entitlement, the app may show interstitial ads after you leave a completed puzzle (not while you are solving), and may offer optional rewarded ads for extra hints or continues when you ask. Ads are provided by Google AdMob (and related Google advertising services).

Those services may collect or process information such as:

• Advertising / device identifiers
• IP address (which may indicate approximate location, such as country or region)
• Device and app information (for example device type, OS version)
• Ad interactions and related diagnostics used to deliver and measure ads

See Google’s privacy policies. You can limit ad personalization in your device settings (and, on Android, Advertising ID controls).

Purchasing or restoring Unlimited stops the app from requesting or showing ads while entitlement is active. Active subscriptions are checked via the store APIs; expired subscriptions no longer grant Unlimited.

We do not currently integrate separate first-party analytics or crash-reporting SDKs of our own beyond what AdMob / the app stores provide for ads and purchases.

Purchases

Unlimited (subscriptions and the lifetime purchase) is processed by Google Play or the Apple App Store. The store processes payment and purchase records under its own policies. We store only a local entitlement flag, plus restore-purchase results from the store APIs.

Permissions

The app may keep the screen awake while you use it so the device does not sleep mid-puzzle. Optional notification permission is used only if you enable Daily reminder. It does not require contacts, microphone, camera, or precise location. Internet access is used for ads and in-app purchases when available.

How long we keep data

• On-device progress and settings: until you clear app data or uninstall the app (or until your device backup/restore tools change them).
• Ads and purchases: retained by Google (AdMob / Play / App Store) under their policies; we do not run our own ad or payment database.
• Emails you send us: kept only as needed to respond to your request, then deleted or minimized when no longer needed.

International processing

Puzzle Season may be used worldwide. Google and the app stores may process ads and purchase-related data on servers outside your country, including outside Canada. Where those transfers occur, they are handled by those providers under their terms and applicable law.

Security

We take reasonable steps appropriate for a local-first app (no account server of ours). No method of electronic storage or transmission is completely secure. You are responsible for controlling access to your device.

Children’s privacy

Puzzle Season is intended for a general audience and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. Ads are subject to the advertising network’s policies and your store’s age rating. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us by email, contact sehajsoftworks@gmail.com and we will delete it.

Your choices and rights

• Buy Unlimited (monthly, yearly, or lifetime) from Support on the Home screen, or restore a prior purchase. Manage or cancel subscriptions in Google Play (or the App Store).
• Turn Daily reminder on or off (and pick a time) from Support.
• Clear app data or uninstall to remove locally stored progress.
• Mute music anytime in the app.
• Limit personalized ads in your device / Google settings.
• Review this policy and the Terms of use from Support, or on our legal pages.

Depending on where you live (for example under GDPR, UK GDPR, or certain U.S. state laws), you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or restrict processing of personal information, or to object to certain processing. Because we do not run user accounts or our own analytics backend, the practical ways to exercise these for Puzzle Season are usually: uninstall or clear app data (local data), use device ad controls (AdMob identifiers), and contact Google for store/ad account data. For anything we hold from email correspondence, contact sehajsoftworks@gmail.com and we will help where we can.

We do not “sell” personal information in the everyday sense. AdMob’s use of identifiers for advertising may be considered a “sale” or “share” under some U.S. state laws; you can opt out of personalized ads via device settings and Google’s tools.

This website

Our legal pages at sehajsoftworks.github.io are informational only. They do not require an account. Hosting may involve infrastructure cookies or logs from GitHub Pages beyond our control.

Changes

We may update this policy when the app changes. The “Last updated” date will change accordingly. Continued use of the app after an update means you acknowledge the revised policy.

Contact

Questions about privacy: sehajsoftworks@gmail.com