Privacy

Privacy Policy for Indie Dev Games

Last updated: April 23, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how Indie Dev Games (“Indie Dev Games,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, discloses, and protects information when you visit https://indiedevgames.com/, use any of our mobile games, apps, or related services, or otherwise interact with us (collectively, the “Services”).

This Privacy Policy is intended to cover our website, our app games, in-app features, app store listings, newsletters, customer support, and advertising and analytics tools used in connection with those Services.

1. Scope

This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect from or about users of our website, mobile games, mobile applications, and related services that link to or reference this Privacy Policy. By using our Services, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use the Services.

2. Information We Collect

Depending on the Service you use, we may collect the following categories of information:

Information You Provide to Us

  • Name, email address, and other contact information when you contact us or sign up for updates.
  • Messages, feedback, support requests, bug reports, survey responses, or other content you send to us.
  • Information you provide when participating in promotions, contests, giveaways, or community features, if offered.
  • Information related to purchases, subscriptions, or redemptions processed through third-party app stores or platform providers. We generally do not receive your full payment card number.

Information We Collect Automatically

  • IP address, approximate location derived from IP or device settings, browser type, device model, operating system, language, app version, and network information.
  • Device identifiers, including advertising identifiers, device IDs, app instance IDs, and similar identifiers.
  • Website usage data, such as pages viewed, links clicked, referral URLs, session duration, and interactions with site content.
  • Game and app usage data, such as session activity, level progression, gameplay events, feature usage, ad impressions, ad clicks, rewarded ad completion, and general engagement metrics.
  • Crash reports, diagnostics, performance data, error logs, anti-fraud signals, and security-related information.
  • Information collected through cookies, software development kits (SDKs), pixels, local storage, and similar technologies.

Information from Third Parties

  • App stores and platform providers may share transaction status, installation attribution, refund status, subscription status, or platform-level device and account information with us.
  • Advertising, analytics, and measurement partners may provide information about campaign performance, attribution, ad activity, fraud detection, and audience insights.
  • If you use a third-party login, social, or platform integration that we offer in the future, we may receive information that provider allows us to access based on your settings.

3. How We Use Information

We may use the information we collect to:

  • Operate, maintain, improve, and secure our website, games, and apps.
  • Provide gameplay features, save settings, troubleshoot issues, and respond to support requests.
  • Analyze usage trends, diagnose crashes, measure performance, and improve game design, balance, and content.
  • Display ads, measure ad performance, limit ad frequency, prevent invalid traffic, and support monetization of our games and apps.
  • Provide newsletters, updates, marketing messages, and promotional materials where permitted by law.
  • Detect, investigate, and prevent fraud, abuse, cheating, unauthorized access, and violations of our terms.
  • Comply with legal obligations, enforce agreements, and protect our rights, users, and Services.
  • Create aggregated or de-identified analytics and reports.

4. Cookies, SDKs, and Similar Technologies

We and our service providers may use cookies, pixels, tags, SDKs, local storage, and similar technologies to recognize users, remember preferences, understand interactions, measure performance, support security, and deliver content or advertising.

On our website, you can control cookies through your browser settings and, where available, any cookie banner or preference tool we provide. Blocking cookies may affect site functionality. For additional information about website cookies, please review our Cookie Policy.

5. Mobile Games, Advertising, and Appodeal

Our mobile games and apps may include third-party advertising and monetization tools, including the Appodeal mediation platform and its demand or mediated advertising partners. These services help us serve ads, measure ad effectiveness, manage frequency, prevent fraud, and support game monetization.

Depending on the game, device, operating system, app permissions, and partner configuration, Appodeal and/or its partners may process information such as advertising IDs, device IDs, IP address, approximate location, device and network information, app and SDK information, ad impressions, ad clicks, product interaction data, diagnostics, performance data, and in some cases purchase history or similar event data if that information is passed through the app for attribution, analytics, or ad optimization.

Appodeal’s current developer documentation states that publishers using the SDK should disclose collection of IP address and advertising ID, link to Appodeal’s privacy policy, and provide a privacy policy both on the app store listing and within the app. Where required by law, we may also request user consent for personalized advertising and related data processing.

In regions such as the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, our apps may use a consent management platform to collect and communicate your advertising choices to Appodeal and participating ad partners. You may also be able to limit ad personalization through your device settings, such as “Limit Ad Tracking” on iOS or “Opt out of Ads Personalization” on Android, subject to platform availability and naming changes.

For more information about Appodeal’s privacy practices, please review Appodeal’s Privacy Policy and Appodeal’s SDK Opt-Out page.

6. Analytics and Measurement

We may use analytics, attribution, crash reporting, and performance monitoring tools to understand how users interact with our website, games, and apps, to measure installs and campaigns, to diagnose technical issues, and to improve user experience and product performance. These tools may collect identifiers, device information, app events, session information, diagnostics, and approximate location information.

7. When We Share Information

We may disclose information in the following circumstances:

  • To service providers that host, support, secure, analyze, maintain, or help operate our Services.
  • To advertising, mediation, analytics, attribution, and measurement partners used in connection with our website, games, and apps.
  • To app stores, platform providers, payment processors, and distribution partners as needed to publish, process purchases, administer subscriptions, prevent fraud, or provide support.
  • To professional advisors, auditors, insurers, law enforcement, regulators, or courts when required by law or reasonably necessary to protect rights, safety, and security.
  • In connection with a merger, financing, acquisition, bankruptcy, sale of assets, or similar business transaction.
  • With your consent or at your direction.

8. Legal Bases for Processing

If you are located in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, or Switzerland, we process personal data under one or more of the following legal bases, depending on the context:

  • Your consent.
  • Performance of a contract with you, including providing the Services you request.
  • Compliance with legal obligations.
  • Our legitimate interests, such as operating, securing, improving, and monetizing our Services, provided those interests are not overridden by your rights.

9. U.S. State Privacy Notice

If you live in a U.S. state that grants privacy rights, including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, Utah, Oregon, Texas, Montana, Delaware, Iowa, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Tennessee, Minnesota, or other applicable jurisdictions, you may have the right, subject to verification and legal exceptions, to request access to, correction of, deletion of, or a copy of certain personal information we hold about you, and to appeal denial of certain requests where required by law.

We do not sell personal information for money. However, because we use advertising and analytics technologies in our website and mobile games, some privacy laws may classify certain disclosures of identifiers, device information, internet activity, app activity, or approximate location to advertising or analytics partners as a “sale,” “sharing,” or use for targeted advertising. If applicable law gives you the right to opt out, you may exercise that right by contacting us using the details below and by using device-level or browser-level privacy controls where available.

In the preceding 12 months, we may have collected and disclosed the categories of information described in this Privacy Policy to service providers, analytics providers, advertising partners, app stores, platform providers, and professional advisors for the business and commercial purposes described above.

10. Your Privacy Choices and Rights

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

  • Know whether we process your personal information and request access to it.
  • Request correction of inaccurate personal information.
  • Request deletion of personal information, subject to legal and operational exceptions.
  • Request a portable copy of certain personal information.
  • Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
  • Object to or restrict certain processing, including certain targeted advertising activities where applicable.
  • Opt out of marketing communications by using the unsubscribe link in emails or by contacting us.

You may also be able to control certain data practices by changing your browser settings, mobile device privacy settings, cookie settings, or advertising identifier preferences.

11. Data Retention

We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including to provide the Services, maintain records, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, prevent fraud, comply with legal obligations, and support legitimate business needs. Retention periods vary depending on the type of information and the context in which it was collected.

12. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure. However, no website, app, network, or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.

13. International Data Transfers

We and our service providers may process information in the United States and other countries where privacy laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction. Where required, we take reasonable steps intended to provide an appropriate level of protection for cross-border data transfers.

14. Children’s Privacy

Our Services are not intended for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 without appropriate authorization or legal basis. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us in violation of applicable law, please contact us so we can review and take appropriate action.

If a specific game or feature is designated as child-directed or subject to children’s privacy rules such as COPPA or similar laws, we may apply additional restrictions or different data handling practices for that game or feature, including limiting personalized advertising where required.

15. Third-Party Services and Links

Our Services may link to third-party websites, platforms, stores, social media pages, or services that we do not control. Their privacy practices are governed by their own policies, not this one. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of those third parties before interacting with them.

16. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will post the revised version on this page and update the “Last updated” date above. Your continued use of the Services after an update becomes effective means you acknowledge the revised Privacy Policy.

17. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or would like to exercise your privacy rights, please contact us through our website contact page at https://indiedevgames.com/contact/.