Privacy Policy for Android

The Google Play version of Tied to the Beat, package com.jlianes.tiedtothebeat.

Short version: there is no account and no server. Your progress lives on your phone. The free version shows ads served by Google AdMob, and Google processes device data to serve them. A one-time purchase removes those ads.

This page covers only the Google Play version. The desktop version is distributed elsewhere and is not covered here.

1. What the developer collects: nothing

The developer does not collect, receive, store, or share any personal data from the app. There is no sign-in, no account, and no analytics SDK. The app never asks you who you are, and never asks for:

Name, email address, phone number, or any account identifier.
Location, contacts, photos, files, calendar, camera, or microphone.

What the app does involve a third party in is advertising, and that is described in section 3 — it is the one place where data about your device leaves the app.

2. What is stored on your phone

Your progress, unlocked songs, achievements, settings, and language and audio preferences are written to the app's own storage on your device. None of it is uploaded anywhere, and the developer never sees it.

Uninstalling the app deletes all of it permanently. There is no copy on any server, so there is nothing left for us to delete and nothing for you to request.

3. Advertising (Google AdMob)

The free version shows full-screen ads between songs, and optional rewarded videos that you choose to watch in exchange for an in-game reward. Both are served by Google AdMob. To serve and measure them, Google may collect and process:

your device's advertising identifier (Advertising ID);
IP address, and the approximate — not precise — location derived from it;
device and app information, such as model, operating system version, and app version;
ad interaction data: whether an ad was served, viewed, or tapped.

The developer does not receive any of this at an individual level, only aggregate performance reports. Google's own handling is described in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.

The app shows no banner ads, no ads on launch or exit, and no ads during a song. Ads appear only at the end of a song, or when you deliberately choose to watch one.

4. Your choices about ads

In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, the app asks for your consent before requesting personalised ads, using Google's User Messaging Platform. You can change or withdraw that consent at any time from Settings → Privacy inside the app. Refusing does not lock you out of anything: the whole game stays playable, and you see non-personalised ads instead.
On Android you can reset or delete your Advertising ID at any time from Settings → Privacy → Ads on your device.
Buying Remove Ads permanently removes every forced ad. Rewarded videos stay available only if you choose to watch one.

5. Purchases

The app offers one single non-consumable product: Remove Ads. Payment is handled entirely by Google Play. The developer does not collect, receive, or store card numbers or any other payment detail — only the confirmation that the purchase exists, so the app can restore it if you reinstall or change phone using the same Google account.

There are no currency packs, no loot boxes bought with real money, and no subscription. Every song, character and upgrade can be reached by playing.

6. Permissions the app asks for, and why

INTERNET: needed to load ads and to validate the purchase. The game itself is fully playable offline — every song, lyric and translation is bundled inside the app.
com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID: the advertising identifier used by AdMob, as described in section 3.

The app requests no other permission. It cannot reach your contacts, files, camera, microphone, or precise location, because it never asks for them.

7. Links that leave the app

The app offers a few optional links, such as the community Discord and the developer's page. Nothing is sent when the app starts. A link opens your browser only if you tap it, and from that point the destination's own privacy policy applies.

8. Children

Tied to the Beat is not directed at children under 13, and it is not enrolled in Google Play's Designed for Families programme. The developer does not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided personal information, write to the address in section 11 and it will be addressed.

9. Your rights (GDPR, CCPA)

Rights such as access, correction, portability, and erasure apply to personal data held by a company. The developer holds no personal data from this app, so there is nothing to access, export, or erase on our side, and your save lives only on your phone (see section 2).

For the advertising data described in section 3, the controls that actually work are the two in section 4: withdraw consent inside the app, and reset or delete the Advertising ID on your device. Requests concerning data already processed by Google are handled by Google.

10. Changes to this policy

If a future version of the app ever handles data differently — for example if analytics are added — this page is updated before that version ships, and the Data safety declaration on Google Play is updated with it.

11. Contact

Developer: Javier Lianes García (Lianes8)

Email: jlianesglr@gmail.com