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Privacy Policy

Effective date: September 29, 2026

Dots & Boxes is a local board game published by Childhood Technology Ltd.

The game does not require account sign-in, cloud sync, chat, contacts, camera, microphone, or push notifications.

Local Gameplay

Dots & Boxes is designed primarily as a local board game. Match history shown in the app is stored only in memory for the current session.

The app does not intentionally send player names, messages, contacts, precise location, photos, audio, or other user-generated content.

Nearby Bluetooth Mode

The optional nearby Bluetooth mode lets two players connect directly to each other.

Match moves are exchanged only between those two devices and are not sent to a game server.

Bluetooth discovery may request the Nearby devices permission on Android.

Advertising

Dots & Boxes uses Google Mobile Ads (AdMob). Banner and native ads may appear on the menu.

Full-screen ads appear only at app open or during a completed-match transition. They are not shown during an active turn, line drawing, capture feedback, bot thinking, or animation.

Google Mobile Ads may process information required to deliver, measure, secure, and prevent fraud in advertising. Depending on the applicable Google SDK behavior, this may include device or app identifiers, advertising identifiers, IP address information, app interactions, ad interactions, and diagnostic information.

Information sent through Google advertising services is handled according to Google's applicable privacy practices.

Google's explanation of how it uses information from sites and apps that use its services is available at: Google's partner-services information .

Google's Privacy Policy is available at: Google's Privacy Policy .

Firebase Analytics

This version of Dots & Boxes includes Firebase Analytics SDK integration for release measurement.

Analytics events are used to understand app sessions, match starts, match finishes, grid size, game mode, bot difficulty, move counts, boxes completed, extra turns, invalid moves, and ad load/show outcomes.

Firebase Analytics may process app and device information associated with these measurement events according to Google's applicable Firebase privacy practices.

Information We Do Not Intentionally Collect

The app does not intentionally send player names, messages, contacts, precise location, photos, audio, or user-generated content.

Match history displayed within the app is stored only in memory for the current session.

Permissions

The optional nearby Bluetooth feature may request the Nearby devices permission on Android to allow compatible devices to discover and connect to each other.

The game does not require access to contacts, camera, microphone, or precise location for its core gameplay.

Data Safety

Before Play Store release, the Google Play Data Safety form will disclose the AdMob and Firebase Analytics SDKs and the applicable data handling associated with those SDKs.

The information disclosed in Google Play will be kept consistent with the SDK configuration and data practices used by the released version of the app.

Changes to This Policy

If this Privacy Policy changes, the effective date above will be updated. Material changes will be handled in accordance with applicable law and applicable platform requirements.

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