Privacy Policy
Pixel Out. Last updated: 30 October 2026
Pixel Out ("the app") is a puzzle game made by an independent developer ("we", "us"). This policy explains what information is processed when you play the game on the web or on Android, why, and the choices you have.
1. Summary
- You do not need an account. We do not ask for your name, email address, phone number or precise location.
- Your game progress (levels, stars, settings) is stored on your device or in your browser.
- We measure how the game is used with Google Analytics for Firebase. We do not sell your data. We share it only with Google, as described below.
- The app does not show ads, on Android or on the web.
- In regions where the law requires it, analytics starts only after you agree. You can change your choice at any time.
- On Android, the app can send you one reminder each morning if you allow it. You can turn it off at any time.
2. Information we collect
We use Google Analytics for Firebase to understand how the game is played, for example which levels are started, completed or failed, and how long a level takes. This helps us fix difficult levels and improve the game. It may collect:
- app interactions and in-game events, and the app version;
- your approximate location, derived from your IP address (country or city level);
- device and app instance identifiers, and device information such as model, operating system version and language;
- diagnostic and performance information.
We do not send your name, email address or other directly identifying information to Firebase. More about how Google processes this data: firebase.google.com/support/privacy.
3. Consent and anonymous counts
Where we ask. In regions where the law requires consent (for example the EEA, the UK and Switzerland), the app asks whether analytics may run. On the web and on Android the app detects this region from your device time zone, not from your exact location. The question appears after you finish your first level, not before. Elsewhere, analytics runs from the start, and you can still turn it off in Settings.
Before you answer. Until you answer, analytics is switched off in the app: nothing is sent, and Firebase collection stays disabled. If you accept, analytics starts. If you decline, nothing is sent and your choice is remembered on your device.
Anonymous counts on the web. If you open the web version from a social media link, we also count anonymous visits and button taps. We use Google's Consent Mode for this. If you have not agreed to analytics, these counts are sent without cookies, without any device identifier, without your full page address and without a referrer, and they cannot be linked to you. If you have agreed, or you are outside a consent region, the counts use a persistent identifier like the rest of analytics.
4. Notifications (Android)
On Android 13 and later, the app can ask for permission to send notifications. After you finish your first daily puzzle, the app first shows a short card in the game explaining the reminder, and only if you agree does it show the system permission prompt. The app asks on its own at most twice. If you allow notifications, the app schedules a reminder on your device each morning. The reminder is created on your device; no notification data is sent to us or to any server.
You can turn the reminder off in the app's Settings or in your device's notification settings. The app may restart the schedule after your device restarts, which is why it requests the "receive boot completed" permission.
5. How we use it
We use this information to understand and improve the game, to find and fix problems, and to keep the app secure and working. We do not use it to show ads, and we do not sell your data. Google acts as our data processor for analytics.
6. Your choices
- Analytics (web and Android): in regions where consent is required, a banner asks whether analytics may run (see section 3). You can change your choice at any time in Settings, then "Privacy Choices".
- Notifications (Android): turn off the daily reminder in the app's Settings or in your device's notification settings.
- Local data: on Android, progress stays on your device until you uninstall the app or clear its data. In the web version, progress and your choices are saved in your browser and removed when you clear site data.
7. Data retention
Analytics data in Google Analytics for Firebase is kept for 14 months and then deleted automatically. Data stored on your device stays there until you uninstall the app or clear its data.
8. Security
Data sent by the app to Google services is encrypted in transit. We do not run our own servers that store your personal data.
9. Children
The app is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has used the app and data was collected, contact us at the address below and we will help you delete it.
10. Your rights and data deletion
There are no accounts in the app. Analytics data is linked only to a device or app instance identifier, so we cannot find your data by name or email. To request deletion, email pixeloutgame@gmail.com with the subject "Data deletion" and tell us:
- the platform you use (web or Android);
- the app instance ID or device identifier, if you can find it, so we can locate the data;
- the approximate dates you played.
We will confirm and delete matching data where we can identify it. Depending on where you live (for example the EEA, the UK, or California and other US states), you may also have rights to access, correct or delete your personal data, to object to processing, and to complain to your local data protection authority.
11. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy when the app changes. When we do, the "Last updated" date at the top will change.