Privacy Policy

1. The app

BlokkieSpeel is an offline Afrikaans crossword app. The puzzles are included with the app. You can play without creating an account, and your puzzle progress is not sent to us.

On Android, the app connects to the internet to show advertisements, to ask for your advertising consent where required, and to send crash and error reports. Puzzle play itself does not depend on that connection.

2. Information we ask for

We do not ask you to create an account or to provide your:

• Name
• Email address
• Telephone number
• Physical address
• Payment information

3. Information stored on your device

The app stores your puzzle progress, the puzzles on your shelf, your score, and related preferences on your device.

This information stays on the device. We do not receive it, and we do not use it for advertising. You can remove it by clearing the app's data or uninstalling the app.

4. Advertising

On Android, BlokkieSpeel shows interstitial advertisements through Google AdMob, usually after you complete a puzzle. If an advertisement cannot be loaded, you can continue playing.

We do not sell or rent personal information. We do not use your puzzle progress or score to choose advertisements.

To provide those advertisements, Google may collect and use information from your device, including:

• The Android advertising ID
• IP address
• Device and app information, such as device model, operating system, language, and app version
• Advertising interactions, such as whether an advertisement was shown
• Diagnostic information related to delivering advertisements
• An approximate location inferred from the IP address

The app does not request precise location permission and does not use GPS.

Google uses this information to deliver, measure, secure, and, where allowed, personalize advertisements. Where personalization is allowed, that can include use across apps and websites. Google describes this in its Privacy Policy and in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services .

5. Crash and error reports

To find and fix problems, the app sends crash and error reports to Sentry, a service operated by Functional Software, Inc. (trading as Sentry). We use Sentry's European data region, so reports are stored in the European Union.

When the app crashes or hits an error, a report may include:

• The error message and technical details of where in the app it happened
• Device and app information, such as device model, operating system version, available memory, language, and app version
• A short trail of recent app events leading up to the error, such as screens opened
• A randomly generated identifier for the app installation, used to count affected installations. It is not linked to your name, account, or advertising ID.
• Anonymous session information, such as whether the app started and whether it crashed

The app is configured so that it does not intentionally send your name, email address, or IP address to Sentry. Reports do not contain your puzzle answers or your score.

We use these reports only to keep the app working, and not for advertising. Sentry keeps them for a limited period (currently up to 90 days) under its own policy, which is available at sentry.io/privacy.

6. Consent and your choices

In regions where consent is required, including the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, the app asks for consent before advertisements are requested. Where privacy options are required, you can open them from Settings in the app.

You can also:

• Reset or delete the Android advertising ID, or turn off advertisement personalization, in your device settings
• Review Google's advertisement settings at adssettings.google.com
• Contact us if you have a question about crash and error reports

7. Service providers

Google is the advertising provider, through AdMob. Sentry is the provider of crash and error reporting. We do not operate our own servers for accounts, puzzles, or gameplay.

8. Sharing of information

We do not sell or rent personal information.

Advertising information described above is processed by Google, and crash and error reports are processed by Sentry on our behalf. We may disclose information where the law requires it. We do not keep a user database of players.

9. Children's privacy

BlokkieSpeel is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. Advertisements in the app are not configured as child-directed.

Parents or guardians who believe that a child has provided personal information through the app may contact us using the details below.

10. Data security and retention

Puzzle progress is stored on your device. Advertising requests and crash and error reports are sent over an encrypted connection. We do not keep server logs of your gameplay.

Google keeps advertising information under its own privacy policy, and Sentry keeps crash and error reports as described in section 5.

No method of electronic storage or transmission is completely secure, and absolute security cannot be guaranteed.

11. Your rights

Depending on applicable law, including South Africa's Protection of Personal Information Act where it applies, you may have rights to request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information, or to object to certain processing.

JDDS does not hold an account profile or a copy of your puzzle progress. For information Google holds in connection with advertisements, use the Google tools and privacy policy linked above. Crash and error reports are not linked to your name or account, so we may not be able to identify yours, but you may still contact us and we will tell you what we hold.

12. Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy when the app, its service providers, or applicable legal requirements change.

The revised policy will be published on this page with an updated effective date.

13. Contact

For privacy questions or requests, contact: