Effective September 22, 2026
Dots Defense has no account system, no chat, and no form where you type personal details. What reaches us or our service providers comes from three places:
| Source | What's collected | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Gameplay & progress | Coins, wave reached, upgrade levels, settings | Saved as a local file on your device only, so your run persists. |
| Advertising (AdMob) | Advertising ID, general device info, ad interaction events | Lets Google serve and measure ads shown in the app. |
| Sign-in (Play Games, optional) | Public profile (display name, avatar, player ID) | Lets you appear on the wave-reached leaderboard. |
| Purchases (Play Billing) | Purchase confirmation & product ID | Grants what you bought. Payment details stay with Google. |
We don't operate our own backend server, and use no analytics SDK beyond what these Google services report on their own.
This information is used only to run the game: keeping your save intact, showing and measuring ads, running the optional leaderboard, and fulfilling purchases. We don't build our own advertising profiles, and don't share anything with parties beyond the Google services above.
Your save lives on your device (with an automatic backup copy before each overwrite) and is removed on uninstall or clearing app data. Data handled by AdMob, Play Games, and Play Billing is retained under each service's own policy.
Dots Defense is not directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect personal information from them.
If this policy changes, we'll update the effective date at the top of this page.