Privacy Policy

Last updated: 14 November 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how the Boards app ("the app", "we", "us") handles information, and the rights you have wherever you live. The app is available worldwide.

In short

We do not ask you to create an account, and we do not collect your name, email address, contacts, photos or precise location. Your scores and settings stay on your device.

The app is free and shows ads from Google AdMob. Google may collect some device information to show and measure those ads, and to give us usage statistics and crash reports through Google Firebase, as explained below.

Who is responsible

The app is provided by Shivi's Games, who is responsible for this app and this policy. You can contact us at sheevigames@gmail.com.

For the ads shown in the app, Google is also responsible for the information it collects, as described in Google's own privacy policy. For usage statistics and crash reports, Google processes information on our behalf.

Information stored on your device

The app saves your profile (the player name and cartoon avatar you choose), your level progress, game results, best scores, Daily Challenge history, achievements and settings (such as whether sound is on) on your device only. This information is never sent to us, and we cannot see it.

You can delete it at any time by uninstalling the app or clearing its data in your device settings.

Playing with phones nearby (Bluetooth)

If you choose Nearby in Chess, Checkers, Carrom, Ludo, Snakes & Ladders or Sling Puck, the app uses Bluetooth to connect directly to the other players' phones, without the internet. While you host or look for a game, your phone shows your player name to phones nearby that are also open on the game.

During a nearby game, the phones share only what the game needs: player names, the game settings and each move (in Sling Puck and Carrom, the positions of the pieces while you play). This goes straight from phone to phone; it never passes through us or any server, and it is not kept after the game.

On Android 11 and older, Android requires location permission to look for Bluetooth devices. The app does not read or store your location.

Usage statistics and crash reports (Google Firebase)

To see which games are played and to fix problems, the app uses two Google services: Google Analytics for Firebase (usage statistics) and Firebase Crashlytics (crash reports). They may collect:

• which screens you open and what happens in a game, such as finishing a game or level (with the game, mode, level and result), completing a daily puzzle, starting a Nearby game or a Nearby connection failing, changing the language or watching a reward video
• a random ID for this installation of the app and, for usage statistics, your device's advertising identifier
• device and app information, such as device model, operating system, language and app version, and an approximate location (such as country or city) inferred from your IP address
• crash reports: what the app was doing when it closed unexpectedly, and the state of the device at the time

This information never includes your player name, your avatar or anything you type, and we cannot use it to identify you.

Where the law requires consent, including in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, usage statistics are collected only if you agree in the consent message shown when the app starts; you can change your choice in Profile > Privacy & ad choices. Crash reports are used only to find and fix problems in the app.

How Google handles Firebase information: https://firebase.google.com/support/privacy.

Information we do not collect

We do not run our own servers for the app, we do not receive your name or contact details from it, and we do not sell your information.

Advertising by Google AdMob

The app uses Google AdMob to show banner ads, full-screen ads between games, and optional reward videos (which you can choose to watch, for example for an extra hint or to save a daily streak). To deliver ads, measure their performance and prevent fraud, Google may collect:

• your device's advertising identifier (the Android advertising ID or, if you allow it, the iOS IDFA)
• your IP address, from which an approximate location (such as country or city) may be inferred
• device and app information, such as device model, operating system, language and app version
• how you interact with ads, such as views and taps
• diagnostic and crash information from the ads software, used to keep ads working and prevent fraud

Depending on your choices and where you live, Google may use this information to show ads personalised to your interests, or only non-personalised ads based on general context and approximate location.

Learn how Google uses information from apps that use its services: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. Google's privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Your choices about ads

Where the law requires it, including in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, the app asks for your consent before ads use your personal information, and you can change your choice later.

On iOS, the app asks your permission before your device's advertising identifier is used for tracking. You can change this in Settings > Privacy & Security > Tracking.

On Android, you can delete or reset your advertising ID in your device settings (usually Settings > Privacy > Ads, or Settings > Google > Ads).

If you choose not to allow personalised ads, you will still see ads, but they will be less relevant to you.

Legal bases (EEA, UK and Switzerland)

Where data protection laws such as the GDPR apply, personalised advertising and usage statistics rely on your consent. Showing non-personalised ads, measuring ads, preventing fraud and crash reports rely on the legitimate interest in keeping the app free, working and secure. Information kept only on your device is used solely to provide the app's features to you.

International transfers

Google may process advertising, usage and crash information in the United States and other countries. Google relies on recognised safeguards for these transfers, such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses and the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework.

How long information is kept

Scores and settings stay on your device until you delete the app or its data. Usage statistics are kept for up to 14 months and crash reports for up to 90 days. Google keeps advertising information for the periods set out in its privacy policy.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, delete or receive a copy of your personal information, to object to or restrict its use, to withdraw consent at any time, and to complain to your local data protection authority. These rights exist, for example, under the GDPR (EEA and UK), the LGPD (Brazil), PIPEDA (Canada), the Privacy Act (Australia) and the DPDP Act (India).

If you live in California or another US state with a privacy law, you have the right to know what information is collected, to request deletion, and to opt out of the "sale" or "sharing" of personal information for targeted advertising. We do not sell personal information for money. You can opt out of personalised ads using the choices described above.

Usage statistics and crash reports are linked only to a random ID, not to your name, so we usually cannot find the ones from your device; requests about advertising data are best made to Google. You can also write to us at sheevigames@gmail.com and we will help. We will not treat you differently for exercising your rights.

Children

The app is not directed at children under 13, or under the minimum age for consent to data processing in your country (up to 16 in some countries). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided personal information through the app, please contact us.

Security

Your scores and settings are protected by your device's own security. Information collected by Google, for ads, usage statistics and crash reports, is protected by Google's security measures.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy, for example when the app changes or the law requires it. The date at the top shows when it last changed. For significant changes, we will let you know in the app or the store listing.

Contact us

Questions or requests about this policy: sheevigames@gmail.com.