North Island Apps Privacy Policy

Last updated: June 21, 2026

North Island Apps creates mobile games and apps. Our apps may include banner advertisements, Daily Puzzle features, online leaderboards, high scores, achievements, local game progress, and app settings.

This Privacy Policy explains how our apps collect, use, store, and share information.

Information We Collect

Our apps may collect or use the following types of information depending on the features included in each app:

• Game progress and settings: Some apps store progress, scores, achievements, streaks, preferences, sound settings, vibration settings, theme choices, and other gameplay settings locally on your device.
• Daily Puzzle and leaderboard information: Apps with Daily Puzzle or leaderboard features may send your chosen display name or nickname, score, completion time, puzzle date, puzzle identifier, ranking, and related gameplay result information to our leaderboard server.
• Advertising information: Apps that show banner ads may use third-party advertising services, such as Google AdMob. These services may collect or use device information, Advertising ID, app activity, approximate location, diagnostics, crash information, performance information, and related technical data.
• Technical and server information: When online features are used, our servers may receive information such as IP address, request time, app version, device or browser information, error information, and server logs.

How We Use Information

• Save app settings, game progress, scores, achievements, and preferences.
• Operate Daily Puzzle, high score, and leaderboard features.
• Display banner ads and support the continued development of our apps.
• Improve app performance, troubleshoot issues, and fix bugs.
• Protect our apps, servers, and users from abuse, spam, cheating, or misuse.
• Comply with app store, legal, security, and policy requirements.

Banner Advertising

Some North Island Apps apps display banner advertisements. We may use Google AdMob or other advertising partners to show ads in our apps.

Advertising partners may collect or use information such as device identifiers, Advertising ID, app activity, approximate location, diagnostics, crash information, performance information, and related technical data.

This information may be used to provide ads, measure ad performance, prevent fraud, improve ad services, and personalize ads where allowed by your device and account settings.

You can control, reset, or delete your Android Advertising ID through your device settings. Your Google account or device settings may also allow you to limit ad personalization.

Daily Puzzle and Online Leaderboards

Some North Island Apps games include Daily Puzzle, high score, or leaderboard features.

If you submit a score, the app may send your chosen display name or nickname, score, completion time, puzzle date, puzzle identifier, ranking, and related gameplay result information to our leaderboard server.

Leaderboard information may be visible to other users of the app. This may include your chosen nickname or display name, score, completion time, puzzle date, and ranking.

Please do not use your real name, phone number, email address, home address, or other personal information as your leaderboard display name.

Leaderboard scores may remain on our servers so that daily, weekly, monthly, historical, or all-time high scores can be displayed.

Technical and Server Information

When online features are used, our servers may receive basic technical information such as IP address, request time, app version, device or browser information, error information, and server logs.

We use this information to operate online features, troubleshoot problems, improve reliability, protect against abuse, and prevent cheating or misuse.

North Island Apps may maintain server records for online features such as Daily Puzzle leaderboards and high scores. These records may include nickname or display name, score, completion time, puzzle date, puzzle identifier, ranking, and related gameplay result information.

Third-Party Services

• Google Play services
• Google AdMob
• Google Play Console and related app distribution services
• Our own app, leaderboard, or server services

These third-party services may collect, use, and share information according to their own privacy policies and terms.

Data Sharing

We do not sell your personal information.

Information may be shared with:

• Advertising partners, such as Google AdMob, when ads are shown in the app.
• Service providers that help us operate app features, servers, leaderboards, security, or app distribution.
• Other users, when you submit information to a public feature such as an online leaderboard.
• Legal or safety authorities if required by law or needed to protect our users, apps, systems, or rights.

Data Retention

Local game progress, settings, achievements, and preferences may remain on your device until you delete the app, clear app data, or reset the settings.

Leaderboard scores may remain on our servers so that daily, weekly, monthly, historical, or all-time high scores can be displayed.

Server logs are kept only as long as needed for security, troubleshooting, abuse prevention, and normal operation.

Children

Our apps are general-audience apps and are not directed specifically to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us so we can review and remove it if necessary.

Your Choices and Requests

You may choose a nickname that does not identify you personally.

If the app provides an option to avoid submitting scores to an online leaderboard, you may choose not to submit your score.

You may reset or limit your Android Advertising ID through your device settings.

You may delete local app data or uninstall the app to remove local progress and settings from your device.

You may contact us to request removal of leaderboard information associated with your chosen nickname, where possible.

Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to help protect app and server information. However, no method of transmission or storage is completely secure.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy when our apps, features, advertising partners, online services, or legal requirements change. The updated version will be posted on this page with a new “Last updated” date.

Contact Us

For privacy questions or leaderboard removal requests, contact:

Email: [email protected]

For general app support, contact:

Email: [email protected]