BRICKSTRIKE Privacy Policy

Welcome to BRICKSTRIKE, a fast-paced tactile arcade brick breaker game developed and published by Newgates (“we”, “our”, or “us”). This Privacy Policy explains our commitment to transparency, detailing how information is accessed, handled, stored, and protected when you install, play, and interact with the BRICKSTRIKE mobile application on Android devices (Google Play package name: co.newgates.brickstrike).

We believe in privacy by design: BRICKSTRIKE is built so that you can enjoy intense trajectory-based brick breaking action without surrendering personal identity, location, contacts, or financial information. This policy is written to comply fully with Google Play User Data and Privacy Policy policies, as well as applicable international privacy standards.

Our data handling model for BRICKSTRIKE is governed by four core principles:

• No Forced Identification: We never require you to register an account, sign in via social media, or disclose your name, email, or telephone number.
• Transparent Advertising & Telemetry: Commercial third-party advertisements are not active in the current version of the game. Any future advertising integration will comply strictly with Google Play User Data policies, and this policy will disclose all relevant partner information.
• Sandboxed On-Device Persistence: 100% of your game progression (unlocked arenas, 100 campaign sectors, star ratings, energy rewards, and tactical configurations) is stored solely in local Android application storage on your physical device.
• Minimal Anonymous Diagnostics: Telemetry is strictly limited to aggregated game mechanics statistics and crash reports to verify game stability and balance across various Android hardware configurations.

When you play BRICKSTRIKE, limited non-personal technical and gameplay telemetry is automatically collected through integrated Google Firebase SDKs. We do not collect direct personal identifiers.

1. Anonymous Gameplay & Interaction Telemetry (Firebase Analytics)

To evaluate level balance, verify difficulty curves across the 10 thematic arenas (from Deep Earth to Cosmic Nebula), and ensure game stability, the game logs pseudonymous, aggregated in-game events:

• Level Progression: Stage starts, level completions, failure events, level restarts, and abandonments, including sector number, chapter number, star ratings (1–3 stars), solve duration in seconds, and final score.
• Combat & Tactical Actions: Ball launch angles, bounce counts, special ball deployments (Fire, Zap, Bomb, 2x Ball), combo milestones, special brick detonations, and tap recall usage.
• In-Game Economy: Virtual energy earned from sector clearances and daily rewards, and energy spent on tactical abilities. (Note: Virtual energy has no real-world monetary value and is purely a local game mechanic).
• UI & Settings Engagement: Screen views (Home, Settings, Level Selector, Multiplayer Menu), audio toggles, and haptic feedback toggles.

2. Crash Diagnostics & Stability Logs (Firebase Crashlytics)

If BRICKSTRIKE encounters an unexpected exception or crash, Firebase Crashlytics automatically collects diagnostic reports containing:

• Stack traces and error classifications explaining the root cause of the crash.
• Device technical characteristics: device model, manufacturer, Android OS version, available RAM, disk space, and battery level at the time of the event.
• Non-personal diagnostic session keys: current sector number, chapter index, current score, and remaining active bricks.

3. Performance Metrics (Firebase Performance Monitoring)

We collect automated performance traces (such as cold app startup latency and UI frame rendering traces) to identify performance bottlenecks and frame drops across different Android hardware.

4. Device & Installation Identifiers

In accordance with Google Play Services and Firebase SDK standard operations, pseudonymous technical identifiers are generated by the operating system:

• Firebase Installation ID (FID): An automatically generated unique identifier used to manage telemetry dispatch sessions.
• Android Advertising ID (AD_ID): Merged by Google Play Services / Firebase Analytics for aggregated audience demographic measurement and future advertising attribution if advertising is enabled. Players can reset or delete this identifier at any time in Android device settings.

To ensure full transparency and avoid any ambiguity, the following categories of data are strictly NOT accessed, collected, stored, or transmitted by BRICKSTRIKE:

We process the minimal, non-personal data described above strictly for legitimate operational purposes:

• Game Stability & Reliability: Identifying, diagnosing, and fixing crashes, bugs, and performance regressions across various Android devices.
• Game Design & Difficulty Balancing: Analyzing level completion rates, failure rates, and weapon economy usage to ensure all 100 levels offer a fair and rewarding tactical challenge.
• App Updates & Maintenance: Coordinating non-disruptive, secure in-app updates directly via Google Play Core Services.
• User-Initiated Ratings & Feedback: Allowing players to provide feedback or rate the game directly on Google Play using the native In-App Review API.

BRICKSTRIKE integrates official Google developer SDKs and fetches non-personal runtime game balance parameters from a static endpoint. We hold our third-party service providers to strict privacy and data protection standards:

Current Application Status: In the current release of BRICKSTRIKE, commercial third-party advertisements (such as banner advertisements, interstitial video ads, rewarded promotional videos, or native ad feeds) are not active.

Future Advertising Integration: To support ongoing game development, level expansions, and multiplayer features, we may introduce mobile advertisements in future updates. If advertising is integrated, it will be delivered through certified, industry-standard advertising SDKs (such as the Google Mobile Ads SDK / AdMob) that adhere strictly to Google Play Developer Program Policies, Google Play Families Policy guidelines, and international data protection laws.

Advertising Identifiers & User Control:

• The application build includes declarations for the Android Advertising ID (com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID) and Privacy Sandbox attribution APIs (ACCESS_ADSERVICES_AD_ID and ACCESS_ADSERVICES_ATTRIBUTION) for anonymous measurement and future ad attribution.
• Your Privacy Choices: You retain complete control over your advertising identifier. You can reset or delete your Advertising ID at any time through your device settings: Settings → Google → Ads. Opting out of ad personalization ensures that any future ads shown will be contextual rather than personalized based on your browsing behavior.

BRICKSTRIKE features a dedicated tactical duel system designed with complete privacy in mind:

• VS Computer (Available Now): The active 1v1 tactical duel mode matches you against an on-device computer artificial intelligence (ComputerAIController). The opponent AI evaluates board state and calculates tactical trajectories entirely inside the local device memory. No network packets or opponent data are transmitted over the internet.
• Future Multiplayer Modes (Coming Soon): Planned future modes (Online 1v1 Matchmaking, Local Same-Device Friends Mode, and Local Hotspot Offline Duel) are currently non-functional preview placeholders with informational modals. No socket servers, matchmaking queues, or peer-to-peer networks are active in the current release.

All user progression, game states, and preferences are stored exclusively on your device using Android’s sandboxed SharedPreferences system:

We do not maintain user databases or personal accounts on external servers. Data retention operates as follows:

• Local Device Data: Retained on your device indefinitely until you choose to clear the app storage or uninstall the application.
• Firebase Analytics Telemetry: Aggregated, non-personal event logs are retained in accordance with Google Firebase's standard retention settings (typically 2 to 14 months) before automatic permanent deletion.
• Crashlytics Crash Reports: Crash logs and diagnostic stack traces are automatically purged by Google Crashlytics after 90 days.

Because BRICKSTRIKE does not use user accounts or server-side player profiles, you have immediate, autonomous control over all data generated by the game:

How to Delete All Game Data

1. Clear App Storage: Open Android Settings → Apps → BRICKSTRIKE → Storage & Cache → Clear Storage / Clear Data. This instantly and permanently deletes all local progress, stars, scores, daily rewards, and configuration files.
2. Uninstall the App: Uninstalling BRICKSTRIKE automatically deletes the application sandbox and all associated local preference files from your device.

We employ rigorous technical and organizational security measures to safeguard data against unauthorized access, loss, or misuse:

• Encryption in Transit: All communication with Google Firebase and remote configuration endpoints is strictly encrypted using industry-standard HTTPS with Transport Layer Security (TLS 1.2 / TLS 1.3). Plaintext HTTP transmissions are prohibited.
• Android Application Sandboxing: All local progression and configuration files are stored within Android’s isolated private storage directory (Context.MODE_PRIVATE), preventing unauthorized access by other installed applications.
• Zero Sensitive Permissions: BRICKSTRIKE does not request privileged or dangerous runtime permissions (such as location, camera, contacts, microphone, or external storage).

BRICKSTRIKE is designed as a tactical puzzle arcade game for a General Audience (Ages 13 and older). It is not directed specifically to children under the age of 13 (or under 16 in the European Economic Area / UK).

We do not knowingly solicit, collect, or process personal data from children under 13. If you are a parent or legal guardian and believe that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us at newgates.developer@gmail.com. We will promptly take necessary steps to remove any such data from our telemetry records.

BRICKSTRIKE is distributed globally via Google Play. Depending on your jurisdiction (such as the European Economic Area under GDPR, the United Kingdom under UK GDPR, or California under CCPA/CPRA), you may have statutory rights regarding your data:

• Right of Access & Portability: The right to know what data has been collected and request a copy. (As noted, all your game data is stored directly on your device).
• Right to Deletion (Erasure): The right to delete all data, which you can execute directly by clearing app storage or uninstalling the app.
• Right to Restrict or Object to Processing: You can opt out of analytics telemetry by resetting your Android Advertising ID or opting out of ad personalization in your device’s Android Settings (Settings → Google → Ads).
• Non-Discrimination: We will never discriminate against any player for exercising their legal privacy rights.

For complete transparency and consistency with our Google Play Console Data Safety declaration, the table below provides an exact mapping of all data types handled by BRICKSTRIKE:

Play Console Security Declarations:

• Data Encrypted in Transit: Yes (All network communication utilizes HTTPS/TLS encryption).
• User Account Deletion URL: Not Applicable (BRICKSTRIKE does not offer or require user accounts).
• Children’s / Families Policy: 13 and older (General Audience).

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect game updates, new tactical features, or changes in legal and regulatory requirements. Any modifications will be posted directly to this page with an updated “Effective Date” at the top of the document.

We encourage players to periodically review this page to stay informed about our data protection practices. Continued use of BRICKSTRIKE following any updates constitutes acceptance of the revised terms.

If you have any questions, concerns, feedback, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or BRICKSTRIKE’s data practices, please contact our developer and privacy team directly: