CRATER CRUSH / PLAYER INFORMATION

Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 11, 2026

This policy explains how Crater Crush processes information when you use the game and this website. For privacy questions or requests, contact the Crater Crush team at cratercrushgame@gmail.com.

1. At a glance

• Online features use player identifiers, your chosen player name, progress and scores for sign-in, cloud saves and leaderboards.
• Gameplay analytics is optional and off until you allow it. You can play without allowing analytics.
• Allowing analytics grants one Explorer Chest, once. You can turn analytics off later and keep the chest and its contents.
• This website does not use analytics scripts or advertising cookies. Its hosting provider may process connection information needed to deliver the site.

2. Sign-in, saves and leaderboards

The game uses Google Play Games Services on Android and Microsoft PlayFab for supported account, cloud-save and leaderboard features. Depending on the feature, this involves platform and game-account identifiers, your chosen in-game name or platform nickname, saved progress, scores and ranking information. Cloud saves can include your progression, inventory, purchase or reward entitlements, achievements and settings. Older Google saved-game data may be read to migrate an existing save to PlayFab.

Your displayed player name, score and ranking may be visible to other players on public leaderboards. The game does not need your Google password. Google and Microsoft also process information under their own service terms and privacy policies.

3. Optional gameplay analytics

With your permission, we use Google Analytics for Firebase to understand how the game is played, improve balance and progression, and investigate technical problems. This is separate from the processing needed for sign-in, saves and leaderboards.

Analytics can include:

• App sessions, foreground time, menu visits, tutorial steps and time spent in different views.
• Runs, elapsed and active play time, scores, combos, PowerDrive usage, combat and weapon performance.
• Builds, skill allocations, unspent skill points, upgrades, levels and progression.
• Achievement progress and unlocks, battle-pass engagement, shop visits, rewards and in-game currency interactions.
• Technical information such as app version, platform, device information, language, approximate location, network availability and an app-instance identifier. Sign-in diagnostics include provider, success or failure, timing and categorized error codes.

These records are not fully anonymous: an app-instance identifier and session or run identifiers can link events from the same installation. Our custom analytics events do not send your real name, email address, chosen display name, platform-account identifier, password, authentication code or authentication token. Google may derive approximate location from connection information; we do not request precise GPS location for gameplay analytics.

The game's Analytics integration disables advertising-ID collection and ad-personalization signals. The gameplay-analytics choice does not grant permission for advertising tracking or change any separate advertising or store-service choices.

4. Your analytics choice and the thank-you chest

The game asks about analytics after first-time name creation and before onboarding. Select Allow analytics to enable it, or Continue without analytics to keep it disabled. Either choice lets you continue playing.

Allowing analytics grants one Explorer Chest per saved player profile. The reward and its one-time claim record are saved together. Changing the analytics setting does not award another chest.

You can review or change your choice in Settings → Gameplay analytics. When analytics is enabled, select Turn analytics off to withdraw permission. You keep the chest and its contents. Closing the Settings view without choosing a different setting leaves your current choice unchanged.

Turning analytics off stops future collection through this integration and requests a reset of the SDK's local analytics data. It does not automatically erase events already sent to Google, exported to BigQuery or included in downloaded analysis files. Clearing app data or reinstalling also does not by itself delete historical server-side records. See Account and Data Deletion to request deletion.

5. Why information is processed

Account and progress information supports the online features you choose to use, including restoring progress and associating leaderboard results with the right player. Optional analytics supports game improvement and troubleshooting.

Where applicable data-protection law requires a legal basis, we rely on your consent for optional gameplay analytics. Processing necessary to provide requested online features is based on providing those services; security and abuse prevention may also involve legitimate interests, and some records may be kept to meet legal obligations. Withdrawing analytics consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing before withdrawal.

6. Service providers and data sharing

We do not sell your personal data. Information is processed through service providers used to operate and improve the game, including Google Play Games Services, Google Analytics for Firebase, Google Cloud BigQuery for analytics exports, and Microsoft PlayFab. Analytics exports and downloaded analysis files may be reviewed by the game's developer for balancing and troubleshooting.

• Google Privacy Policy
• Firebase privacy and security information
• Microsoft Privacy Statement

Providers may process information in countries other than your own. Their applicable processing terms describe international-transfer arrangements and safeguards. A selected BigQuery dataset region does not mean that every service used by the game processes all data only in that region.

7. Storage and retention

Local progress and preferences are stored on your device. Cloud saves, account records and leaderboard information are stored through the services described above. They can remain after you uninstall the game.

Google Analytics applies the retention controls configured for the Analytics property. Those controls do not set the lifetime of all aggregated reports. BigQuery exports and downloaded copies are separate records and are not automatically deleted when Analytics retention expires or when you turn analytics off. Different providers and record types therefore have different storage periods; there is no single automatic deletion deadline for all game data.

To ask about the retention of your data or request deletion of records we control, contact us using the details below. Some information may need to be retained for legal obligations, security, disputes or backup recovery, as applicable.

8. Access, deletion and other rights

Depending on where you live and the law that applies, you may have rights to request access, correction, deletion or a copy of your personal data, restrict or object to certain processing, withdraw consent, or complain to your local data-protection authority.

Send requests to cratercrushgame@gmail.com. We may need information to identify the relevant records and verify the request. You do not need to send a password or authentication token. Gameplay analytics is not keyed to your public player name, so a nickname alone may not identify the associated analytics installation. We will explain any limits on locating or deleting records.

The in-game progress-reset option is not a complete account or analytics deletion request. For the distinction between local resets, cloud saves, leaderboard records and analytics, see Account and Data Deletion. Your Google account and Google Play Games profile are managed through Google's own settings.

9. Children's privacy

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children in violation of applicable law. If you believe a child has provided information without required authorization, contact us so we can investigate and address the relevant records. Where parental authorization is required, a child should not enable optional analytics without it.

10. This website

The website's game artwork, fonts and media are self-hosted. There are no analytics or advertising scripts on these pages. Opening a store or provider link takes you to that provider's service and privacy practices. Contact links open your email application; sending an email shares the information you include with us and the email services involved.

11. Changes and contact

We will update this page when these practices change and revise the date above. A material change to the purpose of optional analytics may require a new consent choice rather than treating continued play as consent.

For questions or privacy requests, email cratercrushgame@gmail.com.