DROWNWARD — Privacy Policy
Descend through flooded caverns, manage your air, and make it back to the light.
Summary
DROWNWARD is a single-player cave-diving game that can be played offline without creating an account. Progress and settings are stored on your device. Paid-wallet features use a separate online wallet with a random identifier and private recovery credentials. Versions with enabled online features can send optional gameplay analytics, technical diagnostics, attribution, advertising and purchase information as described below. Offline gameplay does not mean that every optional service is offline.
This policy covers the Google Play game and test versions. Features and network services vary by installed version and release configuration. A service described here does not transmit information merely because its SDK is packaged or because the feature is described; its enabled state, your choices and applicable platform requirements govern use.
Android version 1.24 and later uses the regional startup and Google Play eligibility flow described under Privacy choices by version. Earlier versions retain their existing optional-data choices; the new regional defaults and Play Age Signals flow do not describe those earlier versions.
Product analytics uses a random installation identifier. Some predefined events may be held temporarily in memory while permission is unresolved. Eligible queued events may be sent only when the current analytics choice or the applicable regional default described below permits delivery. Events recorded while analytics is permitted may also be stored on your device during offline play and sent later with their original capture time. Changing your choice stops transmission unless permitted, invalidates the saved analytics queue associated with the previous choice, and attempts to remove that local queue. Events invalidated by withdrawal are not replayed after a later permission change. Information already received by a provider cannot be recalled through this setting.
Visiting this policy website makes a separate web request to its hosting provider, which can process an IP address and ordinary web-request information even when you play offline.
Data stored on your device
- Dive progress, earned equipment, local recovery journals, settings and privacy choices
- A random installation identifier and queued gameplay/diagnostic events where enabled
- In Android version 1.24 and later, a local eligibility restriction flag and records of privacy choices or regional defaults
- Paid-wallet identifier, authentication secret and private recovery code, plus cached paid balances where available
- Purchase entitlements and rewarded-ad attempt/settlement records where those features are available
Data we collect
Gameplay analytics
When enabled with the applicable analytics choice or regional default described below, predefined events can include session and first-use steps, dive outcomes, depth/air information, loot, equipment progression, ad opportunities and purchase outcomes. These records use a random installation identifier, session/run identifiers, app version, build identifier, platform and event time. They help us understand usability, balance and reliability.
Google analytics and advertising measurement
When Google Analytics for Firebase is enabled with the applicable choices or regional default described below, Google receives app-instance and random installation identifiers, app and device information, session and gameplay events, IP-derived approximate location, and advertising identifiers where permitted. It can automatically measure Google Play purchases, including product and price information. We also send purchase-settlement details, including a hashed transaction identifier, product, amount and currency, and ad-impression revenue details. Analytics data, including purchase and ad revenue, can be shared with linked Google Ads accounts to measure campaigns and improve advertising, subject to the applicable advertising consent and personalization settings. Declining or withdrawing analytics permission stops this Firebase collection; records already received by Google are not automatically deleted by changing an in-game choice or deleting a paid wallet.
Technical diagnostics
Where enabled with the applicable choice or regional default described below, crash and error reports can include stack traces, device/operating-system and app information, session context and technical performance information. Network providers also receive information needed to handle requests, such as IP addresses.
Advertising and attribution
Where advertising or attribution features are enabled and permitted by your choices or the applicable regional policy described below, AppLovin MAX, configured advertising partners and Tenjin can process advertising/device identifiers, app and device information, IP-derived approximate region, ad requests/interactions and campaign/revenue attribution information. The configured consent flow and device privacy settings govern relevant identifiers and personalization.
Purchases and rewards
If offered, Google Play processes payments. Product, receipt, transaction, entitlement and refund information can be used to verify purchases and provide benefits; we do not receive your payment-card number. Rewarded-ad attempts and completion/settlement information are used to grant a promised benefit and prevent duplicate grants.
Paid wallet and recovery
When you use the paid wallet, our service stores a random wallet identifier, hashed authentication and recovery credentials, paid-credit and supply balances, and wallet-operation records. Your private recovery code lets you recover access on another installation; this is not a backup of your local dive progress or earned salvage. Keep the code private. Online Workshop attempts and reward receipts are linked to the wallet where that feature is available.
Purchase verification records
Google Play purchase tokens are sent to our service for verification with Google. We retain hashed purchase-token and order identifiers, product and granted-credit information, purchase/refund/consumption status, and available price, currency and completion-time information. An obfuscated wallet identifier is used to associate a purchase with the correct wallet. Purchase-measurement delivery records help prevent duplicate reporting to enabled analytics and attribution services.
Information you choose to provide
A privacy/support request includes the information you send us. Avoid sending passwords, payment-card details or unnecessary sensitive information. The game does not require your name, email, contacts, precise location, microphone recording or photo library to play.
Advertising
Where available, rewarded ads are optional and describe the offered benefit before you choose them. Other advertising availability and pacing depend on the version and configuration. Advertising partners may process information for delivery, measurement, security and fraud prevention under their privacy policies. Use the advertising privacy options presented by the game and your device settings; choosing a non-personalized option does not necessarily prevent all ad-related data processing.
Privacy choices by version
Android version 1.24 and later: Google Play first supplies an eligibility response and AppLovin MAX manages the advertising consent flow, including Google's consent form where required. Google Play may show its own age-sharing screen according to your Play settings, including outside regions where an advertising consent form is required. We do not add a separate mandatory in-game optional-data prompt.
If there is no previous stored optional-data decision, our regional policy can enable gameplay and purchase reporting, crash reporting and install measurement after the advertising SDK completes its flow outside the consent-required region, provided eligibility is resolved and there is no opt-out. This is a publisher default, not a statement that you tapped Allow. Previous opt-outs remain in force. In consent-required or unresolved cases, advertising readiness alone does not allow unrelated analytics or attribution.
You can change optional measurement in Sound or Settings, then Privacy. Advertising privacy has its own SDK controls, and a privacy review may require restarting before ads resume. These choices do not cancel purchases or delete provider-held records; see Your choices & data deletion below.
Earlier Android versions: optional analytics, attribution and diagnostics follow the existing in-game data choice where those services are enabled. Eligible buffered events may be sent after you allow analytics. The regional defaults and Google Play Age Signals flow described for version 1.24 and later do not apply to those earlier versions.
Google Play eligibility checks — version 1.24 and later
Google Play may provide age-range and approval information for eligibility and legal-compliance checks. We use it locally to restrict optional services when required. We do not send age ranges, age-source information or Play age-signal install identifiers to analytics, advertising or attribution providers, and do not use them for ad targeting.
A local restriction flag can keep a previously identified restriction in place when an age signal is no longer shared. Missing information is not recorded as an adult answer. Relevant SDKs wait for the initial eligibility response. During an in-progress refresh, the app can retain the last successful result from the same session. A completed error, required verification or ineligible result pauses those services while the game remains playable.
Firebase analytics and advertising controls — version 1.24 and later
Analytics collection and advertising processing are separate controls. After the advertising SDK completes its flow outside the consent-required region, our regional policy may enable Firebase advertising storage, advertising user data and personalization for eligible users whose analytics processing is permitted and who have not opted out. This is a publisher default, not a statement that you tapped Allow.
Those Google advertising modes stay off when that policy does not apply or an opt-out is present, even when a separate analytics choice permits gameplay reporting. A regional advertising-consent result alone does not grant those separate Google modes. The game applies its current consent-mode values before enabling analytics collection. Withdrawing analytics stops the collection controlled by the game; provider-held records are not automatically erased.
Third parties
The following providers support the corresponding enabled features. Advertising partners may also process information under their own policies. Availability and processing differ by version, region and your choices.
| Provider | What they do |
|---|---|
| PostHog | Optional product analytics. Privacy: https://posthog.com/privacy |
| Sentry | Optional crash and error diagnostics. Privacy: https://sentry.io/privacy/ |
| Tenjin | Attribution and advertising/campaign measurement where enabled. Privacy: https://tenjin.com/privacy/ |
| AppLovin MAX and configured advertising partners | Advertising, consent-related processing, measurement and fraud prevention where enabled. Privacy and partner list: https://legal.applovin.com/privacy/ and https://legal.applovin.com/applovin-partners/ |
| Google Analytics for Firebase and Google Ads | Gameplay, purchase and ad-revenue analytics, campaign measurement and advertising optimization where enabled and permitted. Privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy and https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites |
| Google Play and Google consent services | Store purchase processing and advertising privacy choices where configured. Privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy |
| Google Play Age Signals — version 1.24 and later | Local eligibility and compliance checks and any Play-owned age-sharing screen; no age-signal data is sent to our measurement or advertising providers. Privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy |
| Render | Hosts this policy website and the online wallet service and can process ordinary web-request logs. Privacy: https://render.com/privacy |
Children
The game does not ask children to provide personal information. Audience eligibility is described by the store listing and applicable platform requirements. Advertising and data processing must respect applicable protections for children and under-age users. If you believe a child has supplied personal information through a game feature or support request, contact the privacy address below so we can investigate and address it.
Your choices & data deletion
Open Sound or Settings, then Privacy, to review the choices available in your version. Advertising privacy options may open a separate consent form when that feature is configured. You can also manage the advertising identifier and advertising preferences in Android settings. Clearing app storage or uninstalling removes device-local progress and queued records, subject to device backup/restore behavior; it does not remove records already received by a provider or cancel a Google Play purchase/subscription. For access, correction, objection, withdrawal or deletion requests where applicable, email the contact below with the game name, app version and only the information needed to locate your records. We may need to verify a request, and some information may need to be retained for transaction accuracy, security, dispute resolution or legal obligations. Retention depends on the purpose, provider configuration and applicable requirements; no immediate deletion of every copy or fixed retention period is promised. In DROWNWARD, open The Shelf → Recovery → Delete paid wallet, or use the public paid-wallet deletion page with your private recovery code. Finish any pending purchase first. If a purchase is still settling, deletion waits until it is resolved; retry after reconnecting in the game or contact the privacy address below for help. Deletion permanently removes the online wallet, authentication and recovery credentials, unused paid credits and supplies, wallet-operation records, associated purchase-measurement delivery records, and online Workshop attempts and reward receipts. The recovery code no longer works. Earned salvage and progress already saved on your device remain unless you separately clear the app's storage. Deleting the wallet is not a refund request. We retain purchase and refund records needed for transaction accounting and to prevent duplicate purchase claims, with the wallet-account link removed. These records include hashed transaction identifiers and purchase/refund facts; they do not retain your wallet credentials or balances. Provider records and information already sent to analytics or attribution services are not automatically removed by wallet deletion; use the privacy contact below for requests about those records. Do not post your recovery code publicly.
Open the public account-deletion request page →
Changes
We will update this policy as the game changes and revise the effective date above. Material changes will be reflected in the app and store listings where required.
Contact
Privacy questions and deletion requests: mtime88@gmail.com.
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