Privacy Policy — Patida
Patida is developed and published by Dreamtime LLC, a Washington limited liability company ("Dreamtime," "we," or "us"). This policy explains how information is handled when you play Patida on Android or iOS, use its online features, make purchases, or interact with advertising. Some features described here are available only on certain platforms.
Game Accounts and Sign-In
Patida uses Microsoft PlayFab for online game services. Guest access uses a device-derived identifier to recognize your game account: on Android, the Android ID; on iOS, Apple's identifier for vendor, which is specific to apps from Dreamtime on your device. We also use game account identifiers and a separate app-generated device identifier to synchronize your token balance and entitlements and prevent duplicate grants or spending.
On Android, you can link your game account through Google Play Games to recover your account and use it across devices. The app can restore an available Google Play Games sign-in when it starts. Google and PlayFab process the authentication information needed to link or sign in to the game account. Patida may use your Google Play Games display name as your game display name. We do not receive your Google password.
Gameplay, Settings, and Public Leaderboards
Puzzle progress, found solutions, and preferences such as language and audio settings are stored on your device. Online features send relevant information to PlayFab, including daily puzzle identifiers, submitted scores, submission identifiers and times, token balances and spending, login rewards, and purchased or earned entitlements.
We collect counts of games started and completed and visits to leaderboard screens to understand how Patida is used and improve the game. These records include the date, game mode and difficulty, leaderboard viewed, app version, a randomly generated installation identifier, and the associated game account. Counts are stored on your device and periodically sent to Microsoft PlayFab. This engagement reporting does not include your puzzle moves or advertising ID.
If you participate in a leaderboard, your game display name, score, and ranking can be visible to other players. Your display name may come from Google Play Games. Avoid using a display name that reveals information you do not want to make public.
Purchases
Google Play handles Android purchases, and Apple handles purchases in the iOS version where they are offered. Patida and PlayFab process product identifiers, purchase-validation tokens, account linkage, and the resulting token or entitlement grants to validate purchases, deliver items, and restore eligible purchases. Pending purchase records are stored on your device until processing completes. Patida does not receive your full payment-card details.
Advertising and Your Choices
Patida uses Google AdMob to offer rewarded ads. Ads may be requested or loaded before you choose to watch one. Google’s advertising services process information such as your IP address, which can indicate an approximate location; advertising, app, device, or account identifiers; interactions with the app and ads; and diagnostic information. This information supports ad delivery, measurement, service operation, and fraud prevention. Ad personalization depends on applicable consent, your choices, and Google’s settings and policies.
We use Google’s User Messaging Platform to manage advertising consent. Where a consent message is presented, you can review the choices it offers. When available, Settings → Privacy options lets you revisit those choices. You can also use Android’s advertising settings to reset or delete your advertising ID. If ads are offered in the iOS version, Patida will not track you across other companies’ apps or websites unless you allow it through Apple’s App Tracking Transparency prompt, which you can change at any time in Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking. You can also use and Google’s advertising controls to manage relevant Google ad preferences. Declining personalization does not necessarily stop all ads or the processing needed to deliver and measure them.
For more information, see Google’s Privacy Policy and how Google uses information from apps that use its services.
Rewarded-Ad Verification
To credit rewards securely, Patida sends your game account identifier and a random reward-session identifier to the ad verification system. Google sends a signed reward confirmation to our service hosted on Microsoft Azure. That service processes the game account and session identifiers, ad-unit identifier, transaction identifier, reward details, and timestamps, and credits the reward through PlayFab.
We store reward-session, transaction, and grant records, including your progress toward time-limited unlimited undos, to deliver rewards, prevent duplicate grants, and investigate errors or abuse. Technical error records may also be retained for these purposes.
Service Providers and Information Sharing
We share the information needed to operate these features with Microsoft PlayFab and Azure, Google Play and Play Games, Apple (for the iOS App Store and purchases), and Google AdMob and its advertising services. These providers may process information on servers outside your country. Their handling of information is also described in Microsoft’s Privacy Statement, Google’s Privacy Policy, and Apple’s Privacy Policy.
Patida does not request access to your contacts, camera, microphone, or precise device location for these features. This does not prevent service providers from receiving network information, such as an IP address, or estimating a general location from it.
Data Retention and Deletion
We retain game-account, online gameplay, purchase, and reward records as needed to operate your account, maintain entitlements, reconcile transactions, prevent fraud and duplicate rewards, and meet applicable legal obligations. Retention varies by record type; reward-session expiry does not automatically delete the associated transaction history. Google and Microsoft also apply their own retention practices.
You can request deletion of your Patida account and associated data by emailing support@dreamti.me. Include your in-game display name and enough information to help us locate the account, such as an approximate date of play. Do not send passwords, authentication codes, or full payment-card details. We may ask for information to verify that the account belongs to you. We will explain any records that must be retained and why. Removing the app clears local data subject to your device’s backup settings, but does not itself delete server-side account records. Requests concerning a Google, Apple, or Microsoft account should also be directed to that provider.
Children’s Privacy
Patida is intended for a general audience and is not directed at children under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information through Patida, contact us so we can investigate and address it.
Security
Patida uses encrypted HTTPS/TLS connections for its online services. We use account authentication and signed reward verification to protect account and reward operations. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this policy as Patida changes. Updates will appear on this page with a revised effective date.
Contact
Dreamtime LLC, Washington, USA
Privacy questions and data-deletion requests: support@dreamti.me