Grave Shift — Afterlife Management: Privacy Policy

Developer: Stormvault (“we”, “us”)
App: Grave Shift — Afterlife Management (Android, package com.stormvault.graveshift)
Contact: contact@stefidulcedev.ro

1. Summary #

Grave Shift has no account system and no servers of its own. We do not collect your name, email address, contacts, photos, precise location or any other information that identifies you personally.
The game keeps your progress on your device.
The app uses Google services: Google Mobile Ads (AdMob) for optional rewarded videos, Google Play Billing for purchases, Google Play Games Services for optional sign-in, cloud save and achievements, and the Google Play In-App Review prompt. Those services process data as described below and in Google’s own policies.
Ads are rewarded videos only. They play only when you tap a button to watch one. In regions where consent is required, ads are requested only after you choose in Google’s consent form. You can change that choice at any time in Settings → Privacy options.

2. Data stored on your device #

What	Why	Where it goes
Game progress (save file and up to three automatic backups)	To keep your progress	Stays on your device. Deleted when you clear the app’s storage or uninstall.
Settings (sound, text size, colour options, Reminders on/off)	To remember your preferences	Stays on your device.
Reminders (optional, off unless you turn them on in Settings): up to two scheduled reminders and the time the last one was shown	To show a local notification such as “the overnight tray is full”	Stays on your device. Reminders are scheduled and shown by Android on the phone itself. There is no server and no push service, and nothing is sent to us or to anyone else.
A local game log (gameplay events such as “session started”, “Quarterly Report submitted”, “rewarded video watched”; no personal data; capped at about 256 KB)	To help diagnose problems	Stays on your device. It is never sent to us or anyone else.

The Transfer Form code (Settings) is a copy of your save, created on your device. It leaves your device only if you copy and share it yourself.

3. Google Play Games Services (optional) #

If you sign in to Google Play Games, Google provides the game with your Play Games player identity. The game uses it to:

store one cloud save (a copy of your game progress) in your Play Games account, and
unlock achievements in your Play Games profile, and
post your leaderboard scores (fastest Quarter, lifetime Forms, Quarters filed) to Play Games leaderboards, where other Play Games players can see them under your Play Games name, according to your Play Games profile visibility settings.

We do not receive your email address or name from this. The cloud save is stored by Google and tied to your Google account. You can delete it, and your Play Games data, from the Google Play Games app or your Google account settings. The game works fully without signing in. See Google’s Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

4. Purchases (Google Play Billing) #

In-app purchases are processed entirely by Google Play. We never see your payment details. The game receives a purchase record (product id, purchase token and status) so it can deliver and restore what you bought. It keeps the purchase tokens in your save file so a purchase is never granted twice. See the Google Play Terms of Service and Google’s Privacy Policy.

5. Advertising (Google AdMob, rewarded videos only) #

When you choose to watch a rewarded video, the Google Mobile Ads SDK requests and shows the ad. To do this, Google may collect and process:

your device’s advertising ID (Android AD_ID permission),
device and app information (for example device model, OS version, app version, language),
your IP address, from which an approximate location may be derived, and
interactions with the ad (views and taps).

Google uses this data to show ads, to measure them and to prevent fraud. Depending on your consent and region, it may also personalise ads. See “How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services”: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites

Consent. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and other regions where it is required, the game shows Google’s consent form (User Messaging Platform) before any ad is requested. You can change your choice at any time in Settings → Privacy options.

Advertising ID controls. You can reset or delete your advertising ID, or opt out of personalised ads, in your Android settings (Settings → Google → Ads, or Settings → Privacy → Ads, depending on the device).

Ads are optional. Buying “Remove Ads” removes every ad and ad button from the game.

6. In-app review #

After your second Quarterly Report, the game may ask Google Play once to show its rating prompt. Google handles the prompt and your rating. The game does not learn whether you rated or what you wrote.

7. What we do not do #

We do not sell personal data.
We do not run our own analytics or crash-reporting service. Google Play may provide us with aggregated, anonymised statistics (installs, crash rates) through the Play Console.
We do not use location, the camera, the microphone, contacts or files.
We do not send push notifications. The optional Reminders are local notifications created on your device. On Android 13 and later the game asks for the notification permission only when you switch Reminders on, and you can switch them off in Settings or in Android’s app settings at any time.
There is no chat and no user-generated content. The only leaderboards are the optional Play Games ones described in section 3.

8. Children #

Grave Shift is intended for players aged 13 and over and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has used the game in a way that caused personal data to be collected, contact us at contact@stefidulcedev.ro.

9. Data retention and deletion #

On your device: clear the app’s storage or uninstall the game to delete your save, backups, settings and the local log.
Cloud save, achievements and leaderboard scores: delete them from Google Play Games or your Google account.
Ad data: retained and deleted by Google under its policies. You can use the advertising ID controls above.

We hold no copy of your data, so there is nothing for us to delete on a server. You can still contact us with any question.

10. Security #

Data the Google SDKs send is encrypted in transit (HTTPS). Your save file carries a checksum so the game can detect corruption.

11. Your rights #

Depending on where you live (for example under the GDPR or UK GDPR, or US state privacy laws), you may have rights to access, correct, delete or object to the processing of your personal data. Because we do not hold personal data ourselves, most requests are handled through the Google controls above. Contact us at contact@stefidulcedev.ro and we will help.

12. Changes #

If this policy changes, we will update the effective date above and publish the new version at the same address. Significant changes will also be noted in the game’s update notes.

13. Contact #

Stormvault — contact@stefidulcedev.ro