Privacy Policy

Kinetic Lotus is published by Vikramshila Softwares, which is the data controller for the processing described here. You can reach us about anything in this policy at vikramshilasoftwares@gmail.com.

This policy applies to the Kinetic Lotus mobile app on Google Play and the App Store, and to https://kinetic-lotus.vikramshilasoftwares.in. It does not cover the app stores themselves, which have their own policies.

The game keeps your play state in local storage on your phone, and works entirely from there if you never sign in. Uninstalling the app deletes all of it. This includes:

• Level progress, stars earned and which chapters you have unlocked.
• Your daily-puzzle streak, past daily results and saved replays.
• Lives, their refill timers and any perks you are holding.
• Settings such as music and sound-effect volume, and whether in-game tips are shown.

Kinetic Lotus can be played without signing in. So that backup works from the first launch, the game creates an anonymous account with Firebase Authentication — an identifier with no name, email address or contact details attached to it.

If you want your progress to survive a lost or replaced phone, you can link that account to Google or Apple from the game’s settings. When you do, we receive the account identifier and the display name from that provider so we can label your backup and your leaderboard entries. We do not receive your password, and we do not use your email address for marketing.

Once signed in, the following is stored in Google Cloud Firestore:

• Your save, under your account identifier — level progress, stars, unlocked chapters, lives, perks and your daily-puzzle streak.
• Your daily-puzzle scores, with your display name, so they can appear on the daily leaderboard alongside other players.

Nothing else about you is stored server-side. You can remove all of it at any time — see Delete Your Account.

Three Google services process limited data when you play. None of them receive your name, email address or phone number, because the game never asks for them.

Google AdMob — serves the ads described in the next section.

Google Analytics for Firebase — records gameplay events so we can tune difficulty and see which features are used. Events include starting and finishing a level (with the level id, stars, moves used and longest chain), starting a daily puzzle, running out of lives, opening the guide, and whether an ad was shown, failed or earned a reward. We also set two aggregate properties: total levels cleared and total stars. Firebase assigns a randomly generated app instance ID, along with device model, OS version, country and language. We do not set a user ID, so these records are pseudonymous and not linked to you as a person.

Firebase Crashlytics — if the game crashes, it sends a stack trace plus device state (model, OS version, memory, whether the device is rooted or jailbroken) and a random installation identifier, so we can reproduce and fix the fault.

Kinetic Lotus is free, and ads pay for it. Our advertising partner is Google AdMob, part of Google LLC. We show exactly two ad formats:

• Interstitial ads — full-screen ads shown between levels, never during a puzzle.
• Rewarded ads — entirely optional. You choose to watch one in exchange for a life or a perk. Declining costs you nothing but the reward.
• We do not use banner ads, native ads, app-open ads, or ads that appear while a board is in play.

To serve, cap and measure ads, Google may process your device’s resettable advertising identifier (the Advertising ID on Android, the IDFA on iOS), IP address, approximate location derived from that IP address, device and OS details, and interactions with the ads themselves — impressions, clicks and whether a rewarded ad was completed. This data is collected by Google as an independent controller under its own terms, not by us; we see only aggregate revenue and performance reports.

Google explains this in its Privacy Policy, in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services, and in its advertising notice.

You can limit ad personalisation at any time. On Android, open Settings → Google → Ads to delete or reset your advertising ID and to opt out of personalised ads. On iOS, open Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking to withdraw permission for any app. You can also manage Google’s ad settings at adssettings.google.com. Opting out does not remove ads — it makes them less relevant.

On iOS, the game shows Apple’s App Tracking Transparency prompt once, before the ads SDK starts. If you decline, the IDFA is not made available and you will see non-personalised ads instead. The game works identically either way — nothing is gated behind the prompt, and we never ask twice. You can change your answer at any time in Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking.

We use what we collect only for these purposes:

• Running the game — saving your progress, lives and streak on your device.
• Funding the game — serving and capping ads, and paying out rewarded-ad rewards.
• Improving the game — seeing which levels players abandon, so difficulty gets retuned in the next update.
• Fixing the game — reproducing crashes from anonymous diagnostic reports.

If you are in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, we rely on the following bases under the GDPR and UK GDPR:

Legitimate interests for crash diagnostics and aggregate gameplay analytics, which are necessary to keep the game working and worth playing, and which are pseudonymous by design. Consent for personalised advertising and any use of your advertising identifier for that purpose. Contract for the local storage of your progress, which is simply the game functioning as you asked it to.

Where consent is the basis, you may withdraw it at any time using the ad settings above, without affecting anything processed before you did.

We do not sell your personal information, we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising beyond what the ad settings above control, and we do not trade it with data brokers. Information reaches only:

Google LLC, as the provider of AdMob, Firebase Authentication, Cloud Firestore, Google Analytics for Firebase and Crashlytics — see Firebase’s privacy documentation and the Google policies linked above. Google Play and Apple, which handle distribution on their respective platforms and are governed by their own policies. And anyone we are legally required to disclose to, such as a court or regulator acting under valid legal process.

Google processes data on servers in the United States and other countries. Where data leaves the EEA or the UK, Google relies on the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses and equivalent UK safeguards. We operate no infrastructure of our own — your save and leaderboard entries are held in Google Cloud Firestore, and we run no separate servers that receive your data.

Data on your device is kept until you delete it, by clearing the app’s storage or uninstalling the game.

Your cloud save and leaderboard entries are kept for as long as your account exists. Deleting your account removes them immediately, though routine database backups may hold a copy for up to 30 days before rotating out. See Delete Your Account for the full picture.

Analytics data is retained by Firebase for a rolling period we set in the Firebase console, after which it is deleted automatically. Crash reports are retained for up to 90 days. Advertising data is retained by Google according to its own retention schedules, described in the Google policies linked above.

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, delete, port or restrict the processing of your personal information, to object to processing based on legitimate interests, and to withdraw consent. Residents of California have the right to know, delete and correct, and to opt out of sale or sharing — we do not sell or share personal information as those terms are defined by the CCPA/CPRA.

The game does not currently offer an in-app switch to turn analytics off. You can limit advertising identifiers through the operating-system settings described above, and uninstalling the app stops all collection outright.

The fastest route to erasure is the game’s own Delete Account flow, which removes your save, your leaderboard entries and your sign-in in one action — and that page also explains how to request deletion by email if you no longer have the app installed. For anything else, write to us at vikramshilasoftwares@gmail.com and we will pass the request to the relevant service. We answer within 30 days. If you are unhappy with our answer, you may complain to your local data protection authority.

Kinetic Lotus is suitable for all ages, but it is not directed at children under 13 (or the equivalent minimum age where you live), and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. We ask for no name, email address or photograph at any point. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, contact us at vikramshilasoftwares@gmail.com and we will delete what we can and forward the rest to Google.

The game requests network access, which is used only to load ads and send analytics and crash reports, and access to the advertising identifier, which is used only as described above. It does not request your contacts, camera, microphone, precise location, photos or files. The campaign is fully playable with no connection at all.

Data in transit to Google’s services is encrypted with TLS. Your progress lives in your device’s app-private storage, protected by the operating system. No method of transmission or storage is perfectly secure, but because we hold no accounts, passwords or payment details, there is very little about you for anyone to steal.

https://kinetic-lotus.vikramshilasoftwares.in is a static marketing site. It sets no cookies, runs no analytics or advertising scripts, and does not track visitors. Your web host’s standard server logs may record your IP address for security and diagnostics.

If we change how the game handles data, we will update this page and move the “last updated” date above. Material changes will also be noted in the release notes of the update that introduces them. Continuing to play after a change means you accept the revised policy.

Questions, requests and complaints all go to vikramshilasoftwares@gmail.com and reach a person, not a queue. Please say which platform you play on — it makes most questions much faster to answer.