Privacy Policy
Kennel Merge · Last updated 3 September 2026
The short version. Kennel Merge is a single-player game that works offline. We store your game progress and whether you bought the unlimited-moves upgrade, so the same save reaches your other devices. We never receive your name, email address or location. There are no ads, no behavioural analytics, and nothing is sold or shared beyond the services listed in section 3.
This policy describes how Kennel Merge (“the Game”), published by DEVINSIDERCODE CORP (“we”, “us”), handles your data. It applies to the Game on Android, Windows, iOS and macOS, and to this website.
1. What we store
| Data | Why |
|---|---|
| Account identifier | A random string issued when you first sign in. It ties your save to you and is not derived from your name or email address. |
| Sign-in provider identity | Your Google Play Games player ID or your Sign in with Apple identifier, so the Game can recognise you on another device. Play Games does not disclose your email address to us at all; Sign in with Apple gives us a private relay identifier, not your real address. |
| Game progress | The board layout, your K$ balance, moves used today, a save version number, and a device label (for example “Pixel 8”) that is shown only to you when two devices hold different saves. |
| Purchase status | Whether unlimited moves was purchased, which store it came from, and the store's purchase token. Used to unlock the upgrade on your other devices. |
| Installation identifier | An identifier issued by Firebase so the Game can fetch its configuration (balance values, limits). |
We do not collect your real name, email address, phone number, postal address, precise or coarse location, contacts, photos, advertising identifiers, or analytics about how you play. The Game contains no advertising SDK and no third-party analytics SDK.
2. Playing without signing in
If you do not sign in, the Game creates an anonymous account. Your progress is stored under a random identifier that belongs to that installation only. It cannot be recovered if you delete the app or switch devices, and it is not linked to you in any way. Signing in later attaches that progress to your provider account.
3. Who else processes this data
- Google Firebase (Authentication, Cloud Firestore, Remote Config) — sign-in and storage of the
data listed above. It is held on Google Cloud infrastructure in the United States (region
us-central1). See Google's Firebase privacy information. - Google Play Billing and Apple App Store — process the purchase and tell the Game whether you are entitled to it. Payment details are handled entirely by the store; we never see them.
- Google Play Games Services / Sign in with Apple — authenticate you.
That is the complete list. We do not sell personal information, we do not share it for advertising or cross-context behavioural advertising, and we do not transfer it to data brokers.
4. Purchases
Kennel Merge offers one optional non-consumable purchase, unlimited moves. The purchase, its restoration and any refund are handled by Apple or Google under their own terms and privacy policies. The Game asks the store whether you are entitled to the upgrade and stores the answer as described above.
5. How long we keep it
Your save is kept until you delete it. You can do that yourself at any time — see Delete your account — and deletion removes both the stored save and the account identifier. We do not keep a backup copy after deletion.
Records of your purchase are kept by Apple and Google under their own retention policies; we cannot delete those.
6. Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, export or delete your data, to object to or restrict its processing, and to complain to a data protection authority. Under the GDPR our legal basis is performance of the contract you enter into by using the Game (storing and syncing your save) and our legitimate interest in delivering configuration to the Game.
Under the CCPA/CPRA: we do not sell or share personal information, and we do not use it for profiling.
The quickest route for access and deletion is inside the Game. For anything else, write to support@devinsidercode.com. Because we hold no identifying information, we may have to ask you for your account identifier (Game → Settings → About) before we can act on a request.
7. Children
Kennel Merge is not directed to children under 13 (or under the age of digital consent in your country), and we do not knowingly collect data from them. If you believe a child has created an account, contact us and we will delete it.
8. Security
Traffic between the Game and Firebase is encrypted in transit. Server-side rules restrict every stored save so that it can only be read or written by the account that owns it; no account can reach another account's data.
9. Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the updated version is published on this page with a new date at the top. Material changes are announced inside the Game before they take effect.
10. Contact
DEVINSIDERCODE CORP
support@devinsidercode.com