Privacy Policy

PlayTable • Effective date: October 28, 2026

PlayTable ("the app", "we", "us") is a collection of board, card and table games you can play against the device, with someone on the same phone, or with a nearby device (Chess, Checkers, Tic Tac Toe, Four in a Row, Dots & Boxes, Dominoes, Carrom, Table Soccer, Sea Battle, Air Hockey, Memory Match and others). This policy explains what the app collects, who it is shared with, and what is never collected.

Summary: PlayTable has no user accounts and never asks for your name, email, phone number or location. Your game history and settings stay on your device. The app shows ads and measures app activity: for that, it and the companies listed in Section 6 may use your device's advertising ID and records of what you do in the app. Where the law requires consent for personalised advertising, the app asks before any ad is requested, and you can change that answer at any time in Settings.

1. Data We Do Not Collect

The app has no mechanism to collect or receive any of the following:

Your name, email address, phone number, or other contact details
Any account or sign-in — the app has no user accounts
Precise or approximate location
Photos, camera, or microphone data
Contacts, calendar, SMS, call logs, or files on your device
Card numbers or bank details — see Section 5 on purchases

The display name you choose in the app is yours to invent; nothing checks it, and it is only sent to another device if you start a Nearby Play match (Section 7).

2. Data Stored Only On Your Device

This information never leaves your device, except where a section below says otherwise:

Data	Purpose	Where it's stored
Display name & avatar	Shown to you and, if you start a Nearby Play match, to your opponent	Local app storage (DataStore preferences)
Game statistics (wins, losses, draws, streaks, personal bests)	Your play history and per-game stats	Local on-device database (SQLite/Room)
App preferences (sound, music, haptics, theme, board and piece skins)	Remembers your chosen settings	Local app storage (DataStore preferences)
Subscription status and the purchase token Google returns for it	Lets the app know premium is active without asking Google on every launch, including offline	Local app storage (DataStore preferences)
Rating-prompt history	Stops the app asking you to rate it more than a few times	Local app storage (DataStore preferences)

If Android's automatic device backup is enabled on your phone, this local data may be included in your own Google Account backup. That backup is managed by Google and controlled by your device's backup settings, not by us.

3. Advertising

PlayTable is free and shows ads. Ads are delivered through Google AdMob, and an individual ad may be filled by Google or by another ad network through AdMob mediation.

What is shared with ad networks

Advertising ID — the resettable device ID Android provides for ads
Approximate location — country or region, worked out from your IP address
Device and app info — device model, Android version, app version, language
Ad activity — which ads were requested, shown and tapped

Which networks

Google (AdMob)
Meta
Other ad networks taking part in AdMob mediation. The set changes over time; Google lists them at support.google.com/admob/answer/9012903, and we will tell you the current ones on request.

Your consent

Where the law requires it, the app shows Google's consent form before requesting any ad, and nothing above is shared until you answer it. Your answer is passed on to the networks. You can change it any time in Settings → Ad Privacy Options, and you can reset or delete your advertising ID for all apps in Android Settings → Privacy → Ads.

4. Analytics, Crash Reporting and Remote Configuration

The app uses three Google services to understand how it is working:

Service	What it receives
Firebase Analytics	Events describing app activity: which game you opened and in which mode (against the device, two players on one phone, or nearby play), when an ad was shown and what it earned, and when a subscription was bought. Each event carries an app-instance identifier and standard device information, not your identity.
Firebase Crashlytics	Crash and error reports: the stack trace, device model, OS version, app version, and a note of which game was open at the time, so a crash can be reproduced and fixed.
Firebase Remote Config	Nothing about you. The app asks it which ad settings to use; the request carries only standard device and app details needed to answer.

5. Purchases and Subscriptions

PlayTable offers an optional Premium Pro subscription that removes ads. Purchases are handled entirely by Google Play Billing:

Payment is taken by Google. The app never sees or stores your card, bank or billing details.
The app asks Google whether your account owns an active subscription and stores that answer, and the purchase token Google issues, on your device.
The fact that a subscription was bought, and its price and currency, is reported to Firebase Analytics and to Meta (Section 6) as a conversion event.
You can view, change or cancel the subscription in the Google Play Store, under Payments & subscriptions → Subscriptions.

6. Data Shared With Third Parties

We do not sell your data. It is shared with these companies only:

Company	What is shared	Their policy
Google (AdMob, Firebase, Play)	Advertising ID, approximate location from IP, device and app info, ad activity, app-activity events, crash reports, subscription state	policies.google.com/privacy
Meta	Advertising ID, Play install referrer, device and app info, app installs and opens, game started, first completed match, subscription purchases	facebook.com/about/privacy
AdMob mediation networks	For the ads they serve: advertising ID, approximate location from IP, device and app info, ad activity	List of networks

Your consent answer from Section 3 governs whether your advertising ID is shared with any of them.

7. Nearby Play (Local Multiplayer)

Nearby Play lets two devices on the same Wi-Fi network, or already paired over Bluetooth, connect directly to each other to play a match — there is no server in between, and we never see any of it. When you use this feature:

Your chosen display name and the game you want to play are sent directly, device to device, to the opponent you connect with.
Your device likewise receives the opponent's display name and their moves during the match.
This exchange happens only over your local network or Bluetooth link, and only for the length of the session. It is not stored on any server, by us or anyone else, and is gone once the match ends.

8. Permissions Used and Why

Permission	Why it's needed
`INTERNET`	Requesting ads, analytics and crash reports, checking your subscription with Google Play, and opening a direct connection to a nearby device for Nearby Play.
`com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID`	Access to the device's resettable advertising ID, used by AdMob and Meta as described in Sections 3 and 6. Subject to your consent where consent is required.
`com.android.vending.BILLING`	Required by Google Play to offer the Premium Pro subscription.
`ACCESS_WIFI_STATE`	Checks whether Wi-Fi is on, so the app can find nearby opponents on the same network.
`CHANGE_WIFI_MULTICAST_STATE`	Needed to discover nearby devices by multicast (mDNS) on your local network while Nearby Play is open.
`BLUETOOTH` (Android 11 and below)	Connecting to an already-paired Bluetooth device as an alternative to Wi-Fi for Nearby Play.
`BLUETOOTH_CONNECT` (Android 12+)	The same purpose, using the permission newer Android versions require.
`WRITE_SETTINGS`	Optional, and only on tablets: lets the app turn the screen to portrait so the board is not letterboxed. You grant it yourself on a system screen, and the app never changes any other setting. Declining it only means the app stays in whatever orientation the tablet is in.

The app does not request location, camera, microphone, contacts, storage, or SMS/call permissions. Bluetooth use is limited to devices you have already paired in your system settings — the app never scans for or pairs with new Bluetooth devices itself.

9. Children's Privacy

PlayTable is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. Because the app shows advertising and uses an advertising ID, it is intended for a general audience rather than for children.

If you believe a child has used the app and you would like the associated advertising identifier dealt with, contact us at the address in Section 12. You can also clear the app's data or reset the device's advertising ID at any time, as described in Sections 3 and 10.

10. Your Choices and Data Deletion

Advertising consent: Settings → Ad Privacy Options, where the consent form applies to you.
Advertising ID: reset or delete it for all apps in Android Settings → Privacy → Ads.
App data on your device: use Reset Data in the app's Settings, or Android Settings → Apps → PlayTable → Storage → Clear Data.
Everything: uninstalling the app removes all data stored on your device.
Subscription: manage or cancel it in the Google Play Store.
Data already sent to Google or Meta: those companies hold it under their own policies, linked in Section 6, and each offers its own controls and deletion routes. We can ask them to delete data associated with your device on request — write to us at the address below.

11. Changes to This Policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted at this same URL with a revised effective date.

12. Contact Us

If you have questions about this privacy policy, contact: miandeveloper007@gmail.com