This Privacy Policy describes how Personal Life handles information when the app is used.
Personal Life is made for children, so a parent or guardian must read and accept this policy and the Terms of Use the first time the game is opened. Without that acceptance the game does not start.
Personal Life is a 3D pretend-play game for children. The player creates a character, decorates a house, explores a town, shops, cooks, gardens and takes care of a pet.
There is no score and no way to lose. The game works without an internet connection.
We consider this the most important section of this policy:
Almost everything the game remembers stays on the device itself, in the app's private storage, and is never sent anywhere:
Uninstalling the app, or clearing its data in the device settings, erases all of it permanently.
The game has an optional online mode that lets a child play with friends the family already knows. It only starts working when a friend code is exchanged, which happens outside the game, between adults.
When online play is used, the following information is stored on our server so friends can see each other:
The nickname is chosen freely by the player, so we ask parents to pick a nickname that is not the child's full real name. Nothing else identifies the child, and there is no way for a stranger without the friend code to find, contact or message a player.
This information is stored by Supabase, our hosting provider, on servers located in Brazil.
Personal Life may display advertisements to help keep the game free. Because the game is made for children, advertising here is handled differently from a regular app:
Some ads are rewarded videos the child chooses to watch in exchange for a small in-game gift. This changes nothing about the data described here: the same child-directed, non-personalised request is made, and watching a video collects nothing extra about the child. The count of how many rewards were taken today is kept only on the device, together with the rest of the saved game; it is never sent to us or to anyone else.
To show and count an ad, the advertising service receives technical information such as the device model, the operating system version, the language, the country and a limited identifier used to measure ad performance and prevent fraud. We do not receive or store that information ourselves, and we recommend reviewing the privacy policy of the advertising service for more detail.
If the version of the game installed shows no advertisements, none of the above happens.
Personal Life is designed for children and follows privacy and safety practices appropriate for younger audiences.
We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children. The first time the app opens, it asks for an adult to accept this policy and the Terms of Use before any part of the game can be used.
If a parent or guardian believes that a child has typed personal information into the game, please contact us at the address below and we will remove it.
To erase everything stored on the device, uninstall the app or clear its data in the device settings.
To erase an online account and everything linked to it (friend code, nickname, appearance, house, friend list and transfers), write to us at the address below from an adult's e-mail. We do not need any personal information to do it, and we complete the deletion within 30 days.
The app can download small updates by itself, using Shorebird. To check whether an update exists, the app sends the app version and basic device platform information. No account or personal information is sent.
The app is distributed through Google Play, which applies its own privacy policy to the download and installation itself.
We take reasonable measures to protect the information above and keep the app secure. Rules that must not be bypassed, such as who is a friend and how many coins may be sent per day, are enforced on the server rather than in the app.
However, no method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
The game has no embedded browser and no links a child can wander into: the only links we put there are the ones on the parental consent screen, which point to this policy and to the Terms of Use.
An advertisement, however, is content from someone else. Tapping one may open the advertiser's page in the device browser or in the app store, and from that point on we are not responsible for the content, the security practices or the privacy policies of that destination.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any update will be posted on this page with a revised effective date, and a significant change asks an adult to accept it again inside the game.
Questions, requests or concerns about privacy can be sent to tcariuska@gmail.com.