Water Sort Star does not run any server of its own and does not sell personal data. There is no sign-up and no password, and the puzzles work offline. The game is free and shows ads from Google AdMob, and uses Google Firebase to count how the game is played and to report crashes. If you use Google Play Games, Google signs you in automatically and keeps a copy of your game progress in your Google account. All of this is provided by Google and explained below.
The game saves your progress (levels completed, coins, boosters, unlocked tube shapes and themes) and your settings (sound, music, vibration, colour-blind mode) in Android's standard local app storage. Uninstalling the app deletes it, unless a copy is kept in Google Play Games (below).
On phones with Google Play Games, the game signs you in with your Play Games profile automatically (you can also sign in from Settings → Save & restore). This is provided by Google, not by us. Through it:
You can play without it: if you are not signed in, nothing is uploaded. To delete the cloud copy and your Play Games data for this game, open the Google Play Games app → Settings, or Google Account → Data & privacy. You can also email us and we will explain how.
If you installed the game from Google Play, it may use Google Play's in-app review and in-app update features. These are provided by Google Play on your device; the game itself receives no personal information from them. See Google's Privacy Policy.
The game shows a short video ad between some levels and optional "watch a video" rewards (for example a free hint). Ads are served by Google AdMob, which collects data from your device to show and measure ads and to prevent fraud: the advertising ID, device and app information, approximate location derived from the IP address, and how you interact with ads.
To see which levels are too hard and to fix crashes, the game uses Firebase Analytics, Firebase Crashlytics and Firebase Remote Config. They collect game events (for example "level 12 started / won", which booster was used), an app-instance ID, device model, Android version, approximate location from the IP address, and crash logs. This data is processed by Google on our behalf; it does not contain your name, email or phone number. Remote Config only downloads settings such as how often an ad may appear.
Water Sort Star is published by Superhappen, and our own dashboard counts how the game is doing
day by day. From version 0.7.2 the game sends a few plain events to
superhappen.com: the install, a session start, a level completed or restarted (with
its level number), the daily puzzle solved, and an ad shown (with its format and estimated value).
From version 0.8.7 the install event also says how you found the game: the campaign labels of the
Google Play link you installed from (for example "Google Play", a friend's invite, a Superhappen
task or one of our ads), read from Google Play's install referrer. From version 0.8.9 a session
also says how long the game was open (in seconds, when you leave it), and the game also reports
starting a level (with its level number) and finishing the first-time tutorial. Each event carries only a random
ID the game creates for itself on first launch (and a random ID for the event itself, so it is
never counted twice), the game version and the time. It never carries the advertising ID, your name, email, phone number, contacts or
location. Superhappen uses these totals only to run and improve its own apps, and does not sell
or share them. Uninstalling the game ends them (a reinstall starts a new random ID).
We advertise Water Sort Star on Google (Search, YouTube, Play) and on Meta (Facebook, Instagram). To learn which of our ads bring players who enjoy the game, and to stop paying for ads that do not, the game reports a few moments to those ad platforms:
Uninstalling the game removes everything stored on the phone. Analytics data is kept by Firebase for up to 14 months and then deleted automatically; to have it deleted sooner, email us and we will request deletion from Google. Play Games data can be deleted in the Google Play Games app or your Google Account (see above).
The game may ask for permission to show notifications (Android 13 and later) so it can remind you that your daily gift is ready. You can decline, or turn it off at any time in Android settings. It uses vibration for gentle feedback, which you can switch off in the game's Settings. It needs no network access to play; the network is used for ads, analytics and crash reports, and Google Play Games sign-in and cloud save, when available.
If you tap "Share", Android's own share sheet opens with a short text and a link to the game. Nothing is sent unless you choose an app and send it yourself.
Your invite link carries a random 6-letter code made on your phone. When a friend installs the game from Google Play through that link, their game records, once, a random install number and the time under your code in a small database (Google Firebase Realtime Database), and once more if they finish level 10. Your game counts those entries to give you the reward coins. No name, email, phone number, contacts or advertising ID is stored, and the entries cannot be linked to a person. To have your code's entries deleted, email us the code.
Settings (and, at most once a week, the screen after a level) can show our other apps. To keep that list current, the game downloads it and the apps' icons from superhappen.com at most once a day. These are plain requests: like any web request they reveal your IP address to the server, but the game sends no identifier, no game data and no advertising ID with them. If you tap "Get it on Google Play", the Play link tells us only which screen it came from (for example "settings"). Nothing is rewarded for installing another app.
If you installed the game from a task link in the Superhappen app, the Google Play install link carries a random task code from Superhappen. When you finish level 20 for the first time, the game sends that code, the milestone name ("level_20"), the time, the app package name and the app version to Superhappen (superhappen.com) once, so the task reward reaches your Superhappen account without a screenshot. Nothing else is sent: no name, email, phone number, contacts or advertising ID. If you did not come from a Superhappen task link, nothing is ever sent.
Water Sort Star is available worldwide. Depending on where you live (for example the EU and UK under the GDPR, California and other US states, Brazil under the LGPD, India under the DPDP Act, or similar laws elsewhere) you may have the right to know what data about you is processed, to get a copy, to have it corrected or deleted, and to object to or limit its use, including for personalised advertising.
Data processed by Google may be transferred to and stored in other countries, under Google's safeguards for international transfers.
Water Sort Star is intended for players aged 13 and over. It does not knowingly collect information from anyone, children included.
If a future version changes what is collected, this page will be updated before that version is released, and the Google Play "Data safety" section will be updated to match. The date at the top always reflects the current version.
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