Sherd: Daily Logic Puzzle (com.mohdshayan.sherd) is a free game published by SocialSure Private Limited. This policy explains what happens to your information in the Android app and in the web version at https://apps.mohdshayan.com/sherd/play/.
We, SocialSure Private Limited, receive no data about you. Sherd has no account, no analytics or crash reporting of our own and no server of our own, and the game itself sends nothing about you anywhere. The game is paid for by ads that Google serves, and Google's ads and billing software built into the Android app does collect some data, which goes to Google, not to us. In the terms of the Data safety section on Google Play, the app collects and shares with Google: approximate location (from your IP address), app interactions, diagnostics, and device or other IDs, for advertising or marketing, analytics, and fraud prevention, security and compliance. Google Play Billing also sends diagnostics so that purchases work. On the web, Google AdSense uses cookies, and the site's host, GitHub Pages, logs your IP address. Each is described below.
The Android app shows ads through the Google Mobile Ads SDK (AdMob), provided by Google: full-screen ads at natural breaks between Expedition digs, never around the daily dig, and rewarded ads that you choose to watch. It does not show banner ads. To choose and measure ads and to prevent fraud, the SDK collects and shares with Google your device's IP address (which can estimate your general location), how you interact with the app and its ads (such as launches, taps and video views), diagnostic information (such as launch time and performance), and device and account identifiers: the Android advertising ID, the app set ID and, where applicable, other identifiers related to accounts signed in on your device. This data is encrypted in transit. You can reset or delete your advertising ID at any time in your device's Android settings (on many phones under Settings > Privacy > Ads, or Settings > Google > Ads). Google's use of this data is described at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites and in Google's Privacy Policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy.
In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, the app asks for your consent with Google's User Messaging Platform before any ad is requested, and stores your choice on your device. Where a privacy law gives you a choice (those regions and some US states), Privacy options in the game's menu lets you change your consent or opt out at any time; the entry appears only where it applies. If you do not consent, you can still play; Google may then show non-personalised or limited ads, which still use your IP address and diagnostic information.
Rewarded ads are only shown when you choose to watch one for a stated reward, such as keeping your daily streak after a missed day, opening a past daily, surveying a block of an Expedition dig, or doubling the museum fragments from your next digs. They are always a bonus: you can play on without one.
Remove ads and archive is a one-time purchase made in the Google Play Store app under Google's terms, through Google Play Billing. It removes the ads between digs for good, opens every past daily, and gives the rewarded bonuses (Streak repair, Survey and Double fragments) at once without an ad, at the same limits. The app itself only asks Google Play whether your Google account owns it (and confirms a new purchase to Google Play, as Play requires), keeps that answer on your device and sends nothing else. We never see your payment details. Google Play Billing, the Google library that talks to the Play Store app, also sends Google diagnostic details about the purchase service, such as your device model, Android build, language, country, network type and the app's version. Once the app has confirmed that you own Remove ads and archive, it requests no more ads and no longer shows the consent form; buying it does not erase ad data Google has already received. If you reinstall the game, Google Play restores the purchase on the same Google account.
When you tap Share, the game hands a short text with your result (the day number, your tries, a row of marks for each try that shows how many cells were hits, near or soil but not where, and an icon when your streak was kept with a repair or the dig came from the archive) and a link to https://apps.mohdshayan.com/sherd/play/ to the app you pick in Android's share sheet. The card is text only: no image, no screenshot and nothing about you. On the web it uses your browser's share sheet, or copies the text and the link to your clipboard where sharing is not available. The game itself sends nothing anywhere: what is sent, and to whom, is up to you and the app you choose, under that app's own privacy terms. Sharing needs no permission.
On the web (https://apps.mohdshayan.com/sherd/play/), the game page shows ads through Google AdSense. Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet. You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Ads Settings (https://www.google.com/settings/ads). Other ad technology providers that Google works with may also serve or measure ads on the page; Google lists them at https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/9012903, and you can opt out of many of them at https://www.aboutads.info/choices/. Where required, Google's consent message asks for your choice first, and its "Privacy and cookie settings" link on the page lets you change it. The site is hosted on GitHub Pages, which logs and stores the IP address of each visit for security purposes, as GitHub's documentation says at https://docs.github.com/en/pages/getting-started-with-github-pages/what-is-github-pages#data-collection. GitHub's Privacy Statement, at https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/privacy-policies/github-general-privacy-statement, describes how GitHub handles that data. The web version has no account, no purchases, no full-screen or rewarded ads and no analytics of ours.
Game progress is saved only on your device: in the app's storage (and your device's own backup, if you use it), or on the web in your browser's local storage. We have no account system and keep no data about you on any server.
We keep no data about you, so there is nothing for us to retain or to delete on request. Your game progress stays on your device until you remove it: uninstalling the app or clearing its storage in Android settings deletes it (a copy in your device's own backup follows your backup settings and can come back if you reinstall), and on the web, clearing this site's data in your browser deletes it. The app's record of whether you own Remove ads and archive is never backed up; on a new device the app asks Google Play again. Data that Google's ads SDK and Google Play Billing send to Google is kept by Google under its own retention rules, described at https://policies.google.com/technologies/retention. You can reset or delete your advertising ID at any time in your device's settings, and manage ad personalisation at https://www.google.com/settings/ads. If you email us, we keep your message only as long as we need it to answer you.
Everything Google's software in the app sends is encrypted in transit with TLS, and the web version is served only over HTTPS. Your game progress and the app's record of your purchase are kept in the app's private storage, which other apps cannot read. The game runs from files packaged inside the app and loads nothing from the internet: the app blocks any other web request from the game. Purchases are handled by the Google Play Store app, so the game never sees your payment details.
The released Android app requests these six Android permissions. All six come from the Google libraries it uses for ads and billing; the game's own code asks for none.
It also declares one permission of its own, com.mohdshayan.sherd.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION, which Android's support library (AndroidX) adds so that other apps cannot send messages to the app's internal receivers. It gives the app no access to your data or to any device feature.
It asks for no location, camera, microphone, contacts, storage, phone or notification permission.
We do not collect your name, email address (unless you write to us), contacts, photos, files, precise location or payment details, and there is no account to create. The app contains no analytics or crash reporting SDK of our own. Nothing the game does reaches a server of ours: we run none for it. The only data that leaves your device is what Google's ads and billing software sends to Google (on the web, Google AdSense, and the IP address the site's host logs), described above, and anything you choose to share.
The game is meant for people aged 16 and over and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect data from children under 16.
If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted at this address and the date above will change.
Questions about this policy or about your data can be sent to SocialSure Private Limited at shayanm2002@gmail.com, or through the developer contact details on the game's Google Play listing.