Privacy policy
Effective date:
This policy covers Trickwell Hearts, the card game, on Android and on the web, and this site, trickwellhearts.com. “We” means the game's developer.
Ads in the Android app
Google is the Android app's ad partner: its AdMob service chooses and shows the ads. The app asks for an ad only as you leave the result of a finished game, never during play. Before any ad is loaded, the app checks with Google's consent tool, and where the law requires your consent, as in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, Google's consent form asks you first. With no connection, or when the check fails, there is no ad and the game plays on.
For advertising, analytics and fraud prevention, Google's ads collect your device's advertising ID and app set ID, and, where they apply, identifiers tied to accounts signed in on your device. They also collect device information, such as diagnostics on how the app and its ads perform, and usage information, such as app launches, taps and the ads you watch. And they collect your IP address, from which Google may estimate your device's general location.
Google uses this information as Google's privacy policy describes. Google also explains how it uses information from apps that use its services.
The game sends nothing about you to us. We see only the totals AdMob reports to every app's developer, such as how many ads were shown.
Your ad settings
“Personalized ads” is off until you turn it on. While it is off, the app asks Google for non-personalized ads only, which are not chosen from a profile of you. You turn it on, and back off, on the game's privacy screen, which you can open from anywhere in the game, even in the middle of a hand.
“Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” is off until you turn it on, on the same privacy screen. While it is on, every ad request asks Google to restrict how it processes your information, and Google shows only non-personalized ads.
When Google's consent tool says you have privacy choices to make, the privacy screen also opens Google's “Privacy options”, where you can review or withdraw what you chose in Google's consent form.
What the game keeps
The game keeps your settings, your two ad settings among them, and the game in progress on your device. There is no account to create, and the game has no server of its own.
How long it is kept, and how to delete it
What the game keeps stays on your device until you delete it. To delete it, clear the game's data in your device's settings, or uninstall the game. Google keeps what its ads collect as Google's privacy policy describes.
Children
Trickwell Hearts is meant for adults (18+). It is not directed to children.
The web version of the game
The web version of the game serves no ads. It keeps your settings in your browser, on your device.
This site
This site sets no cookies, runs no ads or analytics, and loads nothing from other websites. Cloudflare hosts it, and receives your IP address with each page your browser asks for, as any web host does.
How we protect personal information
The person in charge of the protection of personal information is responsible for protecting the personal information we hold, handles every request and complaint about it, and sees that these rules are followed. You reach them at privacy@trickwellhearts.com.
Access, correction and complaints
To ask for access to the personal information we hold about you, or to have it corrected, write to privacy@trickwellhearts.com. We answer in writing within 30 days of receiving your request.
To complain about how we handle personal information, write to privacy@trickwellhearts.com. The person in charge looks into it and answers you in writing within 30 days of receiving your complaint.
If our answer to a request or a complaint does not satisfy you, or you get none, you can turn to Québec's Commission d'accès à l'information.
We keep what you write to privacy@trickwellhearts.com, and our answers, for one year after your request or complaint is settled, or until any case about it before the Commission ends, if that is later. Then we delete it for good, from the mailbox and from its trash.
Changes to this policy
When what the game collects changes, this policy changes with it, and so does its effective date.