Delay Dots privacy policy

Effective: 15 November 2026
Developer: Hex Play Studio
Contact: hexplaystudio@gmail.com

Delay Dots is a logic puzzle by Hex Play Studio: one swipe moves two dots, and the orange dot repeats your previous move. This policy explains, in plain words, what the game keeps and why.

The short version

Your progress stays on your phone. If you choose Sign in with Google, we also keep a copy on our server (your cloud save) so you can play on another phone.
Signing in is optional: every level and mode works without it. We never store your email, name or photo.
We don't ask for your phone number, contacts, photos or location.
The game shows ads from Google AdMob: optional rewarded ads you choose to watch (for a hint, a solution or a past daily puzzle), and an occasional ad between levels. Google may collect some data to show those ads (section 4).
You can buy Remove ads once through Google Play. We never see your payment details.
We never sell your data. You can delete your account and everything on our server at any time.

1. What stays on your phone

Your solved levels, stars, hints used, daily streaks, endless progress and settings are saved in the app's own storage on your phone, and so is whether you own "Remove ads". The game is not included in your phone's Android backup. Uninstalling the app deletes it from the phone. If you are signed in, your cloud save stays on our server (section 2) until you delete your account.

2. Sign in with Google and cloud save (optional)

You can play everything without signing in. If you sign in, Google sends the app a sign-in token. The app passes it to our server (dots.hexnyan.com, hosted by UpCloud in Frankfurt, Germany), which checks with Google's public keys that it is real, keeps only your Google account id (a number that means nothing on its own) and throws the rest away at once: your email, name and picture are never stored or logged.

Your cloud save holds your stars and best moves per level, daily results and streak, endless progress, tutorial tips seen, past dailies unlocked, and the sound, preview, timeline and language settings. If you bought "Remove ads" while signed in, our server also keeps a record of that purchase (which item, Google's order number and a scrambled fingerprint of the purchase code, never the code itself) so it follows your account.

Signing out keeps the cloud save. Deleting your account (Settings → Account → Delete account and cloud save, or https://delaydots.pages.dev/delete-account.html) removes all of it at once. Server backups are replaced within 30 days. Server logs are deleted after 30 days and never contain your email or Google account id. Everything travels encrypted (HTTPS). Google's own privacy policy covers your Google account: https://policies.google.com/privacy

3. What else the game sends over the internet

Only what Google's services in sections 4 and 5 need. Delay Dots has no analytics and no crash reporter. If you share a daily result, the app only opens your phone's share sheet with the text you see. You choose where it goes.

4. Ads (Google AdMob)

Ads are provided by Google AdMob:

Rewarded ads play only when you tap a button marked AD (a hint after your free daily hint, a solution demo, a past daily puzzle).
Between-level ads may appear when you tap Next after solving a level: never during a puzzle, never in World 1, not in the first minutes after you open the game, and at most about once every several levels. "Remove ads" turns them off.

When an ad is requested or shown, Google may collect your device's advertising ID, your IP address (and an approximate location from it), how you interact with the ad, and crash and diagnostic data, to show the ad, measure it and prevent fraud. How Google uses this data: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites

In the EU, UK and other places where the law requires it, the game asks for your consent first (Google's consent form). You can change your choice at any time in Settings → Privacy options (shown where the rules require it). Without consent, Google may show limited, non-personalized ads, or none.
You can reset or delete your advertising ID in your phone's settings (Google → Ads, or Privacy → Ads, depending on the phone).
Ads are set to content suitable for everyone (rating G).

5. Purchases

"Remove ads" is a one-time purchase through Google Play. Google Play handles the payment, and we never see your card or payment details. The app asks Google Play whether your Google account owns "Remove ads" (when the game starts, when you return to it, and when you tap "Restore purchase") and remembers the answer on your phone. If you are signed in, the purchase record in section 2 is also kept on our server. Otherwise we keep no record: the purchase lives in your Google Play account, which is why "Restore purchase" works on a new phone.

6. Who can see what

Other players never see anything about you: Delay Dots has no online play, friends or leaderboards.
Hex Play Studio can see the cloud save and purchase record of signed-in players (section 2), only to run and support the game. Nobody here sees your email or your Google profile.
Service providers that run the game for us process data only for those jobs: UpCloud (hosting our server), Google (sign-in, ads, Google Play). We don't sell or share your data with anyone else.

7. Deleting your data

Your account and cloud save: Settings → Account → Delete account and cloud save, or follow https://delaydots.pages.dev/delete-account.html. This removes your Google account link, your cloud save and any purchase record at once. Server backups are replaced within 30 days.
By email: write to hexplaystudio@gmail.com and we delete the same within 7 days and tell you when it's done.
On your phone: uninstall the app.
Ads data Google keeps: reset or delete your advertising ID (section 4) or use your Google account's settings (https://myaccount.google.com/data-and-privacy).
If you live in the EU or UK you also have the right to access, correct or object to the use of your data. Write to us, and you may also complain to your local data protection authority.

8. Children

Delay Dots is meant for players 13 and older. We don't knowingly collect data from children under 13. If you think a child under 13 has signed in, write to us and we will delete that account.

9. Changes

If this policy changes, we update the date at the top and tell you in the game before the change takes effect.

10. Contact

Hex Play Studio · hexplaystudio@gmail.com · https://hexnyan.com