Short version: Sneaky Valet has no accounts of its own and never sells information about you. The game shows ads from Google AdMob, which uses your phone's advertising ID and similar data to show and measure ads (in the EU, UK and Switzerland the game asks for your consent first). If you use the leaderboards, Google Play Games keeps your Play Games name and your best scores so other players can see them. The game also sends Google Firebase gameplay statistics (such as which level you played) and crash reports, so we can fix bugs and improve the game; in the EU, the UK and Switzerland the statistics are off. Everything else stays on your phone. On iPhone, the leaderboards use Apple Game Center instead of Google Play Games, the game sends no Firebase statistics or crash reports, and your iPhone asks you before the advertising identifier can be used.
Who makes the game
Sneaky Valet is made by Meusvita Games, one independent developer. You can reach me at hello@meusvitagames.com.
What the game collects
No accounts of our own. There are no forms, no chat and no Meusvita Games account.
Leaderboards (Google Play Games). The game uses Google Play Games for its leaderboards. When you open the game, Play Games signs you in with your Play Games profile (if you have one). At the end of a shift, the cash from that shift is sent to Google Play Games for that level's leaderboard, where Google keeps your best score. Other players can see your Play Games name, avatar and scores, depending on the profile visibility you chose in Play Games. Google also collects analytics and diagnostics data in Play Games to keep it working. The data goes over an encrypted connection (HTTPS). We do not receive your email address or any other personal details. You can delete your Play Games data for this game, or your whole Play Games profile, at play.google.com/games/profile.
Leaderboards on iPhone (Apple Game Center). On iPhone the leaderboards use Apple Game Center. If you are signed in to Game Center, the cash from each shift is sent to Apple for that level's leaderboard, where Apple keeps your best score. Other players can see your Game Center nickname and scores, depending on your Game Center settings. Apple handles this data under its own privacy policy; we do not receive your Apple Account details. You can sign out of Game Center, or change who can see you, in Settings, Game Center.
Billboards. Billboards in the game's town show our other apps (EXPENDR and Pixel Par-fect). They are pictures inside the game: they do not track you and collect nothing.
Ads (Google AdMob). The game shows a full-screen ad when you leave the end-of-shift screen (at most once every 3 minutes), and in the garage you can choose to watch an ad for a free repair. These ads come from Google AdMob. To show and measure ads and to stop ad fraud, the Google Mobile Ads library collects and sends to Google: your phone's advertising ID and app set ID, your IP address (which can show your rough location), how you interact with ads (such as views and taps), and diagnostic information about the app and the ads library. It goes over an encrypted connection (HTTPS). Google uses it as described in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services. We do not receive this data ourselves.
Your consent (EU, UK and Switzerland). If you play in the EU, the UK or Switzerland, the game asks when it starts whether Google may use your data for personalised ads. You can choose Consent, Do not consent, or Manage options; ads still show if you say no, but they are not personalised. To change your choice later, clear the game's storage in your phone's settings (Settings, Apps, Sneaky Valet, Storage) and the question is asked again.
Ads on iPhone. On iPhone, the game asks Apple's question "Allow Sneaky Valet to track your activity across other companies' apps and websites?" once, before the first ad. If you choose Allow, Google AdMob may use your iPhone's advertising identifier (IDFA) for personalised ads. If you choose Ask App Not to Track, the IDFA is not shared and ads are not personalised with it; ads still show. You can change this at any time in Settings, Privacy & Security, Tracking.
Your advertising ID. You can reset or delete your advertising ID at any time in your phone's settings (on most Android phones: Settings, Google, Ads, or Settings, Privacy, Ads). After that, it can no longer be used to show you personalised ads.
Gameplay statistics (Google Analytics for Firebase). Android only. The game sends short notes about what happens in a shift: the level you picked, how the shift ended, the cash and tips you earned, deliveries, garage choices and whether an ad was watched. With each note, Firebase sends a random ID for this install of the game (not your name and not your advertising ID), your phone model, Android version, the game's version, your language and your rough location from your IP address. We use it only to see how the game is played and to make it better; it is never sold and never used for ads. In the EU, the UK and Switzerland these statistics are off. Google keeps them for up to 14 months after you last play.
Crash reports (Firebase Crashlytics). Android only. If the game crashes, Firebase Crashlytics sends a crash report: what went wrong in the code, the last steps in the game before the crash (for example "shift started, level 1"), the game's version, your phone model, Android version and a random ID for this install. Crash reports are sent in every country, because they are how we find and fix crashes. They are kept for 90 days.
How Firebase handles it. Statistics and crash reports go over an encrypted connection (HTTPS) to Google, which processes them for us under the Firebase terms. See Privacy and Security in Firebase.
Settings and progress on your phone. The game saves its settings (such as sound and picture quality), your unlocked levels and your best cash per level in its private storage on your phone. They never leave the phone and are deleted when you uninstall the game.
Delete your Sneaky Valet data
Sneaky Valet (by Meusvita Games) keeps no data about you on any server of its own. Three kinds of data leave your phone: your Google Play Games leaderboard data (your Play Games name, avatar and your best cash per level), the ad data the Google Mobile Ads library sends to Google, and the gameplay statistics and crash reports sent to Google Firebase (all described above). To stop ad data being linked to you, delete or reset your advertising ID in your phone's settings; Google's own controls are at myadcenter.google.com. To delete your leaderboard data:
Find Sneaky Valet in your games and choose to delete its data. This removes your scores from the Sneaky Valet leaderboards.
To remove everything Play Games keeps about you, delete your Play Games profile there instead.
On iPhone, your leaderboard scores are kept by Apple in Game Center: sign out of Game Center in Settings, Game Center, or ask Apple to delete your data at privacy.apple.com.
Gameplay statistics and crash reports carry only a random install ID, never your name or contact details, so we cannot match them to you. They are deleted automatically: statistics up to 14 months after you last play, crash reports after 90 days. Uninstalling the game stops them.
Deleted: your Sneaky Valet scores and game data in Play Games. Kept by Google: your Google account and anything your Play Games profile holds for other games, until you delete those too. The settings and progress saved on your phone are removed when you uninstall the game. Need help? Write to hello@meusvitagames.com.
Google Play and the App Store
You download the game from Google Play, which has its own privacy policy, or on iPhone from the App Store, which has Apple's privacy policy. Google may share crash reports and install numbers with developers. These do not include your name or contact details.
Children
Sneaky Valet is not made for children under 13 and does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children.
Changes
If a future version adds anything else that uses data (for example a new service from another company), this policy will be updated before that version is released, and the date at the top will change with it.