PLUNGEON is a single-player mining game that runs entirely on your device. The app does not collect any personal data: it has no account, no ads and no analytics, and it never connects to the internet. This policy explains exactly what that means, and covers the little personal data we can receive outside the app — for example when you buy the game or email us.
The short version
- No data collectedNothing you do in the app is sent to us or to anyone else.
- Fully offlineThe app makes no network connections at all.
- No accountNo sign-up, no email address, no password.
- No ads · no trackingNo analytics, advertising or tracking code, and no advertising ID.
- No permissionsNo location, camera, microphone, contacts, photos or files.
- Your save stays localYour progress lives only on your device. Uninstalling deletes it.
01Who we are
PLUNGEON is an independent game made and published by Samu Aaltonen and Gábor Horváth-Ulenius (“we”, “us”, “our”). We are responsible for the app and for this policy. Where the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies, we are the data controller for the limited personal data described in sections 05 and 06.
For any privacy question or request, email gausaa.games@gmail.com.
02What this policy covers
This policy covers the PLUNGEON app for Android, distributed through Google Play (package name
com.gausaagames.plungeon), and the iOS version once it is released on Apple’s App Store.
It does not cover:
- The browser version and the rest of this website. PLUNGEON in your web browser (play.plungeon.com) has online features the app does not have, such as a cloud save. The browser version and the rest of the plungeon.com website have their own privacy policy at plungeon.com/privacy-web.
- The app stores themselves. Google and Apple handle your download and purchase under their own policies (see section 05).
- Websites you open from the app (see section 04).
03What stays on your device
To work, the app keeps the following in its private storage on your device:
- Your game save — your progress: depth reached, credits, upgrades, items, trophies and gameplay statistics.
- Your settings — your audio, display, control and accessibility preferences.
- Technical files the game engine creates to run smoothly, such as graphics caches.
None of this contains personal information, and none of it ever leaves your device: the app has no feature that sends it anywhere, and we cannot see it. Android keeps each app’s private storage separate from other apps, and PLUNGEON opts out of Android’s automatic app-data backup, so your save is not copied to your Google account either.
You stay in control of this data. You can delete it at any time by clearing the app’s storage in your device’s settings, or by uninstalling the app. Because we hold no copy, a deleted save cannot be recovered.
The run summary
If you tap COPY on a run card, a short text summary of your run is placed on your device’s clipboard. It goes nowhere unless you paste it somewhere yourself.
04What the app does not do
- It does not connect to the internet or to any server. On Android it does not even request the internet permission.
- It does not collect, sell or share personal data, and it does not read device identifiers or the advertising ID.
- It contains no third-party SDKs — no analytics, crash reporting, advertising or tracking. It is built on the open-source Godot game engine, which collects nothing.
- It asks for no device permissions — no location, camera, microphone, contacts, photos, media or files.
- It has no accounts, chat, user-generated content, in-app purchases or ads.
Links that leave the app
The settings screen links to our web pages, such as this privacy policy. Tapping a link opens your device’s web browser; the app itself still sends nothing. Our website is covered by its own privacy policy at plungeon.com/privacy-web.
05Google Play and the App Store
You download PLUNGEON — and, where it has a price, buy it — through Google Play or, once available, the App Store. Google or Apple processes your account, payment and device information for that purpose under its own privacy policy, as an independent controller. We do not control that processing; see Google’s privacy policy and Apple’s privacy policy.
From the store, we receive only:
- aggregated, anonymous statistics, such as install counts, countries, device models and ratings;
- the sales and refund records stores give developers, such as an order number, date, price and country of purchase — never your payment card details;
- anonymised crash and performance reports, and only if you have allowed your device to share diagnostics with Google or Apple;
- public reviews you choose to post, with the name shown alongside them. We may reply publicly.
We use this information only to run, support and improve the game and to meet our legal obligations. We never combine it with anything from the app — the app sends us nothing.
06If you contact us
If you email us, we receive your email address and whatever you write, and we use them only to reply to you. We delete the conversation once your request is resolved, and at the latest 12 months after our last message — unless we need it longer to deal with a legal claim. Our email is provided by Google (Gmail), so your message is stored on Google’s servers.
07Legal bases (GDPR)
Where the GDPR or the UK GDPR applies, we rely on:
- Sales records — our legal obligations under accounting and tax law (Art. 6(1)(c)).
- Emails you send us — our legitimate interest in answering you (Art. 6(1)(f)).
- Store statistics, crash reports and reviews — our legitimate interest in keeping the game working and improving it (Art. 6(1)(f)).
We do not use anyone’s data for automated decision-making or profiling.
08How long we keep data
- On your device: until you delete it (section 03). We hold no copy.
- Emails: as described in section 06.
- Sales records: for as long as accounting and tax law requires, then deleted.
- Store statistics and reviews: kept by Google or Apple under their own retention rules.
09Where data is processed
Google and Apple — including Gmail, which hosts our email — may process data outside your country, including outside the European Economic Area. They do so under the safeguards they maintain for international transfers, such as the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses.
10Your rights
Depending on where you live — for example under the GDPR in the EU, the EEA and the UK — you have the right to access, correct or delete your personal data, to restrict or object to its processing, to receive it in a portable format, and to withdraw consent at any time. To use any of these rights, email gausaa.games@gmail.com. We reply within one month.
In practice the app collects nothing, so we usually hold no personal data about you at all — whatever is on your device is already under your control. If you believe we have mishandled your data, you can also complain to the data protection authority in your country.
We do not sell personal information, and we do not “share” it for cross-context behavioural advertising, as those terms are used in US state privacy laws such as the California Consumer Privacy Act.
11Children
PLUNGEON collects no personal data from anyone, including children. Because nothing is collected, there is nothing for which a parent’s consent would be needed. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has sent us personal data — for example by email — contact us and we will delete it.
12Security
The safest data is data that is never collected. Because the app transmits nothing, there is no server copy of your play to breach, and on your device your save sits in the app’s private storage, sealed off from other apps. The few records we do hold — emails and sales records — are kept in access-restricted accounts and are not shared with anyone, except where the law requires it.
13Changes to this policy
If a future version of the app changes how it handles data — for example by adding an optional online save or leaderboard — we will update this policy, and the store’s data-safety information, before that version is released. The date at the top of this page always shows the latest revision.
14About this web page
This page uses no cookies, scripts or analytics. Like any website, it is delivered by a hosting provider (Cloudflare) and loads its typefaces from Google Fonts, so both see your IP address and browser details when you open it. The website privacy policy at plungeon.com/privacy-web describes this in more detail.
15Contact
Samu Aaltonen & Gábor Horváth-Ulenius