Privacy Policy
This policy applies to the iOS version of Marble Shooter: Zuma Blast published by NextThings. The app does not require account registration or login.
1. Overview
Marble Shooter: Zuma Blast is a casual marble puzzle game. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect information when you install or use the iOS app, including gameplay, optional in-app purchases, advertising, analytics, crash reporting, and support.
2. Information We Collect
The app does not ask you to create an account and does not require you to provide a name, email address, phone number, contacts, photos, camera access, microphone access, or precise location to play the game.
Depending on how you use the app, we and our service providers may process the following categories of information:
- Device and app information: device model, iOS version, app version, language, region, network status, IP address, identifiers for app functionality, and diagnostic information.
- Gameplay information: level progress, virtual item balances, booster use, reward status, settings, session activity, and game events used to improve gameplay and stability.
- Advertising information: ad requests, ad impressions, clicks, rewarded ad completion, ad error information, approximate location derived from IP address, and advertising identifiers where permitted.
- Purchase information: product identifiers, purchase status, transaction status, and entitlement delivery information for optional in-app purchases handled through Apple StoreKit.
- Support information: information you choose to send us if you contact support, such as your email address, device model, iOS version, app version, screenshots, or a description of the issue.
3. In-App Purchases
Optional in-app purchases are processed by Apple through StoreKit and the App Store. We do not receive your payment card number, bank account details, or full Apple ID credentials. Apple may provide purchase and transaction status information to the app so that purchased items can be delivered, restored, and supported.
4. Advertising and Tracking Choices
The app may display banner, interstitial, and rewarded advertisements. Ads may be delivered through Google AdMob directly and through TopOn mediation. Advertising providers may process device information, IP address, advertising identifiers, ad interaction data, and diagnostics to deliver ads, measure performance, prevent fraud, frequency-cap ads, and comply with legal obligations.
On iOS, the app may request permission through Apple's App Tracking Transparency framework before accessing the Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA) or using data for tracking as defined by Apple. If you deny permission, the app will not access the IDFA for tracking. You can change this choice later in iOS Settings > Privacy & Security > Tracking.
You may still see ads after denying tracking permission, but those ads may be less personalized.
5. Analytics, Crash Reporting, and Remote Configuration
The app may use Firebase Analytics, Firebase Crashlytics, and Firebase Remote Config. These services help us understand aggregate gameplay patterns, monitor crashes and technical stability, diagnose bugs, measure ad and purchase flows, and configure non-sensitive game behavior. Crash reports may include device information, app version, operating system information, logs, and stack traces related to the crash.
6. How We Use Information
We use the information described in this policy to:
- Operate the game and deliver core gameplay features.
- Process, deliver, and restore optional in-app purchases.
- Show ads, including rewarded ads chosen by the player.
- Measure game performance, ad performance, and purchase flow reliability.
- Detect, prevent, and troubleshoot crashes, fraud, abuse, and technical issues.
- Respond to support requests and improve the app.
- Comply with legal, platform, tax, accounting, and App Store requirements.
7. Service Providers
We use third-party services to operate parts of the app. These providers may process information according to their own privacy policies and platform terms:
- Apple: App Store distribution, StoreKit in-app purchases, refunds, and purchase restoration.
- Google AdMob: advertising delivery, ad measurement, fraud prevention, and ad diagnostics.
- TopOn: advertising mediation, ad delivery coordination, ad reporting, and ad diagnostics.
- Firebase: analytics, crash reporting, diagnostics, and remote configuration.
If additional advertising networks are enabled through mediation in a future version, they may also process advertising-related information for the purposes described in this policy.
8. Data Sharing
We do not sell personal information directly to data brokers. We may share information with service providers listed above to operate the app, deliver purchases, serve ads, measure performance, prevent fraud, provide support, and comply with legal obligations. Advertising-related sharing may be considered tracking or sharing under some privacy laws and Apple policies when it is used to link data across apps or websites owned by other companies.
9. Data Retention
We retain information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy, including operating the app, analytics, crash diagnosis, fraud prevention, legal compliance, dispute resolution, and business records. Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and the service provider processing it.
10. Children's Privacy
The app is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us through support or another channel, contact us and we will take appropriate steps to review and delete it where required.
11. Your Choices and Rights
You can control tracking permission in iOS Settings > Privacy & Security > Tracking. You can manage notifications, if any are introduced in the future, in iOS Settings. You can request access, correction, deletion, or other privacy assistance by contacting us. Some information may be retained where required for fraud prevention, purchase records, legal compliance, or legitimate business purposes.
12. Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect information processed by the app. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.
13. International Processing
The app may be available in multiple regions. Information may be processed in the country or region where you live and in other countries where we or our service providers operate. Data protection laws may differ from those in your location.
14. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make changes, we will update the "Last updated" date above. Continued use of the app after an update means the revised policy applies from the effective date shown.
15. Contact Us
If you have questions, requests, or concerns about this Privacy Policy or the app's data practices, contact us at support@nextthings.com.