Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

This Privacy Policy explains how MeanwhileX (“MeanwhileX”, “we”, “us”, “our”) collects, uses, shares and protects information about you.

MeanwhileX is a trade name of Havrylenko Olena Fedorivna FOP, an individual entrepreneur registered in Ukraine, registry number 2596822942, with a registered address at 26/2 Starokostiantynivske Shose, apt. 47, Khmelnytskyi, 29001, Ukraine. We are the data controller responsible for the information described in this policy.

You can reach us at [email protected].

2. Scope of this policy

This policy applies to:

• our mobile games and applications published under the MeanwhileX name (the “Games”);
• this website at meanwhilexgames.com;
• our player support and business correspondence.

It does not apply to third-party services that our Games or website link to or integrate with. Those services are governed by their own privacy policies, and we list the main ones in section 4.

3. Information we collect

3.1 Information you give us

• Support correspondence. If you email us, we receive your email address, the contents of your message, and any attachments or diagnostic details you choose to include.
• Optional in-game input. Where a Game lets you set a display name, avatar or similar, we store what you enter. Please do not include personal details in a public display name.

3.2 Information collected automatically

When you use our Games, certain information is collected automatically by us or by the third-party SDKs we integrate:

• Device and app information — device model, operating system version, language, region, screen characteristics, app version and app package name.
• Identifiers — the Android Advertising ID (AAID), the Google Play Services App Set ID, and randomly generated installation identifiers used to distinguish one installation from another.
• Approximate location — derived from your IP address at country or region level, for content availability, ad delivery and compliance. We do not collect precise GPS location.
• Gameplay and usage data — session starts and lengths, levels reached, in-game progress and events, feature usage, and settings you change.
• Diagnostics — crash logs, stack traces, error reports and basic performance metrics.
• Purchase records — where a Game offers in-app purchases, Google Play processes the transaction and provides us with a purchase token, product identifier and order status. We never receive or store your full payment card details.

3.3 Information we do not collect

We do not collect your real name, postal address, precise location, contacts, calendar, photos, microphone or camera input, health data, biometric data, SMS or call logs.

4. Third-party services

Our Games may integrate the following third-party services, each of which processes data under its own privacy policy:

5. How we use information

• to operate, deliver and maintain the Games;
• to save your progress and restore it across sessions;
• to process and validate in-app purchases;
• to diagnose crashes, fix bugs and improve performance and stability;
• to understand in aggregate how our Games are used, so we can improve design and balance;
• to serve advertising and measure its performance, where a Game shows ads;
• to respond to your support requests and correspondence;
• to detect, prevent and investigate fraud, cheating, abuse and security incidents;
• to comply with legal obligations and enforce our Terms of Service.

We do not sell your personal information for money. See section 13 for how US state privacy laws treat advertising-related sharing.

6. Legal bases (EEA / UK)

If you are in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, we process personal data on these legal bases under the GDPR:

• Contract (Art. 6(1)(b)) — to provide the Game you chose to install and play, including saving progress and processing purchases.
• Legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f)) — to keep our Games secure and working, diagnose crashes, prevent fraud and cheating, and understand aggregate usage. We balance these interests against your rights and use the least intrusive data that achieves the purpose.
• Consent (Art. 6(1)(a)) — for personalised advertising and any non-essential analytics. Where consent is required we ask for it through a compliant consent flow before collection, and you can withdraw it at any time in the Game’s privacy settings.
• Legal obligation (Art. 6(1)(c)) — to meet tax, accounting and other statutory requirements.

7. Advertising and your choices

Our Games do not currently show advertising. If a Game becomes ad-supported in future, advertising partners may use the Android Advertising ID and related signals to select ads and measure their performance, including personalised (interest-based) ads where permitted and where you have consented. This section describes the controls you will have in that case.

You have several controls:

• Reset or delete your advertising ID. On Android: Settings → Google → Ads. You can reset the identifier or delete it entirely, which prevents apps from using it to personalise ads.
• Opt out of personalised ads. Use the same Android Ads settings screen, or the in-game privacy settings where we provide them. You will still see ads, but they will be non-personalised.
• Withdraw consent. Where we collected consent through a consent management platform, you can reopen that dialog from the Game’s settings screen and change your choice.
• Buy an ad-free option, where a Game offers one.

8. Children’s privacy

Our Games are directed to a general audience and are not intended for children under 13, or the equivalent minimum age of digital consent in your country. They are not listed in the Google Play Families programme, and we do not design, market or age-rate them for children.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under that age. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child without verifiable parental consent, we will delete it promptly. A parent or guardian who believes their child has provided us with personal information should contact [email protected] and we will remove it.

9. How we share information

We share information only in these circumstances:

• Service providers — the providers listed in section 4, who process data on our behalf or as independent controllers for the purposes described there.
• Advertising partners — where a Game shows ads, as described in section 7.
• Legal and safety — where we are required to by law, or where disclosure is reasonably necessary to investigate fraud or abuse, enforce our terms, or protect the rights and safety of players or the public.
• Business transfers — if our business or its assets are merged, acquired or reorganised, information may transfer as part of that transaction. We will notify you and this policy will continue to apply until it is replaced.

We do not share your personal information with anyone else for their own marketing.

10. Data retention

We keep information only as long as we need it for the purposes described in this policy:

• Crash and diagnostic data — up to 90 days.
• Analytics event data — up to 14 months, then deleted or aggregated so it can no longer identify an installation.
• Support correspondence — up to 24 months after the request is resolved.
• Purchase and tax records — for as long as Ukrainian accounting and tax law requires.

Retention periods for data held by third-party providers are governed by their own policies and our configuration of their services.

11. International transfers

We are based in Ukraine, and our service providers operate globally, including in the United States and the European Union. This means your information may be processed outside your country of residence. Where we transfer personal data out of the EEA or the UK, we rely on appropriate safeguards, including the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses and, where applicable, the EU adequacy decision covering Ukraine.

12. Security

We use technical and organisational measures appropriate to the risk, including encryption in transit (HTTPS/TLS), access controls and multi-factor authentication on the accounts that administer our Games, and collecting the minimum data necessary. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.

13. Your rights

13.1 If you are in the EEA, the UK or Ukraine

You have the right to:

• access the personal data we hold about you;
• have inaccurate data corrected;
• have your data erased;
• restrict or object to processing, including profiling for advertising;
• receive your data in a portable, machine-readable format;
• withdraw consent at any time, without affecting processing already carried out;
• lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority.

13.2 If you are a US resident

Depending on your state (including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, Texas and others), you may have the right to know what personal information we collect, to request its deletion or correction, to obtain a copy, and to opt out of targeted advertising. We will not discriminate against you for exercising these rights.

We do not sell personal information for monetary consideration. However, the use of advertising identifiers to serve personalised ads may qualify as “sharing” for cross-context behavioural advertising under the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended. You can opt out at any time using the controls in section 7, or by emailing [email protected].

13.3 How to exercise your rights

Email [email protected] with the name of the Game, your device platform, and — if you have it — your in-game or installation identifier, which you can usually find in the Game’s settings screen. We need enough information to locate your records; without an identifier we may not be able to link any data to you, which is itself a privacy protection. We respond within 30 days, and will tell you if we need longer.

14. Deleting your data

To request deletion of the data associated with your installation or in-game account, email [email protected] with the subject line “Data deletion request”, naming the Game and including your in-game or installation identifier. Full instructions are on our data deletion page.

We delete the requested data within 30 days, except where we are legally required to retain records — for example, purchase records kept for tax purposes. Uninstalling a Game removes locally stored data from your device but does not by itself delete data already held by us or our providers.

15. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as our Games evolve or as the law changes. We will revise the “Last updated” date above, and for material changes we will give notice in the affected Game or on this website before the change takes effect. Continuing to use our Games after a change means you accept the updated policy.

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