Privacy Policy — Studio Dynasty
Summary
Studio Dynasty is a single-player game. Your saves, settings and progress stay on your device — we never receive them, and there is no account, no login and no game server.
The game is free and is funded by advertising. Advertising is the only part of the game that involves anyone else's data processing. Ad providers collect device identifiers and similar information to show and measure ads. This policy explains exactly what that means, and how to turn personalised advertising off.
We do not sell your personal information for money.Some US state privacy laws define "sale" and "sharing" broadly enough to include advertising like ours, so we treat it as such and give you an opt-out — see Your US state privacy rights.
What the game itself collects
Nothing. All game data — save slots, settings, statistics and progress — is written to local storage on your device and never transmitted. We have no access to it and no copy of it.
The game does not request or access your location, camera, microphone, contacts, photos, or files outside its own storage. There is no analytics SDK, no crash reporting SDK, and no cloud save.
In-app review prompts
After a memorable moment — an awards ceremony, or the end of a studio's run — the game may ask whether you would like to rate it, using Google Play's official In-App Review dialog. That dialog is presented and operated entirely by Google Play. We do not see whether it appeared, whether you reviewed, or what you wrote, and it sends us no personal information. Any review you leave is public on your Play listing under Google's own terms.
Advertising
The game shows three kinds of ad:
- Rewarded ads — always your choice. You watch one only if you tap to, in exchange for an in-game perk. The game can be played from start to finish without ever watching one; no story, level or ending is locked behind them. Two optional conveniences — Rewind credits and Insights — are earned this way, so declining simply means going without those.
- Banner ads — a small ad shown at the top of the film review screen.
- Interstitial ads — occasional full-screen ads at a natural break: a year-end industry report, an awards ceremony, or a studio promotion. Always after you tap to continue, never during play, and never more than once a minute.
Who serves the ads
Ads are served by Google AdMob, which also acts as our mediation layer. Through mediation, ad requests may also be offered to other advertising networks. Depending on the installed app version, region, consent choices, and available demand, supported partners include Unity Ads, Meta Audience Network, and Liftoff Monetize (formerly Vungle). Each network is an independent controller of the data it collects through its own SDK, and processes it under its own privacy policy:
- Google (AdMob) — Google Privacy Policy and AdMob data disclosure
- Unity Ads — Unity Player Privacy Policy
- Meta Audience Network — Meta Privacy Policy and Audience Network data policy
- Liftoff Monetize (formerly Vungle) — Liftoff Privacy Policy and Liftoff opt-out
When Liftoff is eligible to fill an ad request, its Vungle SDK and similar mobile tracking technologies may access device, usage, location and ad-engagement data to select and deliver ads, measure performance, improve its services, and prevent fraud. Liftoff may make an ad request available to programmatic third-party demand partners so they can bid on and deliver an ad. Liftoff maintains the current list of those partners and their privacy policies: Liftoff third-party demand partners.
The current, complete list of advertising partners that may receive data through Google's mediation is maintained by Google and can change. You can review it at any time here: Google's ad technology providers. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, the consent screen described below names these partners and lets you choose per-partner.
What ad providers collect
To serve, cap, measure and protect ads from fraud, ad providers may collect and share:
- Device and other identifiers — your Android Advertising ID (AAID), app set ID, and similar identifiers.
- IP address, and approximate location derived from it — the game never asks for location permission and cannot read your GPS. Ad providers may infer a general (roughly city-level) area from your IP address.
- Ad and app interactions — ad impressions, taps, video views, and app opens.
- Diagnostics — technical performance data such as load times and error rates.
- Device information — device model, operating system version, language and country, and network type.
This data is used for advertising, analytics and ad measurement, and fraud and abuse prevention — the three purposes Google names for the Mobile Ads SDK, and the same three declared on our Play Data safety listing. It is encrypted in transit. We receive only aggregate, non-identifying reports (for example, total impressions and revenue) — we never receive your identifiers.
Personalised vs non-personalised ads
Personalised ads use identifiers and inferred interests to choose which ad to show. Non-personalised adsare chosen from general context instead — though they still use limited data for frequency capping, aggregate reporting and fraud prevention, which is why they are not the same as "no data".
Where the law requires consent, ads are non-personalised unless you consent. You can change your mind at any time — see Your choices and controls.
Legal bases (EEA, UK and Switzerland)
Under the GDPR and UK GDPR we rely on the following legal bases:
- Consent (Art. 6(1)(a)) — for storing or accessing information on your device for advertising, and for personalised advertising. Collected through a Google-certified consent screen and withdrawable at any time.
- Legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f)) — for security, fraud and invalid-traffic prevention, and for aggregate measurement needed to run the app and be paid for it. We have balanced these against your rights; you may object at any time (see Your GDPR rights).
Your choices and controls
In the game
If you are in the EEA, the UK or Switzerland, the game shows a consent screen before any ad loads. You can reopen it at any time from Settings → General → Privacy choices inside the game to change or withdraw your choices. Withdrawing consent is as easy as giving it, and does not affect processing carried out before you withdrew.
The Privacy choices option appears only where the applicable law gives you a choice to revisit. If you do not see it, no consent-based processing is being applied to you, and the device-level controls below still apply.
If you are in a US state whose law provides an opt-out, the same screen offers Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. That choice is stored as a standard IAB privacy signal and applies restricted data processing to Google ad requests. When that signal is present, the game also passes the supported opt-out choice to Unity Ads and Liftoff before mediated ad requests. Provider-specific controls below remain available as well.
On your device
- Android — Settings → Privacy → Ads lets you delete or reset your Advertising ID and opt out of ad personalisation entirely. Deleting the ID stops apps receiving it at all.
- iOS— the game does not currently serve ads on iOS. If that changes, this policy and the App Store privacy details will be updated first, and ads there would additionally depend on Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt, which you can decline and still play.
With the ad providers
- Google — My Ad Center and Google Ads Settings
- Unity — Unity ads may carry a Data Privacy iconon the ad itself, which opens Unity's own opt-out and data-request controls. Whether it appears is Unity's choice, not ours, so you can also use the Unity Player Privacy Policy for their current contact and request routes.
- Liftoff — use the Liftoff opt-out and Liftoff Privacy Policy. Liftoff's demand-partner list above links to each partner's policy.
Opting out of personalisation does not remove ads. It changes how they are chosen.
Your GDPR rights (EEA, UK and Switzerland)
You have the right to:
- Access the personal data held about you
- Rectify inaccurate data
- Erase your data ("right to be forgotten")
- Restrict processing
- Data portability — receive your data in a portable format
- Object to processing based on legitimate interests, and to direct marketing at any time
- Withdraw consent at any time
- Lodge a complaint with your data protection authority
An important practical point: because we hold no identifiers of any kind, we cannot look you up. Requests about advertising data must go to the ad provider that holds it — Google, Unity, Meta or Liftoff (or the applicable Liftoff demand partner) — using the links above. We will help you direct a request if you contact us, and we will respond within one month as the GDPR requires.
EEA residents may complain to their national supervisory authority (list here); UK residents to the ICO.
Your US state privacy rights
If you live in a US state with a comprehensive consumer privacy law — more than twenty states now have one, and more take effect each year — you generally have the right to:
- Know and access what personal information is collected
- Delete personal information
- Correct inaccurate personal information
- Portability — obtain a copy
- Opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information, and of targeted advertising
- Non-discrimination for exercising any of these rights
- Appeal a refused request, where your state provides it
Categories involved
The only category collected through the app is identifiers and internet or network activity — advertising ID, IP address, and ad interactions — collected by the ad providers named above for advertising, measurement and fraud prevention. We do not collect sensitive personal information, and we do not knowingly process the personal information of anyone under 13.
How to opt out
Use Settings → General → Privacy choices in the game and select Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. You may also contact us at support@manpatel.com, and you may use an authorised agent.
Universal opt-out signals
Several states require businesses to honour a universal opt-out signal such as Global Privacy Control (GPC). For users in applicable states, Google may receive a GPC signal directly and apply restricted data processing to those ad requests. If the consent platform stores GPC in an applicable IAB privacy signal, the game also passes the opt-out to the supported Unity Ads and Liftoff privacy APIs before a mediated request.
Android's own ad controls are also honoured: you can turn off ad personalisation or delete your Advertising ID in Settings → Privacy → Ads.
Who receives data, and where it goes
We do not transfer data to anyone, because we do not receive any. The ad providers named above receive data directly through their own SDKs and act as independent controllers. They operate globally and may process data outside your country, including in the United States, under their own transfer safeguards — such as the EU Standard Contractual Clauses and, where applicable, the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. See each provider's privacy policy, linked above, for the detail.
The game is distributed through Google Play. Google may process installation, crash and aggregate usage data under its own policy, independently of us.
Data retention and deletion
We retain nothing, because we receive nothing that identifies you. Aggregate revenue reports contain no personal data.
Game data lives on your device for as long as you keep it. Delete a save slot in the game, or uninstall the app, and it is gone — there is no copy anywhere else.
Data held by ad providers is retained under their own schedules; use their controls above to request deletion.
Security
Game data is stored in the app's private storage area, which the operating system isolates from other apps. Ad traffic is encrypted in transit using TLS. No system is perfectly secure, but because no personal data ever reaches us, there is no server-side store of your information to breach.
Children
Studio Dynasty is intended for players aged 13 and overand is not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13, and the app is not part of Google Play's Designed for Families programme.
Ad content is capped at a teen-appropriate level (AdMob's "T" maximum ad content rating), which permits ads rated G, PG and T and blocks mature-audience ads. If you believe a child under 13 has provided personal information through the app, contact us at support@manpatel.com and we will work with the relevant ad provider to have it deleted.
Changes to this policy
If we change what data is handled, we will update this policy and its effective date, and update our Google Play Data safety declaration, before the change goes live. Material changes affecting your rights will be signalled in the app.
Contact
Manan Patel, trading as Manpat Games
Privacy contact: support@manpatel.com
To exercise any right described above, email us with the subject line "Privacy request" and tell us which right you want to exercise and which state or country you are in. We will respond within the period your law requires — one month under the GDPR, 45 days under most US state laws.