Effective Date: June 24, 2025
This Privacy Policy describes how Dooge The Car ("we," "our," or "us") collects, uses, and discloses information when you use our mobile game application (the "App"). We are committed to protecting your privacy.
1. Information We Collect
Dooge The Car is a game, and our data collection aims to enhance your gaming experience while respecting your privacy.
1.1 Information You Provide Directly:
Optional Account Information: If you choose to create an account, you might provide a username or email address. This is typically for saving game progress across devices or participating in leaderboards.
Customer Support: If you contact us for support, you may provide your contact information (like an email address) and details about your inquiry.
1.2 Information Collected Automatically:
Device Information: We collect information about the device you use to access the App, including device model, operating system version, unique device identifiers (like advertising IDs), and mobile network information. This helps us ensure compatibility and optimize game performance.
Usage Data: We collect information about how you interact with the App, such as game progress, levels played, scores, in-game purchases (without collecting payment details), features accessed, time spent in the App, and crash reports. This data helps us understand player behavior, improve gameplay, and fix bugs.
IP Address: Your IP address may be collected to determine your general geographic location for purposes such as server optimization, analytics, and ensuring compliance with regional regulations.
Advertising Identifiers: We may collect advertising identifiers (like Google Advertising ID) for advertising and analytics purposes, allowing third-party ad networks to deliver relevant ads and measure ad performance. You can reset these identifiers or opt-out of personalized advertising through your device settings.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for the following purposes:
To Provide and Maintain the App: To operate, deliver, and improve the functionalities of Dooge The Car, including saving game progress, enabling leaderboards, and delivering game content.
To Enhance Your Gaming Experience: To personalize gameplay, offer relevant in-game content, and optimize game performance for your device.
For Analytics and Improvement: To understand and analyze how players use the App, allowing us to improve its design, features, and user experience.
For Communication: To respond to your inquiries, provide customer support, and send you important updates or notifications related to the App.
For Advertising: To show you relevant in-game advertisements and measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns.
To Ensure Security: To detect and prevent fraud, abuse, and other malicious activities within the game.
3. How We Share Your Information
We do not sell your personal information. We may share information with third parties in the following limited circumstances:
Service Providers: We engage third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our App and related services (e.g., analytics providers, advertising partners, cloud hosting providers). These third parties have access to your information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
Analytics Providers: Such as Google Analytics for Firebase, to understand app usage.
Advertising Partners: Such as Google AdMob, to deliver and measure in-game advertisements.
With Your Consent: We may share your information if you give us explicit permission to do so.
For Legal Reasons: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court order or government agency request).
To Protect Our Rights: We may disclose information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, or situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person.
Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your information may be transferred to the acquiring entity.
4. Data Retention and Security
Data Retention: We retain the information we collect for as long as necessary to provide the App's services, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
Security: We implement reasonable security measures designed to protect your information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
5. Your Choices and Rights
Advertising Choices: You can often limit personalized advertising by adjusting the settings on your device (e.g., "Reset advertising ID" or "Opt-out of Ads Personalization" on Android, "Limit Ad Tracking" on iOS).
Device Permissions: You can control the permissions the App has on your device (e.g., storage access) through your device's settings. Restricting certain permissions may affect game functionality.
Data Access and Deletion: Depending on your jurisdiction and the type of data we hold, you may have rights to access, correct, or request deletion of your personal data. Please contact us to exercise these rights.
6. Children's Privacy
Our App is designed for a general audience and is not specifically directed at children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under the age of 13 without verifiable parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.
7. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the new Privacy Policy within the App or on our website and updating the "Effective Date" at the top. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.