Effective date: September 28, 2026
Picolin is a puzzle and virtual-pet game developed by Paulo Roberto Tessarolli Junior (“I”, “me”, or “the developer”). This policy explains how information is handled in Picolin and on this policy website.
Privacy contact: paulortesjr@gmail.com
Picolin does not require a player account. It saves puzzle progress, coins, pets and their names, items, room arrangements, preferences, and reward records locally on your device. These records support gameplay, restore progress, and prevent duplicate ad rewards. The game does not upload your save file or pet names to a developer-operated server. There is no developer-operated cloud-save or separate gameplay-analytics service in this version.
Your operating system may include app data in a device backup according to your device and cloud-backup settings. Picolin does not request access to your contacts, microphone, camera, or precise GPS location for its gameplay.
Mobile versions may offer optional rewarded advertisements. You choose whether to watch an ad for the benefit shown on its button. Ordinary puzzles, pet care, hints, and restarts remain available without watching an ad.
Picolin uses Unity LevelPlay mediation, including ironSource Ads and Unity Ads, and Google AdMob when those networks are enabled. Google’s User Messaging Platform (UMP) manages applicable consent and privacy-choice messages. Availability depends on the app version, region, network availability, and your choices.
These services may process IP addresses and approximate location inferred from them; device, operating-system, language, and app information; advertising or app/device identifiers when permitted; ad requests, impressions, clicks and reward-completion events; and diagnostic information. They use this information to deliver and measure ads, manage privacy choices, prevent fraud, and, where permitted, personalize advertising. Technical information may also be processed by the Unity game engine and platform services.
Google UMP may contact Google when the app starts to determine which privacy messages apply. Picolin waits for ad-request eligibility before initializing its ad service. Where consent is required, a privacy form is presented before ads are requested. Declining personalized advertising does not remove ordinary gameplay, although an optional ad reward may be unavailable if no eligible ad can be served.
When available, use the privacy choices control in Picolin’s Settings to review or change consent. On iOS, you can also manage tracking permission in system Settings. On Android, use the device’s advertising/privacy settings. Withdrawing consent applies going forward and does not undo processing that was lawful before withdrawal.
Advertising and consent services receive information directly from your device. Ad networks may share it with their service providers, advertisers, measurement partners, and other recipients described in their policies. Picolin does not sell your local gameplay save. Advertising disclosures may qualify as a “sale”, “sharing”, or targeted advertising under some privacy laws; use the applicable privacy choices to opt out where those rights apply.
Read the partners’ notices for their own data practices and privacy-request options:
Unity game-player and app-user privacy policy (including Unity advertising services)
How Google uses information from apps and sites that use its services
If you email me, I receive your email address and anything you choose to include, such as a question, screenshot, or diagnostic report. I use that information to respond, resolve problems, handle privacy requests, and maintain necessary support records. Please do not send passwords, payment details, or information that is unnecessary for your request.
Information is used to provide the game, save progress, deliver requested rewards, maintain security and reliability, support players, and meet legal obligations. Where applicable law requires it, consent is used for advertising storage, identifiers, or personalization. Other processing may rely on providing the service you request, legitimate interests such as security and support, or legal obligations, subject to applicable rights. Advertising partners explain their own legal grounds in their notices.
Local game records remain until you remove the app’s stored data or delete the app, subject to operating-system backup and restore behavior. Removing them can permanently erase your progress. Backups must be managed separately through your device or backup provider. I cannot remotely retrieve or delete a save that exists only on your device.
Support messages are kept only as needed to answer and resolve the request, maintain necessary records, or meet legal obligations. Advertising partners retain their data according to their policies; uninstalling Picolin does not automatically delete records already held by those partners. Appropriate safeguards are used by the services involved, but no storage or transmission method can be guaranteed completely secure.
Depending on your location, you may have rights to information, access, correction, deletion, restriction, portability, objection, and withdrawal of consent, as well as rights concerning targeted advertising or sale/sharing. Brazilian users may exercise applicable LGPD rights and complain to the ANPD. Users elsewhere may contact their relevant data-protection authority. Email the privacy contact above to make a request; I may need proportionate information to verify and locate it. For data held independently by Google or Unity, their linked privacy channels may be the appropriate route.
Google, Unity, and their providers operate internationally, so information may be processed outside your country. Their policies describe applicable transfer arrangements and safeguards.
Picolin is intended for a general audience and is not directed at children. I do not knowingly seek personal information from children through the game or support channel. If you are a parent or guardian and believe a child provided personal information, contact me so I can investigate and address the request.
This page is hosted on Google Sites. Google may process browser, connection, and cookie information when you visit it under its Privacy Policy. I have not added a separate analytics service, advertising, or contact form to this policy site. Links to other services are governed by their own policies.
I may update this policy when the game, its providers, or applicable requirements change. The effective date above identifies the current version. Material changes will be accompanied by additional notice or consent where required.
Developer and privacy contact:
Paulo Roberto Tessarolli Junior
paulortesjr@gmail.com