The short version
Poppa itself collects nothing about you. It has no accounts, no sign-in, no score, no leaderboard, and it does not send anything to any server run by Lynetech. There is no server. Everything the game remembers is stored only on your own device.
Poppa does include two Google services that do process data: Google Mobile Ads (AdMob), which shows the advertisement on the title screen and the optional rewarded advertisement, and Google Play Billing, which handles the optional tips. This policy explains what those do, because that is the honest answer to "what does this app collect".
Who we are
Poppa is published by Lynetech Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales. For anything in this policy, contact info@lynetech.com.
What Poppa stores on your device
Poppa saves a few small files in its own private storage on the device. They never leave it, and they are not personal information — they only record how you have set the app up:
- Your settings, such as whether the pop sound is on, the volume levels, and whether the screen lock is on.
- A marker recording whether the first-run information screen has been shown.
- A marker recording which build you last saw the "what's new" notes for.
- If you leave a tip, the date until which the banner advertisement is switched off.
- A short play history — for each of the last forty goes, when it started, how long it lasted, and how many bubbles were popped. You can read it yourself under Settings → Play history. It exists so a parent can answer "how long has she been on that?", which the app is the only thing that knows.
- A running total of bubbles popped.
Uninstalling Poppa deletes all of it. There is no account to close and nothing for us to delete on our side, because we hold nothing.
What the Google services collect
| Service | What it is for | What it may process |
|---|---|---|
| Google Mobile Ads (AdMob) | The banner advertisement on the title screen, and the optional rewarded advertisement in the Support panel. | Device and advertising identifiers, approximate location derived from an IP address, and interactions with advertisements. Shared with Google as an independent third party. |
| Google Play Billing | Processing an optional tip. | A record of the purchase. Payment details are handled entirely by Google Play — we never see your card or bank details. |
Both are operated by Google under its own terms. See Google's Privacy Policy.
Poppa contains no analytics, no crash reporting, and no push notifications. There is no Firebase, no advertising network other than Google's, and no third-party software development kit beyond the two above.
Children's privacy
We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, of any age, because the app does not collect personal information at all.
Poppa is a bubble toy with nothing to win, and it is simple enough that children may well be among the people playing it. So, whoever is holding the phone, Poppa:
- Tags every advertisement request as child-directed, so advertising is not personalised.
- Limits advertisement content to the "General audiences" rating.
- Offers a screen lock, turned on from a button on the title screen, for when you are passing the phone to somebody else. It stops the app being left accidentally — including through Android's own screen pinning where the device allows it — and puts an adult check in front of every tip and the rewarded advertisement. With it on, the app opens straight into the bubbles, so the one screen carrying an advertisement is never shown.
- Uses a multiplication question for that adult check rather than a press-and-hold, because holding and swiping are things a small child can do by accident.
- Leaves the screen lock off until somebody turns it on, and remembers the choice on the device. Anyone using the app on their own phone is not asked to do arithmetic to reach their own settings.
If you believe a child has provided personal information through Poppa, contact info@lynetech.com and we will look into it — though, as above, the app has no route by which that could happen.
Your choices about advertising
Where privacy law requires it, Poppa shows Google's consent form before advertising is initialised, and — where Google indicates it is required — the app offers a way to revisit that choice later from within the game. You can also manage advertisement personalisation and reset your advertising identifier through your device's own Android settings.
Leaving a tip switches the banner advertisement off for thirty days. That is a convenience, not a data setting: it changes what the app shows you, not what Google's advertising software does.
Purchases
Tips in Poppa are optional and consumable. They exist to support development; they do not unlock gameplay, because there is nothing in Poppa to unlock. Purchases are processed by Google Play, and refunds follow Google Play's own policy. Because tips are consumable, the record of one is not retained by Google Play as a restorable entitlement — so reinstalling the app or moving to a new device ends any remaining advertisement-free period.
Data transfers, retention and rights
We hold no personal data about you, so there is nothing for us to transfer, retain, or delete. Data processed by Google under the services above is retained and transferred according to Google's own policies, which are linked from its privacy policy.
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete or restrict the processing of personal information held about you. Requests relating to data processed by Google should be directed to Google. For anything relating to Lynetech Ltd, contact info@lynetech.com.
Changes to this policy
If Poppa changes in a way that affects this policy, we will update this page and change the date at the top. The current version is always the one published here.