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What the Android app, this website and the browser game each store, where it is kept, and what (if anything) leaves your device.

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Application
Tic Tac Toe for Android
Package name
com.shahbaz.tictactoe
Developer
Syed Shahbaz Hussain
Contact
support@syedshahbazhussain.com
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Summary

Tic Tac Toe does not collect personal data. The Android app makes no network requests and contains no analytics, no crash-reporting service and no advertising. It stores three settings on your device and nothing else. This website keeps your display preferences in your own browser. It sets no cookies and loads nothing from a third party. There are no accounts, so nothing needs signing up for and nothing needs deleting.

This policy covers three separate things, which behave differently. Each has its own section:

1. What the app collects

Nothing. The application collects no personal data and no usage data of any kind. It contains no analytics library, no crash-reporting service, no advertising network and no telemetry. It never asks for a name, an email address, a phone number, a location or any other identifier, because it has no use for one and nowhere to send one.

This matches the Data safety declaration on the Google Play listing, which states that no data is collected and no data is shared with third parties.

Network access

The application makes no network requests. Your opponent is calculated on your device and your settings are stored on your device, so nothing needs contacting. That is why the game plays identically in aeroplane mode.

What is stored on your device

Three preferences, saved locally so the game opens the way you left it:

Nothing else is written. Scores are counted for the round series you are currently playing and cleared when you leave the match. They are never saved.

Permissions

The application requests no runtime permissions: no storage, no camera, no microphone, no location, no contacts, no phone state. It also explicitly blocks the media-playback foreground-service permission that it would otherwise inherit from its audio library, having no need to play audio in the background.

Purchases, ads and notifications

The application contains no billing code and no in-app purchases, so it never handles payment information. It shows no advertising. It sends no notifications, and contains no notification permission or scheduling code.

What Google Play does independently

Google Play itself records installs, uninstalls and, on supported devices, crash and performance data for every Android application, this one included. That happens at the platform level. It is not something this application requests, receives or can switch off, and it is governed by Google's privacy policy , not by this one.

2. Data retention and deletion

Because nothing is collected, there is nothing held about you to retain or delete. The three settings above live only on your own device, for as long as the app is installed. Uninstalling removes them immediately and completely. You do not need to contact anyone and there is no request process, because no copy exists anywhere else.

You can also clear them without uninstalling, through your device's Settings → Apps → Tic Tac Toe → Storage → Clear data. The game then starts again from its defaults.

For data held in your browser by this website, see section 3. Clearing site data for this domain removes all of it.

3. This website

Cookies

This site sets no cookies of its own. In the default configuration nothing needs consenting to, which is why you see no cookie banner.

Local storage

Your colour theme is saved in your browser's local storage under the key tictactoe:web-theme, so the site opens in the theme you chose. This value never leaves your browser. Clearing your browsing data for this site removes it, and the site works normally without it. You simply get the theme your operating system prefers.

Server logs

This site is a set of static files served by a hosting provider. Like essentially every web server, that provider records standard request logs (IP address, timestamp, requested URL, user agent) for delivery and security purposes. We do not control the retention period of those logs and do not use them to build any profile of you.

Analytics

This site runs no analytics, no tracking pixels, no advertising and no third-party scripts. Every font, image, sound and script is served from this site's own domain, so loading a page does not tell any other company that you were here.

4. The browser game

The game at /play/ runs entirely in your browser. Your moves are never transmitted anywhere. The opponent is calculated locally, using the same code that ships inside the Android application.

What it stores

One entry in your browser's local storage, under the key tictactoe:web-prefs, holding:

It is stored so a refresh does not lose your game. It is not transmitted, not readable by us, and not shared with anyone. Clearing site data removes it, and the game still works without it, simply starting from the defaults each visit.

Device features

Where your browser supports it, the game asks the device to vibrate briefly when you place a mark. That is a one-way instruction to the hardware. No data is read from your device and nothing is sent anywhere. It can be switched off in the game's own controls.

5. Children's privacy

Tic Tac Toe is suitable for all ages and is rated Rated for 3+ on Google Play. It collects no personal information from anyone, and therefore none from children. It has no accounts, no chat, no user-generated content, no social features, no advertising and no in-app purchases.

The application follows the Google Play Families Policy. It does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13, and since it collects nothing at all there is no mechanism by which it could. If you believe a child has somehow provided personal data through this application, contact us using the details in section 10 and we will investigate.

6. Data security

The strongest available security measure is not holding data in the first place, and that is the approach taken here. Your settings and scores stay on your own device, protected by its storage sandbox, and are never transmitted.

This website is served over HTTPS. No method of electronic storage or transmission is completely secure and absolute security cannot be guaranteed, but there is no personal data in transit or at rest for anyone to lose.

7. Data shared with third parties

None. No data from the application, this website or the browser game is sent to any third party.

Pages on this site link to the Google Play Store so you can install the app. Once you follow that link Google's own privacy policy applies. We have no involvement in and no visibility of what happens there.

8. Your rights

Data protection law, including the GDPR and the UK GDPR, gives you rights to access, correct, export and erase personal data held about you. We hold none, so there is nothing to access, correct, export or erase.

Everything described in this policy sits on your own device and can be removed at any time by clearing the app's storage, uninstalling the app, or clearing site data in your browser. No request to us is required.

Should you want written confirmation that no data is held about you, ask and we will provide it.

9. Changes to this policy

If the application or this website begins handling data differently, this page will be updated before the change is released, and the effective date at the top will change with it. Material changes will also be reflected in the Data safety section of the Google Play listing.

The analytics section above is generated from this site's actual build configuration, so it describes what is deployed rather than what was intended.

10. Contact

This policy covers the Tic Tac Toe website and the Android application com.shahbaz.tictactoe, developed and published by Syed Shahbaz Hussain.

Questions about privacy, or a request for written confirmation, can go to support@syedshahbazhussain.com. See also the support page.

The application's Google Play listing, including its Data safety declaration, is at play.google.com .