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Privacy Policy

Effective date: 2 October 2026

• Developer / data controller: Nihayet Karakaş (individual developer)
• Contact: dev.nkrks@gmail.com
• Application: Pocket Salvager / Cep Hurdacısı
• Android package and iOS bundle identifier: xyz.pocketsalvager.app

This policy explains how information is handled when you use Pocket Salvager. The game offers offline, single-player play. An internet connection may be needed for advertising, purchases, or opening external support and privacy pages. You do not need to create a Pocket Salvager account to play.

1. Game progress stored on your device

The game stores progress and preferences locally, including your coin balance, fuel and refill times, equipment, discoveries, expedition state, language, sound, vibration, notification and animation settings, and whether you own No Ads. Local records also help prevent the same reward or purchase from being credited more than once.

We do not operate a custom account server, and the game does not offer its own cloud save, synchronization or restore feature. Your game progress, including your coin balance and any coins you purchased, is stored only on your device. Your device's or operating system's own backup services may include application data depending on your Apple or Google account and backup settings. Such backups are controlled by the platform, and we cannot guarantee that they will restore game progress.

If you allow notifications, the game schedules reminders on your device (for example when your fuel is full or your daily reward is ready). They are created and shown by your device's operating system; no push server is used and no notification data is sent to us. You can turn them off in the game's settings or in your device settings.

Deleting the application, clearing its data, resetting the device, or losing or replacing the device may permanently remove your progress and coin balance, including purchased coins. Progress cannot be transferred between devices or between iOS and Android. Because we do not hold a copy of your game data, we cannot restore lost progress or coin balances.

2. Advertising

The game uses Google AdMob / Google Mobile Ads to provide full-screen ads between expeditions and optional rewarded ads. A rewarded ad can provide one unit of fuel when the ad service confirms that the reward has been earned. The game remains playable offline when ads are unavailable. If you buy No Ads, full-screen ads between expeditions stop; the optional rewarded ad for fuel stays available and is shown only when you choose it.

Google and its service providers may process information such as an IP address, approximate location inferred from that address, device or app identifiers, advertising interactions, and diagnostic or performance information. They use this information for ad delivery, measurement, service operation and fraud prevention. The game does not request GPS location permission for these purposes.

Ad processing depends on your location, consent choices, device settings and the services available on your device. Where required, a consent message is provided before ads are requested. If applicable, you can revisit your choices through the ad privacy options in the game's Settings. Choosing not to allow personalized advertising does not necessarily prevent all advertising or all processing needed for limited advertising and security.

On iOS, access to the advertising identifier or tracking requiring Apple's permission is subject to the system's tracking rules. On Android, you can manage the advertising identifier and related privacy controls in device settings.

For Google's practices, see Google Privacy Policy and How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.

3. In-app purchases

When coin packs or No Ads are purchased, payment is processed by Apple App Store or Google Play. We do not receive your full payment-card details or banking credentials.

The application may receive and retain information needed to process the purchase, such as the product identifier, transaction identifier or purchase token, transaction status, receipt or verification information, and the coin amount credited. These records are used to deliver purchases, avoid duplicate delivery, investigate purchase problems, and handle applicable corrections or refunds.

Store providers process purchase and account information under their own policies. Coins are consumable: once delivered, they become part of the local coin balance described in Section 1. The game has no "restore purchases" function for coins, and neither the game nor a store's restore function can bring back coins that were spent or lost together with local game data. Refund requests are handled by Apple or Google under their own policies. No Ads is a one-time, non-consumable purchase linked to your Apple or Google account: the game checks it with the store at start-up and you can use RESTORE in the store screen, including on a new device signed in to the same store account. If a completed purchase was not delivered to the game, contact us with your order reference.

See Apple Privacy Policy and Google Privacy Policy.

4. Support communications

If you contact us, we receive the information you choose to send, such as your email address, message, screenshots, device details, or an order reference. We use it to respond, investigate the issue and keep necessary support records. Please do not send passwords, full card numbers or unrelated sensitive information.

5. Purposes and legal grounds

We handle information as needed to provide the game, save your settings and progress, deliver purchases and rewards, respond to support requests, protect against duplicate transactions or fraud, and comply with applicable obligations.

Where applicable law requires a legal basis, this may include performing the service you request, legitimate interests in operating and protecting the service, compliance with legal obligations, and your consent for activities that require it. You may withdraw consent through the available controls; withdrawal does not change the lawfulness of processing that took place before withdrawal.

6. Service providers and international processing

Advertising and store services may process information outside your country. Their privacy policies explain their processing locations, retention practices and safeguards. We may also use an email service to handle support communications. We do not publish player profiles, provide a public leaderboard or offer a social messaging feature.

We do not sell local game-save files. Advertising-related sharing and any rights that apply to it depend on the applicable law and the ad provider's processing; consult the available privacy choices and contact us with questions.

7. Retention and deletion

Local progress normally remains on your device until application data is removed or replaced. Platform backups may remain separately under your platform settings. Advertising and store providers retain their records according to their policies and applicable requirements.

We retain support and transaction-related records only as long as reasonably needed for their purpose, to resolve disputes or to meet applicable obligations. We do not state a fixed retention period for data controlled by Apple or Google.

You can delete local game data through your device's application controls or by removing the application. This permanently removes your progress and coin balance, including purchased coins, and we cannot restore them. Deleting local data does not necessarily remove store purchase history, platform backups or records held by advertising providers. Use the relevant provider's privacy controls or contact the provider for those records.

8. Your privacy rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete or obtain a copy of personal information, object to or restrict processing, withdraw consent, or complain to a data-protection authority. Contact dev.nkrks@gmail.com to make a request concerning information we control.

Because the game does not require an account, we may not be able to identify a local game save or a third-party advertising record from your name or email alone. We may request information reasonably necessary to locate the record and verify the request. We will explain if a request must be directed to Apple, Google or another provider.

9. Children

The game does not ask players to provide a name, email address or date of birth within gameplay. Pocket Salvager is intended for players aged 13 and over and is not directed at children under 13. Ads are limited to content suitable for a broad audience (PG). Where you consent, ads may be personalized; on iOS this also requires your permission under Apple's App Tracking Transparency, and on Android you can reset or delete the advertising ID in device settings. Before any purchase the game asks a simple arithmetic question, so that young children do not buy by accident. Parents and guardians can also use their device's advertising and purchase restrictions. If you believe a child under 13 has provided personal information to us through support, contact dev.nkrks@gmail.com so we can review and delete it.

10. Security and changes to this policy

We use measures appropriate to the local game and its service integrations, but no device, storage method or internet service can be guaranteed completely secure. Keep your device protected and use the platform's account-security controls.

We may update this policy when features, providers or requirements change. The effective date at the top identifies the current version. Where required, material changes will be communicated through an appropriate notice or renewed consent.

11. Contact

For privacy or purchase-support questions, contact Nihayet Karakaş (individual developer) at dev.nkrks@gmail.com and mention “Pocket Salvager”.