Fairy Finder: Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 4, 2026

Fairy Finder collects a small amount of anonymous usage data to help us understand how the game is played, nothing more. There are no accounts, no ads, and no third-party analytics or advertising SDKs, and nothing we collect identifies you personally.

What we collect

With “Share Usage Stats” enabled (it is on by default), the game sends us a short stream of gameplay events:

• App interactions: session starts and gameplay milestones (a fairy rescued, a zone unlocked).
• Diagnostics: if the game hits an error, the file name, line number, error message, and what kind of error it was, so we can fix crashes. Warnings are not reported, and the same fault repeating is sent once rather than over and over.

Each event is tagged with a randomly generated install identifier, a per-session random identifier, the app version, the platform name (e.g. “android”), and a timestamp. The install identifier is minted on your device, is not derived from your device or any account, and is deleted when you uninstall the game.

How the game closed last time

When the game opens, it asks the operating system how it closed the last time: whether it crashed, ran out of memory, or was simply closed by you, whether it was on your screen at the time, roughly how much memory it was using, when it happened, and which version of the game it was. We do this because a game that crashes cannot report its own crash, so the report has to come afterwards, from the system that watched it happen.

It is a single line about the app. It describes nothing you did, contains nothing about you, and is covered by the same opt-out as everything else on this page.

The session’s first event also carries two facts about the phone itself, and no more: roughly how much memory it has, and its operating system version. Those say which devices the game is too heavy for, and which ones can answer the question above at all. Neither is unique to you, and there are millions of phones that would answer both identically.

What we do NOT collect

• No names, email addresses, or accounts.
• No advertising identifier, no device serial numbers.
• No location. Our server does not log or store IP addresses.
• No contacts, photos, files, microphone, or camera: the game never asks for those permissions.
• Nothing is shared with, or sold to, third parties. The data goes to our own self-hosted service and stays there.

How we use it

Aggregate analytics only: how many people play, whether they return, and which parts of the island get explored. The data is not used for advertising, profiling, or any per-person decision, and it is encrypted in transit (HTTPS).

Your choices

• Turn it off: Settings → “Share Usage Stats”. Turning it off stops collection immediately and discards anything queued but not yet sent.
• Reset your identity: a “Reset Analytics ID” control generates a fresh random identifier; data collected before the reset can no longer be associated with your device.
• Deletion requests: email us (below) and we will delete the server-side data for the install identifier you reset or describe.

Local saves

Your game progress is stored in a save file on your own device and never leaves it. Uninstalling the app deletes it.

Children

The game collects the same minimal anonymous data from everyone, and it is never used for advertising or profiling.

Changes

If a future update changes any of the above (for example, adding ads), this policy will be updated before that version ships, and the in-store data-safety section will be revised to match.

This policy was revised on August 16, 2026 to remove the note that collection was not yet switched on: collection has in fact been live since version 0.4.1 shipped on July 29, 2026, and this page carried the note for over two weeks after that. What is collected did not change.