Geo-Agrar Tycoon
Privacy Policy
1. Controller
Fabio Amberger
Emmentalstrasse 28
3510 Konolfingen, Switzerland
Email: [email protected]
2. In short
Geo-Agrar Tycoon is a single-player game without user accounts. I do not run a server for the game and I do not receive any personal data from you. Save games, your player profile (jewels, Pro version, purchase records, counters for reward videos), your settings and cached map data are stored only on your device. If you delete the app or its data, they are gone.
The app only processes personal data where it contacts services of other providers, listed in sections 3 to 5. The app does not use your device location and does not access contacts, photos or files.
3. Map data from OpenStreetMap
When you search for a place or load map data for a new farm or a map expansion, the app sends requests to these services:
- Nominatim (place search) of the OpenStreetMap Foundation, St John’s Innovation Centre, Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WS, United Kingdom. Your search text and the technical details below are transmitted. Privacy: osmfoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy
- Overpass servers (map data of the chosen area), one of these depending on availability: overpass.private.coffee (Private.coffee, association in Austria, privacy), overpass.openstreetmap.fr (OpenStreetMap France, association in France, openstreetmap.fr) and overpass-api.de (FOSSGIS e.V., Germany, fossgis.de). The coordinates of the map area and the technical details below are transmitted.
Technical details sent with every request: your IP address, the game language (for place names) and an app identifier (“GeoAgrarTycoon/version” with the contact address above, not linked to you). The coordinates come from the place you choose yourself, not from your device location. The app stores the answers on your device so it does not have to ask again. How long the providers keep their server logs is stated in their privacy notices.
Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR (the game feature you use).
Map data is available under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors (openstreetmap.org/copyright).
4. Purchases through Google Play
In-app purchases (Pro version, jewels, gold coins) are processed by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, through Google Play. I do not receive your payment details. The app receives a purchase confirmation from Google Play (product, order number, signed receipt) and stores the order number on your device so that no purchase is credited twice. At start-up the app asks Google Play whether you own the Pro version, so it comes back after a reinstall. Google’s privacy policy: policies.google.com/privacy
For purchases the app uses the Unity In-App Purchasing library by Unity Technologies. In connection with purchases and restoring them, it sends data to Unity: purchase and transaction data (product, price, order number, receipt), player, installation and session identifiers, device details (model, Android version, language, region), technical diagnostic and performance data (e.g. crash reports) and the country derived from the IP address. Unity uses this data to process purchases, detect duplicates and show me revenue reports, acting on my behalf. For its own purposes such as fraud prevention and accounting, Unity is a controller in its own right. Unity deletes service logs after 30 days. Unity’s privacy policy: unity.com/legal/game-player-and-app-user-privacy-policy
Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR (processing your purchase) and Art. 6(1)(f) (protection against fraud and double credits).
5. Optional reward videos (Google AdMob)
The game only shows advertising when you start a video yourself in exchange for a reward. Only then does the app start the advertising service Google AdMob (Google Ireland Limited).
- Consent: Before the first video the game asks for your consent through Google’s consent dialog (User Messaging Platform) where the law of your country requires it (e.g. EU/EEA, United Kingdom, Switzerland). Without consent Google only shows limited, non-personalised ads or none. You can change your choice at any time in the game: Shop → “Ad privacy”.
- Data processed: among others your device’s advertising ID, IP address, device and app details, interactions with the ad and the approximate location derived from the IP address. Google uses them to deliver and measure ads, to detect fraud and – only with your consent – to personalise ads.
- Legal basis: your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR) for personalised ads and access to your device, otherwise Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (funding the game through optional videos).
- You can reset or delete the advertising ID in the Android settings (Google → Ads).
- Google’s privacy information on advertising: policies.google.com/technologies/ads
6. Transfers abroad
The services named above are based in Ireland (Google), Austria, France and Germany (Overpass servers), the United Kingdom (Nominatim) and the USA (Google, Unity, Cloudflare). Switzerland and the European Commission have recognised an adequate level of data protection for the EU countries and the United Kingdom. According to their own statements, Google, Unity and Cloudflare safeguard processing in the USA through the Swiss-U.S. or EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework or through standard contractual clauses.
7. No analytics or tracking services
The app contains no analytics or tracking tools of its own. Unity Analytics, Cloud Diagnostics and Performance Reporting are switched off. In the Google Play Console I only see aggregated statistics (e.g. installs, crashes) that are not linked to individual people.
8. This website
These pages are hosted on my own server in Switzerland. When you open them, the server processes your IP address and technical details (time, requested page, browser) to deliver the page. My server does not store access logs. The website itself sets no cookies, loads nothing from other servers and contains no analytics tools.
For protection against attacks and fast delivery, requests pass through the network of Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. Cloudflare processes your IP address and the technical details of the request on my behalf and may set a strictly necessary cookie to fend off attacks. Cloudflare’s privacy policy: cloudflare.com/privacypolicy
Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (secure and reliable provision of the website).
9. Children
The game is intended for teenagers aged 16 and over and for adults.
10. Your rights
You have the right of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability and objection (Art. 25–32 FADP, Art. 15–21 GDPR) and the right to withdraw consent at any time with effect for the future. To do so, write to [email protected]. I do not store any data about you myself; I forward requests about the purchase data Unity processes on my behalf to Unity. For data that Google or the map services control themselves, it is best to contact them directly. In Switzerland you can lodge a complaint with the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC), in the EU with the data protection supervisory authority of your country.
11. Changes
I update this policy when the app or the services it uses change. The version published here applies.