Privacy Policy — Pawn Shop Tycoon
Last updated: 2 August 2026
This policy explains how Pawn Shop Tycoon (the “App”), provided by AresDev, processes personal data and the choices available to users.
1. Controller and contact
AresDev is the controller for personal data it processes for the App’s own purposes. The published developer details are shown on the App’s Google Play listing.
Contact and data requests: aressdevo@gmail.com
Google provides AdMob, Google Play, Play Games, Firebase Authentication and Firestore under its own terms. Depending on the service and purpose, Google may act as a processor or a separate controller.
2. Data processed and purposes
| Data category | Source | Purpose | Service |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advertising ID, IP address and IP-based approximate location, device/app information, ad and app interactions, diagnostics | Automatically by the advertising SDK | Ad delivery and measurement, frequency controls, diagnostics and fraud prevention | Google AdMob and User Messaging Platform |
| Product purchased, price/currency, purchase status, transaction or purchase token | Google Play | Deliver and restore purchases, apply refunds and prevent duplicate delivery | Google Play Billing; limited transaction record in the App save |
| Google UID, email address and/or display name | Only when you sign in with Google | Recognize the account, display sign-in status and connect the correct cloud save | Firebase Authentication / Google Sign-In |
| Game progress and settings, which may include achievements, inventory, virtual currency, purchase entitlements and a limited list of processed purchase tokens | Stored on-device first; uploaded to Firestore only when you sign in to cloud save | Save the game, continue across devices and prevent save conflicts | Device storage and optional Cloud Firestore |
| Play Games player ID and achievement status | When Play Games is used | Provide Play Games achievements | Google Play Games Services |
| Email address and information you voluntarily include in a support or data request | Directly from you | Respond, verify identity and meet legal obligations | AresDev email support |
The App does not use a separate third-party analytics or crash-reporting product such as Firebase Analytics or Crashlytics. Google Mobile Ads may nevertheless process interaction and diagnostic data required for its advertising service.
The App does not access your contacts, messages, email contents, precise location, photos, microphone or camera.
3. Legal bases
- Contract: providing the game, purchases and optional cloud save.
- Consent: personalized advertising and storing/accessing information where required by law.
- Legitimate interests: security, fraud prevention, service protection and permitted measurement, where not overridden by your rights.
- Legal obligation: valid legal requests, accounting and consumer transactions.
4. Advertising choices
In the EEA, United Kingdom and Switzerland, the App uses Google’s certified User Messaging Platform. Ads are loaded only after UMP reports that ads may be requested. Depending on your choice and location, personalized, non-personalized, limited or technical ad delivery may apply.
Where required by applicable U.S. state law, choices relating to targeted advertising or “sale/sharing” may be presented through a UMP privacy message. We do not sell personal data directly for money, but advertising partners’ processing for personalized advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” under certain state laws.
Where applicable, change your choice through Settings → Privacy Options. You may also reset or delete the Android advertising ID in device settings.
For details of how Google processes data as an advertising provider, see How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services and Google’s advertising technologies.
5. Disclosure and international transfers
Data is disclosed only to providers needed to operate the App and to authorities where legally required. All of these services are operated by Google LLC and its affiliates under Google’s Privacy Policy:
- Google AdMob and User Messaging Platform — ad delivery, measurement and consent management.
- Google Play Billing — processing and restoring in-app purchases.
- Google Play Games Services — achievements and player identification.
- Firebase Authentication and Cloud Firestore — optional sign-in and cloud save.
The App integrates no other advertising, analytics or data-broker SDK. Google AdMob may, however, share advertising data with its own third-party ad partners, such as bidders, ad networks and measurement providers; these partners are listed in Google’s ad technology providers list and, where a consent message is shown, in that message. AresDev does not sell personal data to third parties for money.
Providers may process data outside your country. Applicable adequacy decisions, standard contractual clauses and other safeguards offered by the providers may be used for international transfers.
6. Retention and security
- Local save: retained on the device until deleted or the App is uninstalled. Android backup or device-transfer features may back up and restore it when enabled.
- Cloud save: retained until deletion is requested or the account is deleted; verified requests are normally processed within 30 days.
- Purchase-protection record: up to 100 recently processed purchase tokens may be kept in the game save to prevent duplicate delivery.
- Support records: retained as needed to resolve the request and meet legal obligations.
- Google data: subject to Google’s own retention rules.
Reasonable measures such as encryption in transit and access controls are used, but no system can be guaranteed completely secure.
7. Your rights and account deletion
Depending on applicable law, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict or object to processing, obtain data portability, withdraw consent and complain to a supervisory authority. We may request information needed to verify your identity and locate the correct cloud save.
Settings → Delete Account & Data in the App opens the Account & Data Deletion page, which is also reachable from a browser without installing the App and explains how to submit a deletion request. You may also email aressdevo@gmail.com directly. Verified requests are normally completed within 30 days.
To remove only the on-device save, use the full-reset option in the App or uninstall it. Deleting the cloud account does not delete the local save, and vice versa.
8. Children
The App is offered to users aged 18 and over, is declared for an adult audience on Google Play and is not directed to children. It is not enrolled in Google Play’s Designed for Families programme. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children. Contact us if you believe data relating to a child has been processed and we will delete it.
9. Changes
This policy may be updated when services or legal requirements change. Material changes will be communicated appropriately in the App or on this page.