Privacy policy

Android apps published by Omar Elsiri · Last updated 28 August 2026

The short version. These apps keep what you do on your own phone. There is no account to create, no cloud save, no analytics of ours and no server of ours for anything to be sent to. We receive no personal data about you.

Some of the apps include two Google components, and where they do, Google - not us - receives data through them: AdMob for advertising, and Play Games for achievements and leaderboards. Both are described in full below, and the table says which app uses which.

Which apps this covers

This policy applies to every Android app published by Omar Elsiri. Not every app contains every component below:

App Package Ads Play Games
Slither Hole de.elsiri.slitherhole Yes Yes
Fight Balloons com.alsiry.ballonfighter Yes Yes
Just Click com.Alsiry.justclick Yes Yes

If the app you are using is not in that table, this policy still applies to it in full. Treat every section below as applying unless the app plainly has no such feature - an app with no ads shows you no ads, and an app that never asks you to sign in sends Play Games nothing.

What every app stores on your device

Each app keeps its own settings and progress in its own private storage, which no other app on the phone can read. Depending on the app that means things like:

None of it identifies you, none of it is uploaded, and uninstalling the app deletes all of it. We cannot read it, and there is nothing for us to delete on request because we never had a copy.

What we collect ourselves

Nothing. We operate no server, no account system, no crash reporting and no analytics SDK. No app sends us a message of any kind. The only figures we ever see are the anonymous, aggregated ones Google Play Console and AdMob show every developer - install counts by country, device models, total impressions - none of which describes an individual.

Advertising (Google AdMob) - where an app includes it

This section applies to apps marked Ads: Yes above. Where an app shows ads, they are supplied by Google AdMob, and the Google Mobile Ads SDK runs inside the app. It is operated by Google, not by us. To fill an ad slot it collects and transmits from your device:

We never see any of it. No advertising ID, no IP address and no identifier of any kind reaches us.

Google's use of this data is governed by the Google Privacy Policy and by How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.

How to limit it. On Android, open Settings → Privacy → Ads (the exact path varies by manufacturer) to reset your advertising ID or delete it entirely. Deleting it stops apps receiving it, which prevents ads being personalised to you. The apps themselves are unaffected and play exactly the same without it.

Google Play Games - where an app includes it

This section applies to apps marked Play Games: Yes above. Where an app offers achievements or leaderboards, it does so through Google Play Games, and signing in is optional - the app works fully if you never do.

If you do sign in, Google gives the app a Play Games player id: an identifier for your gaming profile, not your email address and not your name. From then on the app may tell Google that an achievement has been unlocked, and may submit a score so it can appear on a leaderboard. Nothing else is sent, and while you are signed out nothing is sent at all.

That data is held by Google under the Google Privacy Policy. You can review and delete your Play Games data - for one game or for all of them - in the Play Games app under Settings → Delete Play Games account & data. We never see your identity; only the anonymous totals Play Console shows every developer.

Permissions

What an app asks for depends on what it contains. Across these apps the full list is:

INTERNETFetching ads, and talking to Play Games when you are signed in. Apps with neither do not need it.
ACCESS_NETWORK_STATEUsed by the ads SDK to tell whether a request is worth making.
AD_IDAccess to the advertising identifier, required by the ads SDK on newer Android versions.
ACCESS_ADSERVICES_*Android Privacy Sandbox interfaces, added automatically by the ads SDK.
VIBRATEHaptic feedback, where an app uses it. It sends nothing anywhere.

None of these apps requests location, contacts, storage, camera, microphone or phone permissions, because none of them has any use for them.

Google Play (the store)

If you installed an app from Google Play, Google collects the usual install and device data as the distributor. That is between you and Google, and is covered by Google's own privacy policy rather than by this one.

Children

These apps are not directed at children under 13, and we collect nothing from anyone, of any age. Note however that where an app shows ads, the Google Mobile Ads SDK behaves as described above regardless of who is holding the phone. A parent who would rather no advertising identifier were available can delete it in Android's settings as described above.

How long anything is kept

Data an app stores on your device stays there until you delete it or uninstall the app - we set no expiry because we have no access to it. Data held by Google through AdMob or Play Games is retained under Google's own policies, and can be managed through your Google account.

Legal basis and your rights

Where the GDPR applies, the legal basis for the advertising described above is your consent where consent is required in your region, and otherwise our legitimate interest in funding free software (Art. 6(1)(a) and 6(1)(f) GDPR). For Play Games, it is your own decision to sign in.

You have the right to access, correct, delete and port your data, to object to processing and to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. Because we hold no personal data about you, there is nothing here for us to hand over or erase - a request about data held by Google should go to Google, and we will help you direct it if you ask.

This website

This page is static. It sets no cookies, runs no analytics, loads no fonts, scripts or images from anywhere else, and embeds nothing. The server keeps ordinary access logs - IP address, time, page requested - for operation and security, and nothing further is done with them.

Changes

If an app gains a component that changes what is described here, this policy is updated before that version ships. The date at the top is the last change.

Contact

Omar Elsiri
omar@elsiri.de
Postal address: see the Impressum.