Privacy Policy for Ocean Hunter

Last Updated: March 10, 2026

Effective Date: March 10, 2026

This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) applies to the mobile game Ocean Hunter (the “Game”, “we”, “us”, or “our”), including all related versions, associated official websites, and services we provide. We are deeply committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information, and we strictly adhere to applicable global data protection laws and regulations, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for the European Economic Area (EEA) and the United Kingdom, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA/CPRA) for California residents in the U.S., the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), and other relevant regional data protection laws.

This Policy explains in detail what information we collect when you use our Game, how we use, store, share, and protect that information, and what rights you have over your personal data. By downloading, installing, accessing, or using Ocean Hunter, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agreed to the terms of this Policy. If you do not agree with this Policy, please do not use our Game.

1. Information We Collect

We collect two primary types of information: information you voluntarily provide to us, and information we collect automatically when you use the Game. We only collect information that is necessary for the operation of the Game, to optimize your experience, and to meet legal compliance requirements.

1.1 Information You Voluntarily Provide

We do not require you to create an account or provide personal information to access the core gameplay of Ocean Hunter. You may voluntarily provide us with information in the following scenarios:

• Customer Support & Feedback: When you contact us via email, in-game feedback forms, or other communication channels, you may provide your email address, contact information, the content of your feedback/question, and any additional information you choose to share to help us resolve your issue.
• Other Voluntary Submissions: Any other information you actively send to us, such as bug reports, suggestions, or participation in optional surveys and events.

1.2 Information We Collect Automatically

When you use the Game, we automatically collect non-identifiable and limited identifiable information to ensure the Game runs properly, optimize your experience, and maintain service security. This information includes:

• Device & Technical Information: Device model, operating system and version, unique device identifiers (including Advertising ID/IDFA for iOS devices, AAID for Android devices, Android ID, and device serial number where permitted by law), device language and time zone, network type (Wi-Fi/cellular), screen resolution, and device performance data.
• Gameplay & Usage Data: Your level progress, level completion status, in-game currency (coins) balance, prop usage records, elimination operation records, game session duration, login and usage timestamps, and other in-game behavior data.
• Log & Diagnostic Data: Error logs, crash reports, game freeze records, application performance data, and other diagnostic information to help us fix bugs and improve Game stability.
• Advertising Interaction Data: Data related to ads displayed in the Game, including ad impressions, clicks, video ad completion status, and ad interaction frequency.

1.3 Information Collected by Third Parties

The Game integrates third-party services to provide core functions, advertising, and analytics. These third parties may collect information about you directly from your device, and their data collection and use are governed by their own privacy policies. The third-party services we use include:

• Advertising Service Providers: Including but not limited to Google AdMob, Unity Ads, and other ad networks, which collect advertising identifiers and ad interaction data to serve personalized or non-personalized ads.
• Analytics Service Providers: Including but not limited to Google Analytics for Firebase, which collects device and usage data to help us analyze Game performance, user behavior, and optimize gameplay.
• Payment Processing Providers: For in-app purchases, the Apple App Store and Google Play Store handle all payment transactions. We do not collect or store your full payment card details, billing address, or other sensitive payment information; this data is processed directly by the app store platform, and is subject to their respective privacy policies.
• Cloud Storage & Hosting Providers: We use secure cloud service providers to store Game data and back up service information, which may include your gameplay progress and related data.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the collected information solely for the purposes described in this Policy, in compliance with applicable data protection laws. Our use of your information includes the following purposes:

• Provide & Maintain Core Game Functions: To run the Game, save your level progress and in-game status, enable drag-and-match elimination gameplay, boss confrontation mechanics, prop functions, and other core features.
• Optimize & Improve the Game: To fix bugs, resolve crashes, improve Game stability and performance, adjust level difficulty and gameplay balance, develop new features, and enhance your overall user experience.
• Customer Support & Communication: To respond to your feedback, questions, and support requests, and to communicate with you about your inquiries and issue resolutions.
• Advertising & Monetization: To serve ads in the Game (both personalized and non-personalized), measure the effectiveness of ad campaigns, optimize ad delivery, and comply with advertising platform requirements.
• Process In-App Purchases: To verify and validate in-app purchase transactions, and deliver purchased in-game items or currency to your Game account.
• Legal Compliance & Security: To fulfill our legal obligations, respond to legal processes and regulatory requirements, detect and prevent fraud, cheating, malicious behavior, and security risks, and protect the legitimate rights and interests of us, our users, and third parties.
• Send Important Notifications: To send you critical announcements, including updates to this Policy, service changes, and other administrative notices related to the Game.

We will not use your personal information for any other purposes without obtaining your explicit prior consent.

3. How We Share & Disclose Your Information

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to third parties for commercial purposes. We only share your information in the limited circumstances described below, in compliance with applicable laws:

• Trusted Third-Party Service Providers: We share your information with the third-party advertising, analytics, cloud hosting, and customer support service providers mentioned in Section 1.3. We only share the minimum necessary information for them to perform their services, and we require all our service providers to sign strict data protection agreements, and to only process your information in accordance with our instructions and this Policy, and not to use your information for any other independent purposes.
• Legal Requirements & Compliance: We may disclose your information if required to do so by applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request (including court orders, subpoenas, warrants, or regulatory inquiries). We may also disclose your information to protect our legal rights, defend against legal claims, investigate fraud or security violations, or protect the safety of our users, the public, or our property.
• Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, reorganization, asset sale, bankruptcy, or similar business transaction, your information may be transferred as part of the transaction assets. We will notify you via in-game notice or email before your information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
• With Your Explicit Consent: We may share your information with other third parties when we have obtained your explicit, voluntary consent to do so.

4. Data Storage & Security

4.1 Data Storage Location

The information we collect is stored on secure cloud servers operated by reputable service providers, which may be located in the United States, the European Economic Area, Singapore, and other regions globally. We ensure that all cross-border transfers of personal data are carried out in compliance with applicable data protection laws, including through the use of standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission, or other legally recognized data transfer mechanisms.

4.2 Data Security Measures

We have implemented industry-standard technical and organizational security measures to protect your information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. These measures include:

• Encryption of data in transit and at rest using industry-standard encryption protocols.
• Strict role-based access control, limiting access to your information to only authorized personnel who need it to perform their job duties.
• Regular security audits and vulnerability testing of our systems and services.
• Internal policies and training on data protection and privacy security for our staff.

While we take all reasonable steps to protect your information, please note that no electronic storage system or transmission over the internet is 100% secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security of your information, and we are not responsible for unauthorized access that is beyond our reasonable control.

4.3 Data Retention Period

We retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, as described in this Policy. Specifically:

• We retain gameplay and usage data for as long as you continue to use the Game, and for a reasonable period after you cease using the Game, to ensure service continuity and resolve any potential issues.
• We retain information you provide for customer support purposes for as long as needed to resolve your inquiry, and for a statutory retention period required by applicable laws.
• We retain log and diagnostic data for a limited period, primarily to fix bugs, improve performance, and address security issues, after which we either anonymize or delete the data.
• We will delete or anonymize your personal information when the retention period expires, or when you request deletion of your data, in accordance with applicable laws.

5. Your Rights & Choices

Depending on your country or region of residence, you have the following rights over your personal data, in accordance with applicable local data protection laws. We will respond to all valid requests within the legal time limit, and will not charge you a fee for exercising your rights unless the request is excessive, repetitive, or unfounded.

5.1 For Users in the European Economic Area (EEA) & United Kingdom (GDPR)

Under the GDPR, you have the following rights:

• Right of Access: You have the right to request access to the personal data we process about you, and to obtain a copy of that data.
• Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal data we hold about you.
• Right to Erasure (Right to be Forgotten): You have the right to request that we delete your personal data, where the data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, you withdraw your consent, you object to our processing, or the processing violates GDPR requirements.
• Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, where the accuracy of the data is contested, the processing is unlawful, or we no longer need the data for the original purposes.
• Right to Data Portability: You have the right to receive the personal data you have provided to us in a structured, machine-readable, and commonly used format, and to request that we transfer that data to another controller, where technically feasible.
• Right to Object: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data that is based on our legitimate interests, including processing for personalized advertising.
• Right to Withdraw Consent: Where we rely on your consent to process your personal data, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawal of consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we carried out prior to your withdrawal.
• Right to Lodge a Complaint: You have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority if you are dissatisfied with how we handle your personal data.

5.2 For Users in California, United States (CCPA/CPRA)

For California residents, we comply with the CCPA/CPRA, and you have the following rights:

• Right to Know: You have the right to request that we disclose to you the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected, used, shared, or disclosed about you in the preceding 12 months.
• Right to Delete: You have the right to request that we delete the personal information we have collected from you, subject to certain legal exceptions.
• Right to Opt-Out: We do not sell your personal information to third parties. You have the right to opt out of the processing of your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising (personalized ads).
• Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights under the CCPA/CPRA. We will not deny you goods or services, charge you different prices, or provide a different level of service quality for exercising your privacy rights.

5.3 For Users in Other Regions

For users residing in other regions, you may have the right to access, correct, update, or request deletion of your personal information under applicable local data protection laws. You can submit a request to exercise these rights using the contact information provided in Section 9 of this Policy.

5.4 Advertising Preferences

You can control and limit the collection and use of your data for personalized advertising through your device settings:

• For iOS devices: Go to Settings > Privacy & Security > Tracking, and disable "Allow Apps to Request to Track" to opt out of IDFA collection for personalized ads.
• For Android devices: Go to Settings > Privacy > Ads, and enable "Opt out of Ads Personalization" or reset your advertising ID to limit personalized ad tracking.

Even if you opt out of personalized ads, you will still see non-personalized (contextual) ads in the Game.

6. Children's Privacy

Our Game is not intended for children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from children under 13 years of age, in compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).

If we become aware that we have inadvertently collected personal information from a child under 13 without verifiable parental consent, we will take immediate steps to delete that information as quickly as possible. If you are a parent or legal guardian and believe that your child under 13 has provided us with personal information, please contact us immediately using the details in Section 9, and we will promptly delete the relevant information.

For users in the EEA/UK, we do not knowingly collect personal data from children under the age of 16 without parental consent, in compliance with the GDPR. If you are a parent or guardian and become aware that your child has provided us with personal data without your consent, please contact us.

7. Third-Party Links & Services

The Game may contain links to third-party websites, services, or advertisements that are not operated or controlled by us. This Privacy Policy applies only to the information we collect through the Game. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy practices, content, or policies of any third-party websites or services. We strongly encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party services you access through the Game.

8. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, legal requirements, or Game features. When we make material changes to this Policy, we will post the updated Policy on our official website, and provide a prominent in-game notice at least 30 days before the changes take effect. The "Last Updated" date at the top of this Policy will be revised to reflect the effective date of the changes.

Your continued use of the Game after the updated Policy takes effect constitutes your acceptance of the revised terms. We encourage you to review this Policy periodically to stay informed about how we protect your information.

9. Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy, or the handling of your personal information, please contact us at:

• Email: frtiwood@gmail.com