Privacy Policy

Operator and scope

Heckler Games is operated by Niko Tuovinen in Finland. This notice covers hecklergames.com, play.hecklergames.com, and the Tower of Failure and Cut to Keep Android, iPhone and iPad apps. For privacy questions contact primecollect.fi@gmail.com or use the private contact channel on our Contact page.

Browsing the websites

The informational website does not offer an account registration. The business section at /for-business includes enquiry forms, with its own privacy notice linked below. The hosting platform, including Cloudflare infrastructure, processes technical connection information needed to deliver and protect the websites, such as an IP address, browser information and request details. Necessary delivery and security processing serves the operation and protection of the service.

Ronald Dumb test crew applications

If you apply for Ronald Dumb testing or development sessions, Niko Tuovinen receives your nickname, email, chosen role, optional answer, contact permission and optional credit permission, plus the application time, language and source category (direct, friend or social). These are stored privately in the website’s Cloudflare database to select test groups and contact you about this project. They are not a public directory and are not added to a general marketing list.

Contact is based on your permission, which you can withdraw at any time. Applications are kept while needed for recruitment and testing, and deleted when no longer needed or on request. Public credit uses only your chosen nickname and separate optional permission, after actual participation and feedback. We ask separately before publishing your submitted idea. Declining credit does not affect selection.

To withdraw, correct or delete an application, email primecollect.fi@gmail.com from the address you used to apply. Short-lived security counters use a day-rotated hash of the connection address and expire after 24 hours; the application itself does not store your IP address. Sharing an invitation is optional, opens your chosen sharing service or copies a public link, and never reads your contacts.

Messages and suggestions

If you contact us on social media, we receive the profile information and message you choose to send. We use it to reply, investigate a reported issue or consider your suggestion. Please avoid sending sensitive information. Messages remain in the relevant platform’s messaging service and are kept while needed to handle the enquiry and any related follow-up. You can ask us to delete correspondence that we control.

Online game profile, community and measurement

The online game hub stores a random browser profile in a necessary cookie, your chosen nickname, completed results, optional votes and suggestions, and events for starting, finishing, sharing and returning. A share event does not tell us whom you contacted or whether they saw it. Nicknames and qualifying scores appear on public boards and friend challenges for supported online games. Suggestions are reviewed before publication; public credit is optional. Do not include personal or confidential information in suggestions. Operational event records are retained for up to 90 days. Results remain associated with your browser profile until removed on request. Clearing the cookie removes browser access to that profile but does not automatically delete saved results; contact us for deletion.

The business demo and intake keep answers in the page. Optional draft storage is on your device. Downloading the brief does not send it to us. Sending an enquiry delivers the contact details and answers you choose to provide. See the business privacy notice for details. Company reporting, identity, retention and access must be agreed separately for an actual pilot.

Heckler Consulting — business privacy notice

Tower of Failure game data and sharing

Tower stores progress, settings, coins and unlocks on your device. Online features also use a random player identifier, your chosen nickname, submitted gameplay events and results, and verified reward records. Nicknames and qualifying results can appear on leaderboards. Workshop designs, optional uploaded pictures, collections, friend challenges and moderation records are linked to their player identifiers.

The iOS app uses local WebKit storage. Sharing opens the system share sheet or your chosen sharing service. Clearing app or browser data does not erase server records or copies already shared with others. The game-specific notice explains workshop content, link visibility, retention and removal limits. For a Tower request, name the game and your nickname if needed; never send a secret access token.

Tower of Failure privacy and support · Support

Cut to Keep: Logic Puzzles — local data, sharing and ads

Cut to Keep also has an iPhone and iPad app (com.hecklergames.cuttokeep). It keeps progress in local WebKit storage and earned-ad receipts in app preferences. Progress and HC do not sync between devices. The game-specific notice covers iOS sharing, consent and advertising as well as Android and browser use.

Cut to Keep privacy and support

Cut to Keep: Logic Puzzles (Android package com.hecklergames.dontwastethatcut) saves puzzle progress, cut history, daily challenge history, Heckler Coin balances, gifts, earned-ad reward receipts, your chosen local name, language and settings on your device. The browser version uses browser storage. The game does not require an account and does not send these game records to a Heckler Games server or public leaderboard. Clearing Android app data or uninstalling the app removes its local records; clearing the browser’s site data removes browser records. There is no sign-in service to restore them.

Feedback notes and test diagnostics, including puzzle actions and app state needed to investigate a problem, stay on your device until you choose to review and share a report. The built-in report excludes your player name and invitation links. You choose whether to send it; a note you write may still contain information you choose to include. You can clear local diagnostics from the report view. Reports or support messages you send are handled as correspondence under the Messages and suggestions section above. For Cut to Keep support and privacy requests, you can also email primecollect.fi@gmail.com.

Friend challenges and friend gifts are optional. Sharing prepares an invitation containing the puzzle or gift and your chosen sender name. Android’s share chooser, the browser’s share service or your chosen messaging app handles the invitation. Copying an invitation places it on your clipboard. The game does not read your contacts or verify that another person received a shared invitation. Opening an invitation applies its supported unlock or gift on the receiving device.

The Android app uses Google AdMob for a banner below the game, occasional interstitial ads between completed puzzles, and optional rewarded ads. Google’s Mobile Ads SDK can collect and share an IP address, which may indicate approximate location, app and ad interactions, diagnostic and performance information, and device identifiers including the Android advertising ID and app set ID. Google uses this data for advertising, analytics, security and fraud prevention. The SDK encrypts data in transit. This processing is separate from the game’s locally stored puzzle records.

The app requests consent information using Google’s User Messaging Platform and shows the applicable consent form where required. When available, use Settings → Ad privacy choices to review advertising choices; you can also manage or delete the Android advertising ID in device settings. Removing local game data does not delete data already held by Google. Google’s privacy policy and Mobile Ads SDK disclosure are linked below; the Providers and retention and Your rights sections also apply to Cut to Keep.

Poop Puzzle: Merge & Flush

Poop Puzzle has its own game-specific privacy notice describing game progress, optional sharing, community features and advertising. Read that notice for the browser game or Android app you use.

Poop Puzzle privacy notice · Poop Puzzle support and privacy requests

Google advertising

The iOS apps use Google Mobile Ads for banners, interstitials and optional rewarded ads, and User Messaging Platform for consent. These services may process approximate location derived from network information, device or app identifiers, ad and app interactions, crash, performance and diagnostic data. The current iOS test versions do not request App Tracking Transparency authorization. Requests are gated by the consent SDK; Privacy choices is available when required. Google controls its own retained information; deleting local progress does not delete it.

The websites include Google AdSense code. Google and advertising partners may process technical information and use cookies or similar technologies for advertising, measurement, security and fraud prevention. The exact processing depends on the ad service and applicable consent choices.

The Tower of Failure Android app includes Google’s Mobile Ads SDK for banner ads outside active play and optional rewarded ads you choose to watch. According to Google, the SDK can collect and share IP address, app interactions such as ad views and taps, diagnostic information, and device identifiers including the Android advertising ID, for advertising, analytics and fraud prevention. This processing is separate from the locally saved Tower game records. The app uses Google’s User Messaging Platform to request consent information and display a consent message where required. When the app shows Privacy and cookie settings · Tietosuoja- ja evästeasetukset, you can use it to review or change your advertising choices. You can also manage the Android advertising ID in your device settings. Google’s privacy information and SDK data disclosure are linked below.

Embedded video and external platforms

The website embeds YouTube videos. Loading or using a video can send information to Google, including connection and browser details, and may involve cookies or device storage. Instagram, TikTok and YouTube apply their own privacy policies when you visit them or send a message there.

Cookies and choices

Your language choice is stored in a first-party preference cookie for up to one year. You can change it at any time using the language selector, or remove it in your browser settings.

Google advertising and video services may use cookies or similar storage. Where consent is required, optional processing must be based on that consent. Use the privacy choices offered by the relevant service and your browser to manage storage. Browser settings can block or remove cookies, which may affect video or advertising features. This notice does not itself give consent on your behalf.

Providers and retention

Hosting and social media providers process information under their own service arrangements and may process it outside Finland or the European Economic Area. Their policies describe relevant retention and transfer arrangements. Technical service records are held by those providers under their applicable policies; we do not set a separate storage period for infrastructure logs in this website’s application. Google handles advertising and consent information under its applicable policies; removing local game records does not itself remove data held by Google.

Your rights

Where applicable, you may request access, correction, deletion, restriction or portability of your personal data and object to processing based on legitimate interests. You can withdraw consent through the service that collected it without affecting earlier lawful processing. Contact us privately using the contact details above for requests concerning information we control. You can also complain to the Finnish Data Protection Ombudsman.

Last updated

5 November 2026. Updated iOS scope and Tower online data; linked game-specific notices.

Provider information

Google Privacy Policy · Google on partner websites · Google Mobile Ads SDK data disclosure · Google Mobile Ads SDK · iOS · Cloudflare Privacy Policy · Finnish Data Protection Ombudsman