Cut to Keep privacy

Android 0.5.6: ad-free release and optional puzzle ratings

Android 0.5.6 (22) contains no Google Mobile Ads or UMP SDK, makes no advertising requests and does not access the advertising identifier. Hints and undos are unlimited; levels within unlocked chapters are available without ads, and earned campaign bonuses are added automatically. The advertising gift is unavailable. Earlier Android and iOS versions may still contain AdMob; the advertising information below applies to those versions.

Choosing Send in Puzzle ratings sends your star rating, difficulty and insight choices, optional comment, puzzle identifier and geometry version, and the first attempted cut to the feedback service. A random device-specific token authenticates your submissions, prevents duplicate rewards and lets you delete your feedback. Your player name and invitation links are not included. Hosting providers also process network request information such as IP address.

Ratings are optional and used to operate feedback/reward features and improve puzzles. No puzzle-rating data is used for advertising or displayed publicly. You can play without submitting a rating. Unsent or offline submissions remain on your device and retry when connectivity returns after your explicit submission.

Use Delete my submitted feedback in the puzzle ratings view to request deletion while you still have the device token. Ratings and comments stop appearing after 180 days and are purged on the next authenticated service or developer request. Server reward receipts remain until you delete your submitted feedback. Deletion removes your feedback and those server receipts; earned HC, achievements, progress and the local marks of previously claimed rewards remain on your device. Privacy requests: primecollect.fi@gmail.com.

Operator and scope

Heckler Games is operated by Niko Tuovinen in Finland. This notice covers the Cut to Keep Android app (com.hecklergames.dontwastethatcut), iPhone and iPad app (com.hecklergames.cuttokeep), browser game and official support pages. Contact: primecollect.fi@gmail.com.

Local game records

The game saves puzzle progress, cut history, daily challenge progress, Heckler Coins, gifts, ad-reward receipts, your chosen local player name, language and settings on your device. The browser version uses browser storage. These game records are not sent to a Heckler Games account, shared wallet or public leaderboard.

The game does not require account registration or request contacts, camera, microphone or precise location access. There is no sign-in service for restoring local progress. Clearing Android app data or uninstalling the app removes local records; clearing browser site data removes browser records.

The iOS app stores game progress in local WebKit storage and earned-ad receipts in app preferences. Deleting the app or its data may remove local progress. Progress and HC wallets do not sync between Android and iOS or between devices. The iOS share sheet and the messaging app you choose process invitations that you voluntarily share.

Puzzle feedback privacy

Sending a puzzle rating is optional. We store the game, official puzzle and version, stars, difficulty, insight, optional comment, submission time and a hashed random device identifier. No name, email or advertising identifier is requested. Do not write personal information in comments.

Ratings and comments are visible only to Heckler Games through the restricted developer summary. They are used to improve puzzles. Comments and ratings stop appearing after 180 days and are purged on the next authenticated service or developer request. Reward receipts remain until you delete your feedback, to prevent duplicate rewards. The hosting provider necessarily processes connection information to deliver this service.

Use Settings → Puzzle ratings → Delete my submitted feedback on the same device to erase feedback and receipts. Earned coins, achievements and local progress remain. No new account is required. An explicitly submitted offline rating retries when connectivity returns.

Optional feedback and diagnostics

A bounded local journal stores diagnostic gameplay events. These local diagnostics are not uploaded automatically. They are separate from puzzle ratings you explicitly submit.

The built-in report excludes your chosen player name and invitation links. It can include puzzle actions, state, language, event times and feedback notes you entered. Review your notes before sharing. A report or email you choose to send is handled as correspondence, not as an automatic telemetry feed.

Optional sharing and invitations

Friend challenges and gifts prepare an invitation containing the puzzle or gift and your chosen sender name. Android’s share chooser, the browser sharing service and your selected messaging app handle what you choose to share. Copying an invitation puts it on your clipboard.

An invitation or supported deep link may open the app or browser game, and the receiving device applies the supported challenge or gift. The game does not read your contacts or verify delivery to another person. Links and copies you have already shared cannot be recalled by clearing your game data.

Google advertising and consent

The Android and iOS apps use Google AdMob for banners, interstitials and optional rewarded ads. Test builds may use Google test ads. The Google Mobile Ads SDK may process IP addresses and approximate location derived from them, device or app identifiers, ad and app interactions, and crash, performance and diagnostic data for advertising, analytics and fraud prevention. Access to the iOS advertising identifier depends on system permissions. The current iOS app does not request App Tracking Transparency permission or precise location. UMP refreshes consent information and displays required forms; ad requests are gated by the SDK canRequestAds state. Advertising privacy choices are available from game settings or the separate iOS Privacy choices button when required.

Google’s Mobile Ads SDK can collect and share IP address (which may indicate approximate location), app and ad interactions, diagnostics and performance information, and device identifiers such as the Android advertising ID and app set ID. Google uses this information for advertising, analytics, security and fraud prevention. SDK data is encrypted in transit. This is separate from the local puzzle records described above.

Google’s User Messaging Platform requests consent information and displays the applicable consent form where required. Ads are requested only when the SDK permits it; consent does not guarantee an ad is available. When available, open Settings → Ad privacy choices to review your choices. You can also manage the Android advertising ID in device settings. Clearing local game data does not delete information already held by Google.

This website and support correspondence

These documents are hosted through OpenAI Sites and Cloudflare infrastructure. Hosting and security providers may process IP address, browser information and technical request or security logs needed to deliver and protect the website. These document pages do not contain an ad SDK, a player account or a feedback-upload form.

If you email support, we receive your address, message and any attachment you choose to send. We use them to answer, investigate the issue or handle your request, and keep correspondence while needed for that enquiry and related follow-up. Please avoid unnecessary sensitive information. Your selected email service has its own privacy practices.

Providers, retention and your choices

Local game data remains until removed from the device or browser. Support correspondence can be requested for deletion where we control it. Advertising and hosting providers retain their own information under their policies and may process it outside Finland or the European Economic Area. We do not promise that deleting local records deletes providers’ records.

Where applicable, you may request access, correction, deletion, restriction or portability, object to processing and withdraw consent through the service that collected it. Email the support address for information we control. You may also complain to the Finnish Data Protection Ombudsman. Provider privacy information is linked below.