1. Who we are
SATÉLITE DE ESTÓRIAS, LDA develops and publishes mobile games. This policy explains how information is handled in our mobile games unless a specific game page says otherwise.
Questions about privacy can be sent to welcome@satelstories.com.
2. Information stored on your device
Our games may store progress, scores, settings, and other gameplay state locally on your device. Dumpling Merger also stores economy data needed for daily rewards and virtual items on our backend. If real-money purchases are offered, related transaction records are also stored there. Removing the app normally removes local data, but does not automatically delete backend records.
3. Information processed by service providers
Depending on the game, we may use the services below. Each game uses only the providers needed for that product.
Firebase Analytics
We use Google Firebase Analytics to understand app launches, screens viewed, gameplay events, scores, progression, settings changes, and general engagement. Firebase may also process an app-instance identifier, approximate region, and device and app information.
Firebase Crashlytics
We use Firebase Crashlytics in non-debug builds to diagnose crashes and stability problems. It may process crash traces, diagnostic information, device and app details, Firebase installation identifiers, and Crashlytics installation identifiers.
Local notifications
Daily Challenge and power-up recovery reminders in Dumpling Merger are scheduled and delivered locally by the device operating system. We do not use a remote push-notification service or collect a push registration token. Notification permission can be changed at any time in the device settings.
Google AdMob
Some games show advertisements, including interstitial ads at natural breaks and optional rewarded videos. Where ads are available, Google Mobile Ads may process IP address and approximate location, device or advertising identifiers where permitted, ads viewed, interactions with ads, diagnostic information, and performance data. Rewards are granted only after the ad provider reports completion.
Firebase Authentication and Cloudflare
Dumpling Merger uses an anonymous Firebase user identifier to protect each player's virtual balance without asking for a name or email address. Our Cloudflare-hosted backend processes that identifier, crystal balance, Time Machines, daily challenge state, and owned and selected backgrounds. If real-money purchases are offered, it also processes purchase transaction records. Cloudflare may also process IP address, request metadata, and security logs when serving these requests.
App Store and Google Play purchases
In games that offer in-app purchases, Apple or Google processes payment details. We receive and retain the store, product, transaction identifier, purchase status, and granted virtual currency needed to validate a purchase and prevent duplicate grants. We do not receive full payment-card details.
We do not require your name, email address, contacts, precise location, photos, or a named player account to play our games.
4. Why information is used
Information is used to operate our games, remember progress and virtual balances, measure gameplay and feature performance, fix crashes, prevent advertising abuse, display and measure optional ads where offered, and comply with legal obligations.
5. Consent and advertising choices
Where required, games that show ads use Google's User Messaging Platform to request consent before consent-controlled analytics or advertising storage is enabled and before ads are requested. If you decline, consent-controlled storage and personalized advertising remain disabled. Limited technical processing or contextual ads may still occur where legally permitted.
When a privacy-options entry point is required, it is available from in-game settings so you can revisit or withdraw your choice.
On iOS, Dumpling Merger may request App Tracking Transparency permission before Google Mobile Ads accesses the device's advertising identifier (IDFA). If you decline, IDFA is unavailable and Google may show less personalized or contextual ads instead. Your choice does not restrict gameplay, and rewarded ads remain optional.
6. Sharing
We share information with Google and Cloudflare only as needed to provide Firebase, AdMob, backend hosting, security, and purchase validation in games that use those services. Apple and Google process native purchases through their stores. Satelite de Estorias does not directly sell personal information. Where applicable law defines personalized advertising disclosures as a sale or sharing of personal information, you can use the in-game privacy choices to opt out. Advertising partners may process information under their own terms and privacy policies.
7. Retention
Local game data remains on your device until it is reset or the app is removed. Backend economy and transaction records remain while needed to operate balances, validate purchases, prevent duplicate grants, resolve support requests, and meet financial or legal obligations. Third-party service data is retained according to our configured settings and each provider's applicable policies.
8. Children
Our games are general-audience products and are not specifically directed to children below the minimum age required to consent to data processing in their country. We do not knowingly ask children to provide personal contact information.
9. International processing
Google, Cloudflare, Apple, and their infrastructure providers may process information in countries other than your own. Those transfers are handled under applicable data-protection terms and transfer mechanisms.
10. Your privacy rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, or object to processing of your personal information, and to withdraw consent. Local game data can be removed by resetting or uninstalling the game. To request access to or deletion of backend economy data, contact welcome@satelstories.com.
You may also lodge a complaint with your local data-protection authority. Our lead authority in Portugal is the Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados.
11. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy when our games, service providers, or legal requirements change. The effective date above will be updated when changes are published.
12. Third-party information
More information is available in Google's Privacy Policy and Firebase Privacy and Security documentation.
13. App-specific notes
Dumpling Merger
Dumpling Merger stores progress, scores, discovered dumplings, settings, power-up state, and cooldown times locally on your device. It uses an anonymous technical account and uploads economy data described above so crystal rewards, virtual items, and backgrounds are not controlled by local device storage. If real-money purchases are offered, verified purchases use the same backend. The game shows interstitial advertisements at transitions between game runs, including entry into endless mode, and offers optional rewarded advertisements that can skip a power-up cooldown. If notifications are enabled, the game can remind the player about an available Daily Challenge or a recovered power-up. Reminder delivery is deferred during configured quiet hours.