Privacy Policy for Rekta

Effective Date: August 16, 2026

Rekta is a single-player Shikaku puzzle game published by Artivy. This Privacy Policy explains what information is involved when you play it. There is no account, no sign-in, and no Artivy server: the game itself is played entirely offline, and the only data that leaves your device is sent to the Google advertising, analytics and crash-reporting services described below.

Playing in a browser

There are two ways to play Rekta, and they do not collect the same things. Everything else on this page describes the Android app from Google Play. The browser version at artivy/rekta/play.html is narrower:

Your current level for each grid size, the rectangles on the board in front of you, your elapsed time and your best time per size are kept in your browser's local storage on the device you played on. They are never sent anywhere, and there is no way for us to read them.
Google AdSense shows one banner advert in the browser version, below the board and clear of it. It is a plain display advert: it is not rewarded, it gives you nothing in the game, and there is no full-screen or between-levels advert anywhere in the browser version. The advert loads once when the page opens and is never refreshed while you play. Google may set cookies or use similar identifiers to serve it, under their own privacy policy rather than ours. AdMob, described further down, is the Android app's advertising and is a separate thing.
There is no analytics and no crash reporting in the browser version, so none of the events listed below are recorded when you play in a browser.
The browser version has no hint, so nothing on this page about rewarded adverts applies to it.
Clearing your browser's site data for this domain erases your progress. So does playing in a private window, or in a browser that blocks storage — the game will still run, but nothing is kept.
Progress does not follow you between devices, or between the browser and the Android app. They are separate saves.

1. Information We Collect

Artivy does not ask for, collect, or store any personally identifiable information about you. The data involved is:

Game Progress (stored on your device): The level you have reached for each grid size, your fastest time and number of solves for each size, and the grid of any level still in progress are saved in the app's private settings file. No name, nickname, or contact detail is recorded, and this file is never sent to Artivy.
Included in device backup: That settings file is carried by Android's cloud backup and by device-to-device transfer, so your level and best times can be restored on a new phone. The copy lives in your Google account and is handled by Google under its own terms; Artivy does not perform the backup, receives nothing from it, and cannot guarantee a restore.
Advertising Data (collected by Google): Rekta shows ads through Google AdMob in three places: a banner on the Settings screen, an occasional full-screen (interstitial) ad between levels, and a rewarded video you choose to watch in exchange for a hint. There is no banner on the puzzle itself. To serve any of them, Google may collect device information such as an advertising identifier, IP address, and app-interaction data. This collection is governed by Google's privacy policy, not by Artivy.

The app requests no device permissions beyond internet access, network state, and the advertising ID permission that Google's advertising and analytics SDKs add.

2. Analytics and Crash Reports

Rekta uses Google Firebase Analytics and Google Firebase Crashlytics. What they send is game figures, not personal details, and the full list is short:

Analytics events: when a level is started and when it is solved, and with each one the level number, the grid size, how many seconds the level took, how many hints you watched a video for, and whether it beat your previous best. Changing the grid size is recorded as well.
Crash reports: if the app crashes, Crashlytics records diagnostics — device model, operating system version, and the technical state at the time — with the grid size, the level number and how much of the grid was filled attached, so a report shows where in the run it broke.

None of this is tied to a name or an account, because there is none to tie it to. The contents of your grid are never sent.

3. How Your Information Is Used

The information above is used only to:

Save and restore your level, your best times, and any grid you left unfinished.
Display the advertisements that keep the game free.
Understand how the levels are actually played, so their difficulty can be balanced.
Diagnose and fix crashes.

Uninstalling the app removes the progress stored on your device. Clearing the app's data does the same without removing the app. Android's backup may still hold a copy in your Google account, which a later install can restore; that copy is Google's to keep or drop, not ours.

4. Advertising Consent and Choices

Where required by law — for example in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom — Rekta shows Google's consent form on launch, before any ad is requested, using Google's User Messaging Platform. If you were asked for consent, an Ad privacy options row appears in the in-game Settings panel so you can review or change your choice at any time. Players outside those regions are never shown the form and see no such row.

Your device's own advertising settings apply as well: on Android you can reset or delete the advertising ID, and opt out of ad personalisation, under Settings → Google → Ads. Neither that nor declining consent removes ads from the game — they become non-personalised.

5. Third-Party Services

Rekta uses Google AdMob for advertising, Google's User Messaging Platform for the consent form, Google Firebase Analytics for gameplay analytics, and Google Firebase Crashlytics for crash diagnostics. Those are the only third-party services in the app. Google may collect and process data as described in Google's Privacy Policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy). We use no other advertising network and no other analytics provider.

6. Children's Privacy

Rekta is built for children as well as adults, and we do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children.

The first time you open the Android app it asks what year you were born, before any advert is requested. The answer is kept on your device, it is never sent to us, and it is asked only once. It decides one thing:

Players aged 13 or under are treated as children by Google's advertising SDK. Their adverts are not personalised, and no advertising identifier is used to profile them. Because a year of birth cannot tell whether a birthday has passed, anyone who might still be twelve is given this treatment.
Players over 13 see adverts as described earlier in this policy.

The question changes nothing about the game. Every grid, every level and every best time is the same whichever answer you give.

Separately, and for every player regardless of age, advert content in Rekta is capped at Google's “G” rating — suitable for general audiences, and sensitive advert categories are excluded.

The browser version is a different case, and it is not aimed at children. It asks no age question, shows one ordinary display advert served by Google AdSense under Google's own policies, and reads nothing about who is playing. The age gate and the child treatment described above belong to the Android app.

7. Your Rights

Because Artivy holds no data about you, there is no Artivy account to access, correct, or delete. The advertising, analytics and crash data described above sits with Google under their own policy, and the copy of your progress on your device is removed by uninstalling the app or clearing its data.

8. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Changes are published on this page and marked by a new "Effective Date" above. Please review it periodically.

9. Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions about this Privacy Policy, contact us at 4ndri.nr@gmail.com.