Machinez Design LLC ("Machinez Design," "we," "us," or "our") provides the Gurken Arena mobile game (the "Game"). This Privacy Policy explains how information is handled when you install or use the Game. The current Game does not require a Machinez Design account, and we do not sell personal information for money.
Information stored on your device
The Game stores your chosen display name, character selection and customization, unlocked accessories, settings, coins, album dust, cards, card copies, completed-match counters, rewarded-ad claim history, and local gameplay diagnostics on your device.
You can delete this local data by clearing the app's storage or uninstalling the Game.
Multiplayer and network information
When you host or join multiplayer, your display name, character choice, gameplay inputs, match events, scores, and connection information are exchanged with the host and other players as needed to synchronize the match. Other players can see your display name and results.
Network operation can involve IP addresses, session identifiers, connection metadata, and approximate network location. The current version uses direct or local-network sessions. Machinez Design does not operate a central Gurken Arena account or match-history database.
Advertising and consent information
The Game uses Google Mobile Ads (AdMob) to offer an optional rewarded ad after every fifth completed match. If you choose to watch and complete it, the Game doubles the coins earned for that match. In Solo + Bot, the Game can also show an interstitial ad after every third completed solo match, after the round presentation and before the results panel. Interstitials are not shown in multiplayer. You can continue playing without watching a rewarded ad.
Google may receive an IP address used to estimate general location; app and ad interactions such as launches, taps, impressions, and video views; diagnostic and performance information; Android advertising ID, app set ID, and related identifiers; and consent or privacy choices. Google uses this information for advertising, analytics, measurement, security, and fraud prevention. Data handled by the Mobile Ads SDK is encrypted in transit using TLS.
Where required, the Game presents a Google consent message before requesting ads and provides a privacy-options entry point in Settings. Depending on your region, age eligibility, device settings, and choices, Google may serve personalized, non-personalized, limited, or technical-only ads.
Optional purchases
The Game offers optional paid card packs and cosmetic accessories. Google Play processes each purchase, and Machinez Design does not receive your full payment-card number. Google Play provides product, transaction, purchase-state, purchase-token, and entitlement information needed to deliver consumable packs, restore permanent accessories, prevent duplicate delivery and fraud, provide support, and comply with law. A record of redeemed transactions and owned products is also stored locally with your Game progression.
Local diagnostics and telemetry
The Game creates a random session identifier and can record gameplay and performance events in a local file. These can include timestamps, app build version, round sequence, map seed and generation version, player count, outcomes, and performance measurements. The Game rejects telemetry fields for player names, account IDs, email addresses, device IDs, advertising IDs, and network addresses. Machinez Design does not automatically receive this file.
If you voluntarily send logs or screenshots to support, we use them to investigate your request and may retain them for a reasonable period for support, security, and legal purposes.
How information is used
Information is handled to provide progression and multiplayer, deliver and verify rewards or purchases, maintain security, prevent fraud and abuse, diagnose technical problems, and comply with law, platform rules, and privacy choices. Depending on applicable law, these activities rely on providing the service you request, legitimate interests, consent, or legal obligations.
Retention and deletion
Local Game data remains until you clear storage or uninstall. Information handled by Google is retained and deleted under Google's policies and your account or device controls. Purchase records may be retained for transaction, fraud-prevention, tax, and legal purposes. You may request deletion of support correspondence, subject to legal, security, or dispute-retention needs.
Your choices and privacy rights
You can decline rewarded ads, use Privacy choices when available, reset or delete the Android advertising ID, clear local Game data, and contact us to exercise rights available where you live. Those rights may include access, correction, deletion, restriction, portability, objection, withdrawal of consent, or appeal.
Because the current Game has no Machinez Design account, we may not be able to identify information held by Google from your Game display name alone.
Children's privacy
Gurken Arena is not directed to children under 13 or under the minimum digital-consent age in their country. We do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children below that age. Contact us if you believe a child has provided personal information.
Security, transfers, and changes
We use reasonable administrative and technical safeguards, but no networked service or storage method can guarantee complete security. Machinez Design and its providers may process information in the United States and other countries subject to applicable safeguards.
We may update this Policy when the Game, advertising or purchase features, providers, or legal requirements change. The effective date identifies the current version. Material changes may also be communicated through the Game or its store listing.
Contact us
Machinez Design LLC418 Broadway Ste R
Albany, NY 12207-2922
United States