Privacy Policy for Join Pipes

Effective Date: August 1, 2026
Last Updated: August 1, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how Ismail Ak (“we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, shares, and protects information when you download, install, access, or play Join Pipes (the “Game”).

By using the Game, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please discontinue use of the Game.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect information directly from your device, automatically through the Game, or through third-party service providers integrated into the Game.

1.1 Device and Technical Information

We and our service providers may collect technical information such as:

• Device type, model, manufacturer, and operating system
• Operating system version
• Language and region settings
• App version and build number
• Device or installation identifiers
• Internet Protocol address
• Network and connection information
• General device performance information
• Information about crashes, errors, and technical problems

We use this information to operate the Game, maintain compatibility, prevent abuse, diagnose technical problems, and improve stability and performance.

1.2 Gameplay and Usage Information

We may collect information about how you interact with the Game, including:

• Game launches and session information
• Levels started, completed, failed, or abandoned
• Level progression and checkpoint information
• Time spent in the Game
• Buttons, menus, and features used
• Boosters, power-ups, and other game items used
• In-game currency balances and changes
• Tutorial progress
• Game events and gameplay outcomes
• Purchase events and interactions with the in-game store

This information is primarily used for analytics, balancing, debugging, improving the player experience, and developing new features.

1.3 User and Installation Identifiers

The Game or its service providers may assign an identifier to a particular installation, device, or player. These identifiers allow us to associate events from the same installation or player over time.

These identifiers are not intended to reveal your name, email address, or other direct contact information. However, privacy laws may treat device, installation, or player identifiers as personal data.

1.4 Purchase Information

Join Pipes may offer in-app purchases through the platform store, such as Apple’s App Store or Google Play.

Payments are processed by the applicable platform provider. We do not directly receive or store your complete payment card number, bank account information, or platform account password.

We may receive limited information relating to a transaction, such as:

• Product purchased
• Transaction status
• Transaction or receipt identifier
• Purchase date
• Price and currency
• Storefront or country
• Information needed to verify, restore, or fulfill a purchase

We use this information to deliver purchased content, process restoration requests, prevent fraud, maintain transaction records, and provide customer support.

2. Analytics

We use analytics technologies, including Unity Analytics, to understand how players interact with Join Pipes.

Analytics information may include device or installation identifiers, session information, gameplay events, progression, feature usage, purchase events, technical information, and approximate regional information derived from network data.

We use analytics information to:

• Understand how the Game is used
• Measure player retention and engagement
• Identify difficult or confusing levels
• Balance gameplay and the in-game economy
• Detect technical problems
• Improve existing features
• Plan and evaluate new features
• Measure the overall performance of the Game

3. Advertising

Join Pipes may display advertisements provided by Unity Ads or other advertising partners.

Depending on your location, device settings, consent choices, and applicable law, advertisements may be personalized or non-personalized.

Advertising providers may process information such as:

• Device and installation identifiers
• Advertising identifiers, where permitted
• Internet Protocol address
• Device type and operating system
• Language and general region
• Ad impressions
• Ads displayed
• Ad clicks, taps, and interactions
• Whether an advertisement was completed
• Information used to detect fraud, abuse, or invalid traffic
• Consent, privacy, and opt-out signals

Personalized Advertising

Where permitted and after obtaining any legally required consent, advertising partners may use identifiers or activity information to select, deliver, measure, or personalize advertisements.

Where consent is required, we intend to request consent before enabling personalized advertising or collecting data that requires prior consent.

You may still receive non-personalized or contextual advertisements after declining personalized advertising.

Apple App Tracking Transparency

On Apple devices, if the Game or an advertising partner seeks permission to track activity across apps or websites owned by other companies, the Game will request permission through Apple’s App Tracking Transparency framework where required.

You may change tracking permissions through your device settings.

4. Purposes for Which We Use Information

We may use collected information to:

• Provide and operate Join Pipes
• Save and maintain game progression
• Deliver virtual currency and purchased content
• Process and verify in-app purchases
• Provide customer support
• Understand player behavior
• Perform analytics and measure engagement
• Improve gameplay, difficulty, and performance
• Develop and test new features
• Display and measure advertisements
• Personalize advertisements where permitted
• Detect fraud, cheating, abuse, and invalid activity
• Protect the security and integrity of the Game
• Comply with legal, tax, accounting, and regulatory obligations
• Enforce our agreements and policies

5. How We Share Information

5.1 Service Providers

We may share information with companies that provide services used to operate the Game, including:

• Analytics providers
• Advertising networks and mediation providers
• Cloud-hosting and backend providers
• Crash-reporting and diagnostics providers
• Customer-support providers
• Fraud prevention and security providers
• Payment and platform providers

These providers may process information according to their own privacy policies and contractual obligations.

5.2 Unity

Join Pipes uses or may use Unity products, including Unity Gaming Services, Unity Analytics, Unity In-App Purchasing, and Unity Ads.

Unity may collect and process information as described in its applicable privacy policies and product documentation.

5.3 Platform Providers

Information relating to downloads, payments, purchases, subscriptions, refunds, and account status may be processed by platform providers such as Apple or Google.

Their processing is governed by their own privacy policies and account settings.

5.4 Legal and Safety Disclosures

We may disclose information when reasonably necessary to:

• Comply with applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request
• Protect our rights, property, services, or users
• Investigate fraud, abuse, security incidents, or violations
• Enforce our terms and policies
• Protect the safety of any person
• Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims

5.5 Business Transfers

If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, bankruptcy, sale of assets, or transfer of the Game, information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to applicable law.

6. Tracking and Cross-App Advertising

Analytics performed only to understand activity within Join Pipes is not necessarily considered tracking under Apple’s definition.

However, certain advertising practices may constitute tracking when information from the Game is linked with data from other companies’ apps, websites, or offline properties for targeted advertising or advertising measurement, or when information is shared with a data broker.

We will request any permissions required by applicable platform rules before engaging in such tracking.

7. Your Privacy Choices

Depending on your country or region, you may have choices concerning the collection and use of your information.

These choices may include:

• Declining personalized advertising
• Withdrawing advertising consent
• Requesting non-personalized advertisements
• Restricting tracking through your device settings
• Resetting or limiting your advertising identifier
• Opting out of certain analytics collection
• Requesting access to or deletion of eligible personal data
• Objecting to or restricting certain processing
• Withdrawing consent where processing is based on consent

Advertising and Analytics may use separate privacy controls. Changing your Unity Ads preference may not automatically change Unity Analytics collection preferences, and vice versa.

To submit a privacy request, contact us at privacy@joyweavestudio.com.

We may need to request information necessary to verify and process your request. Some information may be retained where required for legal, security, fraud-prevention, accounting, or transaction-record purposes.

8. Data Retention

We retain information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including operating the Game, maintaining transaction records, performing analytics, preventing fraud, resolving disputes, and complying with legal obligations.

Retention periods may vary based on:

• The type of information
• The service for which it was collected
• Legal and regulatory requirements
• Security and fraud-prevention needs
• The retention practices of our service providers

When information is no longer reasonably necessary, it may be deleted, anonymized, or aggregated.

9. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, loss, or misuse.

However, no electronic transmission or storage method is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security.

10. International Data Transfers

We and our service providers may process information in countries other than the country where you live.

These countries may have different data-protection laws. Where required, we or our providers use appropriate legal mechanisms intended to protect transferred personal data.

11. Children’s Privacy

Join Pipes is intended for a general audience and is not designed to knowingly collect direct personal information from children without any consent required by applicable law.

The Game does not ask players to provide their name, email address, phone number, or physical address as a condition of ordinary gameplay.

Advertising and analytics practices may be limited based on a player’s region, age designation, consent status, or applicable platform requirements.

If you are a parent or guardian and believe that a child has provided personal information to us in violation of applicable law, contact us at privacy@joyweavestudio.com. We will investigate the request and take appropriate action.

12. California Privacy Notice

California residents may have rights under applicable California privacy laws, including rights to know, access, correct, or delete certain personal information and to opt out of certain sharing or use for cross-context behavioral advertising.

We do not sell personal information for monetary payment. Certain advertising disclosures may nevertheless be treated as “sharing” or “sale” under some state privacy laws.

Where applicable, privacy choices may be available through in-game privacy controls, advertising settings, device settings, or by contacting us at privacy@joyweavestudio.com.

We will not unlawfully discriminate against you for exercising an applicable privacy right.

13. European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Switzerland

Where European data-protection laws apply, personal data may be processed under one or more of the following legal bases:

• Performance of a contract, such as providing the Game or purchased content
• Our legitimate interests, such as improving the Game, maintaining security, preventing fraud, and understanding Game usage
• Your consent, including where required for personalized advertising or similar technologies
• Compliance with legal obligations

Where applicable, you may have rights to access, correct, erase, restrict, object to processing, receive a portable copy of certain data, or withdraw consent.

You may also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data-protection authority.

14. Third-Party Links and Services

The Game may contain links to external websites, platform pages, advertisements, or third-party services.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices, security, or content of third-party services. Review their privacy policies before providing information to them.

15. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes to the Game, our service providers, advertising practices, legal requirements, or data-processing activities.

When we make changes, we will update the “Last Updated” date. Where required, we may provide additional notice or request consent.

Continued use of the Game after an update takes effect constitutes acknowledgment of the updated policy to the extent permitted by law.

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