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Privacy Policy
Last updated 22 September 2026
This policy covers the mobile games published by Kivora LLC, an independent game studio registered in Arkansas, USA. It applies to Grav Ball, Shiftword, and any other game listed on this site unless that game's store listing points somewhere else.
Our games are single-player. They have no accounts, no login, no chat and no social features. We operate no servers of our own, and we never receive your game data.
The short version
- We do not collect your name, email address, phone number or location.
- Your game progress stays on your device. We never see it.
- Our games show ads through Google AdMob, which collects some device information in order to serve them.
- In the EEA, UK and Switzerland you are asked to consent before personalised ads are shown, and you can change that choice later.
- On iOS you are separately asked whether the app may track you. You can decline and the game works exactly the same.
Information stored on your device
Each game saves its own progress locally, using your device's standard app storage. None of it is transmitted to us or to anyone else, and deleting a game deletes all of its data permanently.
Grav Ball
- Your best distance and total coins
- Which ball, world, trail and music track you own and have equipped
- Which puzzle levels you have completed
- Your difficulty, sound, haptics and trail settings
- Lifetime play statistics used for in-game achievements, such as runs played, distance travelled, coins earned and gravity wells drawn
Shiftword
- Which levels you have cleared, with your best time, move count and stars
- Your daily puzzle history and current streak
- Secret solutions found, and hints remaining
- Your record against each Battle Shift opponent
- Your theme, high-contrast and haptics settings
Future games will store the equivalent for themselves, in the same way and on the same terms.
Advertising
Our games display ads supplied by Google AdMob. Full-screen ads appear between some rounds or puzzles, and you can optionally choose to watch a short video in exchange for something in the game — coins or a continue in Grav Ball, an extra hint in Shiftword. Watching those optional ads is always your choice, and declining never blocks progress.
To serve ads, Google may collect and process:
- Advertising identifiers, such as the iOS IDFA or Android Advertising ID
- Device information, such as model, operating system version and language
- General location inferred from your IP address, at country or region level rather than a precise position
- Interactions with ads, such as views and taps
We do not receive this information. We only see anonymous, aggregated reports showing totals such as how many ads were shown and how much revenue they earned. Those reports cannot identify you.
Google's handling of this data is governed by its own policies: the Google Privacy Policy and how Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.
Your choices about ads
European Economic Area, United Kingdom and Switzerland
The game shows a consent form the first time you open it, asking whether ads may be personalised. You can change your answer at any time in the game, under Settings → Ad privacy settings. That option appears only where the consent form applies, so you will not see it outside those regions.
If you decline personalised ads, ads still appear, but they are non-personalised and based only on general context rather than your device's advertising identifier.
iOS
Apple separately asks for permission to track you across apps and websites. If you decline, the game does not use your advertising identifier and you will see non-personalised ads. You can change this later in Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking.
Any device
You can reset or limit your advertising identifier through your system settings — on iOS under Privacy & Security, and on Android under Google → Ads.
Children
Our games are not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided personal information through one of our games, please contact us and we will look into it. Because the games collect no personal information and store no data off the device, there is generally nothing for us to delete beyond what removing the app already erases.
Data we do not collect
To be explicit, our games do not collect, store or transmit:
- Your name, email address or phone number
- Your contacts, photos, camera, microphone or files
- Your precise location
- Any account credentials
The games do not use analytics services beyond the reporting built into Google AdMob.
Security
Because game data stays on your device and we operate no servers, there is no database of user information for us to lose. Data on your device is protected by your device's own security, such as your passcode and the operating system's app sandboxing.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights over personal data, such as the right to access, correct or delete it, or to object to processing.
Since we hold no personal data about you, most of these rights are satisfied by actions you can take directly:
- Delete everything we could relate to you — uninstall the game, or use Settings → Reset progress inside it.
- Withdraw consent to personalised ads — Settings → Ad privacy settings, in the game.
- Requests concerning data held by Google — contact Google directly using the policies linked above, as they are the controller of that data.
If you have a question we can help with, contact us using the address below.
Changes to this policy
If a game changes in a way that affects this policy, or a new game is released under it, we will update this page and change the date at the top. Significant changes will be noted in the game's release notes.
Contact
Questions about this policy or any of our games can be sent to contact@kivorastudios.online, or to support@kivorastudios.online for help with a game.
Kivora LLC is an independent studio. We read every message, though replies may take a few days.