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App: Glide 2048: Merge Puzzle Publisher: ByteOnyx (Md. Yousuf Ali) Effective: 1 October 2026

Glide 2048: Merge Puzzle (“Glide 2048”, “the app”) is a free number puzzle game for Android, published by ByteOnyx, the one-person studio of Md. Yousuf Ali (“we”, “us”). This page explains what the app does with data.

Summary

The whole policy in one table. Every row is explained below.

Data	Collected by us	Sent anywhere	Why
Name, email, phone, address	No	No	The app never asks for them
Location	No	No	Not used
Contacts, photos, files, microphone, camera	No	No	Not used
Advertising ID	No	No	There are no ads
Analytics, crash reports, usage tracking	No	No	There is no analytics or crash SDK
Game progress, score, history, settings	No	Only in the optional cloud save	Kept on your phone so the game works
Scores, achievements, Play Games player ID	No	To Google, only if you sign in	Leaderboards and achievements
Cloud save file	No	To your own Google Drive app data, only if you sign in	So your history returns on a new phone

1. What data we collect

None. The app has no account of its own. It does not ask for your name, email address, phone number, date of birth, location, contacts, photos, files, microphone or camera. It does not use analytics, crash reporting or advertising SDKs, and it does not read the Android advertising ID.

We receive no personal data about you at any time, because we operate no servers of our own. Everything the game remembers is described in section 3, and it stays on your phone unless you choose the optional Google Play Games features in section 2.

2. Google Play Games (optional)

The app offers leaderboards and achievements through Google Play Games Services. This is optional: Google may offer to sign you in with your Google account when the app starts; you can decline, and the game plays exactly the same without it. Nothing in the game is locked behind an account.

If you sign in, the app sends to Google, under your Play Games profile: your scores (including your score on the Daily Challenge, which has its own board), the number of moves and play time to your first 2048 tile, the number of games you finish, and which achievements you earn. A practice run of a past Daily is never sent. Google shows these on the leaderboards and your achievements page. Your leaderboard entry (your Play Games name and avatar, your score) is visible to other players according to your Play Games profile settings (Google’s “Make your gamer profile public” toggle). To attach these to your profile, Google Play services on your phone sends your Play Games player ID (an ID Google creates for the game, not your email) to Google. The app shows your Play Games display name on the device; it never sends your name or email anywhere.

This data is held by Google, not by us, and Google’s Privacy Policy applies to it. You can sign out, change your profile visibility, or delete your Play Games data in the Google Play Games app or at myaccount.google.com. We can see the leaderboards and achievement totals in the Play Console, but no email or account details.

Cloud save (optional): if you are signed in to Play Games, the app also keeps one small backup of your game history, best score, biggest tile, lifetime totals, fastest-stage records, stage checkpoints and your Daily Challenge results in your own Google Drive app data (Google’s “Saved Games” feature). To do this the app asks for one Google permission, drive.appdata — the app-data folder of your Drive, a private space only this app can see. It cannot read, open or list any other file in your Drive. The backup holds no name, no email address, no device id and no settings. It is there so your history comes back when you reinstall the game or move to a new phone and sign in with the same Google account. Only you and the game can read it; we cannot. Deleting this game’s data in the Play Games app or in your Google account settings also deletes the backup.

The cloud save runs only while you are signed in to Play Games. It is a convenience, not a guarantee — please do not treat it as your only copy of anything.

3. Data stored on your device

The app saves the following on your device only, in the app’s own private storage:

• the game you are playing, your score, your best score and your biggest tile;
• your finished-game history, your lifetime totals and your records (such as the fewest moves to each stage);
• your Daily Challenge results, streak and calendar;
• your stage checkpoints;
• your settings — theme, look, language, sound and vibration;
• a few notes the app keeps for itself: when you last opened it, which “What’s new” note you have seen, which looks you have already seen, and when it last asked you for a store rating;
• if you use Play Games, your Play Games display name and your latest leaderboard rank.

Apart from what section 2 describes (scores, achievements and the optional cloud save), none of this ever leaves your device. Uninstalling the app deletes what is on the device. A cloud save, if you were signed in, stays in your Google account until you delete it, and comes back when you sign in again.

4. Third-party services

The app uses no advertising network, no analytics service and no crash reporting service. The complete list of third parties is:

• Google Play Games Services (Google LLC) — the leaderboards and achievements in section 2. Used only after you sign in.
• Google Drive app data (Google LLC) — the optional cloud save in section 2, scope drive.appdata, in your own Drive. Used only after you sign in.
• Google Play services (Google LLC) — the Android system component that carries the two above.

That is all of them. Google’s use of this data is covered by Google’s Privacy Policy. If you never sign in, the app contacts no third party at all.

5. How your data is kept safe

• On your phone. Everything in section 3 is written to the app’s private storage, which Android keeps separate from other apps. No other app can read it.
• On the way to Google. The scores and the cloud save travel over Google Play services’ own encrypted connection (HTTPS/TLS). We do not build that connection ourselves and cannot weaken it.
• On our side, nothing. We run no servers, no database and no account system, so there is no store of player data anywhere that could be lost or breached. This is a deliberate design choice.
• No password to lose. The game has no login of its own. The only sign-in is Google’s, protected by your own Google account.

No method of storage or transmission is perfectly secure, but because we hold nothing, the only data at risk is what is already under your own control — on your phone, and in your own Google account.

6. How long data is kept

• On your phone: until you delete it. The app keeps your most recent 100 finished games and up to 2,000 days of Daily Challenge results, and drops the oldest beyond that by itself.
• The cloud save: stays in your own Google Drive app data until you delete this game’s data from your Google account. We cannot delete it for you, and we cannot read it.
• Scores and achievements on Play Games: held by Google under Google’s own retention rules, until you delete this game’s Play Games data.
• By us: nothing, for no time at all. We have no servers and hold no copy of any of it.

7. Deleting your data

You control everything the app stores, and you can remove all of it yourself.

• On your phone: uninstall the app, or open Android Settings → Apps → Glide 2048 → Storage and tap “Clear storage”. Either one deletes your progress, best score, history, Daily results and settings.
• In your Google account: open the Google Play Games app, or go to myaccount.google.com, and delete this game’s data. That removes your scores, achievements and the optional cloud save described in section 2.

We keep no copy of any of it on our own servers, because we run none, so there is nothing for us to delete on our side. If you have a question about deletion, write to yousuf.stu@gmail.com and we will answer within 30 days.

8. Selling and sharing

We do not sell your data, and we never will. We do not share it with any third party for that party’s own purposes — not with advertisers, not with data brokers, not with anyone. We do not use your data for advertising, profiling or any automated decision-making.

The only company that ever receives anything is Google, and only for the Play Games features you chose to switch on by signing in, as described in sections 2 and 4. That is Google acting as the service you signed in to, not a sale.

9. Sharing a score

When you tap “Share”, the app opens the Android share sheet with a short text containing your score and a picture the app draws on your phone — your board, your score and your biggest tile on a card. (A Daily Challenge share never shows the board, so it cannot spoil the day for anyone else.) The picture is made on the device and handed straight to the app you pick; it is not uploaded anywhere first. You choose which app receives it. We do not receive or see it.

10. Permissions

The app requests no Android runtime permissions — no location, no camera, no microphone, no contacts, no storage access. It declares only internet access, and uses it for Google Play Games (section 2).

11. Internet

The app works fully offline. The only thing it sends over the internet is the Play Games data in section 2, and only if you signed in; scores made offline are sent when you are back online. Signed out, the app makes no network request of its own.

12. Advertising

The app contains no ads, no in-app purchases, and no advertising or marketing SDK of any kind. It does not read or transmit the Android advertising ID, and it does not take part in any ad network, ad ID, or cross-app tracking.

13. Children

The app is a general-audience game. It is not directed at children and is not part of Google Play’s Designed for Families programme. It collects no personal data from anyone, so it collects none from children either, and it shows no ads.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from a child under 13 (or the equivalent minimum age in your country). If you believe a child has provided us with personal data, write to yousuf.stu@gmail.com and we will act on it. Google Play Games sign-in is Google’s, and follows Google’s own account rules for supervised and child accounts.

14. Your rights

Depending on where you live — for example under the GDPR in the EEA and the UK, or the CCPA/CPRA in California — you have rights to access, correct, export, delete and restrict the use of your personal data, and to object to it being sold or shared.

We hold no personal data about you, so there is nothing for us to hand over, correct or delete on our side, and nothing has ever been sold or shared. In practice you exercise these rights directly: section 7 deletes everything on the device, and your Google account settings control everything Google holds. If you would like this confirmed in writing, or you have any other request, write to yousuf.stu@gmail.com and we will answer within 30 days, free of charge.

15. Changes to this policy

If the app changes in a way that affects this policy, we will update this page and the effective date at the top of it. This page keeps the same address, so a link from the app or from the store listing always reaches the current version. Please check it from time to time.

16. Contact us

Questions about this policy, about your data, or about the app:

• Email: yousuf.stu@gmail.com
• Publisher: ByteOnyx (Md. Yousuf Ali), Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Website: byteonyx.com

We answer every message within 30 days.