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App: Merrifruit: Fruit Merge Publisher: ByteOnyx (Md. Yousuf Ali) Effective: 9 October 2026

Merrifruit: Fruit Merge (“Merrifruit”, “the app”) is a free 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 such SDK in the app
Progress, coins, items, passport, scores, settings	No	Not by itself — only the cloud save below, if you sign in	Kept on your phone so the game works
Your Play Games player ID, scores and achievements	No	Only if you sign in to Google Play Games	Leaderboards and achievements
A saved copy of your progress (cloud save)	No	Only if you sign in — to your own Google Drive app data	So it comes back on a new phone
A backup of the game’s saved data	No	Only if you turned on Android backup — to your own Google account	Android’s own feature, for a new phone
A picture or text you choose to share	No	Only to the app you pick	You asked to share it
A rating you choose to give	No	Only to Google Play	Google Play shows the rating card

1. What data we collect

None. The app has no account of its own and asks you to create nothing. It does not ask for your name, email address, phone number, date of birth, location, contacts, photos, files, microphone or camera. It contains no analytics, crash-reporting or advertising SDK, and it does not read the Android advertising ID.

We run no servers of our own, so we receive nothing about you, ever. Everything the game remembers is listed in section 3, and it stays on your phone unless you sign in to Google Play Games — section 2 says exactly what goes to Google if you do.

2. Google Play Games (optional)

The app offers world leaderboards, achievements and a cloud save through Google Play Games Services (version 2). This is optional. When you reach Home, the game asks Google Play Games whether you are signed in, and Play Games may sign you in by itself, as it does for other games; the game shows no screen of its own for this. If you are not signed in, the World tab on the Rank screen has a “Sign in” button. You never have to tap it: nothing in the game is locked behind an account, and your own scores and achievements always show on your phone, signed in or not.

The Google permissions the app asks for. Signing in asks Google for two permissions (OAuth scopes), and no others:

• games_lite — Google Play Games itself: your Play Games profile, the leaderboards and the achievements;
• drive.appdata — the app-data folder of your Google Drive, for the cloud save (below). It is a private space only this game can see. The game cannot read, open or list any other file in your Drive.

What goes to Google if you sign in. Under your Play Games profile, the app sends:

• your scores to three leaderboards: your Classic scores (Google keeps your best), the one try of each Daily challenge that counts, and your fruit stall’s total sales. A Zen score and a Daily practice score never go to a leaderboard;
• which of the 33 achievements you have earned, and your progress towards the ones that count up;
• your Play Games player ID, which Google Play services on your phone uses to attach all of this to your profile. It is an ID Google makes for games, not your email address.

Google shows these on the leaderboards and on your achievements page. On a leaderboard, other players can see your Play Games name, your Play Games picture and your score; your Play Games profile settings, which Google controls, decide who sees your profile. The app shows your Play Games name and picture on your phone, on the World tab; it never sends your name or your email anywhere. If you are offline, the game keeps your scores and achievements on the phone and sends them the next time it can.

This data is held by Google, not by us, and Google’s Privacy Policy applies to it. We can see the leaderboards and the achievement totals in the Play Console, but no email address and no account details.

Cloud save. While you are signed in, the app keeps one saved game, named “merrifruit-save”, with Google Play Games’ “Saved Games” feature, in your own Google Drive app-data folder (the drive.appdata permission above). It holds your progress: your level, XP and coins and the theme you play in; your power-ups and the things you got in the shop — baskets, outfits, stall decorations and friends — and which ones you use; your fruit passport; your stats and scores, such as your best scores, your top 10 Classic games and your Daily results; your achievements, and which scores and achievements Google already has; your day streak and daily gift; and a few notes the game keeps for itself — how many times you have opened the app, the day of the last rating request and of the last error, and which first-time moments you have had. It holds no name, no email address and no device ID. Your settings are not in it, and neither is the game you are part way through: they stay on the phone.

When you sign in, the game puts the cloud save and the save on your phone together and keeps the best of both, so nothing you earned on either is lost. Only you and the game can read the cloud save; we cannot.

The cloud save runs only while you are signed in to Play Games, and it depends on Google’s services, on the sign-in and on the network, any of which can fail. 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:

• your level, XP and coins, and the theme you play in;
• your power-ups and the things you got in the shop — baskets, fruit outfits, stall decorations and friends — and which ones you use;
• your fruit passport — which fruits you have made in each theme, and which Shiny ones;
• your best scores, your top 10 Classic games (the score, the biggest fruit and the day of each), the achievements you have earned, how many games you have played, the tricks you have done and what your stall has sold in total;
• today’s three tasks and the day’s Daily challenge result, your day streak with its freezes, and where you are in the daily gift cycle;
• the game you are part way through, so Continue can bring it back;
• your settings — sound, music, vibration, language, Bangla digits, reduce motion, colour-blind mode, left-handed mode and the other switches in Settings;
• if you sign in to Google Play Games: the scores and achievements still waiting to be sent, which ones Google already has, and the last world leaderboard the phone loaded — the Play Games names and scores Google showed — so the World tab opens at once;
• how many times you have opened the app, the day it last asked Google Play to show the rating card and the day the app last hit an error — only so it asks for a rating at a good time — the day it last offered you an update, which update notes you have read, and which first-time moments you have already had, such as your first merge and your first game over.

None of it is sent to us. Uninstalling the app deletes all of it from the phone. If you sign in to Google Play Games, some of it goes to Google as well — section 2 lists exactly what.

Android backup. Android can back up apps’ data to your Google account and put it back on a new phone. If you have turned backup on, Android may include the list above in your phone’s backup, together with your other apps’ data. That is Android’s own feature, run by Google under your Google account and Google’s Privacy Policy. The app sends nothing itself, and we never see the backup. You can turn backup off in your phone’s settings.

4. Third-party services

The app contains no advertising network, no analytics service and no crash-reporting service. Only Google services are in it, all run by Google LLC through Google Play on your phone:

• Google Play Games Services (Google LLC) — the leaderboards, the achievements and the cloud save. It sends nothing until you are signed in, and you never have to sign in. Section 2 says what it sends; Google’s Privacy Policy covers what Google then does with it.
• Google Play In-App Updates (Google LLC). The app may ask Google Play whether a newer version of the game is out. If one is, the game offers it, and Google Play downloads and installs it if you say yes. Nothing about you is sent: Google Play is asked about the app, not about you.
• Google Play In-App Review (Google LLC). Now and then, right after a new best score, the app asks Google Play to show its rating card — at most once in 30 days. Google decides whether it shows. If you rate the game, your rating goes to Google Play under your Google account, like any Play Store review, and Google’s Privacy Policy applies. The app gets nothing back: not whether you rated, and not what you said.
• Android backup (Google LLC), only if you have turned it on — section 3 says what it may copy.

Three buttons in the app hand something to another app on your phone, at your request, and none sends anything to us by itself: “Share” opens the app you choose (section 9), “Read it on the web” at the end of the privacy policy in the app opens your browser at this page, and “Open Google Play Games” on the Delete progress page opens Google’s Play Games profile page (section 7). Those apps have their own privacy policies. If you write to us at the address in section 16, we receive what you send — your email address and your message — and use it only to answer you.

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.
• The app opens no connection of its own. It holds no internet permission — you can see that in Android Settings → Apps → Merrifruit → Permissions. When you sign in to Play Games, the sending is done by Google Play services, a separate part of your phone, over Google’s own encrypted connection. The game never talks to a network by itself, and there is no address it could talk to: we run nothing.
• The cloud save is yours. It sits in your own Google Drive app data, a private folder only this game can reach, and it is protected by your Google account. We have no way to read 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. That is a deliberate design choice, and signing in to Play Games does not change it: the data goes to Google, never to us.
• No password to lose. The game has no login of its own. Play Games sign-in is Google’s, handled by your phone, and the app never sees a password.
• A backup is yours. If Android backup is on, the copy is kept by Google under your Google account, protected by it. We have no way to read it.

6. How long data is kept

• On your phone: until you delete it (section 7). The app keeps only your top 10 Classic games, today’s tasks and the day’s Daily result, and replaces older ones by itself.
• In your Google account, if you signed in to Play Games: until you delete it. Your leaderboard scores, your achievements and the cloud save stay there until then; section 7 says how to remove them.
• In your Google account, if Android backup is on: as long as Google keeps your phone’s backup, under Google’s own rules, or until you delete it.
• 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 it yourself:

• Your progress, in the game: open Settings → About and privacy → Delete progress. It has its own page; hold the button down for 3 seconds. It deletes your level, coins, items, passport, scores, achievements, tasks and streak, and the game in progress, from the phone. If you use Play Games, it also replaces your cloud save with an empty one the next time you are signed in on Home, before anything is read from it, so the old progress never comes back. Your settings stay.
• Everything, settings too: uninstall the app, or open Android Settings → Apps → Merrifruit → Storage and tap “Clear storage”.
• A copy in Android backup: if you use Android backup, open your Google account’s backups — in Google Drive, under Storage → Backups (drive.google.com/drive/backups) — and delete your phone’s backup, or turn backup off in your phone’s settings. This removes the backup of your whole phone, not only this game.

If you signed in to Google Play Games, your achievements and leaderboard scores are kept by Google Play Games, not on the phone, so “Delete progress” and uninstalling do not remove them. To delete everything: first “Delete progress” in the game, then on Google Play:

• in the Google Play Games app: More → Settings → Delete Play Games account & data → under “Delete individual game data”: Merrifruit → Delete. The “Open Google Play Games” button on the game’s Delete progress page opens play.google.com/games/profile for this; or
• go to myaccount.google.com and remove it there.

That removes this game’s leaderboard entries, achievements and cloud save from your Google account. We hold no copy 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.

There is nothing to sell or share: we never have it in the first place.

9. Sharing a score

Sharing happens only when you tap “Share”, and you choose which app receives it:

• After a game, the results card can share a picture the app draws on your phone: the basket as the game ended, your score, your best fruit and the theme’s name, with a short line of text.
• On the Daily page, “Share” sends a few lines of text only: the day’s number, your score, your best fruit, how far up the fruit ladder you got, the seasons you saw and whether a friend saved you.
• A full passport page can be shared as a picture of its fruits.

None of it holds your name, an account or a place. A picture is made on the device and handed straight to the app you pick; it is not uploaded anywhere first. We never receive or see it.

10. Permissions

The app requests no Android permissions — no location, no camera, no microphone, no contacts, no storage access, no notifications, and not even the internet permission. You can check this yourself: Android Settings → Apps → Merrifruit → Permissions.

Signing in to Play Games does not change that. Google Play services is already on your phone as part of Android, and the sending is its work, not the app’s. That is also why no permission dialog ever appears.

11. Internet

The game plays fully offline, in every mode and in the Daily challenge, and it never waits for a network to let you play. The app itself opens no connection: it has no internet permission, so Android would not allow it to.

Only other parts of your phone reach the internet, through Google Play services or other apps rather than through the game:

• Play Games, once you are signed in — Google Play services sends your scores, your achievements and the cloud save (section 2), and brings back the world leaderboards for the World tab. Offline, the game simply keeps your scores and achievements and sends them the next time it can.
• Google Play’s update check — Google Play is asked whether a newer version of the game is out (section 4).
• Google Play’s rating card, when it shows and you rate; Android backup, if you have turned it on; your browser, if you open this policy or the Play Games profile page; and the app you pick when you share.

The things that open other apps are described in section 4.

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 takes no part in any ad network or cross-app tracking. Nothing in the game can be bought with money; coins are earned by playing and spent only in the game’s own shop.

13. Children

Merrifruit is made for players aged 13 and up. It is not directed at children and is not part of Google Play’s Designed for Families programme. It has no chat, no ads and nothing like gambling. It collects no personal data from anyone, so it collects none from children either.

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.

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 everything in your Google account — the Play Games data if you signed in, and any Android backup copy. 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.