Nova Squad privacy policy

Effective date: 28 October 2026

This policy applies to the Nova Squad game for Android and iOS (app id com.novasquad.game).

The short version

• You do not need an account to play. We do not ask for your name, email, contacts, photos or location.
• Your game progress (levels, stars, coins, upgrades, settings) and the game's own play statistics are stored only on your device. We never receive them.
• The game shows ads through Google AdMob. Google's ad software collects device information, such as your advertising ID and IP address, to show and measure ads and to prevent fraud.
• Where the law requires it (for example in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland) you are asked for consent before ads use your data for personalization, and you can change your choice at any time in the game's Settings.
• The game sends no usage statistics, crash reports or other data to us or to any analytics service.
• The game has no in-app purchases and no notifications.
• Nova Squad is intended for players aged 13 and over.

1. Who we are

Nova Squad is developed and published by Sarkhan Rasullu, an individual developer ("we", "us"). For the processing described in this policy that happens inside the app, we are the controller of your data. Google is an independent controller for the data its advertising services collect, as described in section 3. You can contact us at support@aguga.app.

2. Data stored on your device

To keep your progress between sessions, the game saves the following in the app's private storage on your device:

• your levels, stars, coin balance and upgrade levels;
• your settings (for example music, sound effects, vibration, reduced flashing and the usage statistics switch) and which tips you have seen;
• on-device play statistics, such as the number of sessions, the days you played, a random number that tells installations apart on the device, and a log of recent game events (for example "level 4 won"). The game uses them only on the device, for example to pace ads and tips.

This data is not sent to us or to anyone else, and it does not identify you. On Android, if you have turned on device backup, the operating system may include this app data in your personal Google backup; that backup is controlled by your device settings and Google, not by us.

Because we do not have a copy, we cannot restore lost progress. Uninstalling the game or clearing its data deletes this information.

Usage statistics switch. The game's Settings contain a "Share anonymous usage stats" switch, which is off unless you turn it on. In the current version of the game no usage statistics are sent anywhere, whether the switch is on or off. If a future version starts sending usage statistics, we will update this policy and the store disclosures before that version is released, and statistics will be sent only with your permission.

3. Advertising (Google AdMob)

Nova Squad is free to download and is supported by ads. We use Google AdMob, which includes the Google Mobile Ads SDK and Google's User Messaging Platform (UMP) for consent. The game shows:

• a banner ad on the main menu (never during play);
• occasional full-screen ads after a won level (never during play and never when the game starts);
• optional rewarded ads that you choose to watch, to revive your squad after a loss or to double your bonus after a win.

We ask Google to limit ads to content suitable for a general audience with parental guidance (AdMob's "PG" maximum ad content rating).

When ads are requested or shown, Google's software automatically collects and processes the following, according to Google's own disclosures:

Google encrypts this data in transit. Google may combine it with other information it holds to personalize ads, depending on your consent, your device settings and your Google account settings. Ads may also be served by third-party ad buyers that take part in Google's auctions; where consent is required, only partners you allow in the consent message may use your data for purposes that need consent.

Read how Google uses this information: How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services, and the Google Privacy Policy. Google's list of ad technology providers is available through the consent message's partner list.

We do not receive your advertising ID or any of the data listed above in a form that identifies you. We only see aggregated reports from AdMob (for example how many ads were shown per country).

4. Consent and tracking permission

Europe, the UK and Switzerland

If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, the game shows a consent message from Google's User Messaging Platform before ads are requested. You can accept, reject or choose specific purposes and partners. If you do not consent, Google may still show non-personalized or limited ads, which use data such as your IP address for purposes like fraud prevention and frequency capping, under the legal bases shown in the consent message.

United States

Where US state privacy laws give you the right to opt out of the "sale" or "sharing" of personal information or of targeted advertising, you can do so through the "Privacy options" button in the game's Settings (where shown) and through your device's advertising settings (section 5).

iPhone

On iOS, the game asks for your permission through Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt before the advertising identifier (IDFA) can be used to track you across other companies' apps and websites. If you choose "Ask App Not to Track", the IDFA is not available to the game or to Google, and you will still see ads, which will be less personalized. You can change this at any time in iOS Settings > Privacy & Security > Tracking.

5. Your choices

• Change your consent: open the game, go to Settings and tap "Privacy options". The button appears where a consent choice applies to you.
• Android: Settings > Privacy > Ads (or Settings > Google > Ads, depending on your device) lets you reset or delete your advertising ID. After you delete it, apps receive a string of zeros instead of an ID.
• iOS: Settings > Privacy & Security > Tracking, and Settings > Privacy & Security > Apple Advertising.
• Google account: manage ad personalization at My Ad Center.
• Play offline: the game works without an internet connection. With no connection, no ads are requested and no data is sent to Google.

6. Children

Nova Squad is not directed at children. It is intended for players aged 13 and over, and its store listing sets the target audience to 13 and over. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 (or the higher age of digital consent that applies in your country), and the game is not designed or marketed for them. If you believe a child has used the game and that data about them was processed, contact us at support@aguga.app and we will help, including by asking Google to act on the data where possible.

7. Retention and deletion

• Game progress, settings and on-device statistics: kept on your device until you clear the app's data or uninstall the game.
• Advertising data: retained by Google according to Google's retention policies, see How Google retains data it collects. You can stop further collection by resetting or deleting your advertising ID, withdrawing consent in "Privacy options", or uninstalling the game.
• We hold no account or personal profile about you, so there is nothing for us to delete on our side. If you contact us by email, we keep that correspondence only as long as needed to answer you, and for no more than 12 months.

8. Your rights

Depending on where you live (for example under the EU or UK GDPR, or US state laws such as the California Consumer Privacy Act), you may have the right to access, correct, delete or receive a copy of your personal data, to object to or restrict processing, to withdraw consent at any time (without affecting processing before withdrawal), and to opt out of targeted advertising. Because we do not hold personal data about you, most requests are best handled through the controls in section 5 or directly with Google. We will answer any request sent to support@aguga.app within the time required by law. You also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority.

9. Security and international transfers

Your game data stays in the app's private storage on your device. Data collected by Google's ad software is encrypted in transit (TLS) and may be processed in countries other than yours, including the United States, under the safeguards Google describes in its privacy policy.

10. What we do not do

• No accounts, sign-in or social login.
• No analytics, usage statistics or crash reporting sent off your device.
• No in-app purchases and no handling of payment details.
• No push or local notifications.
• No access to your contacts, camera, microphone, photos, files or location. The game itself needs only internet access (for ads) and vibration (for haptic feedback, which you can turn off in Settings); the other technical permissions in the app come from Google's ad software, which uses them to load ads and to use the Android advertising ID and Android's privacy-preserving ad features (the Privacy Sandbox Topics and Attribution APIs) as described in section 3.
• No chat or user-generated content.
• We do not sell your personal information for money.

11. Changes to this policy

We will update this page when the game changes how it handles data (for example if we add analytics, in-app purchases or notifications) and change the effective date at the top, before the version with that change is released. For significant changes we will also show a notice in the game or in the store release notes.

12. Contact

Sarkhan Rasullu
Email: support@aguga.app