Lantern Drift Privacy Policy

Effective date: November 13, 2026

DesMacApps LLC operates Lantern Drift, the Android game with package name com.forfuns.lanterndrift. For privacy questions, contact [email protected].

Audience

Lantern Drift is intended for teens and adults aged 13 and older, not children under 13. We do not ask for a date of birth. This is a representation of the intended audience, not a claim about every advertising-tag setting in the current app build.

Game progress

Lantern Drift stores your best distance, firefly totals, owned and selected lantern styles, purchase entitlements, sound, music and vibration settings, tutorial progress, and run count on your device. We do not operate a game account or upload this gameplay save to a server of our own. Clearing app storage or uninstalling the game removes the local save. Fireflies are in-game points, not money.

Advertising and privacy choices

This release uses Google Mobile Ads and Google's User Messaging Platform to provide ads and manage applicable privacy messages. Ads can include a full-screen ad between runs, and optional rewarded ads that you choose for Relight or Double Fireflies. There are no banner ads. Full-screen ads are not shown during a flight, not in the first three runs, and then at most every third run. You choose Relight or Double Fireflies by tapping a button; each is limited to once per run. Ad rewards are granted only when the ad reports that the reward was earned. Starting another run does not require a rewarded ad. Ads and ad rewards may not always be available.

Before loading ads, the app checks which privacy messages and choices apply. Depending on your location and previously saved choices, a privacy form or a privacy-options entry point may be available on the menu. Not every user sees a form. The app requests ads only when Google's privacy-message service reports that a request is allowed. Your choices do not necessarily stop all non-personalized advertising or technical requests.

Google receives advertising information including your IP address, which can support approximate city-level location; ad impressions, clicks and rewarded-ad interactions; technical diagnostics; and device or app identifiers. This build includes the Android advertising-ID permission, so Google's ads SDK may use the advertising ID where the device allows it, as well as an app-set ID. This information is used to provide and measure advertising, analyze performance, and prevent fraud and abuse. Non-personalized ads do not mean that no information is processed.

The app does not request location permission or send GPS coordinates. The privacy-message service also receives information before the ad-loading decision, including the app identifier, package and version, device model and Android version, screen configuration, language, and stored privacy-choice information. This check can occur even when no ad is ultimately loaded.

Analytics and crash reports

We also use Google Firebase Analytics and Crashlytics to understand installs, play sessions, stability, purchases and ad performance. The game sends Google an app-instance identifier, gameplay and purchase events (product and price, never payment details), ad revenue reports, device and app details and crash reports. In the EU, UK and other regions that require it, the privacy choices described above also control what Analytics may store, and Analytics storage stays off until the privacy check answers; where a privacy-options entry point appears on the menu, you can change your choice there. Google processes this data for us under https://firebase.google.com/support/privacy; we don't sell it.

Purchases and billing diagnostics

Optional purchases are processed by Google Play. Google handles payment details; Lantern Drift does not receive your full payment-card number. The app receives purchase records and sends purchase tokens back to Google Play to acknowledge purchases and deliver Remove Ads or Unlock All Lanterns. It stores local entitlement flags. We do not send purchase tokens to a purchase-validation server of our own. Products and localized prices appear when Google Play supplies them.

Remove Ads turns off full-screen ads between runs, but leaves optional rewarded ads. Unlock All Lanterns unlocks every lantern style and does not remove ads. The original Ember style stays free.

Google Play Billing connects when the app starts, even if you do not make a purchase. Its library automatically sends Google technical diagnostics about billing results, errors and service connections, along with app and library versions, device and Android configuration, and a randomly generated billing-client session identifier. Google uses these diagnostics to analyze errors and improve billing reliability. There is no switch in Lantern Drift to turn off these startup billing diagnostics. Purchasing Remove Ads does not stop Billing diagnostics or the privacy-message check.

Sharing, security and retention

Google receives the advertising, privacy-message, billing, analytics and crash-report data described above. See https://policies.google.com/privacy and https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites for Google's policies. We do not sell the local gameplay save or upload it for advertising. We also use Google Firebase Analytics and Crashlytics, described above.

These services use encrypted HTTPS/TLS connections. Local progress remains until you clear app storage or uninstall the game. Google manages its own service and transaction records under its policies. Clearing the game does not delete records already held by Google. We do not promise a particular retention period for Google-held records, automatic deletion within 90 days, or a mechanism through which we can delete those records. You may contact [email protected] with privacy questions.

Other information

No account is required. Lantern Drift has no chat or user-posting feature and does not request access to contacts, camera or microphone. If you email support separately, we use the information you send to respond to your request.

Changes

We will update this policy and its effective date when our practices change.