Privacy Policy

Sokoban Skies · Last updated 12 September 2026

Sokoban Skies is published by Mohannad Azzi ("we", "us"). This policy explains what the game does with information, on Android and iOS. It covers the game only, not the app stores you downloaded it from.

Questions, or a request about your data: mohannad.ezzi@gmail.com.

The short version. Sokoban Skies has no accounts, no servers and no cloud save. Everything it remembers — your solved levels, settings, hints and lives — stays on your device. The one thing that does leave your device is advertising data, handled by Google AdMob. On Android every player is treated as a child, so ads are never personalised. On iOS ads are personalised only if you allow it, and you are asked.

1. What the game stores on your device

Sokoban Skies writes a small number of files to its own private storage area. These files stay on your device, are not readable by other apps, and are never sent to us or anyone else. They hold:

your settings — music and sound volume, vibration, reduce motion;
your progress — which levels you have solved, your best number of moves and your stars;
how many hints you have banked, and which of the short "how this works" cards you have already seen;
your lives, and the time at which the next free life is due;
your answers to the privacy prompts described below, so that you are not asked again.

Deleting the app deletes all of it. There is no copy anywhere else, which also means there is no way for us to restore it.

2. Advertising

The game shows ads supplied by Google AdMob. There are two kinds: a full-screen ad after a level you have just finished — at most one every three minutes — and an optional ad you can choose to watch in exchange for one life. You are never shown an ad in the middle of a puzzle.

To serve an ad, Google receives information from your device. Google — not us — decides what it collects and how it uses it. Typically this includes:

an advertising identifier (the Advertising ID on Android, or the IDFA on iOS when you have allowed tracking);
your IP address, and coarse location derived from it;
device and app information, such as the device model, operating system version and app version;
whether an ad was shown, watched or tapped.

We never see this information, and we receive no report that identifies you. What we can see from Google is aggregate totals: how many ads were shown, and how much they earned.

Personalised advertising, and when it is not used

Where	What happens
Android (Google Play)	The game's target audience on Google Play includes children, so every player is treated as a child, whatever their age. Ads are never personalised, the advertising identifier is not used to build a profile, and ad content is limited to the G (general audiences) rating.
iOS (App Store)	The game is rated 4+ but is not in the Kids Category. Ads are personalised only if you allow it — see the prompts below. If you say no to either, you still see ads, but they are chosen without using your identifier.

The prompts you may see when the game starts

Both appear on the loading screen, before you reach the game, and only once.

A consent form, if you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland. It is Google's User Messaging Platform form, and it asks whether Google and its advertising partners may use your data.

The App Tracking Transparency prompt, on iOS only. Apple asks whether the app may track you across other companies' apps and websites. Saying "Ask App Not to Track" means the IDFA is not used, and ads are not personalised. Apple shows this prompt once; you can change the answer later in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking.

If the game cannot reach the network when it starts, no ads are requested at all, and it remains fully playable — including every one of its 200 levels.

3. Purchases

Sokoban Skies currently has no purchases. Nothing in the game can be bought, and it can be finished without paying. If that changes, this policy changes with it before the feature ships.

4. Lives and ads you choose to watch

The game gives you five lives. Restarting a level, or leaving one part-solved, costs one, and a life comes back every thirty minutes. The countdown is worked out from your device's own clock and is stored on the device; nothing about it is sent anywhere.

When you have none left you can wait, or you can choose to watch an ad for one. Watching is always optional and always something you tap: the game never plays a rewarded ad on its own.

5. Children

Sokoban Skies is suitable for all ages and is listed on Google Play with a target audience that includes children. Because of that:

on Android, every player is treated as a child — no personalised advertising, and only G-rated ad content;
we do not ask for a name, an email address, a photograph, a contact, or a location;
there is no chat, no messaging, no user-generated content and no link to social networks;
the only links out of the game are to this policy and to the terms.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, write to mohannad.ezzi@gmail.com and we will delete anything we hold.

6. Who else is involved

Who	What for	Their policy
Google (AdMob and the User Messaging Platform)	Serving ads and collecting consent	policies.google.com/privacy · how Google uses data from apps that use its services
Google Play / Apple App Store	Distributing the game	Google · Apple
Unity Technologies	The game engine the game is built with	unity.com privacy policy for players

There is no analytics service, no crash-reporting service, no social network integration and no advertising network other than AdMob.

7. Your choices

Change your consent answer — where a form is required in your region, it can be reopened from the game's Settings.
Change tracking on iOS — iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking.
Reset or delete your advertising ID — Android Settings → Google → Ads, or iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking.
Play without ads — turn off the network before playing. Nothing is requested, and the game works exactly as it does otherwise.
Delete everything — uninstall the game.

8. Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to ask what personal data is held about you, to have it corrected or deleted, to object to how it is used, or to receive a copy.

We hold no personal data about you ourselves — the game keeps everything on your device and sends us nothing — so in practice a request to us will find nothing to return. For data held by Google in connection with advertising, use the links in section 6, or write to us and we will point you to the right place.

9. Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it, and the updated version appears here and at the link inside the game. Material changes to how advertising works will also be reflected in the consent form.

10. Contact

Mohannad Azzi
mohannad.ezzi@gmail.com