Vibesville
Privacy Policy
- The Vibesville game has no accounts, no ads and no analytics. It doesn't track you.
- Your town, settings and postcard album stay on your device.
- The only thing the game sends anywhere is feedback you choose to write and send, along with a few details about the game and your town to help us understand it.
- If you buy the optional "Send good vibes" tip, Google Play handles the payment. We never see your payment details.
- This website (not the game) uses Google Analytics to count visits.
Who we are
Vibesville is made by DK Development ("we", "us"). If you have any questions about this policy or your information, email us at dkdevelopment-games@outlook.com.
Information stored on your device
To play, the game saves these on your device only. They're never sent to us:
- Your town: the island, buildings, paths, vibe and quest progress.
- Your album: postcards of finished towns (small pictures of your town), their names and the keepsakes you've collected.
- Settings: volume levels and how far through the first-time tips you are.
Uninstalling the game, or clearing its storage in Android's settings, deletes all of it. We can't recover it for you, because we never have a copy.
Feedback you send
Settings has a feedback form. Nothing is sent unless you type a message and tap Send. When you do, the game sends the following over an encrypted (HTTPS) connection to our feedback server:
| What | Why |
|---|---|
| Your message (up to 2,000 characters) | So we can read your feedback. |
| The game's name and version, and the platform (e.g. Android) | To know which version the feedback is about. |
| Your device's model name (e.g. "Pixel 7") and its language and region setting (e.g. "en_AU") | To spot problems that only happen on some devices or languages. |
| The date and time you sent it | To put feedback in order. |
| A few facts about your current town: its island number and layout, how many buildings and natural props it has, its vibe and vibe per tick, the Great Lantern's stage and how many quests you've finished | To understand where you were in the game. |
The game doesn't send your name, email, account, contacts, location, advertising ID or any other identifier with your feedback. Please don't include personal details in your message.
As with any internet connection, our server can see the IP address your feedback comes from. Our server logs keep it for 7 days for security, and it isn't linked to your feedback.
We use feedback only to understand and improve Vibesville. We keep it for 1 year and then delete it. We don't sell it, and we don't share it with anyone except the service providers who host our feedback server on our behalf.
In-app purchase
"Send good vibes" is an optional tip that changes nothing in the game. Purchases are made through Google Play and are covered by Google's Privacy Policy. Google handles your payment details. The game only receives confirmation that the purchase went through, so it can say thank you, and it doesn't send that anywhere.
What Vibesville doesn't do
- No accounts or sign-in.
- No advertising, and no advertising ID.
- No analytics, crash reporting or tracking services.
- No access to your location, contacts, camera, microphone, photos or files.
The game asks Android for internet access only, to send feedback and to talk to Google Play for the tip.
Children
Vibesville isn't directed at children under 13. Because it has no accounts, ads or tracking, it doesn't knowingly collect personal information from children. If you're a parent and think your child has sent us personal information in a feedback message, contact us and we'll delete it.
Your choices and rights
- Don't want to send anything? Just don't use the feedback form. The game works fully without it.
- Delete feedback you sent: email dkdevelopment-games@outlook.com with roughly when you sent it and what it said, since we have no account to look you up by, and we'll delete it.
- Delete your town and album: uninstall the game or clear its storage in Android's settings.
Depending on where you live, you may have other rights over your information, such as under the Australian Privacy Principles or the GDPR. Contact us to use them.
This website
This page and the Vibesville home page use Google Analytics to see how many people visit and which pages they read. Google Analytics uses cookies and receives details such as the pages you view, your browser and device type, and your approximate location from your IP address. We only look at the totals and don't use them to identify you.
Google processes this under Google's Privacy Policy. To opt out, block cookies for this site or install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.
None of this applies to the game. Nothing the game does is sent to Google Analytics.
Changes to this policy
If we change how Vibesville handles information, we'll update this page and its effective date before the change reaches the game.
Google Play Data safety answers
For the developer: how Vibesville 1.0 maps onto Google Play Console's Data safety form. It's kept here so the form and this policy stay in step.
Data collection and security
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Does your app collect or share any of the required user data types? | Yes (feedback only, sent by the user) |
| Is all of the user data collected by your app encrypted in transit? | Yes (HTTPS) |
| Do you provide a way for users to request that their data is deleted? | Yes, by email to dkdevelopment-games@outlook.com |
Data types collected
| Category · type | Collected | Shared | Processed ephemerally | Required or optional | Purposes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| App activity · Other user-generated content (the feedback message) | Yes | No | No | Optional | App functionality; Developer communications |
| App activity · Other actions (town stats sent with feedback) | Yes | No | No | Optional | App functionality; Analytics |
| App info and performance · Other app performance data (game version, platform, device model, language setting) | Yes | No | No | Optional | App functionality; Analytics |
Not collected
Location; personal info (name, email, user IDs, address, phone); financial info (Google Play handles purchases, and the developer receives no purchase history or payment details); health and fitness; messages; photos and videos; audio; files and docs; calendar; contacts; web browsing; crash logs and diagnostics from automated reporting; device or other IDs (no advertising ID or device identifier is read).
Notes for the form
- "Shared" is No because only service providers that host the feedback server handle it on our behalf, which the form doesn't count as sharing.
- Data saved on the device (the town, album and settings) isn't "collected", because it never leaves the device.
- If analytics, crash reporting or accounts are ever added, update both the form and this policy first.