1Overview
This Privacy Policy applies to Thinnai Games and to every game published on it - currently Herd & Hunter (Aadu Puli Aattam / ப்டு புலி ப்ட்டம்), Catch the Thief (Raja Rani / ராளா ரானி), and Dhayam (Ludo) - on the Android apps and the iOS apps (together, the "Applications"). It explains what information the Applications handle and how.
One policy covers all of them because they all work the same way: nothing you do in them is collected or sent anywhere.
2Information We Collect
The Applications do not require registration or an account, and they do not ask you for your name, email address, or any other personal details to play.
The Applications do not collect, transmit, or sell any personal data, and they contain no analytics, advertising, or third-party tracking SDKs.
3Information Stored On Your Device
Each game saves a little state locally, in the app's storage on your device, so it is ready the next time you open it.
Herd & Hunter: your settings (difficulty, chosen side, board theme, sound preference) and your in-progress game (board position, move history, score), so you can pick up where you left off.
Catch the Thief: your game setup - table size, number of human players, round count, board theme, language, per-role scoring, and sound/vibration preferences. Player names, passcodes and round-by-round results exist only in memory while a game is in progress; they are never written to storage and are gone the moment you close the app. Only the totals described below are kept.
Dhayam: your settings (number of players, board theme, sound and vibration preference) and your in-progress game (piece positions, turn order, and score), so you can pick up where you left off.
Every game also keeps running totals of the games played on this device: how many were started, how many were finished, and counts of how they ended - for example, which side won, or how many rounds were played and how often the Thief was caught. These are totals only, with no names, moves, scores or dates, and each game can reset its own totals from its home screen.
None of this data ever leaves your device, and none of it is transmitted to us or to any third party.
4Cookies and Tracking Technologies
The Applications do not use cookies, advertising identifiers, or any similar tracking technology.
5Permissions
The only device capability any of the Applications uses is vibration, for haptic feedback in Catch the Thief when you tap a seat or a card, and in Dhayam when you roll the dice or move a piece.
The Android and iOS apps do not request access to your camera, microphone, contacts, location, photos, or any other sensitive device permission - none are needed for the games to work.
6Third-Party Services
The Android apps are distributed through Google Play, and the iOS apps through the Apple App Store. Downloading, installing, and paying for (if applicable) an Application is subject to Google's and Apple's own privacy policies, which are outside our control.
Aside from those storefronts, the Applications do not share information with any third party, because they do not collect any to share.
7Children's Privacy
The Applications are suitable for a general audience and do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children. Because no account, profile, or personal data is ever requested, there is nothing for a child (or anyone else) to submit.
If you believe a child has somehow provided us personal information (for example, by email), contact us and we will delete it.
8Data Retention
Locally stored data persists on your device until you clear it yourself, by clearing the app's storage or uninstalling it. We hold no copy of it anywhere else.
In-progress game data in Catch the Thief - names, passcodes, scores - is never retained at all; it disappears the moment the game closes.
9Your Rights and Choices
Because we do not collect personal data, there is generally nothing held about you for us to access, correct, or delete on our servers. You can erase all locally stored game data at any time by clearing the app's storage or uninstalling it. Each game's totals of games played can also be reset on their own, from that game's home screen.
If you are a California resident, the CCPA/CPRA rights to know, delete, and opt out of sale or sharing of personal information do not add anything in practice here, since we do not collect, sell, or share personal information. If you have questions about this, contact us at the address below.
10International Users
The Applications can be used from anywhere. Since no personal data is collected or transmitted by them, no cross-border transfer of your personal data occurs as part of using them.
11Security
Because gameplay data stays on your device rather than passing through our servers, there is no central database of player data for us to secure or that could be breached.
12Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, for example to reflect a new feature or a new game. We will post the revised policy on this page with an updated effective date.