Privacy Policy — absOrbs

v1.0 — pending legal review. This is the working draft for absOrbs. Treat the language as authoritative for what the app actually does; the legal phrasing is being refined.

Last updated: May 16, 2026

1. Introduction

absOrbs is a tilt-controlled arcade game published by CaliKo LLC (“we”, “us”, “our”). This Privacy Policy explains what data the absOrbs app collects, what data our advertising partners collect, and what choices you have about it.

This policy applies to the absOrbs mobile app on iOS and Android. It does not apply to other CaliKo apps or to the caliko.co website outside of the /absorbs/* pages.

2. What absOrbs collects (local-only)

absOrbs stores a small amount of data on your device, using the operating system’s standard preferences storage (SharedPreferences on Android, NSUserDefaults on iOS). This data never leaves your device unless you initiate sharing it (e.g. emailing a screenshot to support):

• Best score (Normal mode) and best time (Survival mode)
• Game settings — control scheme (tilt vs. touch), tilt sensitivity per axis, audio toggle, haptics toggle, last-played mode
• Remove Ads entitlement flag — set to true once you purchase the Remove Ads in-app product

Uninstalling absOrbs deletes all of this data. There is no cloud sync and no account system.

3. What our advertising partners collect (AdMob)

absOrbs is free, supported by interstitial ads served by Google AdMob. To serve ads, the Google Mobile Ads SDK collects information about your device. The exact data depends on whether you grant personalization consent:

Personalized ads (with consent)

• Advertising identifier — IDFA on iOS, AAID on Android
• Device model, OS version, language, country
• Coarse location (derived from IP)
• Ad-interaction data (which ads you saw, tapped, dismissed)

Non-personalized ads (without consent)

• Same device-level data minus the advertising identifier
• No behavioral targeting
• Lower revenue per ad, but the app works identically

Google AdMob mediates demand from approximately 210 ad-technology partners under the IAB Transparency & Consent Framework v2.2. The full list of partners is shown to you during the consent dialog if you tap “Manage options”; you can grant or deny consent per-partner.

For the full Google AdMob privacy disclosure, see policies.google.com/privacy.

4. iOS App Tracking Transparency (ATT)

On iOS 14.5 and later, absOrbs uses Apple’s App Tracking Transparency framework. The first time you launch absOrbs, you’ll see a system prompt asking whether to allow tracking. Allowing tracking enables personalized ads with higher revenue per impression. Declining is fine — absOrbs works normally and serves non-personalized ads instead.

You can change your decision at any time in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking → absOrbs.

5. Consent (UMP / GDPR / CCPA / state privacy)

absOrbs uses Google’s User Messaging Platform (UMP) SDK to collect and store your consent decisions:

• EEA / UK / Switzerland: GDPR-compliant consent dialog shown on first launch. Your decisions are recorded under the IAB TCF v2.2 framework and stored on-device by the AdMob SDK.
• California + other US state-privacy-law states (CO, CT, VA, UT, OR, TX, MT and others as enacted): CCPA-style opt-out dialog with a “Don’t sell or share my data” option. Selecting it disables cross-context behavioral targeting.
• Other jurisdictions: no consent dialog by default. Non-personalized ads only unless you explicitly opt in.

Your consent decisions remain on-device until you uninstall absOrbs. There is no server-side consent record.

6. In-app purchases

absOrbs offers one optional in-app purchase: Remove Ads (one-time, non-consumable). Purchasing it disables the interstitial-ad layer for the duration of your device’s App Store / Play Store account entitlement.

• Apple App Store or Google Play Store handles the transaction.
• We do not see your payment card number, billing address, or any other payment information.
• We receive only a binary entitlement signal — “user owns Remove Ads: yes/no” — which is cached locally in SharedPreferences.
• Restore: launching absOrbs while signed into the same App Store / Play Store account silently restores your entitlement. You can also tap About → Restore Purchases manually.

Family Sharing (Apple) is enabled — purchases by one family member unlock Remove Ads for the whole family group.

7. Children

absOrbs is rated 4+ on the App Store and Everyone on Google Play. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 beyond the local-only game-state data described in §2.

absOrbs is not registered with AdMob as a child-directed app. If you are a parent or guardian and believe a child under 13 has installed absOrbs and you want to confirm no personal information has been processed, contact us at support@caliko.co — we’ll confirm that the on-device data is just game progress + settings (no PII).

To clear the on-device data: uninstall absOrbs from the device.

8. No analytics, no servers, no third-party data sharing

absOrbs does not run its own backend. There is no absOrbs server that receives data from the app. We do not use third-party analytics SDKs (no Firebase Analytics, no Mixpanel, no Amplitude, no Segment, no anything similar).

The only data flows that leave your device are:

1. Ad requests to Google AdMob (covered in §3)
2. Consent decisions to Google’s UMP SDK (covered in §5)
3. IAP receipts to Apple App Store / Google Play Store (covered in §6)

We do not contact, share, or sell your data to any other parties.

9. Your rights

You have the following rights regarding your personal information:

• Access: all data is stored on your device and is visible to you via iOS Settings → absOrbs or Android Settings → Apps → absOrbs.
• Deletion: uninstall absOrbs to delete all on-device data. AdMob data follows the policies at policies.google.com/technologies/ads.
• Consent withdrawal: change your ATT decision in iOS Settings (§4). Re-trigger the AdMob consent dialog by reinstalling the app (a dedicated “Reconfigure consent” affordance is on the v1.1 roadmap).
• EEA / UK / Switzerland users: under GDPR / UK-GDPR, you may request access to or deletion of your data by emailing support@caliko.co. Since the only data we hold is on your device, most requests resolve via uninstalling.
• California residents under CCPA / CPRA: you have the right to opt out of the “sale or sharing” of personal information. The in-app consent dialog (§5) implements this opt-out.

10. Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we’ll update the “Last updated” date at the top. Since absOrbs has no server and we don’t collect email addresses, we cannot proactively notify you of changes — please check this page periodically if you want to stay current.

Material changes will also be flagged in the absOrbs release notes on the App Store and Google Play.

11. Contact

For questions about this Privacy Policy or about absOrbs in general:

Email: support@caliko.co

Publisher: CaliKo LLC

If we update our mailing address or add other contact channels, we’ll list them here.