Counterwave for Android
This section describes the Android application published by Harold Digital LLC. The iPhone policy below describes the iPhone version. Our website privacy notice covers this website.
Gameplay and local storage
You can play without creating a Harold Digital account. The app stores game progress, scores, preferences, purchase entitlements, ad-frequency counters and pending rewards or leaderboard submissions on your device. The app does not upload your local saved games to a Harold Digital server or provide cloud-save synchronization. Clearing the app's storage or uninstalling it removes its local progress; purchases can be restored through Google Play. Data already held by Google is handled separately.
Google Play Games
When signed in to Play Games, scores are submitted to Google leaderboards and may be visible to other players according to your Play Games profile settings. Google processes your gamer identity and SDK analytics and diagnostics. You can manage profile visibility, sign-in and deletion of game data in Google Play Games. Ordinary gameplay does not require leaderboards. See Google's Play Games data disclosures and Google's privacy policy.
Advertising and privacy choices
The Android app uses interstitial ads between runs and optional rewarded videos. Remove Ads disables automatic interstitials; optional rewarded bonuses remain available. Ads may be loaded in advance when privacy settings allow.
Google AdMob processes IP addresses (including inferred approximate location), interactions with apps and ads, diagnostics, and device or account identifiers for ads, analytics and fraud prevention. Its transfers use TLS encryption. Android settings let you reset or delete the advertising ID. See AdMob's Android disclosures.
The app uses Google's User Messaging Platform to check consent requirements before requesting ads. When Google requires a privacy-options entry point, Ad privacy options appears in Settings so you can revisit your choices. Declining consent does not block ordinary gameplay; advertising rewards may be unavailable. Google explains retention and deletion of information it receives in its privacy policy.
Google Play purchases
Optional one-time purchases use Google Play Billing. The app receives purchase records, checks their signatures, acknowledges completed purchases and stores entitlement status to enable and restore purchased features. Payment card details are handled by Google Play and are not received by Harold Digital. Purchase history in your Google account is separate from local game progress.
Support, retention and requests
If you email [email protected], we receive the address, message and attachments you send. We use these to respond and keep them as reasonably needed for support, business records and legal obligations. Contact that address to request access, correction or deletion of information you sent us. For Google account, advertising and Play Games information, use Google's linked privacy controls. Our company postal address appears in the Contact section below.
iPhone version
Scope: This notice covers the Counterwave application for iPhone, published by Harold Digital LLC. The company website has its own website privacy notice.
The short version
The game itself collects no personal information and requires no account. Your progress is stored only on your device. Advertising is provided by Google AdMob, which processes some device data to show and measure ads — in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland only according to the choices you make in the consent dialog. Buying Remove Ads goes through Apple; we never see your payment details.
Data stored on your device
Campaign progress, scores, stars, crystals, daily streaks, mission progress, theme unlocks, and settings are saved locally on your device and are not transmitted to Harold Digital or anyone else. Deleting the app deletes this data. The optional daily reminder is a local notification scheduled on your device; nothing about it leaves your phone.
Advertising through Google AdMob
Counterwave shows ads through Google AdMob, a service of Google LLC. To serve and measure ads and to prevent fraud, Google may process data such as your device's advertising identifier, IP address, approximate location derived from IP, and how you interact with ads.
If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, a consent dialog is shown before any ad-related processing, and ads are personalized or non-personalized according to your choices. You can review or change your choices at any time in Settings → Privacy Options inside the game.
Purchasing Remove Ads permanently disables interstitial advertising. Optional watch-an-ad bonuses remain available and only run when you choose to tap them.
Learn more about how Google processes data in the Google Privacy Policy and How Google uses data from apps that use its services.
Purchases
In-app purchases are processed entirely by Apple through the App Store. We receive no name, address, or payment information — only an anonymous confirmation that the purchase is owned, stored on your device so it keeps working offline.
Analytics
The game keeps a small technical event log (for example, that a level was retried) in memory on your device for debugging. It is not transmitted. We use no third-party analytics service beyond the ad measurement described above.
Children
Counterwave is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. Ad requests are not tagged for child-directed treatment.
Your choices and rights
Because the game stores its data only on your device, most controls are in your hands: change ad consent in Settings → Privacy Options, disable the daily reminder, reset progress in Settings, or delete the app. For data processed by Google, the links above describe Google's controls, including ad personalization settings. If you are in the EEA or UK, you have the right to access, correct, delete, or object to processing of your personal data, and to lodge a complaint with your supervisory authority.
Changes
If a future update changes these practices — for example, by adding a service that processes new data — this notice will be updated before that version ships, with a new effective date.
Contact
Email [email protected] or write to our registered office:
Harold Digital LLC30 N Gould St Ste R
Sheridan, WY 82801
United States