Privacy Policy

App: Glide 2048: Merge Puzzle Publisher: ByteOnyx (Md. Yousuf Ali) Effective: 31 October 2026

Glide 2048: Merge Puzzle (“Glide 2048”, “the app”) is a free number puzzle game for Android, published by ByteOnyx, the one-person studio of Md. Yousuf Ali (“we”, “us”). This page explains what this version of the app does with data.

Summary

This version’s policy in one table. Every row is explained below.

Data	Collected by us	Sent anywhere	Why
Name, email, phone, address	No	No	This version does not ask for them
Location	No	No	Not used in this version
Contacts, photos, files, microphone, camera	No	No	Not used in this version
Advertising ID	No	No	This version does not read it
Analytics, crash reports, usage tracking	No	No	This version has no such SDK
Game progress, score, history, settings	No	Only in the optional cloud save (no settings) or Android backup	Saved on your phone so the game works
Scores, achievements, Play Games player ID	No	To Google, only if you are signed in	Leaderboards and achievements
Cloud save file	No	To your own Google Drive app data, only if you are signed in	So your history can return on a new phone
A backup of the game’s saved data	No	Only if you turned on Android backup, to your own Google account	Android’s own feature, for a new phone

1. What data we collect

None, in this version. The app has no account of its own. It does not ask for your name, email address, phone number, date of birth, location, contacts, photos, files, microphone or camera. This version does not use analytics, crash reporting or advertising SDKs, and it does not read the Android advertising ID.

We run no servers of our own, so we receive no personal data about you. Everything the game remembers is listed in section 3. It is saved on your phone, and it goes further only through the optional Google Play Games features in section 2, or through Android’s own backup if you have turned it on.

2. Google Play Games (optional)

The app offers leaderboards and achievements through Google Play Games Services. This is optional: Google may sign you in with your Google account when the app starts, or offer to; you can decline or sign out, and every mode, every look and the Daily Challenge still play. Only the leaderboards, the achievements and the cloud save need it.

If you are signed in, this version sends to Google, under your Play Games profile: your scores (including your score on the Daily Challenge, which has its own board), the number of moves and play time to your first 2048 tile, the number of games you finish, and which achievements you earn. A practice run of a past Daily is not sent. Google shows these on the leaderboards and your achievements page. Your leaderboard entry (your Play Games name and avatar, your score) is visible to other players according to your Play Games profile settings (Google’s “Make your gamer profile public” toggle). To attach these to your profile, Google Play services on your phone sends your Play Games player ID (an ID Google creates for the game, not your email) to Google. The app shows your Play Games display name on the device; this version does not send your name or email anywhere.

This data is held by Google, not by us, and Google’s Privacy Policy applies to it. You can sign out, change your profile visibility, or delete your Play Games data in the Google Play Games app or at myaccount.google.com. We can see the leaderboards and achievement totals in the Play Console, but no email or account details.

Cloud save (optional): if you are signed in to Play Games, this version also keeps one small backup of your game history, best score, biggest tile, lifetime totals, fastest-stage records, stage checkpoints and your Daily Challenge results in your own Google Drive app data (Google’s “Saved Games” feature). To do this the app asks for one Google permission, drive.appdata: the app-data folder of your Drive, a private space only this app can see. It does not read, open or list any other file in your Drive. In this version the backup holds no name, no email address, no device id and no settings. It is there so your history can come back when you reinstall the game or move to a new phone and sign in with the same Google account. We have no way to read it. Deleting this game’s data in the Play Games app or in your Google account settings also deletes the backup.

The cloud save runs only while you are signed in to Play Games. It is a convenience, not a guarantee, so please do not treat it as your only copy of anything.

3. Data stored on your device

This version saves the following on your device, in the app’s own private storage:

• the game you are playing (and a Daily you left part way), your mode, your score, your best score and your biggest tile;
• your finished-game history, your lifetime totals and your records (such as the fewest moves to each stage);
• your Daily Challenge results, streak and calendar;
• your stage checkpoints;
• your settings: theme, look, language, sound, vibration, fast animations and high contrast;
• a few notes the app keeps for itself: when you last opened it, which “What’s new” note you have seen, which looks, rules and tips you have already seen, and when it last asked you for a store rating;
• if you use Play Games: your Play Games display name, your latest leaderboard rank, scores waiting to be sent, and whether the cloud save works for your account.

None of it is sent to us. Apart from what section 2 describes (scores, achievements and the optional cloud save) and Android backup below, this version sends none of it anywhere. Uninstalling the app deletes what is on the device. A cloud save, if you were signed in, stays in your Google account until you delete it, and can come back when you sign in again.

Android backup. Android can back up apps’ data to your Google account and put it back on a new phone. If you have turned backup on, Android may include the list above in your phone’s backup, together with your other apps’ data. That is Android’s own feature, run by Google under your Google account and Google’s Privacy Policy. We do not see the backup. You can turn backup off in your phone’s settings.

4. Third-party services

This version contains no advertising network, no analytics service and no crash reporting service. The complete list of third parties in this version is:

• Google Play Games Services (Google LLC): the leaderboards and achievements in section 2. It sends nothing until you are signed in.
• Google Drive app data (Google LLC): the optional cloud save in section 2, scope drive.appdata, in your own Drive. Used only while you are signed in.
• Google Play services (Google LLC): the Android system component that carries the two above.
• Google Play In-App Review (Google LLC). Now and then, after a good moment in the game, the app asks Google Play to show its rating card. Google decides whether it shows. If you rate the game, your rating goes to Google Play under your Google account. The app gets nothing back.
• Android backup (Google LLC), only if you have turned it on: section 3 says what it may copy.

Google’s use of this data is covered by Google’s Privacy Policy. Three buttons in the app hand something to another app on your phone, at your request: “Share” opens the app you pick (section 9), “Rate Glide 2048” opens Google Play, and “Privacy policy” opens your browser at this page. Those apps have their own privacy policies. If you write to us at the address in section 16, we receive what you send (your email address and your message) and use it only to answer you.

5. How your data is kept safe

• On your phone. Everything in section 3 is written to the app’s private storage, which Android keeps separate from other apps. No other app can read it.
• On the way to Google. The scores and the cloud save travel over Google Play services’ own encrypted connection (HTTPS/TLS). We do not build that connection ourselves.
• On our side, nothing. In this version we run no servers, no database and no account system, so there is no store of player data on our side that could be lost or breached.
• No password to lose. This version has no login of its own. The only sign-in is Google’s, protected by your own Google account.
• A backup is yours. If Android backup is on, the copy is kept by Google under your Google account, protected by it. We have no way to read it.

No method of storage or transmission is perfectly secure, but because we hold none of it, the only data at risk is what is already under your own control: on your phone, and in your own Google account.

6. How long data is kept

• On your phone: until you delete it. This version keeps your most recent 100 finished games and up to 2,000 days of Daily Challenge results, and drops the oldest beyond that by itself.
• The cloud save: stays in your own Google Drive app data until you delete this game’s data from your Google account. We have no way to delete it for you or to read it.
• Scores and achievements on Play Games: held by Google under Google’s own retention rules, until you delete this game’s Play Games data.
• In your Google account, if Android backup is on: as long as Google keeps your phone’s backup, under Google’s own rules, or until you delete it.
• By us: nothing, for no time at all. In this version we have no servers and hold no copy of any of it.

7. Deleting your data

You control everything the app stores, and you can remove all of it yourself.

• On your phone: uninstall the app, or open Android Settings → Apps → Glide 2048 → Storage and tap “Clear storage”. Either one deletes your progress, best score, history, Daily results and settings.
• In your Google account: open the Google Play Games app, or go to myaccount.google.com, and delete this game’s data. That removes your scores, achievements and the optional cloud save described in section 2.
• A copy in Android backup: if you use Android backup, delete your phone’s backup in your Google account, or turn backup off in your phone’s settings. This removes the backup of your whole phone, not only this game.

We keep no copy of any of it, so there is nothing for us to delete on our side. If you have a question about deletion, write to hello@byteonyx.com and we will answer within 30 days.

8. Selling and sharing

This version sells nothing and shares nothing. We do not sell your data. We do not share it with any third party for that party’s own purposes: not with advertisers, not with data brokers, not with anyone. We do not use your data for advertising, profiling or any automated decision-making.

In this version the only company that receives anything is Google: the Play Games features, while you are signed in, as described in sections 2 and 4, and Android backup if you turned it on. That is Google acting as the service you use, not a sale.

9. Sharing a score

When you tap “Share”, the app opens the Android share sheet with a short text containing your score and a picture the app draws on your phone: your board, your score and your biggest tile on a card. (A Daily Challenge share does not show the board, so it does not spoil the day for anyone else.) The picture is made on the device and handed straight to the app you pick; it is not uploaded anywhere first. You choose which app receives it. We do not receive or see it.

10. Permissions

This version asks for no Android permissions that need your approval: no location, no camera, no microphone, no contacts, no storage access, no notifications. It also holds no internet permission. Google Play services is a separate part of your phone, and the sending for Play Games (section 2) is its work, not the app’s.

11. Internet

The game plays offline, in every mode and in the Daily Challenge. This version opens no connection itself. Only other parts of your phone reach the internet:

• Play Games, while you are signed in: Google Play services sends the data in section 2 and brings back the leaderboards. Scores made offline are sent when you are back online.
• Google Play’s rating card, when it shows and you rate; Android backup, if you have turned it on; your browser, if you open this policy; and the app you pick when you share.

12. Advertising

This version contains no ads, no in-app purchases, and no advertising or marketing SDK of any kind. It does not read or transmit the Android advertising ID, and it takes no part in any ad network or cross-app tracking.

13. Children

The app is a general-audience game. It is not directed at children and is not part of Google Play’s Designed for Families programme. This version collects no personal data from anyone, so it collects none from children either, and it shows no ads.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from a child under 13 (or the equivalent minimum age in your country). If you believe a child has provided us with personal data, write to hello@byteonyx.com and we will act on it. Google Play Games sign-in is Google’s, and follows Google’s own account rules for supervised and child accounts.

14. Your rights

Depending on where you live, for example under the GDPR in the EEA and the UK, or the CCPA/CPRA in California, you have rights to access, correct, export, delete and restrict the use of your personal data, and to object to it being sold or shared.

We hold no personal data about you, so there is nothing for us to hand over, correct or delete on our side, and nothing has been sold or shared. In practice you exercise these rights directly: section 7 deletes everything on the device, and your Google account settings control everything Google holds. If you would like this confirmed in writing, or you have any other request, write to hello@byteonyx.com and we will answer within 30 days, free of charge.

15. Changes to this policy

If the app changes in a way that affects this policy, we will update this page and the effective date at the top of it before that version ships. This is the page’s one address, so a link from the app or from the store listing reaches the current version. Please check it from time to time.

16. Contact us

Questions about this policy, about your data, or about the app:

• Email: hello@byteonyx.com
• Publisher: ByteOnyx (Md. Yousuf Ali), Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Website: byteonyx.com

We answer every message within 30 days.