Fifteen Puzzle Pro
Privacy Policy
Last updated: August 29, 2026
Fifteen Puzzle Pro is a sliding tile puzzle. You can play all of it without an account and without telling us who you are — every board works offline, and your settings and any game in progress stay on your device.
You only need an account if you want to take part in the leaderboards: publishing a result, or reporting a name you find offensive. This policy explains what we collect in each case.
If You Just Play
No account is required and we do not ask for your name, email address or phone number. Your settings and any unfinished game are stored on your device only. Uninstalling the app removes them.
We still receive the automatic technical data described in Information Collected Automatically below.
If You Join the Leaderboards
- Account identifiers: the first time you publish a result or report a name, you sign in with Google or Apple, and we receive the email address associated with that sign-in. If you use Apple's “Hide My Email”, we only ever see the relay address Apple generates. The app itself never reads your email address — it is held only on your account record.
- Your name: a display name you choose the first time you publish. It is chosen once and cannot be changed afterwards from inside the app. There are no profile pictures.
- Published results: the results you explicitly choose to publish — your time, your number of moves, and the starting board you solved. Publishing is always a deliberate action.
- Reports: if you report a name as offensive, we record the reported name so we can review it. We do not record who filed the report.
What Other People Can See
The leaderboards are public. Anyone using the app can see, for each board size:
- The display name you chose
- Your best time and move count
- The starting board you solved, which other players can replay to take on the same shuffle
Your email address is never shown. Reports are private — the person whose name is reported is not told, and nobody can see who reported whom.
Information Collected Automatically
- Crash logs and diagnostics: to find and fix stability problems.
- App activity: which screens and features are used — games started, puzzles solved, results published — to understand usage patterns and improve the app.
- Device and advertising identifiers: used for analytics and to serve the optional rewarded ads that let you replay another player's board.
- Device integrity checks: the app verifies with Google or Apple that requests come from a genuine, unmodified installation. This protects the leaderboards from automated abuse and fake results.
- Purchase status: whether you have an active Premium subscription. We never receive your payment card details — payment is handled entirely by Google Play or the App Store.
We do not collect your location.
How We Use This Information
- To provide the app: run the leaderboards, keep your published results attached to you, and keep your subscription active across your devices.
- To keep the leaderboards civil: review reported names, remove ones that break the rules, and prevent automated abuse.
- To improve the app: analyze crashes, performance and usage patterns.
- To show optional ads: rewarded ads that you choose to watch in order to replay another player's board. Premium removes them.
We do not sell your personal information.
Services We Use
We rely on the following providers, who process data on our behalf:
- Google Firebase — sign-in, the leaderboard database, analytics, crash reporting, remote configuration and app integrity checks.
- Google AdMob — rewarded ads. Where required, a consent form is shown before any personalized ads are served.
- RevenueCat — manages subscription status.
- Google and Apple sign-in — used only to verify your identity when you join the leaderboards.
Keeping and Deleting Your Data
You can delete your account and its data at any time from Settings → Delete account in the app, or by emailing us.
Full instructions, and a complete list of exactly what is deleted and what is kept, are on our account deletion page.
We keep your published results for as long as your account exists. Deleting your account removes them from every leaderboard, along with your name and the account record itself. Records of reported names are kept so we can act on them; they never identify who filed the report.
Your Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct or delete the personal information we hold about you, or to object to how we use it. You can delete your account at any time from inside the app, or contact us at info@vekt.dev to make a request — including to change the name shown on your results, which cannot be edited from inside the app.
Children's Privacy
Fifteen Puzzle Pro is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, contact us and we will delete it.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post the updated version here and change the date at the top. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.
Contact Us
Questions about this policy or your data? Email info@vekt.dev.