Nodogames, LLC ("Nodogames," "we," "us," or "our") provides Kofi Cafe, including the Kofi Cafe game (available on Google Play and on the App Store, including TestFlight builds), and this website. This Privacy Policy explains how we handle information when you use Kofi Cafe.
Kofi Cafe is designed to be playable without creating an account, and it has no in-app purchases. We use Google Firebase Analytics to measure how the game is played, and Kofi Cafe shows optional rewarded ads through Unity LevelPlay, which mediates ads from Unity Ads, ironSource, and Google AdMob, as described below.
Some practices differ by platform. The Android version shows a privacy notice, asks for your age before gameplay begins, and applies additional advertising restrictions to every player; see "Android: Privacy Notice, Age, and Advertising Restrictions" and "Children's Privacy." We do not sell your personal information for money, and for every player we signal an opt-out of the "sale" or "share" of information for advertising to our advertising partners. On Android, the game does not make an advertising identifier available to our advertising partners at all.
Android: Privacy Notice, Age, and Advertising Restrictions
On Android, before any gameplay analytics or advertising begins, Kofi Cafe shows a privacy notice with a link to this policy and a Continue button, and then asks you to enter your age in years. Neither step can be skipped.
- The age you enter is not saved or sent. We use it only to decide which privacy settings to apply, and then store a single category on your device recording whether you are under 18 or an adult. The number you typed is never stored and never sent to us or to anyone else.
- We do report that category. We send the same two-value category ("under 18" or "adult") to Firebase Analytics so we can understand who plays the game. We do not report anything more specific than those two values, and this applies to child and adult players alike.
- Nothing starts before both steps are complete. Gameplay analytics and the advertising SDKs stay switched off until the notice is acknowledged and a valid age is entered. Until an age is entered, the game applies the more protective child settings and cannot show ads at all. Technical diagnostics collected by the Unity game engine are separate from these steps and may begin when the game starts; see "Engine and technical diagnostics" below.
- Tapping Continue is an acknowledgment, not a consent. It records that the notice was shown and that you had the opportunity to read this policy. It is not a separate choice to consent to analytics, and advertising choices are handled separately, as described in "Advertising and Advertising Identifiers."
- No advertising identifier. The Android version does not request the Android advertising-ID permission, and the related advertising-services permissions are removed from the app, for every player including adults. We also send a device-identifier opt-out signal to our mediation partner. Our advertising partners therefore do not receive an Android advertising identifier from the game, and Android ads are not based on a profile tied to such an identifier.
- Restricted ad content and ad sources. For every Android player we limit ad content to the general-audience ("G") rating and request only advertising sources that are self-certified for families. For players who indicated they are under 18, and for any session before an age has been entered, we additionally apply child-directed treatment to our mediation partner and the ad networks it requests ads from.
- Advertising uses of analytics are switched off. On Android we deny advertising storage, advertising user data, and ad personalization for Firebase Analytics, and we disable Firebase's collection of the advertising ID.
The stored category cannot be changed from inside the game. Deleting Kofi Cafe removes it along with your local game data, and the notice and age question appear again if you reinstall.
Information We Collect
- Gameplay information stored on your device. Kofi Cafe may save gameplay progress, settings, preferences, and similar game data locally on your device. We do not receive this local data unless you choose to send it to us, such as when sharing feedback or a screenshot.
- Information you choose to send us. If you contact us, submit TestFlight feedback, join the Kofi Cafe Discord community, or otherwise communicate with us, we may receive your name, username, email address, message content, screenshots, crash details, and any other information you choose to share.
- Analytics information we collect automatically. Kofi Cafe uses Google Firebase Analytics to understand how players interact with the game. When you play, the game automatically collects and sends usage and gameplay data to Firebase/Google servers. This may include in-game events and actions such as onboarding and tutorial steps, customers served, minigame activity, in-game rewards and bean balances, and rewarded-ad offers and outcomes, along with session activity, gameplay progress, the app version and language, general device and operating system information, country or region, and a Firebase-generated app instance identifier. On Android it also includes the coarse age category described above. We use this data to understand how the game is played and to improve it. Google processes this information as our service provider under its own privacy and security terms, and we do not use it to identify you personally. Gameplay analytics can still use an app instance identifier where analytics storage is permitted on your device; this is not a claim that the data is anonymous.
- Advertising information. Kofi Cafe shows optional rewarded ads. To deliver and measure these ads, our advertising partners may access general device and network information, approximate location derived from your IP address, and information about the ads you are shown and interact with. On Apple devices they may also access the Identifier for Advertisers ("IDFA"). On Android the game does not make an advertising identifier available to them. See "Advertising and Advertising Identifiers" below.
- Engine and technical diagnostics. Kofi Cafe is built with the Unity game engine, and Unity collects technical diagnostic information about the running game. This may include the app and engine version, device and operating-system characteristics, performance measurements, and error or crash information, together with identifiers Unity generates for your installation. This collection is part of the engine itself: it is handled by Unity rather than by our analytics setup, and it may begin when the game starts, including before the Android privacy notice and age question described above. Unity processes this information under its own privacy policy, linked in "Advertising and Advertising Identifiers."
- Limited installed-app information. Our advertising mediation partner collects the package name of the app set as your device's default home screen, or launcher, and sends it with its requests. It is used to help deliver and measure ads and to detect invalid or fraudulent traffic. It does not collect a list of the apps installed on your device.
- App platform information. Google Play, Apple, TestFlight, and similar platforms may process account, device, diagnostic, download, or crash information under their own privacy policies. We may receive limited diagnostics, crash reports, tester feedback, or aggregated statistics from those platforms when permitted by your settings and the platform. Kofi Cafe has no in-app purchases and no Nodogames account.
- Website technical information. This website is static and does not require an account. Our hosting provider may process standard technical logs, such as IP address, browser type, requested pages, referring page, and timestamps, to deliver and secure the website.
How We Use Information
We use information to operate Kofi Cafe, save your progress, analyze how the game is played, apply privacy and advertising settings appropriate to the age category you provide, respond to messages and feedback, test and improve the game, troubleshoot bugs and crashes, keep the website and game secure, and comply with legal obligations.
Advertising and Advertising Identifiers
Kofi Cafe shows optional rewarded ads, which are short ads you can choose to watch in exchange for an in-game reward. We do not show ads that you have not chosen to start. We use Unity LevelPlay as our advertising mediator, and it requests ads from Unity Ads, ironSource, and Google AdMob.
To deliver and measure ads, these advertising partners may access general device and network information, approximate location derived from your IP address, and information about the ads you are shown and interact with. On Apple devices they may also access the IDFA, and where permitted this may be used for personalized (interest-based) advertising, which can involve tracking across other apps and websites. On Android, as described above, the game does not request the advertising-ID permission and sends a device-identifier opt-out signal, so our advertising partners do not receive an Android advertising identifier from the game. Our advertising partners do generate and store their own identifiers for your installation of the game. These are separate from the Android advertising identifier and from any account, and they are used to deliver and measure ads, to cap how often an ad is shown, and to detect invalid or fraudulent traffic.
On Apple devices, we ask for your permission through Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt before any cross-app tracking; if you do not grant permission, you will see less personalized ads.
In regions where consent for personalized advertising is required, such as the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, we use Google's User Messaging Platform to present a consent choice. Your choice is recorded on your device by that consent platform and read by our advertising partners; if you do not consent, ads are limited to non-personalized (contextual) ads, and if ad requests are not permitted at all we do not show ads. On Android, where you indicated you are under 18, we also tell that consent platform to treat the session as being below the age of consent. Where a consent choice applies, the game's Settings screen shows a "Privacy choices" option you can use to review or change it.
You can learn more about how our advertising partners handle data in their privacy policies: Unity, covering Unity Ads, ironSource, and Unity LevelPlay, at unity.com/legal/game-player-and-app-user-privacy-policy, and Google, covering AdMob, at policies.google.com/privacy.
How We Share Information
We may share information with service providers and platforms that help us provide Kofi Cafe, such as app stores, including Google Play, the App Store, and TestFlight, analytics providers such as Google Firebase, advertising partners such as Unity LevelPlay, Unity Ads, ironSource, and Google AdMob, and their third-party demand partners, hosting providers, and community platforms such as Discord. We require these service providers and partners to handle your information consistent with this Privacy Policy and applicable law, and to provide a level of protection for your information equivalent to the protections described here. We may also share information if required by law, to protect rights and safety, or in connection with a business transfer. We do not sell your personal information for money, and we signal an opt-out of the "sale" or "share" of information for advertising to our advertising partners for every player; see "Your Choices."
Your Choices
- You can play Kofi Cafe without creating a Nodogames account.
- You can choose not to watch rewarded ads. They are always optional, and declining them does not prevent you from playing.
- You can choose not to send feedback, screenshots, or support messages, and not to open the external Discord invite.
- You can delete local game data, including the stored age category and the record of this notice, by deleting Kofi Cafe from your device. Platform backups or cloud saves, if enabled on your device, may need to be managed through your device or platform settings.
- On Android, no advertising identifier is made available to our advertising partners by the game, for any player.
- You can opt out of personalized ads on Apple devices by declining the App Tracking Transparency prompt, or by turning off "Allow Apps to Request to Track" in Settings.
- Where personalized-ads consent applies, such as in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, you can decline or change your consent using "Privacy choices" in the game's Settings screen, and we will limit ads to non-personalized ads.
- We already signal an opt-out of the "sale" or "share" of information for advertising for every player, and you can contact us with any further request consistent with applicable privacy laws.
- You can manage Google Play, TestFlight, app store, Discord, and device privacy settings through those services.
- Depending on where you live, you may have rights to request access, correction, deletion, or a copy of personal information we maintain about you.
Children's Privacy
On Google Play, Kofi Cafe is offered to a mixed audience that includes children as well as teens and adults, and the Android version asks every player for an age before gameplay begins, as described above. On the App Store, Kofi Cafe is offered as a general-audience app and does not include that age screen.
Kofi Cafe never asks any player for a name, email address, password, photograph, contact list, precise location, or any other directly identifying information, and there is no chat, profile, or other feature that lets players share information with each other inside the game.
For Android players who indicate they are under 18, and for any session before an age has been entered, we apply child-directed treatment to our advertising partners, restrict ad content to the general-audience ("G") rating, request only advertising sources that are self-certified for families, and make no advertising identifier available. Where an under-age-of-consent signal applies, we pass it to the consent platform described above. We do not knowingly serve personalized advertising to children.
We do collect the gameplay analytics described in "Information We Collect" from child players, including the coarse "under 18" age category, with Firebase's advertising storage, advertising user data, ad personalization, and advertising-ID collection switched off.
The engine diagnostics and the limited installed-app information described in "Information We Collect" are collected for child players as well. Neither includes a name, an email address, an account identifier, or a list of the apps on the device.
Because we do not collect names, email addresses, or account identifiers in the game, we generally cannot connect analytics data to an individual player. Deleting Kofi Cafe from the device stops all further collection. Parents and guardians with questions or requests about a child's information, including a request to delete it, can contact us at contact@nodogames.studio, and we will ask for the information we need to locate any data we hold. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us so we can take appropriate action.
The Kofi Cafe Discord community is an external service operated by Discord, with its own minimum age requirements and privacy policy. It is reached through a link that opens outside the game, and it is not part of the game itself.
Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect information against loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. No method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.
Data Retention
We keep information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including providing support, improving Kofi Cafe, resolving disputes, enforcing agreements, and complying with legal requirements. Analytics data is retained according to the retention period configured in Google Analytics for Firebase, after which Google deletes it. Game progress stays on your device until you delete the game.
International Users
Nodogames, LLC is based in the United States. If you use Kofi Cafe from outside the United States, your information may be processed in the United States or other countries where our service providers operate.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will update the "Last updated" date above. Your continued use of Kofi Cafe after an update means the updated policy applies.
Contact Us
For privacy questions or requests, contact Nodogames, LLC at contact@nodogames.studio.