Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains what personal data is processed when you use the games and apps published by Doomhowl Interactive on Google Play, our web games and this website, doomhowl-interactive.com. It also explains why that data is processed and what rights you have. We keep data collection to the minimum needed to offer free, ad-supported games.

Who is responsible

Doomhowl Interactive, a solo developer based in Belgium, is responsible for the processing described in this policy. For any privacy question or request, contact us at the email address at the bottom of this page.

Some of the services we use, most importantly Google, also process data as an independent controller under their own privacy policies. This is explained below.

Our apps

Our apps do not have user accounts and we do not run our own servers for them. They use these third-party SDKs:

  • Google Play Services
  • Google AdMob, to show ads
  • Google User Messaging Platform, to ask for your consent to ads
  • Firebase Crashlytics, to collect crash reports

These SDKs can collect your approximate location (derived from your IP address), app interactions, diagnostic information, device information, the advertising ID and other device or user IDs, and crash logs. Doomhowl Interactive does not collect personal data outside of these SDKs, and we do not sell your data to anyone.

Ads and your consent

Our apps are free because they show ads served by Google AdMob. If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, the app asks for your consent with Google's consent form the first time you open it, before personalised ads are shown.

  • If you consent, Google and its ad partners may use cookies, the advertising ID and similar technologies to show ads based on your interests. This involves profiling by Google. It is not used to make decisions with legal or similarly significant effects on you.
  • If you do not consent, you may still see non-personalised or limited ads. These use less data, for example to limit how often an ad is shown and to detect fraud.

You can change or withdraw your choice at any time through the privacy settings in the app, which shows the consent form again. You can also reset or delete your advertising ID in your Android settings under Google > Ads (or Privacy > Ads).

Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that happened before. The list of ad technology providers Google may work with is available from Google. How Google uses data is described in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.

Crash reports

When an app crashes, Firebase Crashlytics sends us a crash report with technical information such as the device model, Android version, app version and what the app was doing at the time. We use this only to find and fix bugs. Crashlytics keeps crash reports for 90 days.

Vortex

Vortex lets you take a photo with your camera or choose one from your gallery to use as the game background. This is done through Android intents, so the app can only access the image you take or select. The image stays on your device; Doomhowl Interactive does not upload, collect or store it.

Vortex also uses the Pixabay API to load background images. When it does, your device connects to Pixabay, which receives your IP address. See the Pixabay privacy policy.

This website

This website does not use cookies and does not show ads. It is hosted on Firebase Hosting by Google, which processes your IP address and basic request information to deliver the pages and protect the service.

We use Umami, a privacy-focused analytics tool, to count visits and see which pages are popular. Umami does not use cookies, does not store your IP address and does not track you across other websites. If your browser sends a "Do Not Track" signal, Umami does not record your visit. The pages we use as ads for our apps also use Umami to count visits.

Emails

If you email us, we use your email address and the content of your message only to reply to you. We keep the conversation for as long as needed to handle your question or bug report and any follow-up, and then delete it.

Legal bases

Under the GDPR, we rely on these legal bases:

  • Consent for personalised ads.
  • Legitimate interests for non-personalised ads (funding our free apps), ad fraud prevention, crash reports (keeping the apps working), website hosting and analytics (running and improving the website), and answering your emails.

You can object to processing based on legitimate interests at any time; see "Your rights" below.

Who receives data

Data is processed by Google (AdMob, the User Messaging Platform, Firebase and Google Play Services), by Google's ad partners when you consent to personalised ads, by Umami for website analytics and by Pixabay in Vortex. We do not share data with anyone else, unless we are legally required to.

Some of these providers process data outside the European Economic Area, including in the United States. In those cases the transfer is protected by the EU-US Data Privacy Framework or by the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses.

How long data is kept

We do not store personal data from our apps in our own systems. Data collected by the SDKs is kept according to the providers' own retention policies; crash reports are deleted after 90 days. Emails are kept as described above.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you have the right to:

  • access the personal data we hold about you;
  • have incorrect data corrected;
  • have your data deleted;
  • restrict how your data is used;
  • object to processing based on legitimate interests;
  • receive your data in a portable format;
  • withdraw your consent at any time.

To use these rights, email us. We will answer within one month. Because our apps have no accounts and we do not store app data ourselves, we often cannot link data to you. In that case we will tell you, and help you with the tools that Google provides, such as resetting your advertising ID or withdrawing ad consent as described above.

You also have the right to file a complaint with a data protection authority. In Belgium this is the Gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit (Data Protection Authority). You can also contact the authority in the EU country where you live.

Children

Our apps and website are not aimed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from them. If you believe a child under 13 has provided personal data through our apps, contact us and we will help to have it removed.

Security

This website is served over HTTPS only. We rely on well-known providers that apply industry-standard security measures.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, for example when we add an app or change an SDK. The latest version is always on this page. If a change is significant, we will try to let you know, for example in an app update.

Last updated on 2026-11-05