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Privacy Policy
1. Who We Are
Veridian Files is an independent single-player detective mystery game published by Meenakshi Reddy. We collect the minimum information required to save your progress and let you contact us for support. We do not sell, share, or trade your personal data with any third party.
2. What We Collect
- Your chosen investigator name (a display name — need not be your real name).
- Your email address, only if you choose to provide it. Used solely for account recovery and support correspondence.
- A randomly-generated Detective ID that identifies your save game on our servers.
- Your in-game progress: current case, evidence collected, energy, marks, board pins, and interview transcripts. This is gameplay state, not personal profiling.
- Purchase records if you buy an in-app consumable (transaction ID, product ID, and timestamp — processed by our payment provider, RevenueCat, and by Apple / Google).
3. What We Do Not Collect
- We do not access your contacts, camera, microphone, location, or device identifiers for advertising.
- We do not run any third-party advertising or analytics tracking SDKs.
- We do not track your activity across other apps or websites.
- We do not knowingly collect data from children under 13.
4. How We Use Your Data
- To save and load your gameplay progress across sessions.
- To reply to support requests you send us.
- To validate in-app purchases and grant the purchased pack once (and only once).
- To comply with legal obligations (e.g., tax records for purchases).
5. Where Your Data Is Stored
Your data is stored on secure MongoDB servers. Purchase verification uses RevenueCat and the Apple App Store / Google Play billing systems, each governed by their own privacy policies. Non-critical NPC dialogue is generated by Anthropic Claude with a fixed system prompt that enforces strict character-safe rules; individual messages are not associated with any advertising profile.
6. Your Rights
At any time you may:
- View the data we hold on you (open Profile → Support inside the app).
- Correct your display name or email (via the Profile screen).
- Permanently delete your account and all associated data (Profile → Delete My Account & Data). Deletion is irreversible and takes effect immediately. See our Data Deletion page for the non-app path.
- Withdraw consent by uninstalling the app and requesting deletion by email.
7. Legal Basis (GDPR / UK GDPR / DPDP)
We process your data on the basis of your consent (accepted at signup) and, for purchases, our legitimate contractual obligation to deliver the purchased consumable.
8. Children
Veridian Files is rated 12+ / Teen. It is not directed at children under 13. If you believe a minor under 13 has created an account, please email us and we will delete it.
9. Changes
We will bump the version string at the top of this document and prompt for re-consent on your next launch when any material change is made.
10. Contact
Support & data protection requests: mreddy1209@gmail.com