Zambleta Privacy Policy

1. About this policy

This policy explains how Zambleta: Party Games ("Zambleta"), published by AN Ventures LLC, operating as AN Ventures Labs ("we," "us"), handles information. It adds Zambleta-specific detail to our company Privacy Policy. If the two differ about Zambleta, this policy applies.

2. Information that stays on your phone

Zambleta saves the following on your device only, so your games and settings are there next time. We never receive it.

• player names you type in, seating order, scores and round history;
• settings such as language, content region, sound, haptics and theme;
• who's playing (Kids or Teens and adults) and the parent PIN for Kids mode;
• which words have already been used, so they don't repeat;
• a random ID that lets this phone rejoin a room on your local network;
• a record of your Premium status, so Zambleta works offline; and
• the optional narrator voice, if you download it.

Your phone's own backup (iCloud or Google) may copy this information to your Apple or Google account, under their terms. We can't see those backups.

In English, the narrator can use your phone's built-in text-to-speech voice, which runs on your device. Arabic is never read by a phone voice: Arabic narration plays only recorded voice clips that you download first (see Section 3).

3. Information that leaves your phone

Purchases. Payments are handled by Apple (App Store) or Google (Google Play). We never see your card or payment details. To unlock and restore Premium, Zambleta uses RevenueCat, our purchase service provider. RevenueCat receives:

• a random, anonymous ID that RevenueCat's software creates on your phone the first time Zambleta starts (not your name, email or Apple/Google account). Zambleta uses it to ask RevenueCat what this phone owns each time it starts, even if you never buy anything;
• what you bought, when, and whether a subscription is active, as reported by the store;
• your store country and currency, your device type, operating system and app version; and
• your IP address, which internet services receive whenever your phone connects to them.

We use this only to give you what you paid for, restore purchases, prevent fraud, and see overall sales. See RevenueCat's privacy policy.

App updates. Zambleta checks for small updates (bug fixes and new content) through Expo's update service. Each check, made when Zambleta starts, sends the app version, platform and update channel, and a random install ID that Expo's software creates on your phone (it changes if you reinstall Zambleta or clear its data). Expo uses that ID to count how many phones receive an update. Expo's servers also receive your IP address. See Expo's privacy policy.

Narrator voices (optional). Zambleta's narrator voices are recordings. We made them with an AI text-to-speech model (Google Gemini) and checked each clip against its text with speech recognition (OpenAI Whisper) before publishing; neither service is used inside the app. If you choose to download a voice, it is downloaded as a voice pack from Hugging Face (our repository anventureslabs/lamma-narrator), which hosts the files for us. You need no account. Hugging Face receives your IP address and standard request information, and Zambleta later asks it for a small index to fetch new or re-recorded lines. Zambleta sends nothing else, and never player names. See Hugging Face's privacy policy.

Ads (free version only). The free version of Zambleta shows short ads between rounds. They are provided by Google AdMob. Every ad request is treated as coming from a child, ads are limited to Google's "G" (general audiences) content rating, and ads are never personalized: they are not based on your interests, your other apps or what you do. When an ad is requested or shown, Google receives your IP address and the approximate location it implies, basic device and app details (such as the device model, operating system and app version), an identifier that belongs to this app only (on Android, the app set ID), whether an ad was shown or tapped, and technical performance data about the ad software. Google does not receive an advertising ID, your name, your email address, or any player name. We turn the Android advertising ID off, and Zambleta never asks to track you on iPhone. Google uses this information to deliver the ad, to limit how often it is shown, to count that it was shown, and to protect against fraud and abuse, and does not use it to build a profile of you or to show you interest-based ads. We send Google no name, account or contact detail. How Google handles it is described in the Google Privacy Policy and in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.

Who sees no ads. Ads are never shown to Premium users, in Kids mode, when your phone's age signal says you are under 13, in your first games, or to guests who join on someone else's phone. For these players the ad software does not start, so Google receives nothing from them. For now the free version also shows no ads in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, and the ad software does not start there.

Reporting an ad. If an ad seems wrong for your age, tap "Report that ad" right after it, or go to Settings → About → Ads → "Report an ad". The app does not send anything itself. It prepares a short message that holds the reason you pick, which game you were in, the time (to the minute), your phone type (iPhone or Android), the app version and the ad's reference number from Google. You can send it by email from your own mail app, or copy it. Please don't type names, email addresses or phone numbers. If you email it, we receive your email address (and the name on your email account) with the message. We use the report only to find and block the ad, and we delete it within 90 days. In Kids mode the app offers only "Copy report", so a grown-up can send it.

Playing on several phones. In network mode, phones connect to each other directly over the same Wi-Fi or one phone's hotspot. The host phone receives each player's name, a random ID Zambleta creates to reconnect that phone, and their game moves, and it sends each phone what it should see. This stays on your local network. It never goes over the internet or to us. While a room is open, the host phone announces it on the local network under the host player's name, so other phones on the same Wi-Fi can list it; anyone on that network can see that name. On iPhone, Zambleta asks for Local Network permission to find nearby phones. You can decline and still play on one phone.

Joining from a web browser. Browser join works only on your local network: the host phone receives only the display name a guest types, and a random token stays in the guest's browser so they can rejoin their seat. The page comes from the host phone, not from the internet, and has no ads, analytics, cookies or third-party content.

Our service providers. RevenueCat, Expo and Hugging Face process this information for us only to provide their service. We choose providers whose terms require them to protect it at least as well as this policy describes, and we don't let them use it for advertising or to build profiles. Google, which provides the ads in the free version, is described in the Ads paragraph above.

4. What we don't collect

• No accounts, and no name, email, phone number or date of birth.
• No contacts, photos, location, microphone or camera.
• No advertising ID, no analytics and no crash reporting of our own. (The ad software in the free version sends Google the ad-related information described in Section 3.)
• No tracking across other companies' apps or websites, and no selling of personal information or sharing it for advertising based on your activity.

Zambleta stops the secret word cards from appearing in screenshots and in the app switcher, to keep the game fair. This happens on your phone and nothing is sent anywhere.

5. Age and Kids mode

Zambleta is made for families, teens and adults playing together, ages 9 and up. On Google Play it is declared under the Families policy for ages 9 and up, and its age ratings are IARC 7+, PEGI 7 and ESRB E10+. Kids mode hides Teen content, and switching back needs the parent PIN, which stays on the phone. Where your phone offers an age range signal (such as Apple's Declared Age Range or Google Play Age Signals), Zambleta may use it on the device to set the content level. We don't receive it. Ads in the free version are child-safe for everyone: Google AdMob is set to child-directed treatment, content rating G and no personalization for every player, whatever you choose under "Who's playing". We never ask your age or date of birth. Kids mode shows no ads.

Children's information. Because Zambleta is made for families, we treat every player as if they could be a child. Zambleta never asks for a name, email, birth date or other contact details, and names typed into Zambleta never leave your local network. The only information that reaches outside services is the technical information described in Section 3: the install IDs, IP address and device details. It is used only for these internal operations: delivering and restoring purchases and preventing purchase fraud; delivering app updates and voice downloads; and keeping Zambleta working and secure; and, in the free version, showing and counting child-safe ads and preventing ad fraud (see Ads in Section 3). We and our providers do not use it to contact anyone, to build a profile of anyone, or for interest-based advertising, and our providers may use it only to provide their service to us. A parent can ask us to delete it (Section 7).

6. How long information is kept

• On your phone: until you delete it or uninstall Zambleta.
• Purchase records and install IDs at RevenueCat: while your purchases may need restoring, and deleted no later than 24 months after the last time that install contacted RevenueCat, unless the law requires us to keep them longer. Store sales reports that we need for tax and accounting come from Apple and Google, not from these records.
• Update checks and voice downloads: Expo and Hugging Face keep their request logs under their own policies. We don't receive or keep them.
• Ad information at Google: kept by Google under its own policies; we don't receive it.
• Ad reports: if you email one, we keep it up to 90 days (see Section 3).
• Local rooms: the host phone saves a running game so it can resume after a restart, and drops that save when the game ends or after 12 hours. Player names stay on the host phone like any other names you type (Section 2). A browser guest's token stays in their browser until they clear its site data.

7. Your choices

• Delete everything on your phone: uninstall Zambleta.
• Remove the narrator voices: in Settings. English is then read by the phone's own voice; Arabic narration stays silent until you download an Arabic voice again.
• Local Network permission (iPhone): turn it on or off in the iPhone's Settings → Zambleta.
• Parents: you can ask us to delete the information described in Section 3 for your child's phone, and you can stop any further collection by deleting Zambleta. Email us as described below.
• Delete purchase records: email us with your store order number (from your Apple or Google receipt) and we'll ask RevenueCat to delete the matching records. Deleting them means Restore purchases can no longer find your purchases there.
• Ads: Premium removes them, and Kids mode has none. Ads are not targeted, so there is nothing to opt out of. To report an ad, see Section 3. Settings → About → Ads explains this in the app.

8. Your rights

Depending on where you live, you can ask to access, correct or delete your information, or object to how it's used. Section 12 of our company Privacy Policy explains these rights and how we respond. Because Zambleta doesn't know who you are, we may need your store order number to find any records.

9. Changes to this policy

If we add features that collect more information, such as analytics or crash reports, we will update this policy and the App Store and Google Play privacy details before that version is released, and ask for your consent where the law requires it.

10. Contact

AN Ventures LLC (operating as AN Ventures Labs)
Postal address: 821 W New Hope Dr, Ste 102 #3
Cedar Park, TX 78613, United States
Phone (voicemail): +1 (737) 235-8388
Email: contact@anventureslabs.com
Help: www.anventureslabs.com/support