Gold Digger — Privacy Policy
Last updated: 13 October 2026 — install source and purchase price added to the analytics table
Gold Digger is a mine-cart running game published by AppInMotion (“we”). This policy explains exactly what the app sends off your device, what stays on it, and how to stop the parts that are optional.
The short version. The game has no accounts and never asks for your name, email, phone number or location. Your progress, gold, settings and purchased carts are stored only on your device. Two things do leave your phone: advertising requests (always, because the game is ad-supported), and anonymous gameplay and crash statistics, which are on by default and can be switched off in Settings at any time.
What stays on your device
The following is written to your phone's local storage and is never transmitted to us:
- Your score, best distance, gold balance and lifetime statistics
- Which carts you own and which one is equipped
- Your settings — sound, music, vibration, graphics quality
- Daily challenge progress
Uninstalling the app deletes all of it. There is no cloud save, so there is also nothing of yours held on a server for us to lose.
Advertising
The game shows ads supplied by Google AdMob, including a rewarded video you may choose to watch in exchange for in-game gold. To serve those ads, Google's advertising SDK collects your device's Advertising ID and technical information about your device. That data is collected and used by Google, not by us, and is governed by Google's own policies:
You can reset or delete your Advertising ID at any time in Settings → Privacy → Ads on your Android device. Ads are how the game is funded, so they are shown whether or not the statistics described below are switched on.
Your choice about personalised ads (EEA and UK)
If you are in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, the game asks you before it requests a single ad, using Google's User Messaging Platform — a consent tool certified under the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework. The choice is genuine:
- Consent — ads may be personalised using your advertising ID and the partners listed in the form.
- Do not consent — you still see ads, because they fund the game, but they are non-personalised: chosen from general context rather than from a profile of you.
- Manage options — decide purpose by purpose and vendor by vendor, rather than all-or-nothing.
Your answer is stored on your device in the standard TCF format and passed to Google with each ad request, so it is honoured on every ad you see.
You can change your mind at any time without reinstalling: open Settings → Privacy → Manage ad consent in the game and the same form reopens with your current choices. The button appears only where this choice applies, which is why you may not see it outside the EEA and UK.
Outside those regions no consent form is shown, and ads are personalised in accordance with Google's policies and your device-level advertising settings, which you control from Android Settings as described above.
Anonymous gameplay and crash statistics
The app sends anonymous gameplay statistics so we can see which parts of the game are too hard, too easy or broken, and so that crashes reach us without anyone having to report one.
This is on by default. The switch is shown to you on first launch already turned on, and you can turn it off there or at any time afterwards in Settings. Turning it off stops all sending immediately.
We say that plainly rather than calling the feature optional, because it starts switched on and you should know that before you play rather than after.
While it is on, the following is sent to our analytics provider, PostHog:
| What | Example |
|---|---|
| A random ID created for this installation | A string generated on your device. It is not your Advertising ID and does not follow you between apps. It exists only so that two events from the same install can be counted as one player. |
| Gameplay events | Run started, run ended, score, distance reached, which cart was equipped, graphics quality tier, daily streak |
| Purchase events | Which in-app product was bought and its listed price in your currency, plus Google's order number so a purchase is counted once. Never card numbers, billing addresses or any payment details — we never see those. |
| Performance diagnostics | Device model, Android version, WebView version, graphics chip name, screen density, and frame-time statistics |
| Error and crash reports | When the game hits a fault: the error message, the programmer's stack trace, and what the game was doing at the time — which screen, which graphics mode, how far into a run. This is how a crash that only happens on some phones gets found. It describes the game's own code, not you, and contains no personal information. |
| Which screens you open | Menu, shop, settings and so on, so we can see where people get stuck |
| Where the install came from | The campaign tags that Google Play attaches to the store link you
installed from (utm_source, medium, campaign, content, term
— for example "share" when a friend sent you the game, or
"google-play / organic" for a store search) and the install date. Google
provides these once, on first launch; nothing else from that link is
kept, and no advertising or click identifiers are sent. |
Switching the setting off stops any further sending and discards anything still queued rather than holding it for later.
Purchases
In-app purchases are processed entirely by Google Play. We never see or store your payment details. Play tells the app which product was bought so the gold can be credited; that record is kept on your device. While statistics are on, the product name, its listed price and Google's order number are included in them — the payment method and your payment details are not.
Refunds are handled by Google Play under Google's refund policy.
Diagnostic reports you choose to send
The game can produce a diagnostic report describing recent performance — frame times, device model, and a log of in-game events such as crashes and jackpots. It contains no personal information and no gameplay content beyond those counters.
This report is only created when you deliberately ask for it, by holding the version line in Settings, and it is only sent where you choose to send it through your phone's own share sheet. While statistics are on, a short summary of the same performance figures is included with them.
Children
Gold Digger is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect data from them. The game contains simulated gambling — a slot-machine bonus played with in-game gold only — and is rated accordingly. No real money can be won, and in-game gold cannot be exchanged for money or anything of real value.
Your choices and your rights
- Turn off statistics — Settings, at any time. They start switched on; turning them off stops all sending immediately and nothing further leaves your device.
- Change your ad personalisation choice — in the game, Settings → Privacy → Manage ad consent (EEA and UK).
- Reset or delete your Advertising ID — Android Settings → Privacy → Ads.
- Delete everything held on your device — uninstall the app, or clear its storage in Android Settings.
- Request deletion of statistics already sent — email us at the address below with the approximate date and your device model, and we will delete the matching records. Because the data carries no name or account, that is the only way we can identify them.
If you are in the EEA or the UK, you have rights of access, correction, deletion, restriction and objection under the GDPR. Our legal basis for the statistics is your consent, which you give by leaving the switch on and may withdraw at any time in Settings; for personalised advertising it is the consent you give through the form described above. You can withdraw either at any time, and withdrawing is as easy as giving it.
Changes to this policy
If we change what the app collects, this page is updated and the date at the top changes with it. Material changes will be described here rather than quietly folded in.
Contact
Questions, or a deletion request: movwatches@gmail.com