Tea Garden: Mahjong Story — Privacy Policy

Updated 4 October 2026

In short

Tea Garden: Mahjong Story never asks for your name, email, phone number or address. Your progress stays on your phone. Data leaves the device only for ads, purchases, anonymous game statistics and — if you choose to turn it on — online mode. See below.

Your progress and settings

Levels, your garden, coins and settings are stored in the phone memory. If backup is turned on in your phone, Android may copy them to your own Google account so that progress returns after reinstalling — this is done by Google, we do not see that copy. Everything is deleted together with the game, and in the game you can start over: Settings → “Start the game over”.

Reminders

If you allow notifications, the game sets reminders on the phone itself (for example, when lives are full). Nothing is sent to a server. You can turn them off in the game settings or in the phone settings.

Ads

Ads are served by Google AdMob and the Yandex Advertising Network. To choose the ads they may use your device's advertising ID. You can reset it or turn off personalised ads in the phone settings: Google → Ads. How this data is handled is described at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites and yandex.com/legal/confidential. With “No ads” active no ads are shown.

Purchases

Payments are handled by Google Play. We never see or store card numbers or other payment details — the game only learns from Google that a purchase is active.

Game statistics and crash reports

To find levels that are too hard and fix crashes, the game uses Google Firebase Analytics and Firebase Crashlytics. They receive anonymous events — for example “level 42 won”, “a mode was opened”, “a video was watched” — and, if the game crashes, a technical crash report (device model, Android version, where in the code it happened). Firebase uses an app instance identifier and may use the advertising ID; it never receives your name, email or contacts. How Google handles this data: firebase.google.com/support/privacy. Data is kept by Firebase for up to 14 months for statistics and 90 days for crash reports.

Cloud save and online mode (optional)

This is off until you tap “Turn on cloud save” in Settings. No registration is needed: the game creates an anonymous account with a random identifier that is not linked to your name, email or phone. If you use Google Play Games, the account is tied to your Play Games player ID, so that it opens on your other phones too; we do not receive your name or email from Google. Then our server (Google Firebase: Authentication and Cloud Firestore) stores:

• your profile: a nickname (generated by the game, you can change it), a picture chosen from the game's own set, your campaign level, arena rating and league. Other players can see the profile;
• a copy of your game progress (levels, garden, coins and so on), so it is not lost. Only you can read it;
• a random device number, to tell which of your phones saved the copy, and a time stamp used to check the clock.

You can erase all of this at any time: Settings → Cloud save → “Delete account”. The profile, the saved copy and the account are deleted from the server straight away; progress on your phone stays.

Children

The game is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect data about them. If you are a parent and believe your child left their data in the game, write to us.

How to delete your data

If you never turned on online mode, we keep none of your data on our side; anonymous statistics in Firebase are deleted automatically after the periods above. If you did, delete everything with Settings → Cloud save → “Delete account”, or write to us and we will do it for you. Your progress is deleted together with the game or with Settings → “Start the game over”. The advertising ID can be reset in the phone settings: Google → Ads. Questions — write to absurdoxlab@gmail.com.

Changes

If the policy changes, a new date appears at the top. By continuing to use the game you agree to the updated text.

Who we are

AbsurdoxLab. Questions — absurdoxlab@gmail.com.

Чайный сад: Маджонг — политика конфиденциальности