Privacy policy

Last updated: 25 October 2026

Pack the Impossible is a puzzle game you can play offline. The game has no accounts, and your progress is saved on your device.

• Play statistics. To find out where the game is too hard or stops being fun, it counts how it is played: when a sitting starts and how long it lasts, how many days it has been since your first one, which orders are opened, failed (and what went wrong), packed or left, hints used, the hints card being opened, an ad watched or not available, the purchase, and how Endless Shifts go. Each count carries a random number made on your phone, the phone's model and Android version, and the game's version. It never carries your name, an account, your advertising ID or where you put things. The counts are sent encrypted to GameAnalytics (a company in Denmark and the UK), which keeps them for the developer and may process them in other countries. Like any online service it sees the IP address they arrive from, which gives a country. See GameAnalytics' privacy notice.
• When statistics are sent. Whenever the game is online, in every country. There is no switch in the game: to stop them, uninstall the game, which also deletes its random number.
• Ads, only when you ask. If you run out of hints you can choose to watch a video ad for more. Ads are served by Google AdMob. When you open the hints card, Google's ads software may collect your device's advertising ID and app set ID, your IP address (which gives an approximate location), how you interact with the ad, and diagnostic information, to show and measure ads and prevent fraud. This data is sent to Google encrypted. If you never open the hints card, Google's ads software collects nothing. See how Google uses this data.
• Your choices. Where the law requires it (for example in Europe), Google asks for your consent before any ad, and you can change your answer in Settings → Ad privacy choices. You can also reset or delete your advertising ID in your phone's settings.
• One optional purchase. "Unlimited hints" is bought through Google Play, which handles the payment. The game never sees your payment details; it only remembers on your device that you own it.
• No accounts, no sign-in. The developer never learns your name, your email or anything else that says who you are. What the developer sees is the play statistics above, added up over all players.
• On your device: your puzzle progress, hints and settings (sound, music, vibration), and the random number for play statistics, are saved in the game's private storage. Uninstalling the game deletes them from the phone. Reset progress in Settings clears your packed orders and shift records at any time. Your hints, the purchase and your settings stay as they are.
• Android backup. If backup is switched on in your phone's settings, Android may keep a copy of the game's saved data in your own Google account's backup, so your progress can come back after a reinstall or on a new phone. The random number for play statistics comes back with it. The developer cannot see that copy.
• Daily reminder, only if you ask. If you turn on the daily reminder, the phone itself shows a notification once a day. It is set up on your phone and nothing about it is sent anywhere. Turn it off in Settings, or in your phone's notification settings.
• Sharing. "Share this disaster" hands a picture of the screen and a link to the game to the phone's own share menu. The picture goes only where you send it.
• Rating the game. Once, the game may show Google Play's own rating card. Whatever you choose is handled by Google; the game does not see it.
• Permissions: vibration (haptics), internet access for the ad, the purchase and the play statistics, notifications (asked for only if you turn on the daily reminder) and setting the reminder again after the phone restarts, and the ones Google's ad and billing software adds: the advertising ID, Google Play billing, basic phone state, and keeping a video ad running.
• Deleting data. The developer holds nothing with your name or account on it. Play statistics already sent carry only the random number, so the developer cannot tell which are yours; uninstalling the game stops any more from being sent. To remove what is on your phone, uninstall the game. For data held by Google, including an Android backup, use your Google account's privacy controls.

Children: the game is meant for players aged 13 and over. It does not knowingly collect information from children.

The browser version (pack-the-impossible.pages.dev/play/) has no ads, purchase, play statistics, reminder, sharing or rating card. It downloads the game from this site and saves your progress, hints and settings in your browser's own storage for this site; nothing is sent anywhere. Clearing the site's data in your browser deletes it.

Some versions of the game in testing do not yet include ads, the purchase or play statistics; for those, nothing leaves your device.

If this policy ever changes, the new version will be published at this same address with a new date.

Contact: questions about this policy or the game: yashingole1000@gmail.com.