Privacy policy

Last updated: 11 October 2026

This policy explains what Leblebi ("the app") does with data. It was written against what the app's code actually does, and every claim in it is checkable against the source.

Leblebi is published by Kargaburga. Contact: tayfun.bilgi@gmail.com

The short version

Leblebi has no account of its own, never asks you to type your name or email, and its own code contains no analytics or crash-reporting service. One ad network it uses, Yandex Ads, includes Yandex's AppMetrica library to measure its ads (see Advertising). Your puzzle progress is stored on your device.

Two optional things involve other companies: advertising, and Google Play Games if you choose to sign in. If you do sign in, the app shows your Play Games name on your own Home and Account screens and backs up your progress to your Google account — and sends neither to anyone. It also tells Play Games which of the game's achievements you have earned.

What Leblebi stores on your device

The app saves your game progress locally so you can close it and come back. That save contains:

• which puzzle you are on, your points total, and how many puzzles you have completed
• which days you completed the daily puzzle
• the puzzle you are part-way through, including words found and hints used
• your settings: language, the sound level, haptics on/off, background motion, which ambient sound you chose, whether reminders are on and at what time
• which of the game's one-time tips you have already seen

It contains no name, no email address, no contacts, no location, and no device identifier.

Puzzles and dictionary definitions are included inside the app, so playing does not require an internet connection and nothing about which words you look up is ever transmitted.

Google Play Games Services — optional

If you sign in to Google Play Games, the app uses it for two purposes.

1. Backing up your progress. The save described above is written to Google's Saved Games, so your progress survives a lost or replaced phone. Only that progress data is read and written.

2. Showing you who is signed in. The Home and Account screens display your Play Games display name, exactly as you set it. It is:

• never written to your save file, on the device or in the cloud
• never sent anywhere by the app — not to the developer, not to the ad services, not to anyone
• held in memory only, read fresh each time you open the app and gone when you close it

If you are not signed in, the app shows no name. It never asks you to sign in to continue.

The app does not read your profile photo, your friends list, or your email address.

When you are signed in, the app tells Google Play Games which of its achievements you have earned and how far along you are on the others: for example that you have completed 300 puzzles or found a six-letter word. That is all it sends, and Google keeps it with your Play Games profile, under Google's own privacy policy. The count on the Profile page is worked out on the device from your progress and needs no connection. If you play without an account, nothing is sent.

Signing in is optional. Declining it costs you cloud backup, achievements and the name on the screen, and nothing else. Play without an account on the Account screen sets the account aside on this device; Delete account erases your progress on this device and the copy in your Google account, and then sets the account aside.

Google's handling of your Play Games account is governed by Google's Privacy Policy.

Advertising

Leblebi is free and shows ads. There are two places: a full-screen ad after finishing a puzzle, and an optional video you can choose to watch in exchange for a hint. You are never required to watch an ad to keep playing.

Ads are delivered by Unity LevelPlay (ironSource mediation), by Unity Technologies — privacy policy.

LevelPlay chooses between several ad networks, and the app ships the adapter for each of them. Any of these may serve an ad and may therefore receive the data listed below:

Yandex Ads includes Yandex's AppMetrica library, which it needs to work: it uses it to measure ad performance. By Yandex's own disclosure it collects your device's Advertising ID for advertising, encrypted in transit, and you can opt out of personalised ads.

The app also includes Google's User Messaging Platform for the consent prompt and Google's advertising-identifier library.

These services may process:

• your device's Advertising ID, a resettable identifier you control in Android Settings
• device and app information — model, operating system version, language, and country
• your IP address, from which an approximate region may be inferred
• which ads you were shown and whether you interacted with them

This is used to select ads, to limit how often the same ad repeats, to measure whether ads worked, and to detect fraud. Leblebi itself never receives this data, and the app's own developer sees only aggregate earnings reports.

You can reset or delete your Advertising ID at any time in Android Settings under Privacy → Ads. Deleting it stops personalised advertising; the app will still work.

Personalised ads, everywhere

You can turn personalised ads off in every country, from ad choices on the app's Account screen. Where the law requires a consent form, that row opens it (below). Everywhere else it is a switch: off, the app tells every ad partner that you do not consent to personalised advertising and opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information, and they show generic ads instead. The choice is sent every time the app starts, before any ad service starts, and resetting your progress does not turn it back on.

Consent, where the law requires it

Where the GDPR, UK GDPR or similar law applies, the app shows Google's User Messaging Platform consent form before any ad service starts, and asks you to choose. You can reopen that choice at any time from ad choices on the app's Account screen.

If you decline, your choice is passed to every ad partner in the standard consent signal the form writes, and they may then show only limited, non-personalised ads, or none. The optional video that funds a hint may therefore still play. Nothing else about the game changes.

Changing your mind takes effect for the ads that follow. If you reopen the choice and decline, the new choice is passed on in the same way; if the form can no longer allow ads at all, the app stops requesting them for the rest of the session.

Reminders

Settings has a reminder switch, off by default. Switched on, the app schedules one notification a day on your device, at the time you choose, saying that today's daily puzzle is waiting. It is scheduled locally, uses no server, and sends nothing anywhere.

Permissions

Leblebi requests two Android permissions of its own:

• VIBRATE — the small tap you feel when you touch a control. You can switch it off in Settings. It works entirely on your device and sends nothing anywhere.
• POST_NOTIFICATIONS — the reminder above, only if you switch it on.

Network access comes from the advertising and Play Games components described above.

Children

Leblebi is a word and dictionary game and contains no content directed at children, no chat, and no way for players to contact each other. It is not knowingly directed at children under 13, and the developer does not knowingly collect personal information from them.

Data deletion

Leblebi's developer keeps no data about you on any server, so there is nothing the developer holds that a request could delete. What does exist, and how you remove it:

• Your progress on this device (everything listed under "What Leblebi stores on your device"). Reset on the app's Account screen erases it and returns your settings to their defaults; if you are signed in to Play Games, it erases the copy in your Google account too, and it is offered only while that copy can be reached. Uninstalling the app also removes it from the phone. The app is excluded from Android's own backup, so a reinstall does not bring back progress you erased; moving to a new phone with Android's transfer tool copies only what is on the old phone at that moment.
• Your progress in your Google account, if you signed in to Play Games. Delete account on the Account screen deletes the saved game in your Google account and, once Google confirms it is gone, the copy on this device; if Google cannot be reached, nothing is deleted and the app says so. You can also delete your Play Games data from your Google Account.
• Your achievements, if you signed in to Play Games. They belong to your Play Games profile, not to the app's saved game, so Delete account and Reset leave them in place. Deleting your Play Games profile, in the Play Games app's settings or from your Google Account, removes them.
• Advertising data. The ad networks in the Advertising section receive the data listed there directly from your device. Leblebi's developer never receives it and cannot delete it. Each network keeps it for as long as its own privacy policy says and handles requests to see or delete it: use the privacy policy linked beside it in the table. Deleting your Advertising ID in Android Settings, under Privacy → Ads, breaks the link between your device and what they hold, and ad choices on the Account screen turns personalised ads off.

Nothing is kept after a deletion by Leblebi's developer, who never held a copy. You may also email tayfun.bilgi@gmail.com with any question about your data.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it, and material changes will be noted in the app's store listing.