Privacy Policy

Last updated 13 November 2026

Burger World is a single-player game. We (the developer) run no servers, ask you for no account, and receive no personal information about you. The game is free and shows ads from Google AdMob, and Google collects some information from your device to show those ads. This policy explains what that is and what choices you have.

What the game stores on your device

Burger World saves your progress so you can close the game and come back to it. That save holds only game state: your cash and gems, restaurant level and layout, upgrades, staff, missions, and the timestamps the game needs to calculate offline earnings.

The save is written in two places, both private to the app on your own device:

  • your device's local browser storage, inside the app; and
  • a file named burger-save.json in the app's private documents folder.

The second copy exists because iOS can clear the first one between launches. It is not a backup we hold — it is a file on your phone, in storage only this app can read.

Your save never leaves your device. We cannot see it and we never receive it.

If your device backs itself up (iCloud Backup on iOS, or Google's Android backup), your save may be included in that backup. That backup belongs to you and goes to Apple or Google under their terms, not to us.

Advertising (Google AdMob)

The game shows two kinds of ads, both provided by Google AdMob:

  • a banner at the bottom of the screen, after the tutorial; and
  • rewarded videos that you choose to watch (for example, to collect a bonus offer in the restaurant, a free staff hire or upgrade, or double offline earnings). You get the reward only after the video finishes. Watching is always optional.

To choose, show and measure ads and to prevent fraud, the Google Mobile Ads SDK inside the app collects and sends to Google:

  • Device identifiers: the advertising ID on Android, the app set ID, and on iOS the advertising identifier (IDFA) only if you allow tracking;
  • Approximate location, worked out from your IP address (not GPS);
  • Interactions with ads and the app: app launches, ads shown, taps and video views;
  • Diagnostics: crash and performance information about the ads SDK;
  • Device information: model, operating system version, language and similar.

This information is sent encrypted to Google. We, the developer, do not receive it and cannot link it to you. Google uses it as described in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services and in Google's Privacy Policy.

Your choices

  • Consent (EEA, UK, Switzerland and some US states). Where the law requires it, the game shows Google's consent form before any ad is requested. You can accept, refuse, or choose which purposes you allow. If you refuse, ads may still appear but they will not be personalised, or no ads will be requested at all.
  • iPhone and iPad. iOS asks whether Burger World may track you. If you choose "Ask App Not to Track", the advertising identifier is not shared and ads are not personalised using it. You can change this at any time in Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking.
  • Android. You can reset or delete your advertising ID, or opt out of ads personalisation, in Settings → Google → Ads (or Settings → Privacy → Ads, depending on your device).
  • Uninstalling the game stops all ad-related collection by the game.

In-app purchases

The game offers optional purchases (gem packs, outfit packs, Remove Ads, Double Income). They are handled entirely by Google Play (or the App Store on iPhone): you pay in Google's or Apple's own payment screen, and we never see your card, UPI, bank or account details. The game receives only which product was bought and a purchase token, which it keeps in its save on your device so a purchase is never delivered twice. Google's and Apple's privacy policies cover the payment itself.

Analytics

None. The game contains an internal event logger used during development. It writes lines to a local debug console and nothing more — no analytics service is bundled in the app, and we receive no events. (Google's ads SDK measures ads as described above.)

Reminders (notifications)

If you allow notifications, the game sets a few reminders on your phone: when your crew's earnings are full, when your daily gift is ready, when a seasonal event starts, and a "come back" note after a day or three away. They are scheduled by your phone itself from your save — nothing is sent to us or to any server, and there is no push service or device token. Reminders only arrive between 9:30 and 21:30 your time, and all of them are cancelled while you are playing. Turn them off any time with the REMINDERS switch in the game menu, or in your phone's notification settings.

Network use

All artwork, sound and game code are bundled inside the app when you install it. The game plays offline. The only network traffic is made by the Google Mobile Ads SDK, to fetch and report ads, and by the store's billing service when you open the shop or buy something. Without a connection, the game works normally but shows no ads.

Children

Burger World is made for a general audience. It is not directed at children under 13 (or under the age of digital consent where you live, such as 16 in parts of the EEA). We do not knowingly allow ads to be personalised for children. If you believe a child is using the game, the ad settings above let you turn off personalised ads on the device.

Third parties

The only third parties that receive information from the game are Google (AdMob, and Google Play for purchases) and, on iPhone, Apple (App Store purchases), as described above. We do not sell your data, and we have no data of our own to share.

Deleting your data

Uninstalling the app deletes your save, along with everything else the app stored. We hold nothing about you, so there is nothing for us to delete. Information collected by Google is handled by Google — you can manage it at myadcenter.google.com and reset your advertising ID as described above.

Your rights

Privacy laws such as the GDPR and the CCPA give you rights to access, correct, delete or object to the use of personal data. We hold no personal data about you; for data Google collects through ads, use the consent form in the game, your device's ad settings, or contact Google through its privacy policy.

Changes to this policy

If a future version of the game collects other data, we will update this policy and say clearly what changed, before that version ships.

This website

The Burger World website uses no cookies, no analytics and no advertising, and loads nothing from other companies. The burger mini-game on the home page remembers your best score and your sound setting in your browser's own storage; they never leave your device. The host that serves the site keeps standard server logs (such as IP address and pages requested) for security.

Contact

Questions about this policy: ourcanvasapp@gmail.com

See also the Terms of Service.