APP PRIVACY
Privacy policy for the app
Applies to BierBua Simulator from the iOS and Android versions with optional game analytics · Last updated: 1 October 2026. Older app versions do not send game analytics.
1. Controller
Kevin Madl
Hermann-Aust-Str. 21
82152 Krailling
Germany
Email: hello@bierbuasimulator.com
2. Privacy principle
The app has no accounts, advertising or third-party analytics SDKs. iOS and Android game analytics is optional and stays off until you explicitly agree. No game analytics events are sent without consent, and you can play without consenting. We do not receive game saves, exact high scores, contacts, location or advertising data through game analytics.
3. Data stored on your device
Your save, records, bottle caps, progress, selected character, unlocked looks, daily reward, language and audio settings, and text you enter in the heart studio are stored locally in the app. They are not automatically sent to us. This storage provides the game progress you request (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR). You can remove it by deleting the app or its data through your operating system; we cannot restore it.
A separate local gameplay statistics feature is off by default. If explicitly enabled later, it stores at most 500 approved gameplay entries on the device, with export and deletion controls. It does not automatically send them to us.
4. Sharing images
When you select a daily Schnappschuss photo for the album, the app keeps one compressed image per play day in local app storage. Album photos are not sent to us or to game analytics. Deleting the app or its data removes them; use “Save image” for an extra copy.
Other generated result images and your own designs are saved or passed to another app only when you choose to do so through the system share function. A temporary file is created in the app cache, which the app attempts to clear on its next launch. The privacy policy of a chosen receiving app or service then applies. We do not receive your contact choice or message.
5. Optional iOS and Android game analytics
After consent, the app creates a random identifier for this installation and sends it with the calendar day and limited events to bierbuasimulator.com: app sessions, visible game cards for the four main arcade games and Schnappschuss, game opens, starts, finishes, exits, retries and handled start errors. The app also sends its version, game mode, broad result and progress categories (such as medal tier, win/loss or wave range), use of daily rewards, looks and extras, and rounded completed-play duration. Exact scores and the specific look or extra chosen are not sent. We use this to understand active installations, games played, completion rates and returns after 1, 7 and 30 days. The identifier is pseudonymous: it links events from one installation but does not itself identify a person. The server stores only a keyed hash of it. Daily values are removed from the active analytics database after 180 days; the hashed installation key and first recorded day remain only while activity continues and are removed no later than 180 days after the last activity. The legal basis is your consent under Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and, where applicable, section 25(1) TDDDG.
You can withdraw at any time through “Analytics” in the app footer. Collection then stops, the local event queue is deleted and the app requests deletion of this installation’s server data; if offline, it retries when connected. For access or deletion questions, contact hello@bierbuasimulator.com. Your IP address is technically needed for a server connection and rate limiting, but is not stored in the analytics database.
We use these analytics only to improve BierBua and the experience of playing it. To document consent, we store its time and the consent-text version under the pseudonymous installation key. These fields are deleted with the installation’s data on withdrawal and at most 180 days after its last activity. The analytics service runs on an IONOS server in Spain; IONOS acts as our hosting processor.
To recover from a server failure, we back up the server, including the analytics database, to IONOS backup storage in Europe. The backup plan provides seven daily and four weekly recovery points. After withdrawal, we remove the installation's data from the active analytics database. Older backups may still contain a pre-deletion copy until the relevant recovery point expires. Backups are used only for recovery, not for ongoing game analytics. After a server restore, we start game analytics with a new, empty database; older analytics data from the backup is not reactivated.
6. Permissions and device functions
The app does not request access to location, camera, microphone, contacts or notifications. Saving and sharing images uses system functions. Older Android versions without this consent feature do not send game analytics.
7. No advertising tracking
We do not track you across other companies’ apps or websites, use an advertising identifier, create advertising profiles or share data with ad networks.
8. App stores and operating systems
Apple and Google handle downloads, installs, updates and store functions under their own privacy policies. On iOS, the optional in-app rating request uses Apple’s StoreKit system; it does not send gameplay analytics to our service.
9. Email support
If you contact us through our support page or email, we process your email address, message and any details you provide to answer you. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR for app-use or contractual questions, otherwise Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. We delete this data once the enquiry is resolved unless legal retention duties apply.
10. Children and alcohol theme
The app is not directed at children. It is fictional cartoon satire for adults and contains no real drinking challenge.
11. Your rights
Where we process personal data, you may have rights to access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability and objection under the GDPR. You can withdraw consent for the future and complain to a data protection authority.
12. Changes
We update this notice before introducing new features or further data collection and review the store privacy information for every submitted build.