Only data connected to features actually enabled in a covered product is processed.
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Estela Games Privacy Policy
How Estela Games processes information across its website, games, and digital products, including feature-dependent processing.
Where local saves are used, progress remains on the user’s device.
Where advertising is enabled, applicable privacy choices are provided.
The English text is the primary version. Translations are provided for accessibility; mandatory local-law rights remain unaffected.
Scope of this Policy
This Privacy Policy applies to estelagames.com and to Estela Games games and digital products that link to it. A product is covered because it presents or links to this Policy; product titles and package names are not maintained as a catalog in this document.
A description applies only when the relevant feature or provider is actually enabled in the product you use. If a product introduces a materially different data category, account, cloud service, analytics tool, or provider, an appropriate supplemental notice will be presented at or before collection through the product, its store listing, or another clear notice. This Policy is not permission to collect unspecified categories of data.
Who is responsible
Estela Games is the operating name used by independent game developer Alp Anıl Seçkin.
Data controller: Alp Anıl Seçkin (operating as Estela Games)
Country: Türkiye
Contact: info@estelagames.com
- Data controller
- Alp Anıl Seçkin (Estela Games)
- Operating name
- Estela Games
- Country
- Türkiye
- Privacy email
- info@estelagames.com
- Website
- estelagames.com
- Contact address
- Pınartepe mah. Avrupa Cad. Doğa Panorama Evleri Büyükçekmece / İstanbul
Covered Services
This Policy covers the Estela Games website, games, and digital products that display or link to it. Not every covered product uses every feature described below.
How to read this Policy: references to local saves, advertising, consent tools, or other providers apply only where that feature is present in the product you are using. The relevant product and its active features are identified in the product interface or store listing rather than through a list of game names in this Policy.
Data Collected
Estela Games does not process every category below in every product. Processing is limited to the categories needed for features actually enabled and used:
- Local gameplay data: progress, achievements, preferences, language, and sound settings stored on the device where a product provides local saves.
- Advertising and device data: information processed by the Google Mobile Ads SDK only in products where Google advertising is enabled, as described in Third-Party Services.
- Website technical data: request and security information needed to deliver and protect this website.
- Communications: first and last name, email address, subject, and message submitted through the Contact form, plus any name or alias, attachments, and mail headers provided in a direct email.
Unless a product clearly requests information and provides an additional notice, ordinary gameplay does not ask Estela Games for a postal address, exact location, contacts, camera or microphone content, photos, health information, payment information, or official identity data.
A feature not described here—such as a future account, cloud service, or separate gameplay analytics tool—is not covered by implication. Its data categories, purposes, recipients, legal basis, and retention will be disclosed before the feature begins processing personal data.
Local game saves
Where a covered product stores progress and preferences locally, those records remain on the device until the app is uninstalled, its app data is cleared, or an available in-product reset is used. Normal app updates ordinarily do not erase local records.
If the relevant product does not provide an account or developer-controlled cloud save, Estela Games normally cannot access, restore, move, or delete that local record remotely. A copy voluntarily attached to an email becomes part of the communication.
Website logs and communications
Technical delivery and security
The website is hosted and protected through Cloudflare. When your browser requests a page, Cloudflare may process an IP address, request time, requested URL or path, request method and status, user-agent, referrer, routing data, system configuration, and network or security signals. These data are used to deliver the page over HTTPS, cache content, maintain availability, diagnose errors, and detect abuse or malicious traffic. See Cloudflare’s privacy information.
For an unprefixed site URL, the two-letter country code supplied by Cloudflare is used at request time to present Turkish to visitors in Türkiye and English elsewhere. Estela Games does not store this routing choice in a separate visitor profile and does not set a language cookie. Explicit /tr/ and /en-us/ URLs keep the language selected by the visitor.
Estela Games does not currently deploy a separate website analytics service and does not maintain a separate exported database of raw website visitor logs.
Cookies
This website does not currently set analytics, advertising, or other non-essential cookies. Cloudflare Turnstile loads only on the Contact pages as a necessary security measure and may process browser, device, and network signals to detect automated abuse; it is not used by Estela Games for advertising or website analytics. If non-essential technology is introduced, a separate notice and any legally required choice screen will be published before it is enabled.
Email and contact
The Contact page offers a web form and a direct email link; the Data Request page provides an email route. The form processes first and last name, email address, subject, message, a short-lived Turnstile response, and necessary request-security data. Cloudflare verifies the response to prevent automated abuse and its email infrastructure delivers a successful submission to info@estelagames.com. Estela Games does not write form submissions to a separate application database. The delivered message and any reply may remain in the recipient mailbox as reasonably necessary to respond, manage security, meet binding duties, or handle legal claims.
Why information is used
- provide covered products and retain local progress or settings where those features are used;
- serve and measure advertising where advertising is enabled;
- obtain, store, and respect advertising privacy choices where a consent tool is required;
- secure products, advertising, the website, and communications and prevent fraud or abuse;
- deliver the website, diagnose faults, and maintain availability;
- reply to messages and privacy requests; and
- comply with applicable law and establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
Information is not repurposed incompatibly without an updated notice and, where required, a new choice.
Legal bases
The legal basis is tied to the processing purpose, not to a blanket acceptance of this Policy. Where the GDPR or UK GDPR applies:
- Contract or requested pre-contract steps: provide a product feature or technical support necessary for the product you requested, and retain its local settings. This does not make advertising tracking necessary to perform a contract.
- Legitimate interests: deliver and secure the website, validate contact requests, prevent fraud, diagnose faults, and answer general enquiries. The interests are operating a reliable service and handling the communication you initiated; they must not override your rights.
- Legal obligation: receive, verify, and respond to a legally applicable privacy request or comply with a specific binding duty.
- Legal claims: retain only relevant evidence where necessary to establish, exercise, or defend a concrete claim, on the applicable lawful basis.
- Consent: personalised advertising, tracking, and device storage or identifier access when consent is required. Choosing an optional rewarded ad is not, by itself, consent to tracking or every advertising purpose.
Consent-dependent processing must stop when the applicable consent is withdrawn; another basis is not used to bypass that choice. For Türkiye, the activity-by-activity conditions are set out in the KVKK notice. International transfers also require the separate conditions described below.
Third-Party Services
Where advertising is enabled in a covered product, that product may use the Google Mobile Ads SDK. Google states that the SDK may automatically collect and share the following information for advertising, analytics, security, and fraud prevention:
- IP address, which may be used to estimate general or approximate location;
- app launches and interactions, including taps and ad video views;
- SDK and app diagnostic or performance information;
- Android: advertising ID and App Set ID, subject to their permitted purposes;
- iOS/iPadOS: the advertising identifier (IDFA) only where permitted by Apple’s tracking permission, and other app- or developer-scoped identifiers, such as IDFV, where used by the enabled SDK; and
- other device- or account-related identifiers where applicable.
Google states that data collected by the Google Mobile Ads SDK is encrypted in transit using TLS. Estela Games normally receives aggregated AdMob reports rather than a raw IP address or direct player identity. Advertising partners may process data under their own terms, and applicable identities and purposes are shown through the consent interface where required.
Read Google’s Mobile Ads SDK data disclosure and Privacy Policy.
For an iOS/iPadOS release using Google Mobile Ads, the SDK disclosure also covers crash and performance information, ad impressions, and product interactions. The categories depend on the enabled SDK and features; listing iOS here does not mean every game has an iOS release. See Google’s iOS data disclosure.
Protection by recipients: we require every third party with which we share personal data to provide the same or equivalent protection required by this Policy and applicable platform rules. Providers processing data for us must be bound by appropriate confidentiality, security, purpose-limitation, rights-assistance, and deletion obligations. An independent provider’s own notice does not remove our responsibility for a disclosure we make or authorise unrelated use. A provider that cannot meet the applicable requirements must not receive the affected data.
No sale for money. Estela Games does not sell personal information for money. Advertising-related disclosures may nevertheless qualify as “sharing” or “targeted advertising” under certain U.S. state laws. Where applicable, use the Privacy Preferences entry point in the advertising-enabled product or contact info@estelagames.com.
Personalized, non-personalized, and limited ads
Personalized ads
May use prior activity, advertising identifiers, device information, and consented purposes to select ads.
Non-personalized ads
Are selected without a personalized profile but may still use permitted identifiers or storage for basic selection, security, frequency controls, and reporting.
Limited ads
Disable use of personal data for personalization; limited delivery and security processing may still occur.
Optional ad formats
Where a product offers a user-initiated rewarded format, it begins only after the user chooses that option.
The available mode depends on region, consent status, product configuration, Google settings, and technical eligibility.
Consent and withdrawal
Where required in an advertising-enabled product, Google User Messaging Platform (UMP) is used to request and manage advertising privacy choices. An applicable Privacy Preferences entry point lets you revisit the choice.
- Android: you can also reset or delete the advertising ID in the device’s advertising privacy settings. Available controls depend on the Android version.
- iOS/iPadOS: App Tracking Transparency (ATT) is Apple’s separate permission for tracking across other companies’ apps or websites and access to IDFA where required. Manage it in Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking. See Apple’s tracking-permission guide.
An UMP choice does not replace ATT, and ATT permission does not replace any consent required under privacy law. If Apple’s permission is unavailable or denied, it must not be bypassed through another tracking identifier or fingerprinting. Tracking permission is not a condition for using the game.
Withdrawing consent does not affect earlier lawful processing. Non-personalised or limited advertising can still involve permitted delivery, security, or measurement processing; denying tracking is not a promise that no data is processed.
The website cannot change a permission stored in an installed game or the operating system. If a control is unavailable, contact info@estelagames.com with the product, app version, Android/iOS version, and country, without passwords or unrelated sensitive information.
International data transfers
Alp Anıl Seçkin (Estela Games) is based in Türkiye. Cloudflare may process website requests, security signals, and contact-message delivery outside Türkiye. Messages delivered to our Google Workspace mailbox may also be processed abroad. Google Mobile Ads processes advertising data only in products where that service is enabled. Infrastructure and approved subprocessors may be located in the EEA, the United Kingdom, the United States, or other countries described by the providers.
- Website, Turnstile, and message delivery: Cloudflare’s Data Processing Addendum describes its processing and transfer terms.
- Support mailbox: Google Workspace’s Cloud Data Processing Addendum describes processing and the applicable regional terms.
- Advertising, where enabled: Google Controller-Controller Data Protection Terms describe the separate controller arrangement for the services they cover.
For a transfer subject to European or UK data-protection rules, the relevant provider agreement describes when adequacy arrangements, European Commission standard contractual clauses, or a UK addendum apply. Applicability depends on the actual service, parties, destination, and agreement; these are not interchangeable blanket permissions.
Türkiye: KVKK Article 9 requires a separate valid transfer condition. European clauses, a provider privacy notice, an UMP selection, or Apple ATT permission do not by themselves establish the Turkish transfer safeguard. Where Turkish standard contracts are used, their execution and required notification are separate steps; a website notice cannot perform them. Regular provider transfers must not be treated as an occasional-transfer exception merely because a user contacts us.
You may request information about the recipients, destinations, and safeguards applicable to your data, and access to a relevant safeguard where the law provides it, at info@estelagames.com. Confidential or third-party information may be redacted without withholding information required to exercise your rights. See the KVKK transfer section.
Data security
Reasonable technical and organizational safeguards are used in proportion to the data and risk. These include HTTPS/TLS in transit, Cloudflare network protections, access restrictions for developer and provider accounts, data minimization, software updates, and limiting direct developer access to aggregated reports where the service permits.
No internet or storage system is completely secure. If a breach creates a legally reportable risk, affected people and the competent authority will be notified as required by applicable law.
Retention and deletion
| Local game saves | Until you uninstall the app, clear its data, or use an in-game reset. Normal updates ordinarily do not delete them. |
|---|---|
| AdMob data | Retained by Google under its product settings, policies, consent signals, and legal duties. The developer does not keep a separate raw copy of the SDK identifiers or IP address and normally retains only aggregated reports available in AdMob. |
| Website request data | Processed by Cloudflare under the active service configuration and provider terms. Estela Games currently keeps no separately exported raw visitor-log database. |
| Contact-form submissions, emails, and privacy requests | The website keeps no separate application database of form submissions. Delivered messages and related replies may remain in the recipient mailbox only for as long as reasonably necessary to resolve the message or request, protect security, meet a binding legal duty, or establish, exercise, or defend legal claims; then deleted or anonymized. |
| Consent records | For as long as reasonably necessary to respect the choice and demonstrate compliance, subject to UMP/Google settings and applicable law. |
Deletion requests are applied to data the developer controls, subject to legal exceptions. Data held independently by a provider may also need to be managed through that provider’s controls.
Your privacy rights
Depending on your location and the processing involved, rights may arise under Türkiye’s Law No. 6698 (KVKK), the EU GDPR, UK GDPR, Swiss data protection law, U.S. state privacy laws, Brazil’s LGPD, Japan’s APPI, South Korea’s PIPA, Indonesia’s PDP Law, or India’s DPDP framework.
Applicable rights can include information, access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection, portability, withdrawal of consent, and a complaint to the competent authority. Rights are subject to legal conditions, identity verification, and statutory exceptions.
Where a product has no account or developer-controlled cloud service, Estela Games may hold no gameplay record that can be linked to the requester. Requests can be sent to info@estelagames.com or prepared through the Data Request page.
Children’s privacy
The intended audience and age rating for each product are stated in the relevant store listing or product notice. Product configuration, advertising settings, and consent treatment must follow the declared audience and applicable child-privacy requirements.
Estela Games does not knowingly request that a child send unnecessary personal data by email. A parent or guardian who believes a child supplied personal data directly or that processing did not follow applicable requirements may contact info@estelagames.com. Qualifying data will be reviewed and deleted as required.
Changes to this Policy
This Policy may be updated when a product, provider, data practice, or legal requirement changes. The revised text will show a new effective date. A material change will be highlighted in the product or website and renewed consent will be requested where law requires it. Older versions can be requested by email if they are retained.
Contact
For privacy questions, choices, or rights requests, contact:
- Data controller
- Alp Anıl Seçkin (Estela Games)
- Operating name
- Estela Games
- info@estelagames.com
- Country
- Türkiye
- Contact address
- Pınartepe mah. Avrupa Cad. Doğa Panorama Evleri Büyükçekmece / İstanbul
Please identify the product, your country or state, and the right you wish to exercise. Send only the information reasonably needed to locate and verify the relevant record.