Privacy Policy
The short version. Chop King has no accounts, no login and no sign-up form. We never ask you for your name, email address or phone number. Your game save — gear, stat nodes, gold, unlocked forests — is stored only on your own device and is never uploaded to us.
One third-party service handles limited data on our behalf: Google AdMob, which serves the ads that keep the game free. Chop King has no in-app purchases at all. Everything AdMob receives is listed below.
1. Who we are
Chop King: Axe Roguelite ("Chop King", "the app") is developed and published by Woohyeok Seo, an independent developer based in the Republic of Korea (the "developer", "we", "us").
For any question about this policy or about your data, contact tjdngur22@gmail.com.
2. What this policy covers
This policy describes how the Chop King mobile application handles information. It also covers this website. It does not cover any third-party website you may reach through a link or an advertisement — those are governed by their own policies.
3. Information we do not collect
We want to be specific about the absences, because they cover most of what people worry about:
- No account, no registration, no login of any kind.
- No name, email address, phone number, postal address or date of birth.
- No contacts, photos, microphone, camera, health data or precise location.
- No social-network connection and no user-generated content.
- No cross-app or cross-website tracking. The app does not request the Apple advertising identifier (IDFA) and therefore never shows the App Tracking Transparency prompt.
- The developer operates no server of its own. There is no Chop King backend that your device talks to.
4. Information stored on your device
Your progress is written to the app's local storage on the device itself: gold, purchased gear, stat-tree nodes, unlocked forests and maps, unlocked companions, settings such as sound on/off, and your daily-play streak.
This data never leaves your device, is not readable by us, and is not backed up to any Chop King server. Deleting the app deletes it (see section 9).
5. Information collected by third parties
The app embeds two third-party software development kits. The table below matches, category for category, the App Privacy disclosure we publish on the App Store.
| Data | Who | Purpose | Linked to you? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Device identifiers, including a mobile advertising identifier | Google AdMob | Serving ads, limiting how often the same ad is shown to the same device, and detecting invalid or fraudulent clicks | No — not linked to your identity or to any profile we hold |
| Advertising interaction data (ad impressions, ad completions, clicks) | Google AdMob | Aggregate reporting and measurement of ad performance | No |
5.1 Advertising — Google AdMob
Ads keep the game free. Two formats appear: a rewarded ad you choose to watch in exchange for extra gold or a bonus, and an occasional full-screen ad between runs. Nothing in the game is locked behind watching an ad.
The app always requests non-personalized ads (the npa flag is set to true on every ad request). Non-personalized ads are selected from the general context rather than from your past behaviour. As Google documents, a device identifier is still used even in non-personalized mode, for basic ad serving, frequency capping, aggregated reporting and fraud prevention.
Google's handling of this data is governed by the Google Privacy Policy. See also how Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.
5.2 No in-app purchases
Chop King contains no in-app purchases and no subscriptions. There is nothing to buy, so we hold no purchase records and no payment data of any kind. Every companion, including the collector robot, is unlocked by playing or by choosing to watch rewarded ads.
6. Why we process this data (legal bases)
For people in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and other regions with comparable law, we rely on the following legal bases under the GDPR:
- Legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f)) — serving non-personalized ads, frequency capping and fraud prevention, which fund a free game while remaining minimally intrusive.
The app does not show a consent dialog, because it never requests personalized advertising, never requests the Apple advertising identifier, and never asks permission to track you. If we ever change that, we will add a consent flow and update this policy before doing so. In the meantime, the controls in section 8 remain available to you at any time.
7. Data sharing and international transfers
We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it with data brokers. We do not disclose it for cross-context behavioural advertising. The only recipients are the two service providers named in section 5, each acting on our behalf.
Google operates globally, so data it processes may be stored or handled in countries other than yours, including the United States. Google relies on its own transfer mechanisms, such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses, described in the policy linked above.
We may also disclose information if we are legally required to do so by valid legal process.
8. Your choices and rights
- Limit ad tracking. On iOS, go to Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking and leave "Allow Apps to Request to Track" off. Chop King never requests it in any case.
- Play without ads entirely. Turn off your network connection. Gameplay, gear and progression all work without a connection; only ads and the purchase need one.
- Delete everything local. Deleting the app from your device removes the local save (see section 9).
- Access, correction, deletion, objection, portability. Depending on where you live — including under the GDPR, the UK GDPR, the CCPA/CPRA and Korea's PIPA — you may have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information relating to you, to object to or restrict certain processing, and to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority. Email tjdngur22@gmail.com and we will respond within 30 days. We will never charge you or degrade the game for exercising a right.
Because the app holds no account and no identifier we control, a request about advertising data is normally best directed to Google.
9. Data retention and deletion
- On-device save data — kept until you delete it. Deleting the Chop King app from your device erases it permanently. It is not recoverable, and it does not transfer to a new device.
- Advertising data — retained by Google according to Google's own retention schedule, as described in its privacy policy. We hold no copy.
10. Children
Chop King carries an Apple age rating of 4+, meaning it contains no objectionable content. It is not directed to children under 13 (or the equivalent minimum age in your country), it is not published in the App Store's Kids Category, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children.
If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, contact tjdngur22@gmail.com and we will delete what we can and refer the remainder to the relevant service provider.
11. Security
Save data stays inside the app's sandbox on your device, protected by the operating system's own protections. Network traffic generated by the advertising and purchase SDKs is encrypted in transit. No system is perfectly secure, but because we operate no server and store no personal information ourselves, the surface area here is deliberately very small.
12. Changes to this policy
If we add a service, change what data is handled, or switch to personalized advertising, we will update this page and change the "Last updated" date at the top. Material changes will also be noted in the App Store release notes for the version that introduces them. Continuing to use the app after an update means you accept the revised policy.
13. Governing law
This policy is governed by the laws of the Republic of Korea, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Nothing here removes a mandatory protection you have under the consumer or data-protection law of your own country of residence.
14. Contact
Woohyeok Seo — independent developer, Republic of Korea
Email: tjdngur22@gmail.com
Typical response time: within 3 business days; formal data requests answered within 30 days.