Privacy Policy — Grandpa's Chinatown Kitchen

Last updated: November 5, 2026

The short version

Grandpa's Chinatown Kitchen has no accounts and never asks for your email or any other contact details. Your saves stay on your own device. The game shows ads through Google AdMob, which collects some device and usage data as described below, and sells one optional purchase, the Supporter Edition, through Google Play. If you allow it when the game asks, it also shares gameplay statistics through GameAnalytics so the game can be made better. Nothing is sold.

What stays on your device

• Your saves (up to three restaurants), the name you give in the story, the endings you've found, how long you've played and your settings are stored in the app's own storage on your phone. They are not uploaded to the developer.
• Uninstalling the app deletes this data. If Android backup is on, it may be included in your device backup, handled by Android and your Google account, not by this app.

Advertising (Google AdMob)

The game is free to play to the end, and shows three kinds of ads:

• An ad between months: a full-screen ad after a month's last night, at most one every 10 minutes of play, and none in your first 10 minutes. Never in the story, the tutorial, payday, the awards or an ending.
• A native ad on the billboard over the restaurant: only while you're looking at the restaurant with nothing over it, and none in your first 10 minutes. When there's no ad, the billboard shows the restaurant's own ads.
• Optional rewarded ads: you can choose to watch one to ask around for staff once more in a month, or to call Grandpa about a seasonal special.

Ads are served by Google AdMob, which may collect:

• Your device's advertising ID and other device identifiers
• Your IP address, used to estimate your approximate location (country or city)
• Device information (model, operating system, language) and how you interact with ads
• App performance and diagnostic information, such as launch time and stability

Google uses this to show ads, measure them and prevent fraud. In the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland, the game asks for your consent through Google's consent form before any ads load. Where a privacy law gives you a way to change your choice (in Europe, and in some US states), the game's Settings has Privacy choices. You can reset your advertising ID or delete it in your Android settings (Settings → Google → Ads). See how Google uses information from apps that use its services.

The Supporter Edition (Google Play)

The Supporter Edition is a one-time purchase that turns off the ads (between months and on the billboard), makes the rewards free and hangs a gold lantern by the restaurant's door. Google Play handles the payment; the game never sees your payment details. The game asks Google Play only whether the Supporter Edition was bought on your Google account, each time it starts, so that a new phone or a reinstall gets it back. Google Play keeps a record of each order (such as its number, date, price and country), which the developer can see in the Google Play Console. See Google's privacy policy.

Gameplay statistics (GameAnalytics)

When you first open the game, it explains what it does with your data and asks whether you want to share gameplay statistics. Nothing is sent unless you choose "Allow", and you can change this at any time under Settings → Share stats. If you allow it, the game sends to GameAnalytics:

• Game events: months started and finished, and how the restaurant stands at each month's end (stars, fans, cash, profit, people served, a missed rent); the awards won each year; the ending reached; the tutorial started, finished or skipped; and your choices, such as answers to the month's happenings and to Golden Dragon's moves, the seasonal specials you make and their scores, the legends you hire, what you build, Night Market booths, ads watched and the Supporter Edition
• Error reports if the game crashes
• Your approximate location (country), worked out from your IP address
• Device identifiers and device information (such as model, operating system and app version), as described in GameAnalytics' privacy notice

This is used only to understand how the game plays (which months are too hard or too easy, which choices people make, where they stop) and to improve it. It is not linked to your name or contact details: the name you give in the story is never sent. GameAnalytics processes this data on the developer's behalf; see the GameAnalytics privacy notice.

What the app does not do

• No accounts, sign-in, chat or cloud saves
• No access to your contacts, photos, camera, microphone, messages or precise location
• No sale of personal data

Permissions

• Internet and network state: to load ads, to check the Supporter Edition with Google Play and, if you allow it, to send gameplay statistics
• Google Play Billing: to buy and restore the Supporter Edition
• Advertising ID: used by AdMob as described above
• Vibration: for small vibrations at moments in the game (can be turned off in Settings → Vibration)

Data retention and deletion

Data collected by AdMob is kept by Google under its own retention settings, and data collected by GameAnalytics is kept under its data retention policy. Because the game has no accounts, the developer cannot look up or identify your data. To stop gameplay statistics, turn off Settings → Share stats. To stop all collection, uninstall the app; you can also reset your advertising ID in Android settings. You can also ask GameAnalytics directly about your data at privacy@gameanalytics.com.

Children

The game is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect data from them.

Changes

If this policy changes, the updated version will be published at this address with a new date above.

Contact

winsontan520@gmail.com