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Lantern Rovers privacy policy Updated 1 October 2026 Publisher and privacy contact: Oreniq games, Oreniqgames@gmail.com. Oreniq games is the publishing name of an individual developer based in Utah, United States. THIS VERSION This policy describes the ordinary offline game and a separate, connected tester program. The ordinary game remains intended for players ages 13 and older. Connected accounts are limited to invited adults aged 18 or older. Newer Android builds specifically carrying the Google Play access check use the age-access behavior below; earlier installed builds do not acquire it from a website or notice update. The current age-access QA build has advertising disabled. Any sample ads or billing checks in other designated tester builds remain separate testing features, as described below. GOOGLE PLAY ACCESS IN NEWER ANDROID BUILDS In builds carrying this access check, the app requests Google Play Age Signals API 0.0.4 solely for age-appropriate access and legal or regulatory compliance. Depending on Google Play's response, the app may temporarily receive an access status, lower and upper age-band bounds, an age-range source, parental significant-change approval status and date, and a Play install identifier. These raw responses stay in working memory only. We do not store or send their raw age bounds, source, approval date or install identifier to Firebase, advertising providers, analytics or our own server. We do not collect your date of birth, identity document, precise location or selfie for this check. Google Play handles its own account and verification processes under its own terms; an age range may be self-declared, parent-provided or verified by Google. Oreniq games does not independently verify your identity. Only a minimal access decision is kept on this device: permitted 13+ gameplay, 18+ connected-account eligibility, conservative offline-only play or a restriction, together with decision/check timestamps and policy/change revision markers. Allowed decisions are valid for at most 12 calendar months; clock rollback or inconsistent records can require another check. A known restriction is preserved until a valid compatible response resolves it. No raw age range, range source, parental approval date or Play install identifier is retained in this local decision. This is separate from the ordinary game save, Firebase account and optional activity outbox. At startup the app automatically checks when the saved decision is missing or unusable, or a previous permission has expired or is invalid for the current policy/change revision. A preserved restriction offers explicit retry. You can explicitly choose Check again to retry. Returning to the app enforces the existing decision; it does not automatically make a daily Store query. The age-access feature adds no automatic daily telemetry job. A successful NOT_SHARED response permits conservative ordinary offline play only when no known restriction takes precedence; it does not establish that you are an adult. A fresh error without a valid previous permission blocks play and offers retry. An unchanged, unexpired previous permission can permit ordinary offline play after an error, but cannot permit connected accounts, billing or other optional SDK flows on that error. Under-13, verification-required and unresolved parental change restrictions remain blocked. No advertising is enabled in this age-access QA flavor, and Store age information is not used to select, target or personalize ads. The newer Android build opens a connected tester account only after Google Play shares an age range establishing 18+ eligibility and you explicitly choose that feature. Email verification, your separate adult confirmation and the activity-sharing choice still apply. It does not automatically restore an account connection on first launch. The web hub's adult checkbox is self-attestation and does not independently verify age or replace the Android Store check. Declining optional activity sharing remains separate from age access. Clearing app storage or uninstalling can remove the local decision and restrictions along with local progress; a fresh installation must check again. It does not change your age or parental approval in Google Play, erase Google-held records, delete connected account data or guarantee unrestricted access. A policy notice cannot guarantee that another device, an earlier installed build, or an offline cached decision immediately learns a later Store change. Use Google Play and Check again to resolve an access problem; do not send identity documents or raw age responses to support. PROGRESS ON YOUR DEVICE The ordinary game stores progress, equipment, inventory, preferences, tutorial completion, rewards and any expedition in progress in private app storage. There is no cloud save for ordinary play and the game does not upload ordinary-player attendance. Device backup or transfer features may retain their own copies under your device settings. The tester account and its outbox are separate from the offline save. OPTIONAL EMAIL FEEDBACK If you open an email feedback draft, it contains your written comments, game version, device model and operating-system description. You can edit or delete these details before sending. Your chosen email app handles sending. If you send the email, Oreniq games receives your sender address and the content you include and uses them to answer support questions, investigate bugs and improve the game. Do not include passwords, payment information or sensitive personal details. Email providers also process messages under their own policies. SHARING Optional progress sharing prepares text with your wins and unlocked level. You choose the receiving app and whether to send. The game does not read your contacts or send invitations automatically. The receiving service handles shared information under its own policy. CONNECTED TESTER ACCOUNTS A separate tester build and web hub offer account enrollment for adults aged 18 or older. We ask you to enter an email address, password and display alias, verify your email, confirm you are an adult, and make a separate choice about optional daily activity summaries. The web hub and earlier builds use adult self-confirmation, not independent identity verification. Newer Android builds carrying the Google Play access check additionally require a shared range establishing 18+ eligibility and your explicit choice to open the connected feature. We do not ask for your birth date or identity document, and do not claim that every Google Play age source independently verifies identity. Firebase Authentication handles sign-in, password reset and email verification. It assigns an account identifier and processes your email address and password. We receive the verified email address, Firebase account identifier and verification status, but not your password. Firebase may process IP address and user-agent information for account security and abuse prevention. Our Firestore profile stores your email, alias, adult confirmation, activity-sharing choice, privacy notice version, creation time, pending or approved status, and a separate access-provisioned status. These access fields do not prove Google Play opt-in, installation or eligibility. PRIVATE TESTER FEEDBACK After approval, you can send written feedback through the tester build or hub and read personal replies from Oreniq games. The private conversation stores message text, conversation topic and identifier, sender role, message identifier, server receipt time and game build/version. Only you and the authorized test owner can read the conversation. Messages are not public or testimonials. Attachments are not accepted. Please do not include passwords, payment details, precise location, health information or other sensitive personal information. OPTIONAL DAILY ACTIVITY You may decline or later withdraw permission to share activity and still use the tester account and game. When enabled, the tester build records only foreground expedition time while the app is focused and unpaused and there has been recent meaningful input. It groups reports by UTC date and sends aggregate active seconds, kills, gathering nodes, lantern/wave progress, completed runs and game version under your tester account identifier to Cloud Firestore. The server records the receipt time. Only you and the authorized test owner can read your summaries; the owner uses them to understand test coverage and identify issues. UTC days may differ from your phone's local calendar day. The test's qualifying-day measure is at least 120 active expedition seconds and at least one kill, node or lantern event. A login or daily gift does not qualify. These summaries are generated on your device and are not independently verified. Device clock changes, offline play, interruptions, storage limits and sync failures can make a report incomplete or place it on an uncertain date. A missing report does not prove that you did not play. Activity is a diagnostic; it does not prove attention, enjoyment, motivation, continued Google Play opt-in or Play eligibility. We do not rank testers or require daily play, positive feedback or favorable reviews. No daily streak or activity-sharing permission is required for free game use. Any paid QA assignment is separately agreed with its provider and may specify honest testing tasks; it does not require optional telemetry, positive findings, public ratings or favorable reviews and cannot guarantee Google Play approval. With permission enabled, reports are queued on the device and sent over an encrypted connection when available. The app keeps up to 50 unsent messages and 32 recent daily summaries; older activity may be dropped and flagged as missing. In updated tester builds carrying this 1 October 2026 notice, turning sharing off in the game immediately stops new local collection and removes unsent activity from the upload queue, including a newer unsent change to a previously uploaded day. Your withdrawal is stored for that account on this phone; an older server setting cannot silently re-enable it. A pending withdrawal is sent before further activity uploads when the phone reconnects. Sharing resumes only after a new affirmative choice successfully reaches the service. If local storage fails, the game stops collection for the current session and reports that it could not save the choice; do not rely on it surviving restart until resolved. A request already transmitted cannot be recalled and may still reach the server. Previously sent summaries remain until deletion. A change in the web hub or on another device takes effect on this phone after successful sync; an offline device cannot immediately learn of another device's withdrawal. Earlier installed builds may require a successful online change to stop sharing; do not rely on the updated local withdrawal behavior until using an updated build. Removing a queue record does not securely erase independently retained exports or device backups. Messages you choose to send are separate from activity sharing and remain queued when sharing is withdrawn. To keep you signed in, the Android tester build stores an encrypted Firebase refresh credential in private app storage protected by Android Keystore and excluded from Android backup. It does not save your password. Signing out removes the saved credential; the server still verifies account access. Credentials are never included in the feedback outbox. If an activity outbox is unreadable or unsafe to change, an updated build preserves it, explains that its contents could not be discarded safely, and prevents it from uploading. The account-local withdrawal preference is saved separately when possible. When a trusted queue is recovered, unsent activity is removed while private messages are retained. If both the withdrawal preference and safe queue storage fail, collection stops for the current session; retry the choice and do not assume that OFF will survive closing or reopening the account until the app confirms it was saved. OWNER'S TEST EXCHANGE CHECKLIST The owner can keep a private reciprocal-testing checklist in the hub: app names, developer aliases, public app/group/contact links, testing instructions, schedule dates and time zone, duration and status, manual play and feedback checkmarks, brief notes and server timestamps. It may link to an existing tester account identifier to display that tester's optional Lantern Rovers activity reports. These records are stored in Cloud Firestore for coordinating the owner's separately agreed testing tasks and are accessible only to the authorized owner. This does not monitor other apps or automatically collect their usage, and a missing Lantern Rovers report is not proof of no play. Notes should not contain passwords or sensitive personal details. The owner deletes exchange records no later than 90 days after that exchange ends, or earlier on request to Oreniqgames@gmail.com; this is owner-managed cleanup, not an automatic timer. Account deletion also requires the owner to remove any related exchange notes or links. Downloaded exports require separate deletion. Reciprocal or paid testing tasks never require favorable findings, public reviews or optional activity sharing. HOW WE USE INFORMATION Oreniq games uses tester information to review applications, manage test access, provide support, answer feedback, investigate problems and improve the game. Optional activity summaries help us understand testing progress and reliability. We do not sell tester information or use it for targeted advertising. We do not use Google Analytics for this program. Access to private tester records is limited to the authorized test owner. ADVERTISING The current Google Play age-access QA build has advertising disabled: it does not initialize the advertising or ad-consent SDKs or request ads. The following sample-ad disclosure applies only to other explicitly designated tester builds that include that feature. The separate tester build may offer an optional Google rewarded test ad. It uses Google's sample rewarded-ad unit and Google Mobile Ads and User Messaging Platform (UMP) consent services; it is not a production placement and is not intended to generate ad revenue. You can continue playing without an ad, and normal rewards are not withheld for declining. When you choose the ad flow, Google may process device or advertising identifiers, IP and network information, privacy choices, and ad request or interaction information to provide the SDK, consent form and test ad. Processing is subject to Google's privacy information and can vary with Android, SDK configuration and your choices. Updated tester builds use conservative Google under-age/restricted-ad treatment for an unknown-age audience, including self-confirmed adult testers, without collecting a birth date. Google may suppress a consent form in that configuration; seeing a form is not promised. This tester configuration is not approval for production advertising. TEST BILLING QA The separate tester build may expose Google Play billing checks for the one-time Nightfall and Dawn appearance products. These non-consumable appearance products are for restricted billing QA with designated Google Play license testers and Google's test payment methods. Testers do not need to spend money. Do not start a purchase unless the owner has confirmed license-tester access and the Google Play checkout identifies a test purchase; stop if a real charge may occur. Google Play processes checkout and payment details. The game does not receive card or bank details. It stores product identifiers and signed purchase/ownership records locally to restore the test appearance. No live price, public offer or commercial-sale policy is established by this QA. AGE GROUPS The ordinary game remains 13+. In newer Android builds carrying the Store check, the additional Google Play access and known-18+ connected-account rules above apply. A web adult confirmation remains a separate self-attestation. The ordinary game is intended for players ages 13 and older. The connected tester account, inbox and activity service are limited to adults aged 18 or older. We do not knowingly enroll people under 18 in the connected program or ask them to provide account information. The adult confirmation is not an age-verification process. Parents or guardians may contact Oreniq games if a minor's information was submitted so we can review and delete it. RETENTION, DELETION AND SECURITY Tester accounts, Firestore profiles, messages and activity summaries are deleted as part of owner-managed cleanup no later than 90 days after the test ends, or earlier when an account holder requests deletion through the hub. A deletion request stops new account activity and begins removal of messages, summaries, profile and Firebase Authentication account. If deletion is interrupted, the interface reports that it is pending and allows the account holder to resume; do not assume uninstalling the game or clearing local storage removes cloud records. A minimal random Firebase UID and server deletion time may remain in a deleted-account marker for up to 90 days after Auth deletion to block stale sessions from recreating the profile and to finish cleanup. This marker contains no email, alias, messages or activity. Google may retain service-level backups and security logs under its own schedules. Firebase states that authentication IP logs are retained for a few weeks and other authentication information is removed from live and backup systems within 180 days after deletion is requested. These provider copies are not controlled by an app-level timer. Local progress and device backups are separate from tester account deletion. We limit access to tester records and no storage or transmission method is guaranteed completely secure. SERVICE PROVIDERS AND WEBSITE The connected service uses Firebase Authentication and Cloud Firestore, provided by Google. The default Firestore database is in the United States multi-region nam5; Firebase Authentication processes data in the United States. Google may process data elsewhere when a service does not offer a location choice. Firebase privacy information: https://firebase.google.com/support/privacy . Firestore location details: https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/locations . Google's privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy . The Oreniq games hub is hosted as a static site on GitHub Pages. GitHub may log IP addresses and request information for security and service operation. The hub does not add Google Analytics or separate web analytics. GitHub's privacy statement is at https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/privacy-policies/github-general-privacy-statement . YOUR CHOICES AND CHANGES Feedback and sharing are optional. You can play the ordinary game without a tester account. Connected testers can turn activity sharing off, download their records, or request account deletion through the hub or by contacting Oreniqgames@gmail.com. You may have additional privacy rights where you live. Material changes to collection will be explained before new collection begins. The dated policy is available from Settings → Privacy, terms & credits. OPTIONAL TESTER REFERRALS Approved testers can share a personal invitation link containing a pseudonymous code derived from their tester account identifier. It contains no email address or password. Applicants may keep or clear the optional invitation code before submitting their application. We store the code with the application, whether it has been credited, and the inviter's earned badge count (0 to 3). The owner uses these records to verify genuine new participants, prevent duplicate rewards and award cosmetic tester badges. The inviter sees their own badge count, not the recruit's email, identity, feedback or activity. The owner can confirm an expedition through a private conversation, so activity sharing is never required. These records follow the same account deletion and 90-days-after-test retention policy. Codes in links may be visible to the people or services you choose to share them with. They grant no account or Google Play access.

Lantern Rovers terms of use Updated 1 October 2026 Provided by Oreniq games, the publishing name of an individual developer based in Utah, United States. Contact: Oreniqgames@gmail.com. ABOUT THIS VERSION Lantern Rovers is a game under development. Features, progression and balancing may change. The ordinary game is intended for ages 13 and older. Connected tester accounts are a separate program for invited adults aged 18 or older. Participation is voluntary. Daily play, positive feedback, sharing and favorable reviews are never conditions for using the game. Testers do not need to spend money. A separately agreed paid QA assignment may define honest testing tasks, but does not condition free game use on daily attendance or optional telemetry and must not require positive findings or public reviews. Paid participation cannot guarantee Google Play approval. PLAYING AND TESTING You may install and play a lawfully obtained copy for personal entertainment. These terms do not transfer ownership of the game or its artwork to you. Connected tester enrollment requires an adult self-confirmation and verified email; it is not available to people under 18. The web confirmation is self-attestation, not independent age verification. Newer Android builds carrying the Google Play access check additionally require a Store-provided range establishing 18+ eligibility and your explicit choice to open the connected feature. Google Play may use different age sources; Oreniq games does not independently verify identity. Test access is approved separately and does not guarantee Google Play access. GOOGLE PLAY ACCESS CHECK Newer Android builds specifically carrying this feature check Google Play access at startup when the saved decision is missing or unusable, or a previous permission has expired or is invalid for the policy/change revision. A preserved restriction offers explicit retry. You may retry explicitly; there is no automatic daily Store query or new daily telemetry job. The ordinary game remains intended for 13+. A successful NOT_SHARED response can permit conservative ordinary offline play, but never overrides a known restriction or establishes adult-account eligibility. A fresh error offers retry; an unchanged, unexpired previous permission may permit offline play only. Under-age, verification-required or unresolved parental change restrictions remain blocked until resolved. Allowed decisions last at most 12 calendar months on this device. Clearing local data may remove the decision and progress, but does not change Google Play age or parental approvals or promise access. Earlier installed builds do not acquire these behaviors from this notice. This access QA flavor has advertising disabled. See the privacy policy for the small local decision record and transient Store responses; activity sharing is a separate optional choice. FAIR USE AND FEEDBACK Do not distribute malware, harass people through support channels, impersonate another tester, or attempt to access someone else's private records. You keep ownership of your written feedback. You allow us to use suggestions you voluntarily submit to maintain and improve the game without an obligation to pay for the suggestion. This does not authorize publishing your private messages or identity as a testimonial. Do not send passwords, payment information or sensitive personal details. Third-party software retains its own license terms, available in Credits & software notices. PROGRESS AND VIRTUAL ITEMS Coins, equipment, appearance items and rewards have no cash value or cash-out right. Ordinary game progress is stored locally. Connected tester records are handled as described in the privacy policy. Test appearance purchase records are kept locally for restore. Development defects, device loss, clearing app storage or ending the test may affect local saves and test entitlements. These terms do not remove rights applicable law gives you. TEST ADVERTISING AND BILLING QA The current Google Play age-access QA build has no advertising. The following applies only to other designated builds that include the named testing feature. A separate tester build may include optional Google sample rewarded ads and test-only Google Play billing for Nightfall and Dawn appearance products. Test ads are not production ads or a source of test revenue. Test purchases are for specifically designated Google Play license testers using test payment methods. Testers must not make a purchase using a real payment method; stop if checkout does not identify a test purchase. Ordinary rewards do not depend on viewing an ad. No live price, public offer, commercial sale, refund policy or production advertising terms are established here. EXTERNAL SERVICES The connected tester service uses Firebase Authentication and Cloud Firestore. Where included in a designated tester build, sample ads and their privacy choices use Google Mobile Ads and UMP. Billing QA and the newer Android age-access check use Google Play. The tester hub is hosted on GitHub Pages. Each provider's own terms and privacy practices apply to its services. The ordinary game's optional email and sharing features open another service only when you choose them. Google Play's applicable terms also govern distribution. AVAILABILITY AND YOUR RIGHTS We may update the game, change features, or discontinue the development test. We make no promise of uninterrupted or error-free operation. Nothing in these terms excludes a guarantee, remedy, liability or consumer right that cannot lawfully be excluded. We do not require mandatory arbitration or waive class-action rights in these terms. Applicable law determines rights not addressed here. STOPPING AND CHANGES You can stop playing or leave the tester program at any time. You may turn off activity sharing and request access, correction or deletion as described in the privacy policy. Updated builds stop local collection and discard unsent activity from the upload queue immediately; account-wide changes and offline devices require successful sync, and already sent requests may still arrive. Earlier installed builds may require online confirmation; the updated policy does not install a new build on your phone. Account deletion removes tester records and account subject to provider backup schedules described there; it does not delete ordinary offline game progress. We will make revised terms accessible with an updated date and provide additional notice or request agreement when required. TESTER INVITATION BADGES Invitations are optional and for adults 18 or older. A new applicant can keep the inviter's code on their first application. The owner awards one credit after verifying a genuine different person, approving their account, arranging Play access and confirming they tried an expedition. Duplicate accounts, self-referrals and existing testers do not earn credits. Each new person can be credited once; an inviter earns at most three credits: Trail Friend (1), Grove Guide (2) and Camp Host (3). Badges are account-bound cosmetic recognition in the tester program, have no cash value or gameplay advantage, and are not a promise of a commercial-game item. They do not require a rating, review, purchase, favorable feedback, daily streak or optional activity sharing. There is no reward for merely clicking Share, sending a link or creating an unapproved account. Never send invitations without the recipient's interest or share your credentials. Earned credits are subject to manual verification and update after account refresh.

Updated 1 October 2026 Oreniq games Individual developer based in Utah, United States Lantern Rovers support and privacy requests Oreniqgames@gmail.com BUG REPORTS Tell us what happened, what you expected, your game version and which phone you use. Screenshots are optional; remove personal information before sending. Never send passwords, signing keys, payment details or sensitive personal information. TESTER ACCOUNTS AND DATA REQUESTS Use the tester hub to review or download your own tester information, turn off optional activity sharing, or start account deletion. A hub change reaches game devices after successful sync. Updated builds with the 1 October 2026 notice also stop locally and discard unsent activity immediately when switched off in the game; older installed builds require an online confirmed change. Already sent requests may still arrive, and earlier summaries are retained until deletion. Deletion removes tester messages, daily summaries, profile and Firebase sign-in account. If an online step is interrupted, sign in again and resume the deletion flow; the account screen will show when cleanup is still pending. A minimal random account identifier and server deletion time may remain in a safety marker for up to 90 days after account deletion to prevent stale sessions from recreating the account. It contains no email, alias, message or activity information. You may also email Oreniqgames@gmail.com with the subject 'Lantern Rovers data request' for access, correction or deletion. Send from the email address on the account when possible. Do not send identity documents. You may request deletion of daily activity summaries only while keeping your tester account and private feedback; identify this as an activity-only deletion request. Turning sharing off alone does not delete earlier server summaries. Tester account, message and activity records are deleted within 90 days after the test ends, or earlier upon request. Google may retain authentication backups or security logs for its own limited schedules, as described in the privacy policy. GOOGLE PLAY ACCESS IN NEWER ANDROID BUILDS The ordinary game remains intended for ages 13+. Only newer Android builds carrying the Store access check have this feature; a notice update does not change an earlier installed build. Check again retries an access check. A missing or unusable saved decision, or an expired or policy-invalid previous permission, is checked at startup, not by an automatic daily Store query. A preserved restriction offers explicit retry. An error with no valid previous permission offers retry; a valid unchanged previous permission can permit offline play only. NOT_SHARED can permit conservative ordinary offline play, but cannot establish 18+ account eligibility or remove a known restriction. Verification or parental-change restrictions must be resolved through Google Play; a retry cannot promise approval. Connected native accounts need a known 18+ Store range, your explicit choice, email verification and adult confirmation. The web hub's checkbox is separate self-attestation, not independent age verification. The device retains only a minimal access decision, timestamps and policy/change markers. Allowed decisions expire after at most 12 calendar months; restrictions remain until resolved. Raw Store age ranges, source, parental approval date and install identifier are not saved or sent to the hub, ads or analytics. Do not send date of birth, identity documents, selfies or raw age responses for support. Tell us your game version, the safe on-screen error and whether Google Play is installed and updated. Google Play handles its own verification. Clearing app data removes local progress and may remove local access decisions; it does not amend Store age/parental approval or delete connected data and is not an access workaround or routine recovery instruction. LOCAL SAVES Android Settings → Apps → Lantern Rovers → Storage → Clear data removes local progress. This is permanent unless you have a separate recoverable backup. Uninstalling also removes app-local data, but does not erase email, exports or device backups. Deleting a connected tester account does not delete the separate offline game save. AD CHOICES The current age-access QA build has advertising and ad-consent SDK initialization disabled. The following sample-ad choices apply only to other designated tester builds that include that feature. Ordinary play does not request or display ads. The separate tester build may offer an optional Google sample rewarded ad. Google privacy choices, when required and available, can be opened from 'Ad privacy choices'. The conservative under-age treatment in updated test builds may suppress the Google form; not every player will see one. Declining or closing an optional test ad does not remove ordinary loot. TEST PURCHASES Nightfall and Dawn are appearance products exposed only for restricted Google Play billing QA in the separate tester build. Only use an owner-designated license-tester account and Google test payment methods. Stop if checkout does not identify a test purchase or could use a real payment method. Testers never need to spend money.