Privacy policy for the app “Wortsprosse”

Date: 11 November 2026

Deutsche Fassung (maßgeblich)

1. In short

Wortsprosse needs no account and no sign-in. Your progress stays on your phone. The app is free and shows ads (Google AdMob). Before ads are requested, you decide: in the EU the app first shows a consent dialog. You can change your choice at any time in the app (Settings → “Werbe-Einstellungen ändern”, i.e. ad settings).

2. Who is responsible?

Vincenz Orlowski – VO Media
Email: support@vo-media.group

3. What is stored on your phone?

Solved levels and stars, your rank, daily streak, badges and settings (sound, animations). This data never leaves your phone; we cannot see it. Delete it in the app (Settings → delete progress) or by uninstalling the app. Legal basis: § 25(2) no. 2 TDDDG (necessary for the function you requested).

4. Advertising (Google AdMob)

Wortsprosse is financed by ads and uses the Google Mobile Ads SDK (Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland; parent company Google LLC, USA). For this the app needs internet access and the “advertising ID” permission.

Which ads? A banner at the bottom, a full-screen ad after a solved puzzle (not after every puzzle, with a minimum interval, never at start) and an optional ad you can watch to get a hint. Sometimes we show a notice for our other apps instead. These notices are stored inside the app; nothing is loaded and no identifier is used.

What data does Google process? When an ad is loaded, Google may process for example: IP address, device information (model, operating system, language), your device’s advertising ID, approximate location derived from the IP address, and ad interaction such as “shown” or “clicked”. We only receive aggregated figures (revenue, impressions), no data about individuals.

Consent. In the EU, EEA, UK and Switzerland a Google dialog (“Consent”, UMP) asks whether Google may use data for personalised ads. Ads are only requested after this dialog. If you do not consent, limited ads that are not based on your behaviour may still appear. Legal basis: your consent (§ 25(1) TDDDG, Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You can withdraw it at any time with effect for the future in the app (Settings → ad settings). In Android settings (Privacy → Ads) you can also reset your advertising ID or turn off personalised ads.

Where data is transferred to Google LLC in the USA, this relies on the EU Standard Contractual Clauses or the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, as far as Google is certified. More: policies.google.com/privacy and policies.google.com/technologies/ads.

Children. Wortsprosse is not directed at children under 13.

5. Our website

This website is hosted by Cloudflare Pages (provider: Cloudflare, Inc., USA). When you open a page, Cloudflare processes your IP address, the time, the requested file and technical browser data. This is needed to deliver the page to you securely and quickly; Cloudflare uses servers in many countries. The data may therefore also be processed outside the EU, especially in the USA. As the basis for this transfer, Cloudflare states its certification under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (alternatively the EU Commission's standard contractual clauses). How long Cloudflare keeps log data is determined by Cloudflare (cloudflare.com/privacypolicy). We do not keep our own access logs, set no cookies and use no analytics tools. Why are we allowed to do this? Because we must operate the site securely and quickly (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

6. Google Play

When you download the app, Google processes the data needed (for example your account); Google is responsible for that: policies.google.com/privacy.

7. Contact

If you write to us, we use your email address and message only to reply and delete them when done, unless the law requires longer storage. Our address support@vo-media.group is a forwarding address: Cloudflare (Email Routing, Cloudflare, Inc., USA) receives the message and forwards it to our mailbox at Google (Gmail). Cloudflare and Google technically process your email address and your message in doing so (transfer to the USA, legal basis as described above).

8. Your rights

Access (Art. 15), rectification (16), erasure (17), restriction (18), portability (20), objection (21): write to support@vo-media.group. You may withdraw consent for ads at any time (see section 4). You may complain to a data protection authority (Art. 77 GDPR): the data protection supervisory authority of your federal state (Land).

9. Language and changes

The German version prevails. If the app changes (for example another ad network), we will update this policy.

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