Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

Phone Gamepad for TV ("the app") is developed and published on Google Play by VELOX APP LTD ("we", "us"), a company registered in England and Wales under company number 17186614, with its registered office at 128 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, United Kingdom. We are the controller of the data described in section 5.

This policy covers the Phone Gamepad for TV Android app only. Our company privacy policy covers this website and emails you send us. For any privacy question, or to use your rights, email [email protected].

2. Summary

• The app has no account or sign-in. The free version is free to play and never stops you from playing.
• Your button and stick input goes directly over Bluetooth to the device you choose. It never goes through our servers or any third party. Your Bluetooth device names and addresses are never sent to us or to advertisers.
• After about 30 minutes of play the free version shows a small reminder card now and then. It never blocks the controls. It offers optional short video ads or the one-time Pro purchase.
• An optional rewarded ad is shown only if you tap an ad button, through Unity LevelPlay and its ad networks. Ads use your device's advertising ID. There are no banners, interstitials or automatic ads.
• In the EU, EEA, UK and Switzerland, a consent form from our consent provider, InMobi Choice, is shown before any ad can be requested. Ads are shown there only if you agree. You can change your choice under Settings > Ad privacy choices (the row appears only when consent options are required).
• The app sends usage statistics and crash reports to Google Firebase (Analytics, Crashlytics and Remote Config).
• Pro is a one-time purchase handled by Google Play. With Pro the reminders and ad offers are gone and the ad software is never started.
• We do not sell your data for money.

3. How the app works with Bluetooth

The app makes your phone appear as a Bluetooth gamepad and sends your button and stick input directly to the device you choose (for example a TV box or PC). This input never goes through our servers or any third party. The app lists the Bluetooth devices already paired with your phone so you can pick one; it does not use that list for anything else and does not send it anywhere. The name or address of the last device you connected to is stored only on your phone, so the app can reconnect.

4. Data stored only on your device

The app stores your settings, layout and theme choices, the last connected device, your privacy choices (including your ad-consent choice), when your last ads were watched and when a 24-hour Pro trial ends (to apply daily limits), and whether Pro was purchased, in its private storage on your phone. This data is not sent to us or to any third party. Uninstalling the app or clearing its data deletes it. If you have Android backup switched on, Android may copy it to your own Google account as part of your device backup; that copy is controlled by you and Google and we never receive it.

Share log. If you press "Share log", the app creates a text file with Bluetooth connection events (times, states and error messages) that includes the name and Bluetooth address of the TV or PC you connected to and your phone model, and hands it to the app you choose. Nothing is sent unless you press Share log and choose where to send it. The WhatsApp and email buttons likewise open your own app with a prepared message (app version, phone model, Android version); nothing is sent unless you press Send.

5. Usage statistics and crash reports (Google Firebase)

The app uses Google Analytics for Firebase, Firebase Crashlytics and Firebase Remote Config, provided by Google. Google processes this data on our behalf, as our processor (Firebase privacy information). What is sent, why, and how long it is kept:

• App events: for example whether a Bluetooth connection succeeded or failed and why, that the Pro screen was opened, a purchase was started, completed or failed, an ad was shown or failed to load, a setting was changed. Used to see which features are used and to find broken flows. Kept 2 months.
• Automatic data: a random app-instance ID and Firebase installation ID, app version, device model, Android version, language, screen views and sessions, first open, and the country or region Google derives from your IP address (Google Analytics masks the IP address). Kept 2 months.
• Install referrer: Firebase Analytics reads the Google Play install referrer once, to learn which campaign or store listing led to the install. It contains no personal data.
• In-app purchase events that Google Analytics logs by itself (product, price, currency; never card or payment details). Kept 2 months.
• Crash reports: stack trace, app state at the crash, device metadata, a Crashlytics installation ID. Kept 90 days.
• Remote Config: an installation ID and app version when settings are fetched, to adjust without an app update how and when the reminder card and ad offers appear, and the support contact details.

Firebase in this app does not use your advertising ID. We never send your name, email, location, files, contacts, or the names or addresses of your Bluetooth devices.

Legal basis (UK/EU GDPR): your consent where the law requires it, otherwise our legitimate interest in keeping the app working and improving it.

6. Optional rewarded ads in the free version (Unity LevelPlay)

The free version offers optional short video ads: Watch a short ad: no reminders for 30 min, and Try Pro free for 24 hours (one ad). We use Unity LevelPlay, a mediation service of Unity Technologies and its affiliate ironSource, which serves ads through exactly two ad networks: ironSource Ads (part of Unity LevelPlay) and Unity Ads. No other ad network is included in the app. If we ever add another, we will name it here before the version that uses it is released. If you do not tap an ad button, no ad is requested. When the ad software starts, Unity's code also writes two small files on your phone, stored locally.

Unity, ironSource and the ad networks act as independent controllers of the data they receive (this is "sharing" in Google Play's Data safety section). They receive and use, according to their own policies:

• the advertising ID of your device and identifiers set by the ad software;
• device and network information (device model, Android version, language, network type) and your IP address, from which an approximate location is derived;
• ad interactions (ad requests, impressions, views, taps) and app information (app name and version);
• diagnostics about the ad software (errors, load times).

Purposes: showing and measuring ads, limiting how often you see them, preventing fraud and, only where you allow it, personalised ads. They never receive your Bluetooth device names or addresses. Read Unity's Game Player and App User Privacy Policy. Requests about data held by Unity or ironSource can be sent to them directly ([email protected]), or to us and we will pass them on.

Consent provider (InMobi Choice). To record your ad consent we use the InMobi Choice consent SDK provided by InMobi. It shows the consent form and stores your choice on your phone as standard IAB TCF values (keys starting with IABTCF_) in the app's private storage; the ad networks read these values to know what you allowed. To show the form for your region the SDK contacts InMobi servers, which receive technical request information such as your IP address. See InMobi's privacy policy.

7. Your consent and privacy choices

• EU, EEA, UK and Switzerland: before any ad is requested, the app shows a consent form (InMobi Choice, a consent tool based on the IAB Europe Transparency & Consent Framework) that asks whether ads may store and read information on your device and use your data. Our legal basis for ads there is your consent. If you reject or close the form without agreeing, no ad is requested and no ad software is started. You can change or withdraw your choice at any time under Settings > Ad privacy choices; withdrawing is as easy as giving consent. The rest of the app works without ads, and the one-time Pro unlock and reminder card are always available.
• Everywhere else: ads are optional and only after you tap an ad button. Where your region is unknown (for example a tablet with no SIM and no mobile network) the consent form is shown first and no ad is requested until you answer.
• United States: where your state's privacy law gives you the right to opt out of the "sale" or "sharing" of personal information or of targeted advertising, use Settings > Ad privacy choices. Disclosing the advertising ID and ad interactions to ad networks may count as "sale" or "sharing" under those laws. We do not sell data for money.
• Do not tap the ad button: then no ad is ever requested for you and the app stays fully usable; the reminder card only closes and returns later.
• Advertising ID: reset or delete it in your phone's settings (Settings > Privacy > Ads, or Google > Ads, depending on the phone).
• Pro: buy Pro (one-time purchase) and the ad software is never started.

8. Purchases

Phone Gamepad for TV is free, with an optional one-time Pro purchase. Payments are processed by Google Play. We receive only order information from Google (order ID, product, country and date) and never see your payment details (Google Privacy Policy). The app asks Google Play whether Pro was purchased and keeps that yes-or-no answer on your device. Refunds: request within 48 hours through your Google Play order history; afterwards email us and we refund if Pro does not work as described. Your statutory rights are not affected.

9. Deleting your data

• On your phone: uninstall the app or clear its data.
• Analytics and crash data: deleted automatically after 2 months (analytics) and 90 days (crash reports). To delete it sooner, email [email protected]; we delete the data linked to your app-instance ID with Google's deletion tools within 30 days.
• Consent choice: uninstalling the app or clearing its data deletes the consent choice stored on your phone. For anything InMobi holds about the consent request, email us and we will forward your request.
• Ad data: reset or delete your advertising ID (section 7) and contact Unity/ironSource as described in section 6, or ask us and we will forward your request.

10. Permissions

• Bluetooth (Nearby devices / Bluetooth connect): to act as a gamepad and connect to your paired TV box or PC. The app does not use your location.
• Bluetooth (older Android versions): the legacy Bluetooth and Bluetooth admin permissions, requested only on Android 11 and earlier, for the same purpose.
• Foreground service (connected device) and notifications: keeps the controller connected while the screen is locked and shows a notification while it runs. The app works if you deny the notification permission.
• Vibration: haptic feedback on the on-screen buttons.
• Internet and network state: analytics, crash reports, settings fetch, purchase checks and ads.
• Advertising ID and Android ad-services permissions: used by the ad software, only for the optional ads.
• Google Play billing, wake lock, start at boot and Play install referrer: used by Google Play Billing (including retrying to confirm a purchase) and Firebase Analytics.

The app does not use your precise location, contacts, camera, microphone, photos or files. The app may ask Google Play to show its in-app review dialog or an in-app update prompt; these are handled by Google Play and the app receives no review text or personal data from them.

11. Transfers outside the UK

Google, Unity, ironSource, InMobi and the ad networks may process data in the United States, Israel and other countries. They rely on legal transfer safeguards such as the UK International Data Transfer Addendum and the EU Standard Contractual Clauses, or adequacy decisions.

12. Children

The app is not directed at children under 13 and is listed for adults (18+). The ad software is told the app is not child-directed. We do not knowingly collect data from children; if you believe a child has used the app, email us and we will delete what we can.

13. Support emails

If you email us, we keep your message and address only to answer you and delete them on request.

14. Your rights

Depending on where you live (UK and EU GDPR, US state privacy laws such as the California CCPA/CPRA, and similar laws elsewhere), you may have the right to access, correct, delete or port your data, to object to or restrict processing, to withdraw consent, and to opt out of targeted advertising or the sale/sharing of personal information. Use the in-app choices in section 7 or email [email protected]; we reply within 30 days and will not treat you differently for using your rights. You may also complain to your data protection authority (in the UK, the Information Commissioner's Office).

15. Changes to this policy

If the app's data handling changes (for example a new ad network), we update this page and its effective date before the new version is released.

16. Contact

VELOX APP LTD
128 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, United Kingdom
Email: [email protected]