Privacy Policy

AvA is made for children and families, and we take that seriously. This policy explains — in plain language — exactly what the app does and does not do with information. “We,” “us,” and “our” mean King Painter Technology LLC, the company that makes and operates AvA and the animal-vs-animal.com services.

1.Information the app does not collect

To be explicit, the app does not collect any of the following:

• Name, email address, phone number, or postal address
• Age or birthdate
• Accounts, passwords, or login credentials (there is no login)
• Precise location (GPS)
• Photos, videos, files, or recorded audio from your device
• Contacts, calendar, messages, or call history
• Browsing history or activity in other apps
• Health, fitness, financial, or biometric data

We do not use Google Analytics, Firebase, Crashlytics, Sentry, or any other third-party analytics or crash-reporting SDK.

2.Information the app does handle

2.1 Saved on your device

The app stores game data on your device so progress persists between sessions: sound/narration/haptics preferences, battle counts, win streaks and per-animal win records, coin balance, sticker and achievement unlocks, purchased packs, and any custom creature names you’ve created.

If iCloud is enabled on the device, key progress syncs through your own iCloud account (Apple’s key-value storage) so it survives getting a new phone. That data lives in your Apple account — we never see it.

2.2 Sent to our battle service

When you start a battle (or a team battle, with up to six fighters per side), the app sends the fighters’ names (or the custom names you typed), the chosen arena (only if one was chosen), and — for tournaments — a short round description to our battle service at api.animal-vs-animal.com, which we operate. When you create a custom creature, its name is also sent so the AI can pick a matching emoji and category. The service uses an AI model (Anthropic’s Claude) to write the battle stories and make those picks, so creature names are processed by Anthropic to generate the text. The request contains no identifier for you or your device, and we don’t link requests to any person.

Custom creature names pass through a content filter on the device before any network call — inappropriate words are rejected before they leave the phone. Our service keeps battle records with no user identifiers — which creatures fought and who won — to prevent abuse, fix bugs, and power the app’s anonymous, aggregate battle stats. Any custom creature names in those records are automatically deleted within 90 days.

2.3 Custom creature pictures

If you create a custom creature, the app looks for a picture using the creature’s name only:

• Wikipedia (Wikimedia Foundation) is tried first for a real photo — their privacy policy applies to that lookup.
• If no photo exists, Pollinations.ai generates a G-rated cartoon from a fixed, child-friendly prompt containing only the filtered creature name.

Only the creature name is sent — never anything about you or your device.

2.4 Ads (Google AdMob)

The free version shows ads through Google AdMob with these settings locked in:

• Child-directed treatment (COPPA): ON
• Users under the age of consent (GDPR-K): ON
• Maximum ad content rating: G · Personalized ads: OFF (contextual only)

To show and count ads, Google’s ad software receives standard device information (device identifiers, an approximate location derived from IP address, and how ads perform in the app). With the child-directed settings above, Google does not use behavioral profiling or cross-app tracking for these ads — see Google’s child-directed ads documentation and Google’s privacy policy. We do not use Apple’s App Tracking Transparency because we do not track. Removing ads (one-time purchase, Premium, or the Everything Bundle) stops all interstitial ads and their ad requests. One optional feature remains for everyone — the “watch a video to earn coins” button in the Coin Shop — and the ad network is only contacted for it when you open the Coin Shop.

2.5 Crash reports (first-party only)

To fix bugs, the app uses Apple’s built-in MetricKit to receive anonymous crash and hang diagnostics, and forwards a trimmed copy (with device details stripped down) to our own service. These reports contain technical stack traces — no personal information, no identifiers, and no third-party crash SDK is involved.

2.6 Purchases

All payments run through Apple’s StoreKit. We receive only a receipt confirming a purchase succeeded — never your card number, billing address, or identity. Real-money purchases in the app sit behind a parental gate, and Apple’s Ask to Buy is fully supported.

2.7 Voice search & read-aloud

Voice search uses the device microphone with Apple’s speech recognition locked to on-device only — audio and transcripts are processed on the phone and are never sent anywhere. On a device that can’t do on-device recognition, voice search simply turns itself off (you can type instead) — it never falls back to server processing. Read-aloud narration uses the device’s built-in text-to-speech. Both require your permission via iOS settings and are entirely optional.

2.8 Game Center (optional)

If you choose to sign in to Apple’s Game Center, achievements are saved under your Apple account, handled by Apple per Apple’s privacy policy. The app works fully without it.

3.Children’s privacy

AvA is designed for children and families and built to comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and Apple’s guidelines for kids’ apps:

• No personal information is collected — from children or anyone else.
• No chat, social features, user-to-user messaging, or public sharing of typed content.
• Everything a child types is checked by a content filter before it can be used.
• Ads are contextual only — no behavioral profiling, no retargeting, ever.
• A parental gate protects purchases and external links.

If you believe your child’s information was somehow collected in error, email billvoyiatzis@gmail.com and we will delete it immediately.

4.Data retention & deletion

• On your device: deleted when you uninstall the app — or via Settings → Grown-Up Zone → Erase all data, which wipes all progress, the grown-up PIN, and iCloud-synced progress.
• Our service records: never linked to a person; any custom creature names are deleted automatically within 90 days, and the remaining records are anonymous battle statistics.
• Wikipedia / Pollinations requests: handled by those services under their own policies.
• Purchases & Game Center: retained by Apple under Apple’s terms.

For any other deletion request, email billvoyiatzis@gmail.com. Because there are no accounts, there is usually nothing to delete beyond the logs above.

5.Who receives any data

We never sell or rent information, and we never share it for advertising beyond what’s described above. The only parties that process any data are:

• Apple — StoreKit purchases, optional Game Center, optional iCloud sync
• Google — AdMob ads with child-directed settings
• Anthropic — creature names/arena are processed by the Claude AI model to write battle stories and pick a custom creature’s emoji and category
• Wikimedia Foundation & Pollinations.ai — custom-creature picture lookups
• Our hosting provider (Railway) — runs the battle service we operate

6.Security

All network traffic to our services and partners uses HTTPS, enforced by Apple’s App Transport Security. The app stores no sensitive personal data.

7.International users

The app is available worldwide. If you are in the EEA, UK, California, or another region with data-protection laws: we do not collect personal data, so rights like access, portability, and deletion are effectively satisfied by default. Email us with any specific request and we’ll help.

8.Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time; the “Last updated” date above shows the current version. Material changes are announced in the app’s release notes.