Privacy policy

Last updated: 14 October 2026

Nile’s End is a mobile game you play without an account and without the internet. Your saved game stays on your phone, unless you choose to use Google Play Games, below. This page explains the little data that can leave the game, and when.

The game is made by Mohamed Tanash (LinkedIn), who is responsible for this data. “We” on this page means the game’s developer.

Usage data and crash reports

When you first open the game, you accept the terms of service and this policy, and choose: play with usage data on, or play without it. The whole game works either way. If you choose to have it on, the game sends the following, until you switch it off in the settings:

• Usage data, through Google Analytics for Firebase:
  • Which screens are opened.
  • What happens in play, such as a new game and its mode, levels, days survived, quests, fights, searching, crafting, sleeping and eating, deaths and their cause, settings you change, and saves that fail.
  • Where you are in the game: the day, the part of the story, and how many minutes you've played.
  • A random ID for this installation of the game.
  • Your phone model and Android version, and the game's language and version.
  • Your approximate country or region, which Google derives from your IP address.
• Crash reports, through Sentry: when the game crashes or hits an error, it sends the error's details, your phone model and Android version, the game's version, and where you are in the game (day, level and place).

We don't collect your name, phone number, real location, contacts, photos or advertising ID. The data isn't fully anonymous, though: it is linked to the random installation ID above. The game has no ads, and we don't sell any data.

You can turn this off or on at any time: Menu → Settings → “Usage data”.

Google Play Games (optional)

If your phone is signed in to Google Play Games, the game can sign you in with it, and you can also sign in from the menu. Only then:

• Your score in Survival mode, the days you lasted, is sent to the leaderboards, which show your Play Games name and picture to other players, as Google shows them.
• The achievements you earn are sent.
• A copy of your saved game is kept in your Play Games cloud saves, so you can carry on from another phone. It is removed when a Survival mode survivor dies.

This is handled by Google, under Google's privacy policy and the Google Play Games terms. If you do not sign in, none of it is sent, and the game works the same.

Feedback you send

If you report a problem or send an idea from the menu, we receive:

• What you wrote.
• Your email, if you give it.
• The game's version, your phone model and where you are in the game. Untick that option and these aren't sent.

Feedback is sent through Sentry, or by email.

Who sees the data, and for how long

• Only us, and the two services we use: Google (Firebase) and Sentry. Both process the data for us, under their own terms:
  • Google's privacy policy
  • Sentry's privacy policy
• If you use Google Play Games, Google also handles what is sent to it (above), under its own terms.
• Usage data is deleted after at most 14 months.
• Crash reports are deleted after 90 days.

Your rights

You can ask for a copy of your data, or for it to be deleted, at support@nilesend.com. Uninstalling the game deletes your saved game. Scores, achievements and cloud saves are kept by Google Play Games: you can delete your Play Games data from the settings of the Play Games app.

Children

The game is not directed at children under 13.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be published here with its date at the top.