Summary
Pulse keeps gameplay progress on your device. It has no Biological Games gameplay backend, account, cloud profile, email collection, or analytics pipeline. Uninstalling Pulse or clearing its storage deletes that local save.
RevenueCat, Google AdMob, and Google Play handle Android purchases, store payments, consent flows, and optional rewarded videos. Apple would handle App Store payments if the pending iOS edition launches. The details are below. Pulse has no forced ads, banners, or interstitials.
01 What Pulse stores locally
Biological Games does not collect Pulse gameplay data. Pulse has no signup, login, account, email field, questionnaire, cloud save, or Biological Games analytics pipeline.
The following stays on your device only. Pulse uses the storage provided by your operating system (localStorage on browser builds; iOS UserDefaults and Android SharedPreferences on native builds, via Capacitor Preferences):
- Best level reached, best score, and total banked orbs.
- Equipped cosmetics and your selected Progenitor.
- Your own per-Progenitor leaderboard. It stays local; there is no online leaderboard.
- Sound volume and mute preference.
- Pulse Pass tier, XP, and quest progress for the current season.
- Achievements you've unlocked (e.g. "banked 500 orbs in one run").
- Your 2-4 character "player tag" from the Scoreboard screen.
Pulse does not transmit this save data to Biological Games. It does not sync the save to a cloud or send it to a Biological Games server.
02 Third-party services
RevenueCat, Google AdMob, and Google Play support the Android release. Apple is listed for the pending iOS edition. Their privacy policies are linked below.
Validates App Store / Play Store receipts so the right number of orbs, Pulse Pass, or Remove Ads entitlement unlocks after a purchase. Receives a randomly generated app user ID that does not contain your Apple ID, Google account, name, or email, plus your purchase receipt, device country, platform, and app version. Biological Games is the controller for this Pulse data and RevenueCat processes it on our instructions. See the RevenueCat Privacy Policy and Data Processing Addendum.
Serves optional rewarded video ads only. Pulse does not use banners, interstitials, or forced ads. AdMob may process device information, advertising identifiers, consent choices, IP address, and ad events needed to request and serve ads. In some regions, Google's User Messaging Platform may ask for advertising consent before ads are requested. See Google's advertising privacy page and AdMob EU user consent policy.
Would process iOS payments if the pending iOS edition launches, and would receive the standard information needed to charge your Apple ID. We would not see your Apple ID, name, billing address, or payment method. See the Apple Privacy Policy.
Processes Android payments via Google Play. We never see your Google account, name, billing address, or payment method. See the Google Privacy Policy.
03 Advertising and analytics
Rewarded ads are optional. Pulse never interrupts play with an ad. Rewarded videos appear only as clearly marked bonus buttons, and Remove Ads / Pulse Pass owners get the same rewards without watching a video.
- No forced ads - no banners, no interstitials, and no automatic ad breaks.
- Optional rewarded ads - post-run bonus orbs, daily chest, daily quest / Pass progress, and cosmetic try-on rewards may ask you to watch a rewarded video.
- Remove Ads - the standalone Remove Ads purchase, Pulse Pass premium, and qualifying orb packs make rewarded-ad buttons grant their reward without playing a video.
- No Biological Games analytics - no Google Analytics, Firebase Analytics, Adjust, AppsFlyer, Sentry, Mixpanel, or Amplitude controlled by us.
- AdMob data - Google may process ad request, consent, device, and ad-event data to provide rewarded videos under Google's policies.
- No accounts - nothing to create or verify; the Scoreboard "player tag" is a local label, not an account.
- No social - no Facebook, Twitter, or Discord SDKs, and no share button that posts on your behalf.
- No app location feature - Pulse never asks for GPS or precise location. Third-party services may infer coarse region from network or store metadata to comply with payments, ads, consent, tax, or fraud-prevention requirements.
- No camera, microphone, contacts, photos, calendar, or health data - Pulse never requests these permissions.
- No data sold or rented by Biological Games - we do not sell, rent, lease, or license your gameplay data to anyone.
04 Children's privacy
Pulse is not directed at children under 13. Its published age rating appears on Google Play and may vary by region. The iOS edition is pending. Biological Games does not knowingly collect personal information from children.
If you are a parent or guardian and a child uses Pulse on your device:
- All in-app purchases are processed by Apple or Google - their parental-control tools (Screen Time, Family Sharing, Google Family Link) are the way to restrict purchases.
- Rewarded videos are optional, but you should use device-level parental controls if you do not want a child to access ad-supported reward buttons.
- Save data lives only on the device. Removing the app removes the data.
05 Your rights - GDPR & CCPA
Because Pulse stores gameplay progress only on your device, uninstalling the app or clearing its storage removes that local save. There is no Biological Games account or cloud profile to delete.
For purchase data RevenueCat processes on our behalf, Biological Games is the controller and RevenueCat is our processor. RevenueCat does not have a direct relationship with Pulse players. Send access, correction, portability, restriction, objection, or deletion requests to us; where RevenueCat holds relevant data, we will instruct it to assist as applicable.
Your rights depend on where you live and may be subject to legal exceptions. Apple and Google may independently control information in their store, payment, account, or advertising systems; you can use their account-level privacy tools, or contact us and we will help identify the appropriate route.
06 Data retention
- On-device data - kept until you uninstall the app or clear its storage from device settings.
- RevenueCat purchase data - processed for as long as needed to provide and restore purchases, follow our documented instructions, and meet applicable legal obligations. You may ask Biological Games to delete relevant data, subject to legal exceptions.
- Google AdMob ad data - retained under Google's advertising and AdMob policies and applicable legal requirements.
- Apple / Google purchase records - retained under their respective policies and applicable legal requirements.
Biological Games does not retain backups of your gameplay save, because we never receive it.
07 Changes
If we add a third-party SDK, integrate analytics, add a backend, change ad placements, or otherwise change what data leaves your device, we will:
- Update this page (the URL stays the same).
- Change the Effective date at the top.
- Note the change in the App Store / Play Store update notes.
08 Contact
Biological Games is the controller and privacy contact for Pulse. Email us with questions, rights requests, or reports: