JustANerd LLC

Privacy policy

Last updated: November 14, 2026

How Shear Joy and this website handle your information, and the choices you have. Provided by JustANerd LLC. Questions? Email justanerdgaming@proton.me.

1. Your flock stays on your device

The game stores your sheep, wool, discoveries, upgrades, settings, play timers, and reward history in local app storage. We don’t run a game-account or cloud-save service and don’t receive your save file through the game.

The current Android app allows operating-system backups. Depending on your Android settings and backup provider, app data may be backed up or restored by the operating system. That is separate from a cloud-save service we operate. Clearing local storage or uninstalling may not erase backup copies; review your device’s backup settings too.

2. Optional videos and Google’s services

Shear Joy uses Google Mobile Ads (AdMob) for optional rewarded videos and Google’s User Messaging Platform for consent and privacy choices. The current prototype uses Google’s test app and ad-unit IDs, not live monetized ads.

Google’s consent components may communicate when the game opens. After the consent check, the ad SDK can initialize and load a video before you choose to watch one. A loaded video is shown only when you accept an optional reward offer. Core play works without videos.

When these services communicate, Google may process IP addresses, app and device information, advertising or other identifiers, diagnostics, and ad interactions for delivery, measurement, security, fraud prevention, and personalization where permitted. The current Android build includes advertising-ID and Android ad-services permissions through its ad dependencies. Test ads do not mean that no technical data is processed.

Read how Google uses information from partner apps and Google’s privacy policy. Where required, Google’s consent form collects your choices. You can revisit available choices through Settings → Ad choices. Device advertising controls may offer additional options.

3. Gameplay analytics

Configured Android releases use GameAnalytics to help us understand progression and improve the game. The SDK may process installation/session identifiers, device and operating-system information, app version, language, network information and approximate location inferred from an IP address. These identifiers are pseudonymous, not truly anonymous.

Our game sends code-controlled events for starting play, successful upgrades and perk/ram purchases, breed discoveries, world expansion, Big Shears, milestones and native rewarded-ad outcomes. A save problem can send a fixed diagnostic code. We don’t send full save files, raw gestures, screenshots, free-text error reports, names, email addresses, contacts or precise GPS location as gameplay events.

Advertising-ID tracking, automatic exception reports, and optional FPS/memory/health monitoring are disabled in our GameAnalytics integration. Basic SDK technical metadata still exists. Debug and QA builds do not initialize it. Offline SDK records may be processed when a connection becomes available.

Google’s ad services are separate; disabling advertising-ID collection for GameAnalytics does not change Google’s own processing. The game has no Firebase Analytics, Meta events, or real-money purchase integration. There is currently no in-game GameAnalytics-ID display or analytics opt-out switch. Contact us about privacy rights and available requests; Ad choices controls Google’s ad preferences, not gameplay analytics.

4. This website and messages you send

Site images and fonts are served with the website. It does not add tracking scripts, cookies, a mailing list, accounts, or third-party video/font embeds. Hosting infrastructure may process normal access and security logs, such as IP address, requested page, time, and browser details.

If you email us, we and our email provider process your address, message, and any attachments to answer and handle your request. Please send only what’s needed. Clicking an email link opens your email app; it doesn’t submit a form to this site.

5. Why information is used and shared

Information is used to provide and improve the game, understand progression, fix problems, deliver optional videos, maintain security, prevent abuse, and answer support or privacy requests. Depending on the activity and applicable law, processing may rely on providing a requested service, legitimate interests, legal obligations, or consent where required.

Relevant providers include GameAnalytics for gameplay statistics, Google for ads and consent, the website host, our email provider, and your Android backup provider if you enable backups. Google may process some information for its own purposes under its policy. We don’t use support messages as a marketing mailing list.

6. How long information is kept

Local progress remains until you erase it or the app’s data is removed. Backup retention depends on your device settings and provider. Support and request records are kept only as needed to handle the matter and applicable legal or security obligations. GameAnalytics, Google and other providers have their own applicable retention practices. We don’t promise that local erasure removes information previously sent to a provider.

7. Your choices and rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or receive a copy of personal information, restrict or object to processing, withdraw consent, or complain to a relevant privacy authority. Contact justanerdgaming@proton.me without creating an account. We respond within applicable legal deadlines and explain any lawful limits.

Because there is no game account linking your email to analytics or ad-service records, we may need limited additional information to identify relevant data. Device type and approximate play dates alone are not unique identifiers. We can ask our analytics processor for assistance, but won’t claim records were found or deleted without confirmation. Google’s independent processing may also require its privacy controls or request process. Our deletion page explains the next steps.

8. Children, security, and changes

If you are a parent or guardian with a concern about information relating to a child, contact us so we can investigate. Please don’t send a child’s personal information in a public post.

We use reasonable safeguards appropriate to the services involved, but no system is perfectly secure. Providers may process information in other countries under their applicable arrangements and legal safeguards. We update this policy when data practices change and revise the date above.

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