Effective Date: October 30, 2026
Hakone: Secret Box Puzzles is provided by EqualInformation, LLC. It is a single-game app for iOS and Android: a collection of 35 3D Japanese trick boxes with sliding panels, rolling brass bolts and hidden catches, with five lessons, a Daily Box, Auto Play and a shelf of keepsakes. It is free to play with ads served by Google AdMob, and it has no accounts.
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This Privacy Policy applies to the Hakone: Secret Box Puzzles app (iOS bundle identifier and Android package name: com.equalinformation.puzzleboxdeluxe.app).
The app keeps its own data on your device. To run the game, it may store the following locally and never transmits it:
The app does not collect or transmit any of this data. It does not ask you to create an account or to enter your name, email address or any other personal information.
The locally stored information is used only to:
The game runs on your device and works without an internet connection, and any daily puzzle is chosen from the date on your device. There is no account, no server of ours and no cloud sync. Ads, and the check of your purchase, need a connection.
The app is free to play and shows ads served by Google AdMob, using the Google Mobile Ads SDK. To show and measure ads and to prevent fraud, Google and its advertising partners may collect and use data from your device, such as your advertising identifier and other device identifiers, your IP address and the approximate location derived from it, your interactions with ads and diagnostic information. Ads may be personalised or non-personalised depending on your consent choice and region. This is described in Google’s page on how it uses information from sites or apps that use its services; that data is handled by Google under its own policies, not by us.
Where the law requires it (for example in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland), the app shows Google’s consent form (Google User Messaging Platform) before ads are requested. On iPhone and iPad the app also asks your permission through Apple’s App Tracking Transparency prompt before it uses the advertising identifier to track you across other companies’ apps and websites. If you tap Ask App Not to Track, ads can still appear but are not used for tracking. You can change this at any time in Settings > Privacy & Security > Tracking. On Android you can reset your advertising ID or turn off ads personalisation in your device settings (Settings > Google > Ads; the path varies by device). The one-time in-app purchase removes the ads.
Apart from the ad SDK, the app does not use analytics SDKs, crash reporters or tracking tools of its own. We do not build a profile of you.
The app requests as few permissions as possible. On Android it uses network access and the advertising ID permission (used to load ads and by the ad SDK), and on iPhone and iPad it asks permission for tracking through Apple’s App Tracking Transparency prompt. It does not ask for your location, contacts, camera, microphone, photos or health data.
The app is free to play with ads. One optional one-time in-app purchase (not a subscription) removes the ads. Purchases are handled entirely by Apple through the App Store or by Google Play. We never see or store your payment details, name or Apple ID or Google account. You can restore a purchase on a new device by signing in to the same account.
Where the app offers a Share button, when you tap it, the app hands a short text of your result to your device’s share sheet. You choose whether to send it and where. The app does not receive or store what you share.
The game does not link to other apps or websites, apart from the Google consent form and the ads themselves, which are governed by Google’s policies and the advertisers.
EqualInformation, LLC does not sell personal or sensitive user data and does not receive personal information from the app. The app does not transmit personal information to our servers. Through the ad SDK, Google AdMob and its advertising partners may collect and use information as described in the advertising section above; this happens under Google’s own policies and your consent choices.
The app’s own saved progress and settings stay on your device, and uninstalling the app removes them. Data that Google collects through the ad SDK is held by Google under its own policies; you can reset your advertising ID or limit ad personalisation in your device settings as described above.
Locally stored data is protected by the platform’s app sandbox. However, no method of storage is completely secure, and the company cannot guarantee absolute security.
The app has no accounts, no chat and no web browsing, and the game is suitable for a general audience. It is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13. If you believe information has been provided inappropriately, please contact the company.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will post the updated version on this page and revise the Effective Date above.
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Privacy Contact: privacy@equalinformation.com
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