Effective Date: October 27, 2026
This Privacy Policy applies to all games developed and published by Michael Asaraf under Tycoon Style Games (“we”, “us”, or “our”), including Business Empire: World Tycoon, PicPop, Trade Empire: Cargo Tycoon, and Asteroid Rush: Mine & Collect when released, as well as our future games. It explains how information is collected, used, shared, and protected when you use these games (each a “Game”).
Features and third-party services vary by Game, platform, and version. The sections below apply where the relevant feature or service is used. A service described here is not necessarily included in every Game. Game-specific notices, permission prompts, and store privacy disclosures provide additional details about the Game you use.
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or your personal data, you may contact us at:
Michael Asaraf
Email: michael.asaraf@gmail.com
1. Information We Collect
Some Games, including Trade Empire: Cargo Tycoon, can be played without creating an account.
For Games that do not require an account, we do not require the following information for account registration:
- Your name
- Email address
- Phone number
- Home address
- Login credentials
A Game may request internet access to provide features such as advertising, analytics, purchases, configuration updates, or map functionality, where included. Any device permissions depend on the features of the Game and can be managed through your device settings.
If you contact us for support or a privacy request, we receive the information you choose to send, such as your email address and message, and use it to respond to your request.
Some technical and usage information is automatically processed by third-party services used by the Game, as explained below.
2. Firebase Analytics
Where a Game uses Google Firebase Analytics, we use it to understand how players interact with the Game, improve gameplay, identify technical issues, evaluate features, and balance the Game.
Depending on the Game, gameplay events that may be collected include:
- Tutorial progress
- Tasks or activities started and completed
- Player level-ups
- Rewarded video interactions
- Interstitial ad interactions
- In-game opportunities and events
- Time-limited challenges
- Interactions with game objects and features
- Game sessions
- Feature usage
- Other gameplay events
Firebase Analytics may also automatically process information such as:
- App instance identifiers
- Device model
- Operating system and version
- Device language
- App version
- Approximate location derived from IP address, such as country or city
- Session duration and timestamps
- Technical and diagnostic information
We do not intentionally send your name, email address, precise GPS location, or other direct personal identifiers to Firebase Analytics.
Where required by applicable law, analytics processing is based on your consent.
3. Firebase Remote Config
Where enabled, we use Google Firebase Remote Config to remotely manage Game settings and configurations.
This may include:
- Gameplay balance
- Economy settings
- Feature configuration
- Advertising pacing and frequency
- Events
- Offers
- Other configuration parameters
Firebase Remote Config may use a Firebase installation identifier to provide configuration data to your device.
4. Advertising
Our Games may display advertisements, including rewarded advertisements and interstitial advertisements.
In Games that use Google AdMob, we may also use third-party advertising partners through AdMob mediation.
Advertising providers may process information such as:
- Android Advertising ID or similar advertising identifiers
- IP address
- Device type and model
- Operating system
- Device language
- Approximate location derived from IP address
- Ad impressions
- Ad clicks and interactions
- Rewarded advertisement completion
- Advertising preferences
- Diagnostic information
- Information used to detect invalid traffic, abuse, and advertising fraud
Depending on your location, applicable law, device settings, and privacy choices, advertisements may be personalized or non-personalized.
Advertising Partners
Our advertising providers may include:
- Google AdMob
- Unity Ads
- Meta Audience Network
Each advertising provider processes information according to its own privacy policy.
This list will be updated when advertising partners are added or removed.
5. Privacy Choices and Consent
Where required, we use Google's User Messaging Platform (UMP) to request and manage privacy choices.
Players can review or change available advertising and privacy choices through the Game's privacy settings, where provided. In Trade Empire: Cargo Tycoon, these are available from:
Settings → Privacy Choices
Depending on your region, these choices may include whether information may be used for personalized advertising, analytics, or other purposes.
For users in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), United Kingdom, and other jurisdictions where similar rules apply, we generally rely on:
- Consent for personalized advertising where consent is legally required
- Consent for analytics where legally required
- Legitimate interests for purposes such as advertising frequency management, security, fraud prevention, and preventing abuse, where permitted by law
You may withdraw your consent through the Privacy Choices option where available. Withdrawal does not affect processing that occurred before consent was withdrawn.
6. In-App Purchases
Where a Game offers in-app purchases, purchases are processed through the applicable platform's billing service, such as Google Play Billing on Android or Apple's App Store on iOS.
The platform provider handles your payment information directly, under its own privacy policy.
We do not receive or store your:
- Credit card number
- Bank account details
- Full payment credentials
We may receive information necessary to validate or provide a purchase, such as:
- Product purchased
- Purchase status
- Purchase token
- Order information
- Purchase timestamp
This information is used for purchase verification, delivering purchased content, preventing fraud, and restoring eligible purchases.
7. Google Maps
Some Games may use Google Maps as part of gameplay. This section applies to Games with that feature, including Trade Empire: Cargo Tycoon.
When Google Maps content is loaded, Google may receive information such as:
- IP address
- Device and browser information
- App information
- Technical request information
Trade Empire: Cargo Tycoon does not request your device's precise GPS location for Google Maps gameplay.
Google processes information associated with Google Maps according to Google's own privacy terms and policies.
8. Game Progress and Local Save Data
Games may store gameplay progress locally on your device. This section describes local save data, including the local save system used by Trade Empire: Cargo Tycoon.
This may include information such as:
- Player level
- Cash and virtual currency
- Owned items and assets
- Upgrades
- Completed activities
- Challenges
- Unlocks
- Tutorial progress
- Other Game progression
Trade Empire: Cargo Tycoon currently does not provide cloud save functionality. Save and transfer options in other Games depend on the features available in that Game.
Where progress is stored only locally:
- Uninstalling the Game may delete your progress.
- Clearing the Game's application data may delete your progress.
- Moving to another device may not transfer your progress.
Eligible purchases may be restored through the applicable platform's store where supported.
For Games without cloud saves, locally stored Game progress is not transmitted to us as a cloud save.
9. How We Use Information
Information processed through the Game and its service providers may be used to:
- Operate the Game
- Provide gameplay functionality
- Process purchases
- Display advertisements
- Provide rewarded advertisements
- Measure Game usage
- Analyze player behavior
- Improve features and balancing
- Detect crashes and technical problems
- Configure Game content remotely
- Limit advertising frequency
- Prevent fraud and abuse
- Comply with legal obligations
We do not sell your name, email address, or other direct personal identifiers.
10. Sharing of Information
Information may be processed by service providers required to operate the Game, including:
- Google Firebase
- Google AdMob
- Google Play or Apple App Store, as applicable
- Google Maps
- Enabled advertising mediation partners
These providers may process information on our behalf or as independent data controllers depending on the service and applicable law.
We may also disclose information if required by law, legal process, or a valid request from a competent authority.
11. International Data Transfers
Some of our service providers, including Google, may process information in the United States and other countries outside the country where you live.
As a result, information may be transferred to jurisdictions with different data-protection laws.
Where required, service providers use appropriate safeguards for international transfers, such as contractual protections or other legally recognized transfer mechanisms.
12. Data Retention
Firebase Analytics data is retained according to the retention setting configured for the Game's Firebase/Google Analytics property.
For Trade Empire: Cargo Tycoon, the current Firebase Analytics retention setting is 2 months. Retention settings may vary by Game; contact us for information about the Game you use.
Some aggregated reporting information may be retained for longer periods in accordance with Google's policies.
Advertising providers retain advertising and device information according to their own retention policies.
Purchase information may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to verify purchases, prevent fraud, comply with legal obligations, or resolve disputes.
Local Game progress remains on your device until the Game or its application data is deleted.
13. Security
We use established third-party platforms and SDKs to operate analytics, advertising, purchases, and map services.
Data transmitted between the Game and supported services is handled using the security mechanisms provided by those services and the operating system.
No electronic transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
14. Children's Privacy
The intended audience and age rating are described in each Game's store listing. Trade Empire: Cargo Tycoon is not directed specifically at children under the age of 13, or a higher minimum age where required by local law.
We do not knowingly ask children to provide names, email addresses, or other direct personal identifiers.
If you are a parent or guardian and believe that a child has provided personal information through the Game, please contact:
We will review the request and take appropriate steps where required by applicable law.
Where a Game is intentionally offered to children as part of its target audience, its advertising configuration and privacy practices must reflect applicable children's privacy requirements and platform policies.
15. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights regarding information associated with your use of the Game.
These rights may include:
- Requesting access to personal information
- Requesting deletion
- Requesting correction
- Objecting to certain processing
- Restricting certain processing
- Withdrawing consent
- Opting out of certain personalized advertising practices
- Requesting information about how data is processed
To exercise a privacy right, contact:
For Games without player accounts, we may need technical information such as your Firebase App Instance ID or similar identifier to identify data associated with your installation. Please tell us which Game and platform your request concerns.
We may ask you to provide information reasonably necessary to locate the relevant records.
You may also change supported advertising and privacy choices through the Game's privacy settings, where available. In Trade Empire: Cargo Tycoon, use:
Settings → Privacy Choices
16. Deleting Your Data
Game progress stored locally can be deleted by clearing the Game's application data or uninstalling the Game.
For information stored by third-party services such as Firebase, you may contact us at:
Where technically possible and legally required, we can submit or facilitate deletion requests for data associated with an identifiable Game installation.
Some information may be retained where necessary for legal compliance, fraud prevention, dispute resolution, security, or other lawful purposes.
17. United States Privacy Rights
Residents of certain U.S. states may have additional privacy rights under applicable state privacy laws.
Depending on the law and the data involved, these rights may include access, deletion, correction, and the ability to opt out of certain advertising-related processing.
Available privacy and advertising choices can be accessed through the Game's privacy settings, where provided. In Trade Empire: Cargo Tycoon, use:
Settings → Privacy Choices
You may also contact us at:
18. Third-Party Services
Depending on its features and platform, a Game may rely on third-party services whose privacy practices are governed by their own policies, including:
- Google Firebase
- Google AdMob
- Google Play or Apple App Store, as applicable
- Google Maps
- Advertising mediation partners listed in this Privacy Policy
We encourage you to review the privacy policies of those providers.
19. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy when the Game, third-party services, legal requirements, or our data practices change.
When we make material changes, we will update the Effective Date at the top of this Privacy Policy and may provide additional notice where required by law.
Continued use of the Game after an updated Privacy Policy becomes effective means the updated policy applies to future use, subject to any consent requirements imposed by applicable law.
20. Contact
For questions, privacy requests, or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or any Tycoon Style Games title, contact:
Michael Asaraf
Email: michael.asaraf@gmail.com