The short version
- There is no account and no sign-up. You are never asked for your name, email address or any personal detail.
- The app talks to no server of ours. We run nothing your game could send anything to.
- Ads are the only thing it sends anywhere, and a one-time purchase ends them.
- Your case is saved on your phone. There is no cloud save and no backup we hold.
- No analytics. Nothing reports back on how you play, what you deduced, or how it ended.
What is stored on your device
Everything the game remembers: which day you are on, what you have delivered, what you have written in the notebook, the connections you have drawn, your settings, and whether you have bought the ad removal. All of it sits in the app's own storage on the phone.
We cannot read any of it. It is not uploaded, backed up or synchronised anywhere, and there is no account it could be attached to. Uninstalling the app removes all of it, and so does clearing the app's data from Android's settings.
That is a deliberate trade. A notebook that never leaves the phone cannot leak — but it also cannot follow you to a new one, so back up your device if a case matters to you.
What leaves your device
Two things, both tied to money rather than to you.
| Goes to | What | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Google AdMob | Your device's advertising ID, an approximate country-level location derived from your IP address, and standard device information. | To show and count the ads that pay for the game. Governed by Google's privacy policy. |
| Google Play billing, via RevenueCat | Whether this Play account has bought Remove ads, and an anonymous purchase identifier that RevenueCat generates itself. | To honour the purchase and restore it on a new device. We never see your card, your billing address or any payment credential — Google handles the transaction. See RevenueCat's privacy policy. |
That table is the complete list. Nothing else is transmitted — no server of ours, no analytics service, no content delivery network, and no font server. The game's writing, artwork, audio and typefaces all ship inside the app, so everything except the ads works with no connection at all.
Ads, and what you can do about them
The game is free, and ads are what pay for it. Buying Remove ads ends them permanently.
If you are in the EEA or the UK, the app shows you Google's consent form before it requests a single ad, and no ad loads until you have answered it. You can change that answer later from the same form.
Anywhere. You can reset or delete your advertising ID at Settings → Google → Ads on your phone, which stops ads being personalised.
Ads served in this game are capped at Google's Teen content rating. Second Class Post is a detective story about a death a town has agreed to forget, and Teen is the honest bracket for what belongs beside it. The app is not marked as directed at children and does not use Google's under-age-of-consent treatment.
The one-time purchase
Remove ads is a single payment, not a subscription, and it is the only thing the game ever offers to sell you. Nothing else sits behind it: no day, no document, no ending and no piece of the case is locked, and there is no way to buy your way to the answer. The game is complete without it.
The transaction happens entirely inside Google Play. We receive only the fact that the entitlement is active, through RevenueCat, which keeps that answer correct across reinstalls and new devices. If you reinstall, use Restore purchases in the game's options.
What is never collected
- Your name, email address, phone number, postal address or contacts.
- Your precise location. The app does not ask for a location permission.
- Your photos, files, microphone or camera. The app does not request those permissions — the only three it declares are internet access, Google Play billing, and the advertising ID.
- Anything you write in the notebook. Your notes, your theories and the connections you draw are yours, they stay on the phone, and nothing reads them but the game.
- How you played, what you worked out, or which ending you reached. There is no analytics library in the app.
- Payment details of any kind.
Your choices and rights
- Delete everything: uninstall the app, or clear its data in Android's settings. Everything is on the device, so there is nothing held on our side to delete — and nothing for us to send you if you ask for a copy, because we have never had any of it.
- Reset the advertising side: Settings → Google → Ads on your phone.
- Withdraw ad consent in the EEA or the UK: reopen the consent form from the game's options.
- If you are in the EEA, the UK, California or another region with statutory data rights, write to us and we will respond within 30 days — though in practice the answer is that we hold nothing about you.
Children
Second Class Post is a detective story dealing with death, grief and a town's complicity in covering one up. It is written for teenagers and adults and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect data from them, and the app is not enrolled in Google Play's Designed for Families programme.
Changes
If this policy changes materially we will update the effective date above, and a material change will be announced in the game before it takes effect. Continuing to play after a change means you accept the revised policy.
Contact
Questions, or a deletion request: Syndicates BOO Studio · hello@syndicatesboostudio.com