Privacy Policy

Yokai Road

Yokai Road asks you for nothing. There is no account to create and nothing to log in to, and every map, tower and yōkai is drawn on your device. To make the game better, it sends anonymous information about how it is played: which screens are used, how runs go, and recordings of sessions showing what was tapped. None of it says who you are. You can turn it off in Settings, under “Help improve the game”. If you send feedback, we receive the words you write.

At a glance

• Gameplay statistics (the iPhone and Android apps): which screen is open (menu, map list, Dōjo, achievements, a run), and a few events: a run started (the map, the mode, whether it is the Daily Scroll), a run ended (the map, the mode, won or lost, stars, the wave reached, lives left, how many charms were kept), a charm chosen (which one, at which wave), a scroll shared, the rating prompt shown, feedback sent. Plus the standard details the analytics service records: first open, session start and length, app version, phone model, operating-system version and language.
• Session recordings (the iPhone and Android apps): a record of the game’s menus and dialogs as you use them, with taps and the screen you’re on, so we can see where people get stuck. The battlefield is a drawing the recorder cannot read, so during a run the game hands it a small, low-resolution snapshot of the board every few seconds instead. Anything you type is hidden before it leaves your device: the feedback box is masked.
• Sent with those: a random identifier for the install, so one person’s sessions count once. It is not your advertising identifier, it is replaced if you reinstall, and it is never linked to your name or email (we have neither).
• Worked out from your IP address: an approximate location (country, sometimes region). Never precise, never from location services.
• Feedback, only if you send it: the words you write in “Send feedback”, with the game’s version, which kind of device (iPhone or Android), the screen or map you were on and your country. No name or email is asked for.
• Never collected at all: name, email, phone number, contacts, photos, files, precise location, advertising identifier, purchase history, and anything you type.

Turning it off

Settings → Help improve the game. Off, the game sends no gameplay statistics and no recordings, and the recording service’s stored identifier is cleared. The game plays exactly the same either way, and fully offline.

In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, the recording service sets no cookies at all: each session is recorded on its own and cannot be joined to the next.

Gameplay statistics

The iPhone and Android apps use Google Analytics for Firebase. The screens and events in the list above are the only ones the game sends.

No advertising identifier, and no tracking. The iPhone app is built with the version of the analytics library that has the advertising-identifier code removed, and the Android app has advertising-identifier collection switched off and the permission for it removed. Nothing links the statistics to your name, your email or an account (there is none), and nothing follows you to another app or website. That is why Yokai Road never shows an App Tracking Transparency prompt: there is nothing to ask permission for.

Session recordings

The game uses Microsoft Clarity to record sessions. A recording is a replay of the game’s own menus and dialogs (the buttons, what was tapped, the screen it happened on), rebuilt from what the game showed, with typed text hidden. The board itself appears only as the small snapshots described above. It is used only to see what works and what confuses people, and is never used for advertising. Microsoft keeps recordings for 30 days, and the aggregate figures (such as how many sessions opened the Dōjo) for up to 13 months.

Feedback

“Send feedback” in Settings sends what you write to our own address, through Cloudflare, which runs the small service that receives it. It arrives as an email and is kept in our mailbox so we can act on it. Because it carries no name or email, we can’t reply to it: to get a reply, email support@bendigogames.com instead. Please don’t put personal details in it.

Ratings and sharing

The rating prompt is the phone’s own App Store (or Google Play) rating sheet. The game asks for it only after real play, at a good moment such as a first win on a map, and at most once per version of the game. Whatever you choose in that sheet goes to Apple or Google, not to us.

Sharing happens only when you tap Share. The hanging-scroll picture of your run (or the Daily Scroll’s little grid of squares) is made on your phone, kept briefly in the game’s own cache, and handed to your phone’s share sheet. Where it goes next is your choice; we never receive it.

What is stored on your device

The game remembers your progress (the stars on each map, your best Endless wave, your ink and Dōjo ranks, achievements, your play counts and records, the towers you have met, whether you have finished the tutorial, your Daily Scroll results and streak, and your daily reward streak), your settings (sound, music, vibration, damage numbers, effects, and whether to help improve the game) and which version of the game last asked for a rating. These are kept in the game’s own storage on your device and are not sent anywhere: deleting the game deletes them. There is no cloud save.

This website (this page included) carries no analytics and no recordings.

Third parties

• Google processes the gameplay statistics as our service provider, under policies.google.com/privacy.
• Microsoft processes the session recordings as our service provider (Microsoft Clarity), under microsoft.com/privacy/privacystatement.
• Cloudflare hosts this website and receives feedback, under cloudflare.com/privacypolicy.

Their servers may be outside your country and outside Australia. Nothing is shared with anyone else (no advertisers, no data brokers) and nothing is sold. Yokai Road contains no advertising, no purchases, no social media integrations and no crash reporting. The Apple App Store and Google Play may collect information about downloads under their own policies; we receive no personal information from them.

How long it is kept

Gameplay statistics: no longer than fourteen months at event level, after which only totals remain. Session recordings: 30 days. Feedback: until we have dealt with it, in our mailbox. What is stored on your device lasts until you delete the game.

Security

Everything the game sends travels over HTTPS.

Children

Yokai Road has no advertising, no purchases, no chat and no way for players to contact each other. It asks nobody, of any age, for personal information. The gameplay information is the same for everyone and is not used to identify or contact anyone.

Your rights

Because nothing is linked to you, we cannot look up “your” data: there is no name, email or account to search by. What you can do yourself, at once: turn off “Help improve the game” in Settings, or reinstall the game (its identifier is replaced, so new data cannot be connected to old).

For anything else (access, erasure, objection, a question) email support@bendigogames.com. A person reads it.

• GDPR: gameplay information is processed on the basis of legitimate interests (improving the game), and you can object with the switch in Settings or by email.
• California residents: Yokai Road does not sell or share personal information, and never has.
• Complaints: you can complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at oaic.gov.au, or to your own data-protection authority.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the revised policy will be posted on this page with an updated date, before the version of the game it describes is released.

Contact

Yokai Road is made by Bendigo Games. Questions about this policy, or about privacy in the game, can be sent to support@bendigogames.com.

Last updated: 13 November 2026