Sankofa is a financial-literacy game for young people (ages 7–20). We built it offline-first and data-minimal on purpose: the game is designed to work without an account and to send as little information off the device as possible. This policy explains exactly what that means.
1. The short version
- The game runs fully on your device. Your progress is saved locally.
- We do not ask for a real name, email, phone number, photo, precise location, or date of birth.
- The only things that ever leave the device are a chosen username, an anonymous device key, and three gameplay numbers (net worth, level, and hero) used to power the friends leaderboard.
- Your age is never transmitted. It stays on your device and is used only to make ads and purchases age-appropriate.
- Ads are non-personalized for anyone under 16 and are filtered to kid-appropriate content.
- Real-money purchases are optional and sit behind a parental gate.
2. Information we collect
Stored only on your device (never sent to us):
- Your age (entered at setup), used solely to set ad and purchase safeguards.
- All game progress: cash, net worth, businesses, upgrades, lessons learned, achievements, settings.
Sent to our server only to run the friends/leaderboard feature:
- Your chosen username (a handle you pick, so please don't use your real full name).
- An anonymous device key (a random identifier, not tied to your identity).
- Your net worth, level, and hero (in-game numbers).
We do not collect: real name, email, address, phone number, photographs, contacts, precise or coarse location, biometric data, or your date of birth.
Optional cloud account (only if you choose to back up): The game works fully without an account. If you tap "Back up your journey," we create an account tied to your username and a save code (a memorable phrase you keep, like a game password; we store only a one-way hash of it, never the code itself). Your game progress (cash, net worth, businesses, lessons learned, level, with no personal data) is then stored so you can restore it on another device with your username + save code. Your age is deliberately excluded from the backup and never leaves the device. You can ask us to delete your account at any time (Section 7).
Optional social sign-in (players 13 and over only): Players 13+ may instead choose to link a Google, Apple, TikTok, X, or Facebook account. If you do, that provider tells us only a stable anonymous ID to recognize you on return. We do not receive your posts, contacts, or friends. This option is hidden for anyone under 13.
3. Children's privacy (COPPA · UK Age-Appropriate Design Code · GDPR-K)
Sankofa is intended for a young audience, so we hold ourselves to children's-privacy standards for all players regardless of age:
- We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. The username/device-key/score data above is the maximum that ever leaves the device, and none of it identifies a child.
- Ads shown to players under 16 are non-personalized and content-rated for children (no behavioral profiling, no ad-ID-based targeting).
- Purchases require passing a parental gate first.
- If you believe a child has shared personal information with us (for example, by putting a real name in the username field), contact us at dandengrplimited@gmail.com and we will delete it.
4. Advertising
The game may show rewarded video ads: always optional, always announced, and only offered at natural breaks (after a level, on returning, at a milestone). Watching one can grant a short in-game earnings boost. We use Google AdMob and configure it as follows:
- Under 13: treated as child-directed (COPPA / "tag for child-directed treatment").
- Under 16: ads are non-personalized ("tag for users under the age of consent"); content is limited to a maximum rating of G/PG.
- 16 and over: ads may be personalized per the ad network's policies, subject to consent where required.
We never share the data in Section 2 with advertisers for targeting. Google's handling of ad data is governed by Google's Privacy Policy.
5. Purchases
Optional one-time purchases (e.g. unlocking extra heroes) are handled by the App Store / Google Play billing systems, so we never see or store your card details. A parental gate appears before any purchase flow. See the platform's own terms for billing and refunds.
6. How information is shared
We do not sell or rent personal information. The username/device-key/score data is stored on our own backend only to display the friends leaderboard and is shared with no third party. Ad and billing providers (Google) act as independent processors under their own policies.
7. Retention and deletion
- On-device data lives until you delete the app or clear its data.
- Server-side leaderboard data (username, device key, scores) is retained while your handle is active. To delete it, email dandengrplimited@gmail.com with your username, and we will remove it.
8. Security
Data in transit to our server uses HTTPS. We keep the server footprint deliberately tiny (only the non-identifying fields in Section 2) to reduce risk.
9. Your rights
Depending on where you live (e.g. GDPR/UK-GDPR, CCPA), you may have rights to access, correct, or delete your information, and to object to processing. Because we hold almost nothing tied to you, most requests are satisfied by deleting the app (on-device data) and emailing us to remove your leaderboard handle. Contact dandengrplimited@gmail.com.
10. Changes
We'll update this page and the "Last updated" date when our practices change. Material changes will be surfaced in-app.
11. Contact
DANDENGRP LIMITED (registered in Nigeria, CAC)
dandengrplimited@gmail.com