Privacy Policy — Drople
Last updated: 10 October 2026
Drople is a daily street-view guessing game. It has no accounts and no analytics, and Drople itself collects nothing about you. Two parts of the app involve Google: the optional videos that unlock extra rounds, and the optional one-time Drople Pass. This policy says what each of them involves.
What Drople collects
Nothing.
There is no sign-up, no email address, no name, no profile. Drople does not use analytics or crash reporting, and it does not request your location, your contacts, your photos or your files.
What is stored, and where
Your results — which rounds you have played, how many guesses each took, and your streak — are saved on your device in the app's own storage. They never leave it, they are never sent anywhere, and nobody but you can see them. So is a note of whether you own the Drople Pass.
To delete your results, open Menu → Settings → Progress → Reset. Uninstalling the app removes everything.
If you have Android's backup turned on, your device may include Drople's saved results in your own Google backup, in the same way it does for other apps. That backup belongs to you and your Google account; we have no access to it.
Ads
Today's round and the week behind it are always free. Older rounds and Infinite can be unlocked by watching a short video, which you choose to play; there are no other ads. The videos are served by Google AdMob.
When a video is requested, Google receives information from your device to serve and measure it, which can include your device's advertising ID, IP address and general device information. Where the law requires it, for example in the EU and UK, Drople asks for your consent first using Google's own consent form, and you can change your choice at any time in Menu → Settings → Ad privacy. You can also reset or delete your advertising ID in your phone's Google settings.
Drople receives none of this information. How Google uses it is described in Google's privacy policy and how Google uses data from apps that use its services.
The Drople Pass
The pass is a one-time purchase that lifts every gate, and it is sold through Google Play. Google handles the payment; Drople never sees your payment details. Drople only asks Google Play whether this account owns the pass, so that it comes back on a new phone or after a reinstall. Google Play's terms and privacy policy apply to the purchase.
What other services see
Drople shows street-level imagery and map tiles that are fetched from other organisations while you play. To send you those files, those organisations necessarily see the IP address that your device makes the request with, and which images and map tiles were asked for. This is how fetching anything over the internet works; Drople does not send them anything on purpose, and receives none of it.
- Mapillary (and its content delivery network, operated by Meta) — the street-level imagery. Privacy policy
- OpenFreeMap — the map tiles. openfreemap.org
Sharing
When you share, Drople hands the text to your phone's own share sheet, and you choose where it goes. Drople does not post it anywhere itself and keeps no copy.
- A result contains the round's name and, for each guess, how far off it was and in which direction — never the place, and nothing about you.
- A drop contains the round's name and a link that opens the same round, so someone else can play it. It does not name the place either.
Children
Drople is not directed at children under 13. Its ads are requested as suitable for a general audience.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it, and the app's Play Store Data Safety declaration is updated before any version that needs it is released.
Contact
Questions about this policy: tiago.madeira@thedatascientists.com