Privacy Policy — Neko Idle
Last updated: 4 September 2026
Publisher: Scorpy
Summary
Neko Idle is a free, ad-supported game.
The game asks for no name, no email address, no password and no age. It does not know who you are and has no way to contact you.
Two things are processed nonetheless, and this page describes them:
- an anonymous game account, created automatically, which allows saving your game online and having friends;
- the Google AdMob advertising network, which processes technical data in order to serve and measure ads.
The game is fully playable offline. If our servers are down, nothing changes for you.
Data stored on the device
The following are saved locally and removed when the app is uninstalled:
your progress (neko-idle-save), the chosen language (neko-idle-locale),
the sound setting (neko-idle-muted), your game account and its tokens
(neko-idle-account), the number of the last save sent (neko-idle-revision)
and the friends you visited today (neko-idle-donne).
The game account
On first play the app creates an anonymous account, with no action from you and no data about you. It exists for three things: saving your game online, giving you a friend code, and letting friends look after each other's cats.
The account holds an identifier, a server-generated name picked from a list and never typed by you, a friend code, your level and the state of your cats (four dates and a number), your game save, and your friend list.
It holds no real name, no email, no phone number, no location and no contacts.
The displayed name cannot be chosen. That is deliberate: with no free text there is no abuse, no impersonation, and no moderation needed.
Friends
You become friends by exchanging a code, and both people must agree — a request has to be accepted. There is no messaging, no trading and no leaderboard.
The only thing you can do to a friend is look after their cats when they have not opened the game for more than 24 hours. Nothing negative is possible. A friend sees your generated name, your level, when you last played and the state of your four gauges — not your currencies, not your collection.
Where the data is, and for how long
Account data is hosted at Scaleway, in France (European Union), and kept for as long as the account exists. An account inactive for twelve months is deleted automatically.
Advertising
No ad ever plays on its own. The only ads in the game are rewarded videos, gathered in the Market tab: you choose to watch one in exchange for nekocoins, omikuji or a bonus, and the game can be played through without watching any.
Ads are served by Google AdMob, which may process the device advertising identifier, the IP address (and the approximate location derived from it), technical device information, and ad interactions such as impressions and clicks. See https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
The app sends Google no gameplay data: no scores, no progress, no input.
Your consent
In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, a consent form is shown on first launch through Google's User Messaging Platform. If you decline, the game remains fully playable — ads still appear, but they are not personalised. You can change your choice at any time from Profile → Privacy — the portrait, top left.
On iOS an App Tracking Transparency prompt is also shown. Declining it has no effect on the game.
Permissions
INTERNET (fetching ads) and com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID
(advertising identifier, required by the Google Mobile Ads SDK).
Notifications
The game schedules local reminders, all created on the device, with no server: no data leaves the phone to display them. They are set when the app goes to the background and cancelled the moment you come back — a ten-minute absence triggers none of them.
| Reminder | When |
|---|---|
| Bag full | Offline earnings have reached their eight-hour cap |
| Reward ready | A market offer becomes playable again |
| Quest home | A team returns from a mission |
| Away | 24 h, 48 h, 72 h, then one week without opening the game |
| Level ready | Your cat has earned enough to move up a level |
After a week, the game goes quiet. Declining notifications changes nothing about the game, and permission is never asked for twice.
Children
The game is not directed at children under 13. It offers no user-generated content, no messaging and no communication between players: the only possible interaction is a wordless act of care. Ad content is capped at the "General audiences" rating.
Your rights
Deleting your game account: the Friends tab, Delete button. This erases your online save, your friend list and your account on our servers. The game on your device is untouched — you can keep playing offline.
Deletion is immediate in the app; data is permanently erased from our servers within thirty days, a delay that allows undoing a mistake.
For data processed by Google, access, rectification and deletion requests are handled by Google. You can also reset or delete the advertising identifier in your device settings.
Contact
For any question about this policy or your data: contact@nekoidle.app
We answer in English and French. You do not need to write to us to delete your online data: the steps are described above, and take three taps in the game.