Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

Pelican Casino (the “App”) is developed and published by Mt Olympus AS under the developer name Olympus Digital (“we”, “us”, “our”), the data controller for the purposes of this policy. Our address is Ringstabekkveien 33, JAR 1358, Norway. You can reach us at henry.walker.gb@gmail.com.

This policy explains what the App does and does not do with information. It applies to the Android application (package com.pelican.casino.app) and to this website. It is written in plain terms because the honest answer is short.

2. What we collect

Nothing. We do not collect, receive, store on our systems, sell or share any personal data from the App. Specifically, the App does not collect:

• your name, email address, phone number or postal address;
• any account, profile or login — there is no sign-in and no account to create;
• device identifiers, advertising identifiers or an IP address;
• location data of any kind;
• contacts, photos, files, microphone or camera input;
• usage analytics, crash telemetry or event logs;
• payment or billing information — there is nothing to pay for.

Because nothing is collected, there is nothing for us to share with third parties, and no data is transferred out of your device or out of your country by the App.

3. Why that is technically the case

The App's Android manifest declares no uses-permission entries at all. In particular it does not declare android.permission.INTERNET, so the operating system does not let the App open a network connection. An app that cannot reach the network cannot send your data anywhere. It asks for no runtime permissions either: no storage, location, camera or contacts.

The App is built from Android's own libraries (AndroidX, Jetpack Compose, Material 3, Navigation, Jetpack DataStore) and the Gson JSON library. It contains no analytics SDK, no advertising SDK, no crash-reporting service, no sign-in service and no billing or payment library, and it reads no advertising identifier.

4. What the App stores on your device

The App keeps your progress locally, in one Jetpack DataStore preferences file inside the App's own private storage on the device. That file holds two entries: your saloon state and your recent hands. Together they contain:

• your Lantern balance (play money only), the total Lanterns you have wagered and your all-time net result;
• your play statistics — rounds and hands played, wins, pushes and losses, blackjacks, doubles won, splits, busts, surrenders, streaks, your largest single-box bet and rounds played at night;
• your basic-strategy decisions, how many matched the coach and your best streak;
• your saloon rank progress, the day you last claimed the Captain's Purse and how many purses and rank-up bonuses you have received;
• which achievement rewards you have claimed;
• your last bet layout for Rebet, whether the coach is switched on, and whether you have finished the onboarding and the coached first hand;
• your last 20 hands — each with the time it was played, the dealer's cards, your cards, the outcome and the Lanterns won or lost.

The App reads the device clock to know when the Captain's Purse refills at midnight and whether a round counts toward the Night Owl achievement; nothing beyond the items above is recorded. None of this is personal data about you, none of it leaves the device through the App, and none of it is visible to us. Other applications cannot read it.

5. Backups and moving to a new phone

The App declares android:allowBackup="false", so it opts out of Android's automatic backup to your Google account. In addition, its backup rules (backup_rules.xml and, for Android 12 and later, data_extraction_rules.xml) exclude the App's shared preferences, databases and its datastore folder from both cloud backup and device-to-device transfer.

In practice this means your progress is not uploaded anywhere and is not copied to a new phone when you set one up or transfer data between devices. It stays on the device where you played, and a new installation starts with a fresh purse.

6. Deleting your data

Uninstalling the App removes its private storage, and with it everything listed above. You can also clear it without uninstalling, from Settings → Apps → Pelican Casino → Storage → Clear storage (the exact wording depends on your device). Either way the deletion is immediate, local and complete — we hold no copy, so there is nothing for you to ask us to erase.

7. Retention

We retain nothing, because we receive nothing. Your local file stays on your device for as long as the App is installed and you choose to keep it.

8. Sharing, disclosure and transfers

We do not share, sell, rent or disclose personal data, because we hold none. There are no advertising partners, no data brokers, no analytics providers and no third-party service providers involved in the App. There is no international transfer of your data, because your data never leaves your device through the App. If we were ever required by law to disclose personal data, we would have nothing to hand over.

9. Children and age

The App is a social casino game: it depicts blackjack and simulates gambling with play money. It is intended for adults aged 18 and over and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone, and therefore not from a child. If you believe a child is using the App, uninstall it from that device or use the parental controls in Google Play and on the device itself.

10. Play money only

Lanterns, the chips in the App, are virtual. They have no cash value, cannot be bought, sold, traded or cashed out, and cannot be converted into money, goods or prizes. There is no real-money gambling in the App, no in-app purchase and no payment component.

Lanterns come only from play itself, the daily Captain's Purse, rank-up bonuses and achievement rewards. Nothing about the App is monetised through you, so there is no commercial reason for us to profile you. Practice or success at social casino gaming does not imply future success at real-money gambling.

11. Your rights

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which applies in Norway through the EEA Agreement and the Norwegian Personal Data Act, and under comparable laws elsewhere, you have rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection and portability over personal data a controller holds about you. We hold no personal data about users of the App, so in practice there is nothing to access, correct, export or erase — your local file is already entirely under your own control and is deleted by uninstalling.

You are still welcome to contact us at henry.walker.gb@gmail.com with any question about this policy, and you may lodge a complaint with your data protection authority (in Norway, Datatilsynet).

12. Security

The App's data is stored inside the Android application sandbox and is protected by the operating system, which keeps it private to the App. Because nothing is transmitted, there is no transport to intercept and no server of ours that could be breached.

13. This website

This site is a set of static pages. It sets no cookies of its own, runs no analytics, shows no advertising and has no forms, logins or trackers. Nothing you do here is recorded by us.

The pages do load styling, fonts, icons and a scroll-animation script from public content delivery networks — cdn.tailwindcss.com, cdnjs.cloudflare.com and Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com, fonts.gstatic.com). As with any external resource, those providers necessarily see the request, including your IP address and browser user agent, and handle it under their own privacy policies. We receive nothing from them. Whichever static host serves this site may also keep standard server logs, which we do not use to identify anyone.

14. Changes to this policy

If the App ever changes in a way that affects this policy — for example if a future version requested a permission — we will update this page and change the date at the top before that version ships. Material changes will be described here rather than made quietly.

15. Contact

Olympus Digital · Mt Olympus AS
Ringstabekkveien 33, JAR 1358
Norway (NO)
henry.walker.gb@gmail.com

A copy of this policy is also hosted at privacypolicies.com, which is the address currently listed in the Google Play store entry and linked from the App (Saloon → Privacy Policy).