Play Games profile privacy & other settings

Your Play Games profile shows your play stats, progress, and achievements in Android games on all devices using your Google Account. Your profile also shows up right in Google Play so it’s easy to find what you’ve accomplished. You can also build your gaming community and tailor your profile to your liking.

To help you connect with other players, you can make your profile public which will allow you to follow other players and find their updates. Learn how to manage your profile visibility & following.

How Google Play games collects and uses your data

To power the features of your Play Games profile and continuously improve your Play Games experience, here’s how we handle your gaming data.

• Data that Google collects and processes: Play Games collects and processes data primarily related to your game activity, such as the games you've installed, played on your devices, and how long you play them, as well as some related data like performance and device information.
• Data that Google may receive from participating game developers: For certain games, Google Play may also receive from participating game developers specific information about your in-game activity, such as achievements, leaderboard rankings, events, and saved progress. The participating game developers collect this information based on their terms of service and privacy policies.

The data collected by your Play Games profile is essential to enable features that enhance your gaming experience by keeping track of your stats and progress across games and devices. This information will be used to:

• Provide Play Games profile features and services (such as stats and progress tracking across games).
• Improve the overall Google Play gaming experience, improve and develop additional features and services, analyze and understand how the features are being used, track outages, and prevent fraud and abuse.

Depending on your Activity controls, certain gaming activity (such as what games you played, and your achievements) may also be saved in your Google Account to provide more personalized experiences. For more information, go to Manage your Activity controls. To learn more about why Google processes your information, go to our Privacy Policy.

What gamer profile info can participating game developers receive

Participating developers may receive and/or collect information about your profile, activity (within their specific game), and purchases made in their game. To learn more about how game developers use this information, check the developer’s privacy policy.

Your Control: Manage your profile & data

You remain in control of your Play Games profile and associated data.

• Delete your Play Games profile and data: If you no longer want a Play Games profile, you can delete it entirely along with the associated Play Games data. Learn how to delete your Play Games profile and data.
• Controlling your Play Games profile visibility: You have the option to make your profile public, which allows other players to follow you and find your updates. Learn how to manage your profile visibility and following.
• Manage your Activity controls:
  • Based on your Activity controls, certain gaming activity from supported games (such as what games you played, and your achievements) may also be saved in your Google Account to provide more personalized experiences.
  • To view and delete gaming activity saved in your Google Account, you can use My Activity.
  • When you delete gaming activity from My Activity, Google may need to retain information for specific purposes. This includes providing you with the Play Games profile and Play Games platform features and services. Learn how deletion of activity works.

Important: Your Play Games profile collects your gaming activity. That activity is separate from “Web & App Activity” data. Deleting your Play Games profile or specific data from your Play Games profile will not delete data from your “Web & App Activity.” The reverse is also true. Learn how to manage both.

You can sign in to supported games automatically to save your progress and earn achievements. You’ll be signed in to your current games and any future games that you play. You can change the default account only for new games, for all games, or sign out of all games. If you change the default account:

For new games: You won't lose access to progress and settings for games you've played. However, your progress might split between accounts.

For all games: You might lose access to progress and settings for games you've played. To apply your changes, we'll restart the game.

1. On your device, open the Settings app.
2. Tap on your account (Google services and preferences) or Google, as appropriate for your device.
3. Tap All Services Play Games.
4. Tap Sign in account Change.
5. Change the default account.

1. Open the Google Play Store app .
2. At the top right, tap your Profile icon.
3. Tap Settings General Play Games Profile.
4. Tap Sign in account.
5. Change the default account.

You can manage game notifications through the device's main Settings app, directly from a notification by long-pressing it, or within the game's own settings menu.

Since the steps can vary by device and Android version, go to Control notifications on Android.