1. About DILDENT
DILDENT is a free digital educational game developed within the Erasmus+ project “Developing Dental Treatment Protocol Practice Skills of Dentistry Undergraduates through Digital Interactive Education.” This Privacy Policy explains the limited information processed when you use the DILDENT game on Android, iOS, or another supported platform.
The mobile application is technically developed and published with the support of Mellis Eğitim Teknolojileri for the DILDENT project. The DILDENT project website is available at https://dildent.org/.
2. The Information We Process
2.1 Avatar name
The game asks you to choose an avatar name. The avatar name is a nickname used only to identify your character and associate gameplay progress with that character. You may choose any appropriate avatar name. Please do not use your real name, email address, telephone number, student number, patient information, or any other information that could identify you or another person.
DILDENT does not verify your identity and does not combine the avatar name with contact information or an external user account.
2.2 Pseudonymous gameplay logs
To understand how the game works and to improve its educational and technical quality, we record limited events generated during gameplay. These logs may include:
• The chosen avatar name or an internal pseudonymous session identifier;
• Game module, level, case, or scenario opened;
• Gameplay actions, selections, answers, decisions, attempts, errors, hints, scores, progress, and completion status;
• Approximate event and session timestamps;
• Limited error and performance information necessary to diagnose technical problems.
These logs are educational game-interaction records. They are not used to discover your real identity, evaluate a real patient, create an advertising profile, or track you across applications or websites.
2.3 Data we do not request
DILDENT does not require a user account and does not ask you to provide:
• Real name, email address, telephone number, postal address, or student number;
• Passwords for a DILDENT account or social-media login details;
• Payment-card data, purchase information, subscriptions, or in-app payments;
• Precise location, address-book contacts, photos, videos, microphone recordings, or camera access;
• Advertising identifiers or information for behavioural advertising;
• Real-patient records, clinical photographs, medical histories, or other identifiable health information.
Like any internet service, the hosting and security infrastructure may process an IP address transiently to establish and protect the connection. DILDENT does not use the IP address to identify users, build profiles, or associate real-world identity with gameplay records, and it is not retained as part of the avatar’s gameplay profile.
3. How We Use Gameplay Logs
The avatar name and pseudonymous gameplay logs are used only to:
• Operate the game and preserve or display gameplay progress where the relevant version supports this feature;
• Identify technical errors, crashes, confusing interactions, and performance problems;
• Improve game design, usability, accessibility, balance, educational scenarios, and feedback;
• Evaluate aggregate patterns such as level completion, frequently missed questions, and feature usage;
• Protect the game and its infrastructure against misuse or security incidents.
The logs are not used for advertising, marketing, sale of data, credit decisions, employment decisions, automated decisions with legal effects, or surveillance of individual students.
4. Free Use, Advertising, and Purchases
DILDENT is provided free of charge. The game does not require a paid subscription, does not offer in-app purchases, and does not sell virtual items. DILDENT does not display behavioural advertising and does not sell or rent the avatar name or gameplay logs.
5. Sharing and Service Providers
DILDENT does not share the avatar name or gameplay logs with advertisers or data brokers. Limited information may be processed by hosting, database, security, or technical service providers only to operate, secure, maintain, and improve the game. Such providers must process the information under appropriate confidentiality, security, and data-protection obligations.
We may disclose limited information if required by applicable law, a valid legal process, or a competent public authority, or when reasonably necessary to protect the security and integrity of the service.
6. Retention and Deletion
Pseudonymous gameplay logs are kept only for as long as reasonably necessary to operate, test, secure, analyse, and improve DILDENT. When the logs are no longer needed, they are deleted or converted into aggregate information that cannot reasonably be linked to an avatar.
Because DILDENT does not create user accounts, there is no account-deletion process. If you want us to delete gameplay logs that can reasonably be located, you may contact us and provide the avatar name together with an approximate date, game module, and session time. Avatar names may not be unique, so deletion may not be possible if the information is insufficient to identify the relevant record without affecting another user’s data.
7. Security
We apply reasonable technical and organisational measures designed to protect the avatar name and gameplay logs against unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure, loss, or misuse. Data transmitted between the game and its services is protected using secure network connections such as HTTPS. No electronic service can guarantee absolute security.
8. Children and Educational Use
DILDENT is designed primarily for dentistry students and educators, not for children under 13. We do not knowingly request direct personal information from children. If DILDENT is used by a minor in an educational setting, the responsible institution, educator, parent, or guardian should supervise the use in accordance with applicable law and institutional rules.
9. Clinical and Patient Information
DILDENT is an educational game and does not provide medical diagnosis or treatment. The game must not be used to enter, store, or transmit information about a real patient. Users must not use a patient name, photograph, clinical record, or other patient information as an avatar name or in any game field.
10. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on applicable law, you may have rights concerning information associated with your avatar, including rights to request access, correction, deletion, restriction, or information about processing. Because we do not verify identity and intentionally avoid collecting contact details, we may need the avatar name and approximate gameplay details to locate a record, and we will not disclose a record unless we can reasonably protect it from unauthorised access.
11. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy if the game’s features or data practices change. The current version will be published at https://dildent.org/privacy-policy/ with a revised effective date. If a future version begins collecting a new category of information, we will update this Policy and provide any notice or consent required before that processing begins.
12. Contact
For privacy questions or deletion requests, please contact:
• DILDENT Project Website: https://dildent.org/
• Project contact email: info@beun.edu.tr
• Project coordinator address: Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit Üniversitesi Rektörlüğü, PK 67100, İncivez / Merkez / Zonguldak, Türkiye
• Technical developer: Mellis Eğitim Teknolojileri — https://mellis.com.tr/contact-us/