Privacy Policy

This app has no accounts. Records stay on your device, and on iPhone in your iCloud too. Two things leave the app: the device information Google's ad SDK sends when it fetches the rewarded ad, and a few counts that tell us what to fix. This website counts visits with Google Analytics — which page was opened, how often. None of it is tied to what you do in the app.

What the app sends out

The ad

Tapping the coin slab on the end screen plays an ad that doubles that run's coins. To have one ready, the app asks Google AdMob for one when it launches. What the ad SDK sends to Google at that point is roughly:

• Device information such as device model, OS version, language and screen size
• Your IP address and the rough region it implies
• Whether the ad was shown, watched to the end, or tapped
• On iPhone the advertising identifier (IDFA) is not sent. The app never asks for tracking permission, so iOS doesn't hand that value out. The per-app identifier (IDFV) may be sent instead
• On Android the device's advertising ID is sent. Android gives it to apps without asking. You can delete or reset it in your device settings under Privacy › Ads (the exact place varies by device); once deleted, the ad SDK fetches ads without it

How Google handles this is described in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services and the Google Privacy Policy. In the European Economic Area and the UK a consent form appears once before the first screen (Google User Messaging Platform). Decline and the app won't request ads and the slab won't appear; the game runs the same. You can change your choice in Settings at any time.

There is no server of ours. The ad SDK and Firebase may send diagnostic information such as crashes or performance to Google on their own, but the app collects and sends no crash reports of its own. There is no name, email or account to begin with.

How often things happen

To know what to fix, the app counts things with Google Analytics for Firebase. What goes out is a mark saying something happened plus a few numbers with it. Nothing in it points to a person.

• A run ended — how far, whether it was a new best, why you fell, which run it was
• The ad slab appeared · was tapped · was watched through, or why it did not appear
• The daily gift was taken — and how many days in a row
• A character was obtained — which one, at what price, and how many you now have
• Which of the shop, settings, worlds or this page was opened
• Share was tapped; a setting was switched on or off

Your scores, coins and characters themselves are never sent. Those stay on your device (and in your iCloud on iPhone). No name, no list of records, no record of which stone you stepped on. Firebase sends along one per-device mark, which disappears when you delete the app and is not linked to any other app. On iPhone the app never asks to track you, so the advertising identifier (IDFA) is not used here either. On Android, Firebase may also receive the advertising ID mentioned above.

What the app keeps on the device

• Records: your best, recent runs with their scores and what you misread where, total stones crossed and coins collected, and how many ads you've watched.
• Coins and characters: coins held, characters unlocked, the one you picked.
• Settings: sound, haptics, language, zone guide and the like.
• Diagnostic lines: short notes on where the app stalled or why an ad didn't load — what the ad and storage code did, the screen state, the device model. The app never sends them anywhere.

These live in the app's own storage and are deleted with the app.

iCloud and backups

On iPhone, records, coins, characters and settings sync across devices on the same Apple account through Apple's iCloud key-value store. That storage is between you and Apple; we can't read it. Turn iCloud off on the device and the app works locally only. If you back up your device, the app's storage may be part of that backup, which is likewise between you and Apple.

On Android there is no syncing between devices yet. Records live only on that device and are not included in device backups, so deleting the app deletes them too.

Sharing and Photos

On iPhone, the end screen can turn your run into a card, a single image. It's made on the device and handed to the iOS share sheet, and you choose where it goes. The app doesn't know where it went. If you choose to save it to Photos, the app asks once for permission to add to your photo library; that permission only lets it add, not read.

On Android, the share button only copies your run as a line of text. No image is made and no photo permission is asked for. You choose where to paste it.

Children

This app is not made for children, and it never asks for or infers your age.

Changes

If this policy changes, this page changes with it, along with the date below. If in-app purchases are added later, a section on Apple's and Google's payment handling will be added then.

Contact

deepheart.app@gmail.com