Privacy

What stays on your iPhone

The game saves your settings — mode, sound, haptics, and control layout — and your high-score table, including the names you type in for it. All of it is kept in the app’s own storage on your device and is never sent anywhere.

Reset high scores in Settings clears the table. Deleting the app deletes everything it saved.

Game Center, only if you turn it on

The online leaderboard is off when you install the game, and the game doesn’t contact Game Center at all until you switch it on under Settings → Game Center → Online leaderboard.

Once it’s on, the game signs you in with Apple’s Game Center, posts the score of each finished game to the world leaderboard under your Game Center name, and loads the top ten to show on the title screen. Game Center is run by Apple, and Apple handles that data under its own privacy policy. Turning the leaderboard off stops new scores from being posted; scores already posted stay on Apple’s leaderboard.

What the game doesn’t do

There is no sign-up and no account. There are no ads, no analytics or crash-reporting libraries, no in-app purchases, and nothing that tracks you across other apps or websites. Apart from the optional Game Center leaderboard, nothing leaves your device.

If you have chosen to share analytics with app developers in your iPhone’s Settings, Apple may pass crash reports on to me. That is controlled by iOS, not by the game, and you can turn it off there.

Because the game collects no personal information, it collects none from children either.

Changes and questions

If a future version of the game handles data differently, this page will change before that version ships, with a new date at the top.

Questions about privacy go to th.umplik@gmail.com. Help with the game itself is on the support page.