Hopbit privacy policy
Draft for review. Not yet final.
Hopbit is an arcade game by Pixatech AI Ltd. It has no Hopbit accounts and asks for no name or email. It can send anonymous gameplay data to us, and it uses Game Center, AdMob and Apple's in-app purchases, as described below.
Data kept on your device
Your coins, unlocked ships, settings and tutorial progress are stored only on your device. Your best score is stored there too, and goes to Game Center if you use it. Deleting the app deletes what is on the device.
Anonymous gameplay data
If it is switched on (see Your choice below), Hopbit sends us these records to help us understand how the game is played and improve it:
- A random ID created on your device. It isn't your name, your Apple ID or the advertising identifier (IDFA), and we can't tell who you are from it.
- When a session starts, and your app version.
- One record per run: score, furthest planet, coins earned, how the run ended, how long it lasted, whether you used a second chance or doubled your coins, your ship, and whether you have finished the tutorial.
- When a rewarded or between-games ad was shown.
- Your in-app purchases, as Apple's signed record of the transaction: what was bought, when, its price and currency, the store country, and Apple's transaction ID. It doesn't include your name or payment details.
We use this to count things like how many people play each day, how often they come back, what they buy and how runs end. We don't use it for advertising, we don't sell it, and we don't combine it with data from other companies.
Your choice
Turn this off at any time in Settings with Share anonymous gameplay data. Turning it off stops sending, deletes anything still waiting to be sent, and deletes the random ID from your device. Records we have already received stay until the retention period below ends, but can no longer be matched to your device. If you turn sharing on again you get a new ID.
Where the law requires consent, for example in the UK and EEA, nothing is sent until you agree. You agree either in the consent form shown when the game first opens, by consenting to storing information on your device and measuring content performance, or by turning the switch on yourself. Elsewhere the switch starts on, and you can turn it off.
Who processes this data, and for how long
Gameplay data is stored by our processor, Supabase, in its London (UK) region. We keep gameplay records for 13 months and then delete them. We keep purchase records for 7 years for our accounts and tax records.
Like any internet service, our servers see your IP address when the app connects. We don't store it with your records. A scrambled form of it is kept for up to a day to limit abuse, and Supabase keeps short-lived request logs.
Purchase records from Apple
Apple also tells our server directly about purchases and refunds, whether or not the switch above is on. Those notifications contain the transaction details listed above and no device ID.
Game Center
Hopbit has a global leaderboard run by Apple's Game Center. If you are signed in to Game Center, your best score is sent to Apple, and other players can see it with your Game Center nickname. Apple handles this under its own privacy policy. We don't receive your Game Center identity. You can sign out, or change your profile, in iOS Settings under Game Center.
Game Center scores are sent by the app, so we can't guarantee that every score on the board is genuine.
Advertising (Google AdMob)
Hopbit shows ads through Google AdMob. To serve and measure ads, Google's SDK may collect data such as your device's advertising identifier (IDFA), IP address, coarse location derived from it, device and app information, and how you interact with ads.
Where the law requires it, for example in the UK and EEA, Hopbit asks for your consent through Google's User Messaging Platform before ads are requested. If that applies to you, you can change your choice at any time in Settings under Privacy & ad choices.
Google's handling of this data is described in Google's privacy policy and how Google uses data from partner sites.
App Tracking Transparency
iOS asks whether Hopbit may use your advertising identifier to track you across other companies' apps and websites. The game plays the same whichever you choose. If you decline, ads are less personalised. You can change this in iOS Settings under Privacy & Security, Tracking.
In-app purchases
Purchases are handled by Apple. We never see your payment details. Your coins or ad removal are granted on your device and never depend on our servers. What we record about purchases is described above.
Children
Hopbit is not directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their personal information.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page.
Contact
TODO: contact address to be added before release.