Tiltback privacy policy

Tiltback is a collection of arcade games published by Janric Ltd, Southport ("we", "us").

The short version

• No accounts, no email, no real names. Your settings and best scores stay on your phone.
• The high-score tables store a random player number, three initials you choose, and your scores. You can delete all of it in the app at any time.
• Tilting is read by the app on your phone to steer the games. It is never recorded or sent anywhere.
• Adverts are shown by Google AdMob. They are not personalised to you, and we never ask to track you across other companies' apps or websites. Tiltback Plus removes them.
• We don't sell your information, and we don't use analytics.

What stays on your phone

Your settings (steering, sensitivity, sound) and your best score in each game are saved on your device only. We never receive them. Deleting the app deletes them.

The games read your phone's motion sensors to know how you are tilting it. That happens on the phone, while you play, and nothing about it is stored or sent.

The high-score tables

Every game has a table for today, this week and all time. So that your scores can go on them, the app sends our server at janric.co.uk:

• a random player number and a secret key that only your phone holds (we store just a scrambled form of the key). The app makes these before your first game;
• three initials, if you choose some, like an old arcade cabinet. They are checked for rude words and shown to other players. Until you choose initials, your scores are kept off every table;
• your scores: which game, the date, the score, and when each game started and finished (so we can spot scores no one could make).

It sends nothing else: no name, no email, no contacts, no location, no device identifiers. Your internet address is used only to stop abuse (too many requests at once) and is kept only as a scrambled, one-way code for a short time. Our web host, like every web host, also keeps routine server logs that include internet addresses.

Deleting your data: in any game, High scores → Delete my scores removes your initials, number and every score from our server straight away, and the app stops sending scores until you choose initials again. Scores are otherwise kept while the tables run.

We use this information only to run the high-score tables, which is in our legitimate interest and yours as a player.

Adverts

Tiltback shows adverts from Google AdMob: a banner on the home screen, and now and then a full-screen advert after a game ends (never during play). We ask Google for non-personalised adverts only, so they are not chosen using a profile of you. Tiltback never asks iPhone users for permission to track them.

To show adverts, measure them and prevent fraud, Google's software in the app may collect information such as your device's advertising identifier, your internet address (from which a rough location can be worked out), and how adverts are seen and tapped. Google is responsible for that information; see how Google uses information from apps that use its services.

In the UK and EU, Google's consent message asks for your choices the first time adverts are about to appear. You can change them at any time with Privacy choices at the foot of the home screen.

Tiltback Plus

Tiltback Plus is a one-off purchase that removes the adverts. It is handled entirely by Apple's App Store or Google Play; we never see your payment details. The app asks the store whether you own Plus, so that it can switch the adverts off, and remembers the answer on your phone.

Children

Tiltback is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them.

Your rights

Under UK data protection law you can ask to see, correct or delete information we hold about you; the quickest way to delete it is in the app, as above. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk).

Changes

If we change what Tiltback collects, we will update this policy and the date above before that version is released.

Contact

Questions about this policy: keith@janric.co.uk.