Privacy Policy
The short version
- We don't collect, store or sell any personal data. There's no account to create.
- The app has no analytics, no ads and no tracking.
- Your progress stays on your iPhone.
- Apple handles payments and Game Center under Apple's own privacy policy.
What stays on your iPhone
The app saves your game progress on your device: Daily results, your Streak, best scores, the events you've discovered, your Gems, the challenge name you choose, your settings, and any problem reports you write. A home-screen widget reads your Streak and today's score from the same device.
None of this is sent to us. Deleting the app deletes it, and Settings › Reset all progress in the app clears it at any time.
Purchases
Packs, All Packs, History Plus and Gems are sold through Apple's App Store. Apple processes the payment; we never see your name, payment details or Apple ID. The app receives a confirmation from Apple on your device so it can unlock what you bought. Each purchase carries a random identifier that the app creates on your device, so purchases can be matched to the same player. It contains no personal information.
Subscriptions are managed and cancelled in your Apple ID settings. See Apple's privacy policy.
Game Center
If you're signed in to Game Center, the app posts your Daily score, your Streak and your Survival and Blitz scores to Apple's Game Center leaderboards. Other players can see your Game Center nickname and these scores. Game Center is run by Apple, and you can sign out or change who sees you in the iOS Settings app. If you aren't signed in, nothing is posted.
Challenges and sharing
When you send a challenge or share a result, the link or image contains your score, where you placed each event, the challenge name you chose and a random player ID. You choose who receives it and which app sends it. We don't receive a copy.
If you save a share image or video to Photos, the app asks for permission to add to your library. It can't see your existing photos.
Notifications
The optional evening reminder is scheduled on your iPhone. No notification server is involved, and you can turn it off in the app or in iOS Settings.
Links to other sites
Events link to Wikipedia for further reading. Those pages open in your browser and are covered by the Wikimedia Foundation's privacy policy.
This website
This website has no cookies and no ads. It counts visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which records which pages are viewed, the referring site, and the country and browser type, without cookies and without storing your IP address or identifying you. Its fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, so Google receives your IP address when the page loads, as described in Google's privacy policy. The playable taster runs entirely in your browser.
Children
The game is suitable for all ages. Because we collect no personal data, we collect none from children either. Purchases are protected by Apple's parental controls, including Ask to Buy.
Changes
If the app starts collecting any data, for example when online features arrive, we'll update this policy before that version is released and change the date at the top.
Contact
Questions about privacy: support@playhistorically.com