Privacy policy

1Data used

The game creates no account and sends no game data to the developer. Its progress is stored in the app’s local storage (localStorage), on the device, under two keys: ctr-save (stars per level, coins, gadgets, trophy counters, daily challenge, endless hunt, story scenes already seen, launch count and ad counters) and ctr-settings (music, sound effects, voices, vibrations, reduced motion, text size, automatic dialogue, reminders, graphics quality, language). The game also keeps there the portraits of its characters, drawn once on the device. If iCloud is on, a copy of ctr-save is stored in your iCloud (see below). The game asks for no location, contacts, photos, camera or microphone.

2Advertising and purchases

ChromaTraque is free and offers optional in-app purchases, described below: they go through the App Store and your Apple account, and the app never receives payment card data. There is no subscription. Its advertising is Google AdMob, in two forms. First, optional videos, which you choose to watch: “+3 turns”, offered once per level when you run out of turns, before the thief escapes; “Coins ×2”, which doubles the coins of a won level, 10 times a day at most; and, among the Shop offers, “+100 coins” (3 times a day), a surprise gadget (once a day) and “+1 energy” (3 times a day), as well as doubling the daily gift. Second, a short ad between two campaign levels, never during a level: never before 10 levels completed or before the third launch, at most one every three wins, at least three minutes after the previous one and after a watched video, and 8 a day at most; buying “No ads” removes it (the Starter Pack too, for players who bought it in an earlier version), and the optional videos remain available with their reward. On first launch in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, a Google form (UMP) asks for your consent; where it applies, you can change it at any time in Settings › Game › Ad choices. Apple’s tracking permission (App Tracking Transparency) is requested next: you can decline it in the iOS prompt or later in iOS Settings › Privacy & Security › Tracking. Without it, the device’s advertising identifier (IDFA) is not shared. Your choice removes no feature from the game.

The Google Mobile Ads and User Messaging Platform kits send directly to Google, without going through the developer: the device advertising identifier (only if you allow tracking), the IP address and an approximate location derived from it, the device model and system, performance and diagnostic data, and your interactions with ads. Google uses them to show, measure and cap ads, personalize them if you consent and fight fraud, under its own privacy policy (policies.google.com/privacy).

3Data collected by advertising

The game’s privacy manifest, declared to Apple, lists what the Google Mobile Ads kit may collect: the device identifier (IDFA, only if you allow tracking), advertising data, interactions with the game, coarse location, performance data, crash data and other diagnostics. The game itself never asks for the device’s location.

Declared purposes: advertising by Google and its partners, developer advertising, analytics and, for some of this data, the kit’s functionality. The device identifier is the only data used for tracking as Apple defines it. Personalized advertising relies on your consent (Google’s form, Apple’s tracking permission), which you can withdraw at any time without losing any feature of the game.

4In-app purchases

Purchases go through the App Store (StoreKit) with your Apple account. The developer receives neither your payment card nor your payment details: Apple processes the payment under its own privacy policy.

The game offers a Starter Pack (one time only: 1,500 coins, one of each gadget, the Galaxy look and full energy; it also removes the short ad for players who bought it in an earlier version), “No ads” (the short ad between two levels disappears) and coins in three tiers (300, 1,000 and 2,500 coins, consumables). There is no subscription. It only stores on the device, in the save, the list of products you own. Nothing is exclusive: everything can also be earned by playing.

The “Restore my purchases” button, at the bottom of Shop › Offers, recovers your non-consumable purchases (Starter Pack, No ads), notably on a new device; coins, being consumables, are not restored.

5Game Center

If you are signed in to Game Center on the device, the game reports the progress of its 21 trophies there, as achievements. No score or leaderboard is sent. Game Center is an Apple service, governed by Apple’s privacy policy. The game does not store or send elsewhere your Game Center nickname or identifier. You can sign out in iOS Settings › Game Center: trophies remain shown in the game.

6iCloud save

If iCloud is on for the device, the game stores a copy of the save in iCloud key-value storage (NSUbiquitousKeyValueStore), under your Apple account, so you can find your progress on another device or after reinstalling. The most recent copy wins, and the replaced save is kept on the device.

This copy stays in your iCloud: the developer does not receive it and has no access to it. Without an iCloud account nothing changes, the save stays local. Settings › About › Delete my data also erases the iCloud copy.

7Reminders

Reminders are local notifications: the game schedules them on the device when you leave it and clears them when you come back, with no server and no remote notification. There are two: the Greyling’s return, the same day if the daily challenge is not done yet, and the new daily challenge, the next day. Permission is asked only once, after your first win, or when you turn reminders on. No reminder is scheduled between 9 pm and 8 am. You can turn them off in Settings › Game › Reminders or in iOS Settings › Notifications › ChromaTraque.

8Children

On the App Store, ChromaTraque is rated 9+. ChromaTraque asks for no personal information and offers no messaging, no exchange between players and no sharing to social networks. In France, a minor under 15 cannot consent alone to personalized advertising: consent is given jointly with the holder of parental authority. A parent can decline tracking in the iOS prompt or in iOS Settings › Privacy & Security › Tracking, block tracking requests with Screen Time, and review the advertising consent in Settings › Game › Ad choices. A parent can require approval for purchases (Family Sharing, “Ask to Buy”) or block them with Screen Time.

9Changes to this policy

This policy follows the app: it is revised whenever a processing changes, and the date at the top of the page shows its latest update. A significant change is also noted in the App Store release notes.

10Data sources

No external data source: the islands, levels, thieves, gadgets, music and texts are built into the app, which plays offline. Only advertising, in-app purchases (App Store), Game Center and the iCloud copy use the network. The developer adds no audience measurement tool: the game’s only third-party kits are Google Mobile Ads and Google User Messaging Platform, for advertising and consent.

11Retention

The save stays on the device as long as the game is installed, and in iCloud until you erase it. Settings › About › Delete my data erases your progress (stars, coins, gadgets, trophies) and settings, on the device and in iCloud, along with scheduled reminders, with no way back. Deleting the app erases the local save but not the iCloud copy, which the game would restore on reinstall. Trophies already reported to Game Center stay there, under Apple’s rules. Advertising data follows Google’s retention rules.

12Your rights

Under the GDPR, you may request access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability or objection regarding your personal data. You may also contact your data protection authority.

Since game data only exists on your device and in your iCloud, you exercise the right to erasure yourself: Settings › About › Delete my data. For data processed by Google, refer to its privacy policy.

13Contact

The game is published by BodyCorp, an independent developer and the data controller, who personally answers any question about your data.

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