Back to Trou Chromatique
Privacy policy
No account, no profile, no data resale. This page states what the app processes, why, and what you can require of it.
1Data used
The game creates no account and sends no game data to the developer. Its progress (levels, stars, coins, energy, looks, trophies, challenges) is stored in the app’s local storage, on the device, with the settings and language. If iCloud is on, a copy of the progress is also stored in your iCloud (see below). The game asks for no location, contacts, photos, camera or microphone.
2Advertising and purchases
Trou Chromatique is free and offers no in-app purchase: the app never receives payment card data. Its only revenue is Google AdMob advertising, in two forms. First, optional videos, which you choose to watch for a bonus: double the coins of a level (10 times a day at most), reroll the bonus carousel, continue a lost level with 15 extra seconds, +1 energy (3 times a day), +150 coins (3 times a day), a surprise chest of 200 to 1,000 coins (once a day) or double the daily gift. Second, a short ad between two levels, never during a game: 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. 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. The game stays free and complete whatever you choose.
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, approximate 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 game feature.
4Game Center
If you are signed in to Game Center on the device, the game reports the progress of its 15 trophies there, as achievements. The weekly challenge score is also sent to the game’s Game Center leaderboard, visible to other players according to your Game Center settings. Game Center is an Apple service, governed by Apple’s privacy policy. The game neither stores nor sends elsewhere your Game Center nickname or identifier. You can sign out in iOS Settings › Game Center: trophies stay visible in the game.
5iCloud 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 a reinstall. The most recent copy wins; settings are not copied.
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.
6Reminders
Reminders are local notifications: the game schedules them on the device when you leave it and clears them when you return, with no server and no remote notification (full energy, daily gift, daily challenge). Permission is requested only once, after 3 completed levels, or when you turn reminders on. No reminder is scheduled between 9 pm and 8 am. Turn them off in Settings › Game › Reminders or in iOS Settings › Notifications › Trou Chromatique.
7Children
On the App Store, Trou Chromatique is rated 4+. Trou Chromatique 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 and block tracking requests with Screen Time, and review advertising consent in Settings › Game › Ad choices.
8Changes 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.
9Data sources
No external data source: the islands, levels, music and texts are built into the app, which plays offline. Only advertising, 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. Sharing a score goes through the iOS share sheet, only if you choose to.
10Retention
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 progress and settings, on the device and in iCloud, as well as 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 and scores already reported to Game Center remain there, under Apple’s rules. Advertising data follows Google’s retention rules.
11Your 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.
12Contact
The game is published by BodyCorp, an independent developer and the data controller, who personally answers any question about your data.