Privacy
Policy.
Your data, in plain language
AFTERARC is a mobile game for iPhone and Android created by Pranav Garg. This policy explains what stays on your device, what may leave it, and the choices available to you.
What the game handles
| Data | Why | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Settings, saved progress, discoveries, recent runs, scores, Run codes, and a resumable checkpoint | To remember preferences, restore play, show records, and unlock content | Locally in the app on your device |
| A date of birth entered on Android’s first-run age screen, or the choice to continue without one | To select an adult or restricted service profile using an age-18 cutoff | Calculated on the device. The date of birth is immediately discarded; only the adult or restricted profile is stored locally. Continuing without a date selects the restricted profile |
| Reminder schedules, notification permission state, and delivered or opened reminder records | To offer optional local re-engagement reminders and open the game when you tap one | Locally on your device through Apple UserNotifications or Android notification alarms; no reminder content is sent to our server |
| Gameplay events such as run and wave boundaries, score, duration, builds, routes, damage totals, Blast use, pickups, service outcomes, whether a recovery was used, and optional per-impression ad-revenue values by format and placement | To balance the game, understand play, improve reliability, and measure aggregate ad performance | Google Analytics for Firebase and linked AdMob reporting while “Share gameplay and crash data” is enabled. On Android this is available only for the adult profile |
| Crash and diagnostic information, including app/device details, crash traces, and sanitized error messages | To find and fix crashes and defects | Firebase Crashlytics when collection is enabled by the app and your gameplay-and-crash-data choice. Android restricted profiles do not activate Firebase Analytics or Crashlytics |
| Ad request and interaction information, which may include IP address, general location inferred from IP, device or app identifiers, ad impressions, clicks, and diagnostics | To request, deliver, measure, limit, and protect ads | Google Mobile Ads and its advertising partners, according to the privacy choices shown for your region. On Android, restricted profiles request only G-rated banner ads with child-directed treatment and under-age-of-consent treatment; rewarded and interstitial ads are disabled |
| App Store or Google Play product, purchase entitlement, and purchase measurement | To remove ads and restore the purchase | On iPhone, the app uses Apple StoreKit’s on-device transaction verification; on Android, it uses Google Play Billing to query the current Google Play account’s purchase and acknowledge completed non-consumable purchases on-device. Remove Ads and restore remain available for Android restricted profiles, without an app-defined analytics purchase event. When gameplay data sharing is enabled on iPhone or an Android adult profile, Firebase receives a purchase measurement event containing value and currency. The app has no purchase-verification server. Payment-card and banking details stay with Apple or Google Play |
| Eligible score and Game Center or Google Play Games player identity | To submit and display leaderboard scores when you choose Game Center or Google Play Games | Processed by Apple through Game Center or by Google through Google Play Games when you choose that platform service. Google Play Games is not activated for Android restricted profiles |
| Email address and message contents | To answer support or privacy requests | Received only when you contact us |
AFTERARC does not ask for your contacts, photos, microphone, camera, or precise GPS location. It does not require a separate app account or login. Game Center and, for Android adult profiles, Google Play Games may use their own optional platform sign-in for leaderboard features. The Android app does not request the Advertising ID permission or Android Ad Services permissions. Google Mobile Ads can still process information such as IP address, app or device identifiers, and diagnostics as described by Google. Run codes and ad clicks are not included in app-defined gameplay or ad-revenue telemetry. The app does not send purchase tokens or order IDs to an AFTERARC server, and restoring an existing entitlement is not counted as a new sale. While gameplay and crash data sharing is enabled on iPhone or an Android adult profile, the app may send purchase measurement and bounded ad-impression value information to Firebase for aggregate reporting. Firebase may associate optional analytics and crash data with identifiers managed by its SDKs. Android restricted profiles do not send app-defined analytics, crash, purchase-measurement, or ad-revenue events to Firebase.
Your choices
- Gameplay and crash data: sharing is on for new installations on iPhone and Android adult profiles. Android restricted profiles do not activate Firebase Analytics or Crashlytics. Any previously saved off choice is respected. Where sharing is available, change “Share gameplay and crash data” in Settings at any time. Turning it off stops new app-defined events and error submissions to Firebase; information already sent cannot be recalled.
- Android age profile: before the game starts, Android asks for a date of birth or lets you continue without one. The calculation happens on the device using an age-18 cutoff. The date is immediately discarded and is not stored, logged, or transmitted; only an adult or restricted profile is retained locally. Anyone under 18, or anyone who continues without a date, uses the restricted profile. Until this screen is completed, the app does not activate advertising, Firebase Analytics, Crashlytics, or Google Play Games.
- Ad choices: use Settings > Ad Choices to review or change choices available for your region. On iPhone, Apple’s tracking permission is an additional iOS-only choice. Android adult profiles use the regional consent flow and device advertising settings. Android restricted profiles apply Google’s child-directed treatment, set a G maximum ad-content rating, and apply the tag for users under the age of consent. Restricted profiles can receive banner ads only; rewarded and interstitial ads are disabled. Regional consent requirements still apply.
- Local reminders: optional reminders are scheduled on your device. iPhone asks for notification permission through the system; Android may ask for notification permission on Android 13 or later. You can change the permission in iPhone Settings or Android app notification settings. Reminder schedules, delivery, and tap records stay on the device and are not sent to our server.
- Apple tracking permission (iPhone only): the game asks for permission before advertising services can track activity across other companies’ apps and websites. If you allow it, these services may use the advertising identifier to personalize and measure ads. Declining does not stop you playing. You can change this permission in iPhone Settings > Privacy & Security > Tracking. Ad delivery still depends on regional choices and provider availability.
- Rewarded recovery: on iPhone and Android adult profiles, watching an ad for one recovery after a lost run is optional. Rewarded ads are not offered to Android restricted profiles. Choose Continue, or Rewind when a wave-start checkpoint is available; either choice spends the run’s single recovery. You can end the run and start another without watching one.
- Remove Ads: the optional one-time purchase removes in-game ads and makes the one shared recovery per run ad-free: choose Continue, or Rewind when eligible. On iPhone, Restore Purchases checks the Apple Account entitlement; on Android, it queries the current Google Play account through Google Play Billing. The price shown by the App Store or Google Play is localized for your storefront.
- Game Center (iPhone): signing in and using the leaderboard is your choice. Apple controls Game Center identity, visibility, and records.
- Google Play Games (Android): for adult profiles, signing in and using the leaderboard is your choice. Google controls Play Games identity, visibility, and records. Google Play Games is not activated for restricted profiles; scores remain local.
- Local game data: deleting the app removes its local settings, history, Run codes, progression, and checkpoint. On iPhone, Offload App keeps its documents and data for a later reinstall; Android’s uninstall or archive behavior is controlled by Android and may differ.
AFTERARC has no separate player account or cloud-save service. Optional Game Center or adult-profile Google Play Games sign-in is provided by the platform. Optional analytics and crash services can use app-instance, installation, or device identifiers when they are enabled; Android restricted profiles do not activate them. Advertising providers can process identifiers and network information needed to deliver and protect permitted ads. AFTERARC does not attach your name or email to those events.
Third-party services
The iPhone and Android apps can use services operated by Google and Apple. They process information under their own notices and terms:
- How Google uses information from apps that use its services
- Google Mobile Ads SDK privacy and data disclosure
- Google Mobile Ads SDK Android privacy and data disclosure
- Privacy and security in Firebase
- Apple Game Center & Privacy
- Google Play Games privacy
This website
These pages are hosted with GitHub Pages. GitHub may process request, IP-address, browser/device, and security log information to deliver and protect the site, as explained in the GitHub General Privacy Statement. These pages do not load our own analytics scripts or third-party web fonts.
Retention and security
Local game data, including the Android adult or restricted profile, remains on your device until the app clears it or you delete the app. The date of birth used to calculate that profile is not retained. Support messages are kept only as long as reasonably needed to answer the request, protect the service, or meet legal obligations. Google and Apple set retention periods for information processed by their services, including Google Play Billing and, for Android adult profiles, Google Play Games.
We use reasonable technical and organizational safeguards, but no storage or transmission method is completely secure.
Children
Children can play the main game. On Android, anyone under 18 or anyone who continues without entering a date of birth receives the restricted profile: only G-rated banner ads may be requested, with child-directed treatment and the under-age-of-consent tag; rewarded ads, interstitial ads, Firebase Analytics, Crashlytics, and Google Play Games are not activated. The full game remains playable offline, and haptics and optional reminders stay local to the device. Remove Ads and restore through Google Play remain available, without app-defined analytics purchase events. The game does not ask a child for a name, contact details, or precise location. If a child sends personal information through support, a parent or guardian can email us so we can review and delete it where applicable.
International processing
Google, Apple, GitHub, and email providers may process information in countries other than your own. We may disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with law, protect users or the service, investigate abuse or fraud, or complete a business transfer subject to appropriate protections.
Your rights and contact
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to ask for access to, correction of, deletion of, restriction of, or a copy of personal information we control, or to object to certain processing. Where those services are available, you can withdraw optional gameplay analytics and crash-reporting consent in Settings and change available advertising choices in Ad Choices.
Email pranavgarg@gmail.com with a privacy request. We may need to verify it, and third-party pseudonymous records may not be identifiable from the information provided. You can contact your local data-protection authority if you have a concern.
Changes
We may update this policy when the game, its services, or legal requirements change. The effective date above identifies the latest version. Questions can be sent to pranavgarg@gmail.com.