PocketGP

Privacy Policy

PocketGP is a casual Grand Prix racing game for iPhone.

It has no account, no sign-in, no advertising and no tracking. The game sends us nothing about you, only a few anonymous counts that cannot be traced to anyone (see Anonymous counts below). The other exceptions are run by Apple, not by the game: TestFlight, if you test the game before a release, and crash reports if you allow them. Both are explained below.

This page says what that means in practice, in the terms Apple asks a privacy policy to cover: what is collected and why, how long it is kept and how to delete it, and how to withdraw consent. The website's beta email list, the one thing that collects anything personal, has its own section below.

What we collect

Nothing personal. The game does not collect personal data. It does not ask for your name, email address, location, contacts or photos, and it does not read them in the background. There is no crash-reporting or advertising code in the app and no third-party SDK that phones home; the game's only counting is our own few anonymous counts, below. Apple may share some information with us about testing and about crashes; see Testing on TestFlight and Crash reports below.

What stays on your device

The game keeps a few things so it works the way you left it: your driver profile (the name, country, three-letter code, race number, team and helmet you choose, and a random ID the game makes to tell profiles apart); your career totals (races, wins, podiums, poles and best finish); your Championship season (the calendar, team and race setup you chose for it, and each round's finishing order); your lap records and sector times; the team you last drove and the circuit you raced last; how many pit stops you have made; which of the race engineer's radio lines you have heard lately, so he does not repeat himself; whether the game has already asked you to rate it, so it asks only once; whether you have seen the tip to press the gas, so it shows only once in the garage and once on the grid; and your settings (sound, camera, graphics, steering, driver assist, the difficulty and the race setup, and whether you share anonymous counts and when they were last sent).

On iPhone they live in the app's own storage on that device, with a few working notes that are cleared when the game closes. None of it leaves the device: we never receive it and have no way to see it. The anonymous counts below take only three things from it: whether a race was your first, the difficulty it was raced at and which Championship round it was.

Anonymous counts

To see where players stop, the game sends us a few totals: that the game was opened, that a race was finished, whether it was your first and the difficulty it was raced at, that a Championship round or a whole season was finished, and that the unlock offer was shown. Each is only a name and a number, sent as one small message and added to that day's total. Our server keeps the daily totals and nothing else.

The counts carry no ID of any kind, no account, no name, no device or system details, no location and nothing from your driver profile, so they cannot be traced to you or to your phone. Vercel, our host, receives the connection's IP address and the usual request details, such as the iPhone's iOS version, to deliver it, as it does for every page of this website (see Network below); our code never reads or keeps them: it keeps nothing but the totals. The totals are kept for us by Upstash, a database service, on servers in the United States. They are used only to see how the game is played and to make it better, never for advertising or tracking, and they are not shared with anyone.

The counts are on unless you turn them off: switch off Share anonymous counts in the game's Settings and the game sends nothing more. Without a connection the game plays as usual and the counts are sent later in the same session, or not at all.

Retention and deletion

Your settings and records are kept until you remove them, and no longer than that. Delete the app and everything it stored goes with it. We keep no copy, so there is nothing further to delete and nothing you need to ask us for. Like everything else on your iPhone, it can be included in your own iCloud or computer backups, which you and Apple control. The anonymous counts are daily totals with nothing in them that ties them to you, so there is nothing of yours in them to delete. The daily totals are deleted after about 13 months.

Consent

The game collects nothing about you. The anonymous counts are on until you switch off Share anonymous counts in the game's Settings; then the game sends nothing more. Testing on TestFlight and sharing analytics are choices you make with Apple, and you can undo them there. If you no longer want the game to keep your settings and records, deleting the app removes everything. The beta email list on this website is the only thing you can sign up to: joining it is your consent, and unsubscribing withdraws it.

Purchases

PocketGP is not on sale yet. When it is, the unlock will be a one-time purchase handled entirely by Apple through the App Store. Apple takes the payment and keeps the receipt. We never see your payment details, your Apple account or your address; Apple's own privacy policy covers that transaction. The game asks the App Store whether the unlock has been bought so it can open the extra content, and that is all it asks.

Testing on TestFlight

Before a release, players can test the game on TestFlight, Apple's app for testing. While you test, Apple shares with us crash reports, details of your device such as its model and iOS version, how often you play, and any feedback or screenshots you choose to send. If we invite you by email, we give Apple your email address so it can send the invitation, and we see your name and email address; if you join with our public TestFlight link, Apple shows us neither. We use this only to fix and improve the game, and we remove testers when testing ends. Apple's own privacy policy covers what Apple keeps.

To stop, choose Stop Testing in TestFlight or delete the app. To have what we received deleted, write to support@pocketgpgame.com.

Crash reports

If you have chosen in your iPhone's settings to share analytics with app developers, Apple may send us reports when the game crashes and statistics about how often it is used. Apple decides what these contain, and they do not tell us your name or contact details. You can switch this off in Settings, Privacy & Security, Analytics & Improvements.

Network

The game's files are carried inside the app, and nothing else is fetched. Its only requests of its own carry the anonymous counts to our server, at most once a minute and usually once a race, and none while Share anonymous counts is off.

This website is separate from the game. It is hosted by Vercel Inc., a company in the United States, which delivers it from servers around the world. When it delivers a page, Vercel records the usual details any web server records, such as your IP address, the page asked for, the time and your browser type, to run and protect its service. The site sets no cookies, has no analytics and loads nothing from other companies. We do not use those details to identify or track anyone. The one exception is the beta form below: your browser contacts Kit only when you press Join the beta.

The beta email list

If you join the beta on this website, we collect your email address and nothing else. We use it only to email you about PocketGP: beta invites, news on how the game is coming along, its launch and new circuits, and only when there is real news.

The list is kept for us by Kit (Kit, Inc., formerly ConvertKit), the email service that sends these emails. Kit is based in the United States and stores data on servers in the United States and in other countries. It holds your address on our behalf and does not use it for anything else.

After you join, Kit sends you one email asking you to confirm. Until you confirm, we send you nothing else. If you never confirm, Kit still keeps your address in our account, marked as unconfirmed, until we delete it. Like most email services, Kit can record when an email is opened or a link in it is clicked. We only ever look at the totals, never at what one person did.

We keep your address until you ask us to delete it. When you unsubscribe, Kit stops sending you our emails, but it keeps your address in our account's records, marked as unsubscribed, unless we delete it. If we stop sending these emails, we delete the list.

To stop the emails, use the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any of them. To have your address deleted completely, confirmed or not, write to support@pocketgpgame.com and we will delete it.

Children

PocketGP is for everyone. The game collects nothing personal from anyone, children included: the anonymous counts hold nothing about who is playing. If you believe a child has sent us personal information, such as an email address for the beta, write to support@pocketgpgame.com and we will delete it.

Feedback

If you send us feedback through the game or the website, we receive only what you type and, if you choose to give it, your email address, which we use only to reply. Ask us to delete it at any time. Until such a form exists, the only way to reach us is the address below.

Changes

If any of this changes, this page and the date at the top will be updated before the change takes effect.

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