Privacy Policy – Polarsports

The Short Version

You can play without joining the scoreboards. Your progress, clothes and sound settings stay on your device. If you join, we give you a made-up game name. Other players can see that name and your best flight distance, but not your email or Google picture. You can stop sharing new flights or delete your online profile. Your local game progress stays. Ask a parent or trusted adult if you want help understanding your choices. The Basic release has no advertisements.

Game Progress and Settings

The App stores game data on your device so it can remember your progress. This includes your best distance, lifetime airborne distance, achievements, unlocked and equipped items, pending reward notifications, and sound and mute settings. It also remembers the age range selected on first launch, or a choice not to provide one. It does not ask for or store your date of birth.

Clearing the App's data or uninstalling it may remove these records, including your scores, unlocks and settings. Your device or platform backup settings may affect whether app data is backed up or restored.

Optional Online Leaderboards

Basic play and local rewards work without joining. If you choose to join, the App uses Google Play Games and Firebase Authentication to identify your game account. Google processes account and technical information to provide and protect sign-in. The App starts this sign-in flow when you choose to join, and may restore it on later launches while sharing remains enabled. Google's SDK can keep sign-in state on your device.

The Polarsports leaderboard server stores your Firebase user identifier, an automatically generated Polarsports name, the date and version of your choice to join, run tickets and timing, and your ordinary flight distances. Your best single flight, including bouncing and rolling, can appear in the top 20 for the UTC day, week or month. Your own best can also be shown to you separately. Daily periods start at midnight UTC, weeks start on Monday, and months start on the first. Existing local records and offline flights are not uploaded.

Other players can see your generated name and ranked distances. You cannot enter a custom public name. Your email, Google profile picture, private age-screen response and advertising-consent response are not included in public entries. The App does not upload your wardrobe, unlocked items or lifetime airborne reward total to this server.

We operate the leaderboard database on our own server. Connection information, including IP addresses, is processed to deliver requests and protect the service. The API uses temporary in-memory connection and account identifiers for request limits; its application logs do not include account identifiers, authentication tokens or request bodies. Network and hosting services may separately process connection and diagnostic information. The leaderboard does not use Firestore, Google Analytics or Firebase Analytics.

Score periods are retained for 90 days after they end. Run tickets expire after five minutes and run records are normally removed about a day after expiry. Your online profile remains until it is deleted. Daily server database backups expire after 14 days. Backups are restricted to recovery use; before a restored database is made available, profiles whose Firebase accounts were deleted must be removed again.

You can pause future sharing or delete your online profile from the leaderboard screen. Pausing leaves existing scores in place. Deletion removes your leaderboard profile, scores and this game's Firebase Authentication account. Public board caches may take up to a minute to refresh. Your Google account and local game progress are kept. See request deletion of a Polarsports online account for the in-app steps and an alternative contact route without installing the App.

See Firebase's privacy information and Google's Privacy Policy for information about these services.

Why We Use Online Information

Where UK or EU data protection law applies, we rely on our legitimate interests in providing the optional scoreboards that players request, associating flights with the correct account, handling account requests and protecting the service from misuse. We balance those interests against players' privacy, with particular care for children.

Participation is off until you choose to join. We limit public entries to a generated game name and ranked distance, and provide pause and deletion controls. We do not use this information for advertising, direct marketing or unrelated profiling. You can object to our use of your online information using the contact details below; you can continue playing locally without joining.

Google separately describes its sign-in, SDK maintenance, security and international data processing in the privacy information linked above. We do not receive its full technical records or claim that our account-deletion control deletes your Google account.

Advertising and Earlier Test Builds

Version code 2 does not include Google Mobile Ads or its User Messaging Platform. It does not load advertisements or perform their privacy-status checks. We will update this policy and review the necessary privacy choices before adding advertising.

The older private code-1 build offered an optional Google test advertisement for RGB Viking. After its first-launch screen, UMP checked privacy status at startup, and previewing the locked outfit could initialise Google Ads and load a test ad before Watch Ad. Google could process connection, device, identifier, interaction and diagnostic information for advertising, measurement, security and service improvement. Those old installed test copies retain that behaviour until updated or removed.

Children's Privacy

Children are included in the intended audience. The ad-free build uses the same gameplay and privacy controls for every age. Its age-screen response stays on the device and is not uploaded to our leaderboard service. There are no editable public names, chat, photos or contact fields in the game.

Joining the scoreboards is optional for every age. Basic play and local rewards remain available without signing in. Parents and guardians can contact imDD to ask about, review or request deletion of a child's online information. We may need proportionate information to identify the correct profile and confirm a request. Please do not send passwords or unnecessary identifying information about a child. Google account or Play Games profile approval is not represented as separate parental consent to our data practices.

Analytics and Third-Party Services

The App is built with Unity. Google Play Games documents analytics and diagnostic processing to maintain and improve its SDK; Firebase Authentication processes account and technical information for sign-in and security. The current project is not linked to Unity Cloud; its Unity Analytics and Cloud Diagnostics reporting settings are disabled. Unity's engine and services may process technical information. We will update this policy before introducing additional analytics or cloud services.

See Unity's Game Player and App User Privacy Policy for information about Unity's own practices.

Your Choices and Requests

You can play without joining the online leaderboards. If you join, you can pause future score sharing or delete your online profile. The ad-free build has no advertising privacy-message control because it does not include that SDK.

You can contact imDD with a privacy question or request. Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct or delete information, restrict or object to its use, and receive a portable copy where that right applies. You can also complain to your local data protection authority. In the UK, this is the Information Commissioner's Office. Google and Unity describe their own data handling and controls in their policies linked above. Removing local app data may also remove your progress, unlocks and settings.

Visits to This Website

This website uses GoatCounter to count visits and understand page usage. It may process information such as the page visited, referring page, browser, screen size and approximate location derived from an IP address. The website host also processes connection information needed to deliver the page. This is separate from gameplay. See GoatCounter's Privacy Policy for details.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We will update this policy when relevant practices change and show the updated date above. Please review it as the App and its services develop.

Contact

For questions about this policy or information handled by Polarsports, contact Dale Draycott (imDD):