planet-race

Privacy Policy

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Who makes Planet Race

Planet Race is made by febroine. If you have a question about this policy or your data, write to support@febroine.com.

What stays on your device

  • The game stores your saved careers, your settings (language, controls, music, sound effects, vibration) and your best lap times. They are kept on your device, in the app’s own storage, and are never sent to me or anyone else.
  • Planet Race has no account and no sign-in.
  • If your phone backs up app data to your own account (Android backup, iCloud device backup), your saves can be part of that backup, so you get them back on a new phone. I have no access to it.
  • Deleting the app deletes them from the device.

Advertising

The game is free and is paid for by ads from Google AdMob. Some are offered to you (watch an ad for in-game cash) and some show between races. To show, measure and protect these ads, the Google Mobile Ads SDK in the game collects:

  • your device’s IP address, which may be used to estimate your general location;
  • your device’s advertising identifier (and app-specific identifiers);
  • how you interact with the ads and the app (for example app launches, taps and video views);
  • diagnostic and performance information (for example app launch time and crash information).

Google uses this data for advertising, analytics and fraud prevention, as described in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services. I don’t receive this data about you personally; I only see totals in AdMob’s reports.

Your choices:

  • In the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland, the game asks for your consent before any ad is requested. You can change your choice at any time in Settings → Ad privacy.
  • On iPhone and iPad, the game asks whether it may use your device’s advertising identifier (App Tracking Transparency). If you say no, the ads are not personalized with it.
  • You can reset or delete your advertising ID, or opt out of personalized ads, in your phone’s settings.
  • The game works without an internet connection. Then no ads are shown and nothing is sent.

Purchases

The game sells a few optional extras (no ads between races, sticker and portrait packs). They are paid for through Google Play or the App Store, and your payment details are never seen by me.

Purchases are handled by RevenueCat, a service that checks with the store what you have bought so it works on your other devices. For this, RevenueCat receives a random identifier made for the game on your device (not your name or email), the purchases and their prices, your device’s IP address and basic device information (model, system version, country). It uses them only to provide this service: RevenueCat Privacy Policy.

If you never open the extras, nothing is bought and the game works the same. Planet Race does not sell in-game cash, and in-game cash can’t be cashed out.

Reminders

If you turn on the daily track reminder, the game schedules notifications on your own phone. They are made and shown by your phone, and nothing is sent to me. You can turn them off in the game’s Settings or in your phone’s settings.

Crash reports and feedback

When the game crashes or hits an error, it sends a crash report to Sentry, the service I use to find and fix bugs. A report holds what went wrong in the code, the device model and system version, the game’s version and a little of the game’s state (the mode, reputation, cash and the number of races). It does not hold your name, your pilot’s name, your IP address or an identifier for you.

If you send feedback from Settings → Send feedback, your message goes the same way, with the e-mail address you choose to give, if any, so I can answer. Sentry keeps this data for me under its own policy: Sentry Privacy Policy.

What the game does not do

  • It has no accounts and no sign-in.
  • It does not use analytics or tracking of its own (only the crash reports above).
  • It does not use your contacts, photos, camera or microphone.
  • It does not sell in-game cash, and in-game cash can’t be cashed out.

Children

Planet Race is not directed at children under 13, and I do not knowingly collect data from them.

Changes

If a future version changes any of this (for example by adding online leaderboards), this policy will be updated before that version is released, and the date at the top will change.

Contact

Questions about this policy: support@febroine.com