JUICY TRAILS

The short version

Juicy Trails has no accounts, no advertising, no analytics and no tracking of any kind. We do not keep a database of players, and nothing you do in the game is sold or used to build a profile of you.

The phone app does use a few outside services, each for one job: Apple or Google to take payment, RevenueCat to keep a record of what you have bought, Firebase to deliver news notifications if you allow them, and on iPhone Game Center so your purchases follow you to a new phone. Each is described below, with exactly what it receives.

What stays on your device

These never leave your phone and are not sent to us or to anyone else:

• Your record — matches won and lost, rounds won, and how you have done with each animal.
• Your settings, such as steering style, sound, and which animal and planet you last picked.
• Juicy Jewels you have earned by playing, and the hats, shirts and dances you have chosen.

Your display name is kept on this device too, but it can leave it: while you are playing online it is sent to the match server so the other players can see who you are. What happens when you play online covers exactly what the server does with it.

Deleting the app deletes all of it. Things you have bought are the exception: see Purchases.

What happens when you play online

Online play needs a server so that the people in a match can see each other. While a match is running, that server handles:

• the display name and animal you chose, so other players know who you are;
• which paid worlds your app says you own, so a room knows whose world it may be played on;
• your steering, jumping and ability presses, and the resulting positions and scores.

This is held in memory only for as long as the match lasts, and is written to nothing — no database, no file, no log. When the match ends it is gone. It is never used to build a profile, never sold, and never shared with anybody.

The server runs on Cloudflare Workers. Cloudflare handles the network connection on our behalf and its own privacy policy covers that.

Purchases

Paid worlds and Juicy Jewel packs are bought through the App Store or Google Play. Apple or Google takes the payment; we never see your card, your name, your email address or your Apple or Google account.

The app uses RevenueCat to keep the record of what you have bought, so that a world stays unlocked and bought jewels are not lost when the app is updated. RevenueCat receives:

• the store's receipt for each purchase: what was bought, when, and for how much;
• an ID for you that means nothing outside this game — a random one made on your phone, or your Game Center player ID if you are signed in to Game Center (below);
• basic technical details it needs to process a purchase, such as the app version, the phone's model and system version, and your country.

That record is used only to unlock what you bought and to give it back when you restore purchases. It is not used for advertising and is not shared with anyone else.

Game Center (iPhone)

If you are already signed in to Game Center on your iPhone, the app reads your Game Center player ID — Apple's own ID for you in games, not your name or email — and files your purchases with RevenueCat under it. That is what lets a new iPhone signed in to the same Apple Account find everything you bought, jewel packs included. The app never shows a sign-in screen; if you are not signed in, nothing is read and purchases are filed under the random ID instead. Apple's privacy policy covers Game Center itself.

Notifications

The app only asks to send notifications after you have said yes to a card explaining them, and you can turn them off in OPTIONS or in your phone's settings at any time.

• The daily reminder is scheduled by your phone itself. Nothing is sent anywhere to make it happen.
• News — a new world, an update — is delivered by Google's Firebase Cloud Messaging. To receive it, your phone registers with Firebase, which gives it a delivery address (a token) for this install of the app, and joins one list that every player is on. Messages go to the whole list at once: we have no list of players and cannot message anyone individually. Turning notifications off leaves the list.

Display names

A display name is the only text you can type that another player sees. Please do not put personal information in it — it is shown to strangers in a public match. Names are filtered on the server, and one that trips the filter is replaced rather than shown.

Children

Juicy Trails is suitable for all ages. There is no chat, no messaging, no images, no profiles and no way for players to contact each other outside a match. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, children included; the purchase and notification details above are handled the same way for every player, and purchases go through Apple's and Google's own parental controls.

What we do not do

• No advertising, and no advertising identifiers.
• No analytics or crash-reporting services.
• No tracking across other companies' apps or websites.
• No location, contacts, photos, microphone or camera access — the app never asks, because it never needs to.
• Nothing is sold, and nothing is shared beyond the services named on this page, each doing the one job described.

On the website

Playing in a web browser has no purchases, no notifications and no Game Center: only the online play described above, and settings kept in your browser's own storage.

Your choices

• Turn notifications off in OPTIONS or in your phone's settings.
• Sign out of Game Center in your phone's settings, and new purchases are filed under a random ID instead.
• To have RevenueCat's purchase record for you deleted, email us (below) with roughly when you bought something; we will find it and delete it. Note that this means the purchase can no longer be restored.

Changes

If this changes — a new service, accounts, a leaderboard, or anything else that keeps data — this page will be updated before that version ships, and the date at the top will say when.

Contact

Questions about any of this: