Privacy

Who makes Breakwing

Breakwing is made by Kevin Horek. When this policy says “I” or “me”, that's who it means. It covers the Breakwing apps for iPhone, iPad and Android, the browser version of the game, and these Breakwing web pages.

The apps

The iPhone, iPad and Android apps:

• have no accounts and no sign-in;
• show no ads and contain no advertising code;
• don't collect personal information, usage data, device identifiers or location;
• don't contain third-party analytics or tracking code;
• don't send anything to me or to anyone else.

Apple and Google run the app stores. When you download an app, they handle that under their own privacy policies, and they may show developers anonymous totals such as download counts. If you join the TestFlight beta, Apple shares with me what TestFlight normally shares with developers, such as the email address you were invited with and any feedback or crash reports you choose to send.

Your progress stays with you

Breakwing saves your best scores, coins, jets, hangar upgrades, missions and settings on your device so they're there next time. In the apps they're kept in the app's own storage. On iPhone and iPad, the app also keeps a copy in your own iCloud account (Apple's key-value storage) so your progress follows you between devices signed in with the same Apple ID. That copy belongs to your iCloud account: we never receive it and can't read it. On Android, your phone's own backup can carry your progress to a new phone if you have backups turned on. In the browser they're kept in your browser's local storage for this site.

That data never leaves your device, and I can't see it. Deleting the app, or clearing this site's data in your browser, erases it. Your device's own backups may include it, under your control.

Sharing happens only when you tap share

Nothing is shared automatically. When you choose to share:

• A result from Today's run is a short piece of text: the run's number, a grid of colored squares for the levels you reached, your level, your score and a link to the game.
• A challenge link contains your run's seed, your score, the level you reached and a compact recording of your flight path, so your friend can race your ghost. It's all stored in the link itself, after the “#”, which browsers don't send to any server.
• A clip is a short video of your run, made on your device. It goes wherever you send it with your device's share sheet, or into your downloads.

You pick where these go. I don't receive a copy.

The browser version and these pages

The browser version of Breakwing and these pages at breakwing.com use Google Analytics for visit statistics: things like which pages are viewed, roughly where visitors are (country or city, worked out from the IP address), the type of device and browser, and which site sent you. Google Analytics uses cookies to tell visits apart. Google processes this under the Google Privacy Policy. You can block it with your browser's privacy settings, a content blocker, or Google's opt-out add-on, and the game works the same either way.

The game's fonts load from Google Fonts, so your browser asks Google's servers for them. Like any website, the host that delivers these pages processes standard technical details, such as your IP address and browser, to send them to you.

In the browser, your progress is saved in local storage on your device, as described above. It isn't sent anywhere.

Children

The apps don't collect personal information from anyone, including children. The browser version is part of a general-audience website and uses the visit statistics described above.

Your choices

Because I don't hold any personal data from the game, there's nothing for me to look up, export or delete. To erase your progress, delete the app or clear this site's data in your browser. To stop visit statistics on the web, use the options in the browser section above.

Changes

If this policy changes, I'll update it here and change the effective date at the top. If a change affects what the apps collect, it will be described clearly on this page before it applies.