This Privacy Policy describes how the game Sling Tower (the “Game”), published by Radek Volf (“we”, “us”), handles information when you play it on Android (Google Play) or in a web browser (www.slingtower.com, itch.io and similar portals).
The Game does not require an account and does not ask for your name, e-mail address, or contact details. The only information you can choose to give us are the initials you enter for the public leaderboard on www.slingtower.com (section 3). The Android version can optionally be connected to Google Play Games (section 4). We do not sell personal data.
The Game saves your progress (high scores, settings, saved run) locally on your device – in the app's private storage on Android, or in your browser's local storage on the web. This data never leaves your device, except for the optional leaderboards described in sections 3 and 4. You can delete it at any time by uninstalling the app or clearing your browser's site data.
The Android version of the Game shows ads provided by Google AdMob (Google LLC). To deliver and measure ads, Google and its advertising partners may collect:
Before any ad is shown, users in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland are asked for consent through Google's consent form. You can change or withdraw your consent at any time from the Game's menu (PRIVACY). If you decline personalised ads, you may still see non-personalised ads.
How Google uses this data is described in Google's Privacy Policy and How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services. You can reset or delete your Advertising ID in your device's Settings → Google → Ads.
The web versions of the Game (www.slingtower.com and itch.io) do not contain AdMob and do not show ads from us.
The web version on www.slingtower.com has a public leaderboard. Playing is anonymous: when a run starts, the server only increases a play counter and issues a random token for that run – no account, no cookies, and no IP address or device information is stored.
After a game over you may optionally enter up to four characters as your initials. If you do, we store this record in our database (Cloudflare D1): the initials, the score, the height and floor reached, the duration of the run, the Game version and the time of submission. The initials and score are shown publicly to all players in the leaderboard. Please do not enter anything you consider personal. You can skip this step and nothing is sent. The last initials you entered are remembered in your browser's local storage only for convenience.
Leaderboard records are kept for as long as the leaderboard exists. If you want a record removed, contact us (section 11) with the initials, score and approximate date.
The Android version uses Google Play Games Services (Google LLC) for a global high-score leaderboard and achievements. When the Game starts, Google Play Games may offer to sign you in with the Play Games profile of the Google account on your device; this happens through Google's own sign-in, and we never receive your Google account details. You can decline – the Game works fully without signing in, and the leaderboard and achievements are simply not used.
If you are signed in, the Game sends your best score and your unlocked achievements to Google Play Games. Google processes them together with your Play Games player ID, gamer name and avatar, and shows your score to other players in the leaderboard according to your Play Games profile settings. This data is handled by Google under Google's Privacy Policy; you can manage or delete your Play Games profile and data in the Google Play Games app or your Google account (myaccount.google.com → Data & privacy).
When you play the Game on a third-party portal such as itch.io, that portal may display its own advertising, use cookies, and offer features tied to your portal account. This is governed by the portal's own privacy policy, not ours (for itch.io see itch.io/docs/legal/privacy-policy).
www.slingtower.com and its leaderboard are hosted on Cloudflare. Like any web host, Cloudflare processes basic connection data (IP address, browser type, requested page, timestamp) to serve the page and protect it from abuse, including rate limiting of the leaderboard. We do not use analytics or tracking scripts on the site.
Apart from the optional leaderboard initials (section 3), we do not collect your name, e-mail, phone number, contacts, photos, precise location, microphone or camera data, or any health or financial information. The Game does not request any such permissions.
The Game is intended for a general audience and is not specifically directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. The Android version uses Google AdMob, which is configured in accordance with Google Play's Families policies for ad content.
Depending on where you live (for example under the EU GDPR or the California CCPA), you may have the right to access, correct, delete, or restrict the processing of personal data about you, and to object to its processing. The only data we hold ourselves are the leaderboard records described in section 3 – to have one removed, contact us at the address below. Data processed by Google (advertising, Play Games) can be managed directly with Google (see sections 2 and 4) or by resetting your Advertising ID and uninstalling the Game.
We may update this policy from time to time. The current version is always available at walkervolf.com/privacy/sling-tower; the date at the top shows when it was last changed.
Radek Volf (Walker & Volf)
E-mail: [email protected]
Publisher website: walkervolf.com
Game website: www.slingtower.com