Drift privacy policy
Drift is an arcade space shooter for iPhone, also playable on its website, made by Jonathas Costa (“we”). This page says what the game does with information about you.
What the game keeps
Your progress (the phases you reached and your best scores, your credits and what you bought in the Hangar, your daily runs) and your settings are kept on your device only. We have no servers: none of it is sent to us or to anyone else. There is no account, and the game has no analytics. Deleting the app deletes them; on the website, clearing the site’s data in your browser does.
Ads in the iPhone app
The iPhone app shows ads from Google AdMob: one now and then between runs, and rewarded ads when you choose to watch one (to continue a run, or to double the credits a run earned). To show and measure ads and to prevent fraud, Google’s software in the app may collect your IP address and the approximate location it reveals, information about your device and the app, and how you interact with ads. With your permission it also uses your device’s advertising identifier, which can personalise ads.
- In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and places with similar laws, the app asks for your consent first. You can change your choices at any time in the game’s Settings, under Privacy choices.
- iOS asks whether Drift may track you across apps and websites. If you say no, the advertising identifier is not used. You can change this in the iPhone’s Settings, under Privacy & Security, Tracking.
The app sends information only to Google, which may share it with its advertising partners, as its policy and the consent message describe. Google’s use of this information is governed by its own policy: Google Privacy Policy, and How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.
The website
The website, drift.jonathas.net, keeps your progress in your browser’s storage only. It shows ads from Google AdSense: now and then one between runs, a rewarded ad when you choose to watch one (to continue a run, or to double the credits a run earned), and, on a wide window, one beside the game. To show and measure them and to prevent fraud, Google may collect your IP address and the approximate location it reveals, information about your browser and device, and how you interact with ads. The website is hosted on GitHub Pages, which logs visitors’ IP addresses for security, under GitHub’s privacy statement.
Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to drift.jonathas.net or other websites. Google’s advertising cookies enable it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to drift.jonathas.net and other sites on the Internet. You can opt out of personalised advertising in Google’s Ads Settings, and out of some other vendors’ use of cookies for personalised advertising at aboutads.info.
In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and places with similar laws, the website asks for your consent first, and ads are personalised only with it; you can change your choices at any time in the game’s Settings, under Privacy choices. Google’s policies above govern its use of this information.
Children
Drift is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them.
Changes and contact
If this policy changes, this page and its date change with it. Questions: write to jonathaspcosta@gmail.com.