Privacy Policy

This policy explains what happens to your information when you play SPECTADO games (including their App Clips) or visit spectado.com. We’ve kept it as short and plain as we can.

The short version

• No ads. None of our games show advertising, and we never sell your data or share it with advertisers.
• No accounts. You never sign up with us. Some games use Apple’s Game Center and iCloud, which work through your Apple Account.
• Nothing that identifies you. We never ask for your name, email address, phone number, contacts, photos or precise location — you don’t have to give us any personal information to play.
• Basic usage statistics. Some games use Google Analytics, with Google’s standard settings, so we can see how they’re played and make them better.

Who we are

SPECTADO s.r.o., Radlická 663/28, 150 00 Prague 5, Czech Republic (company ID 05807743), is the controller of your data under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). You can reach us any time at [email protected].

In our games

You play without an account, and your progress, scores and settings are saved on your device. Depending on the game, a few services are also involved.

Usage statistics (Google Analytics)

Some of our games use Google Analytics for Firebase, a Google service, to show us how the games are played — for example how many people play, how long a session lasts and which parts of a game are used most. We use Google’s standard data collection and don’t add any personal information to it. It covers:

• App activity — for example the first launch, the start and length of each session, the screens you view, and app or system updates.
• Device and app details — device brand and model, operating system version, app version, language and the store the game came from.
• Approximate location — country, region and city, estimated from your IP address. Google says it doesn’t log or store the IP addresses of users in the EU, the UK or Switzerland.
• Random identifiers — an ID that Google Analytics creates for each installation of a game and, on Apple devices, the “identifier for vendor”, a random ID shared by our apps on your device. On Android, Google Analytics may also read your device’s advertising ID, which you can reset or delete in your Android settings. On Apple devices our games never ask for permission to track you, so Apple’s advertising identifier (IDFA) is never used.

We only look at this data as aggregated statistics, to find problems and improve our games. We don’t use it for advertising, and we don’t try to work out who you are. Google Analytics keeps the detailed data for at most 14 months; after that, only aggregated reports remain. Our legal basis is our legitimate interest in understanding how our games are used (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR). If you’d rather not take part, deleting the game stops all collection.

More in Google’s Privacy Policy and how Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.

Game Center

Some games — for example Pocket Delver and Pocket Golf — use Apple’s Game Center for leaderboards and achievements, and Pocket Golf also uses it to find opponents for live matches. Game Center is run by Apple: if you’re signed in, Apple stores your scores and achievements and shows them, with your nickname, to other players according to your Game Center settings. The game can see your Game Center nickname and a player ID that Apple creates for our games, but never your Apple Account details such as your email address, and we don’t copy any of it to our own systems.

When you play Pocket Golf against someone in a live Game Center match, or with a friend over SharePlay, your shots are exchanged through Apple’s services and never reach us.

You can sign out of Game Center, or change your nickname and profile privacy, in your device’s Settings under Game Center. Game Center & Privacy explains how Apple handles this data.

iCloud sync

Some games — for example Pocket Golf — can sync your scores, progress and settings across your devices with iCloud. This data is stored in your own private iCloud account, managed by Apple, and we can’t see or access it. You can turn off iCloud for a game, or delete its iCloud data, in your device’s iCloud settings. Apple’s Privacy Policy applies.

Purchases

Purchases are handled entirely by the App Store or Google Play. We never see your payment details.

App Store and Google Play statistics

Apple and Google give us aggregated reports — downloads, sales and crash reports, for example — that don’t tell us who you are. On Apple devices, app usage and crash data is shared with developers only if you turn on Share With App Developers in Settings → Privacy & Security → Analytics & Improvements. On Android, crash reports come only from devices whose owners allow sharing usage and diagnostics data with Google.

On this website

spectado.com has no analytics, no ads and no tracking cookies.

• Hosting — The site runs on Cloudflare. To deliver pages and protect the site from attacks, Cloudflare processes technical data such as your IP address, your browser type and the pages you request. See Cloudflare’s Privacy Policy.
• Fonts — Our fonts load from Google Fonts, so your browser connects to Google’s servers, which see your IP address. Google says Google Fonts doesn’t use cookies and collects only what it needs to deliver the fonts (Google Fonts privacy FAQ).
• Light and dark mode — If you choose a theme, the choice is saved in your browser’s local storage and never leaves your device.
• Links — Links to the App Store, Google Play and other websites take you to services covered by their own privacy policies.

Our legal basis is our legitimate interest in running a secure, working website (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR).

When you email us

If you write to us, we use your email address and message only to reply and help you, and we keep them only as long as we need to. Our legal basis is our legitimate interest in answering you (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR).

Who receives data

We don’t sell, rent or trade personal information, and we don’t share it for advertising. Apart from the services named above — Google (Analytics and Fonts), Cloudflare (website hosting) and Apple (Game Center and iCloud, under Apple’s own privacy policy) — no one else receives data from our games or this website. Some of these services process data outside the EU, for example in the United States; such transfers are covered by the EU–US Data Privacy Framework or the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you can ask to access your data, correct or delete it, restrict or object to how it’s used, and get a copy in a portable format. Because we don’t know who you are, we usually can’t link any data to you — but write to us and we’ll help as far as we can. For Game Center and iCloud data you can also go straight to Apple at privacy.apple.com.

You also have the right to complain to a data protection authority — in the Czech Republic, that’s the Office for Personal Data Protection (ÚOOÚ) — or to the authority where you live or work.

Children

Our games are made for a general audience, and several are rated 4+. We don’t knowingly collect personal information from children. If you think a child has sent us personal information, for example by email, contact us and we’ll delete it.

Changes to this policy

If the way we handle data changes — for example because a game starts using a new service — we’ll update this page and the date at the top.

Contact

Questions or requests about privacy: [email protected]