Privacy Policy

Glowball · last updated 7 October 2026

What the game stores

On your iPhone only, three things: how many of the ten levels you have beaten, whether the paddle is set to Extra wide, and whether sound is on. Nothing else — no name, no identifier, no scores and no play history.

This lives inside the game's own storage. Deleting the game deletes it. Like other app data it may be included in an iPhone backup you make yourself, to your own computer or your own iCloud account; that copy is yours and is not visible to me.

What the game does not do

• No analytics, telemetry, or usage reporting.
• No advertising, and no advertising identifier.
• No tracking, and no data shared with anyone for any purpose.
• No third-party software development kits of any kind.
• No account, no email address, no name, no sign-in.
• No connection to the internet of its own. The game plays the same in airplane mode.
• No access to your location, microphone, camera, photos, contacts, calendar, health data, or files.
• No push notifications.
• No chat, no leaderboards, and no way to reach or be reached by another player.

Your age band, where a law asks for it

A few places now require every app to find out which age band the person using it is in. Texas has since June 2026, and other places are following. Where such a law covers you, Glowball asks your iPhone for your age band when it opens: "under 13", for example, or "18 and over". It is a band and never a birthday. Your iPhone may show you a sheet first, and for a child's account a parent or guardian may already have decided what apps are told.

Glowball then does nothing with the answer. The game is the same at every age, so there is nothing in it to turn on or off. The answer is not saved, not sent anywhere and never seen by me. Outside those places, Glowball does not ask at all.

The age band comes from Apple's Declared Age Range feature, which is part of the iPhone and works under Apple's privacy policy. To answer, the iPhone may check with Apple; the game takes no part in that. You can see and change what apps are told in the Settings app: your name, then Personal Information, then Age Range for Apps.

The two links in Settings

The game's Settings screen has a Help button and a Privacy button. They open this page and the support page in your web browser, and that is the only thing in the game that leads out of it. These pages are plain pages: no cookies, no analytics, no scripts. They are hosted by GitHub Pages, which, like any web host, sees the address of a device that asks for a page; that is covered by GitHub's privacy statement, and none of it reaches me.

Purchases

Glowball is bought once, from the App Store. The purchase is handled entirely by Apple. I never see your payment details, and the game itself stores nothing about the transaction.

What Apple may show me

If you have chosen in your iPhone's settings to share analytics and crash reports with app developers, Apple may show me aggregate, anonymised statistics — how many people downloaded the game, and crash reports with no identity attached. That is Apple's mechanism, it is off unless you turned it on, and the game plays no part in it. It does not identify you.

Children

The game collects nothing from anyone, which includes children. There is nothing in it that could identify a child, nothing that asks a child for anything, and nobody in it to talk to. Where a law requires the age band described above, the game receives it and keeps none of it.

Your rights

Rights to access, correct, export or delete personal data — under Canadian law, the GDPR, or anywhere else — apply to personal data that has been collected. None has been. There is no copy of anything about you to send you or to delete, and deleting the game removes everything it ever wrote.

Changes to this policy

If a future version of the game ever does something this page does not describe, this page changes first, and the date at the top changes with it.

Contact

Questions about any of this: brown.jason10@gmail.com.