Privacy Policy

One policy for all our games

MidShift Games ("we", "us") makes mobile games. This one privacy policy covers all of them: PictureBound: Travel Puzzles, Treadmill Tycoon: Idle Clicker and JarSort, and this website. The rules below apply to every game. The "Our games" section shows exactly what each game uses.

None of our games asks for your name, email address, phone number or a password. You never need an account to play.

What we collect

Depending on the game, this can include:

• Device information: your device model, operating system version, and language and region settings.
• Advertising identifier: your device's ad ID (Apple's IDFA or the Google Advertising ID). Our ad partners use it to show and measure ads. On iPhone, the game asks your permission first.
• IP address: every internet connection uses one. Our ad and service partners can use it to estimate your rough location (your country or city), never your exact location.
• Game use and crash reports: for example which levels you play and for how long, and an error report when a game crashes. We use this to fix problems and make the games better.
• Leaderboard data: a random player ID, your score and your country (see "Leaderboards" below).
• Purchase confirmations: when you buy something in a game, Apple or Google handles the payment. We only receive a confirmation that the purchase is valid.

We never collect your contacts, photos, messages, precise (GPS) location or card details.

How we use it

• To run the games and save your progress.
• To show ads, which keep our games free.
• To understand how the games are played, fix bugs and make them better.
• To run fair leaderboards and stop cheating.
• To give you what you bought, and to restore it on a new device.

We do not sell your personal information.

Ads and your choices

Our games show ads through Yodo1 MAS, which works with ad networks such as Google AdMob. When you first open a game, Yodo1 may ask a short privacy question (for example your age, or your consent if you live in the EU or the UK). On iPhone, the game then asks whether it may track you (App Tracking Transparency). If you say no, your advertising identifier is not shared. You still see ads, but they are less personal.

You can change your choice at any time. On iPhone: Settings, then Privacy & Security, then Tracking. On Android: Settings, then Privacy (or Google), then Ads, where you can delete or reset your advertising ID.

Leaderboards

Treadmill Tycoon and JarSort have country leaderboards. They use a random player ID made by Unity Gaming Services. It is not linked to your name, email address, Apple Account or Google Account. Other players can see your score and your country's flag. In JarSort they also see a player name that the game makes up for you at random. You cannot type a name or any other text, and there is no chat. You choose your country: JarSort first suggests one from your device's region setting and lets you change it once. We never use GPS to find it.

Our games

What each game uses, in one place:

This website

This website has no ads, no analytics and no cookies. It only remembers your language and light or dark choice, inside your own browser. The page fonts load from Google Fonts, so Google receives your IP address when you open a page. If you email us, we use your email only to reply to you.

Services we work with

These companies process data for us, each under its own privacy policy:

• Yodo1 MAS (ads): privacy policy
• Google AdMob and other ad networks through Yodo1 (ads): privacy policy
• Unity Gaming Services (anonymous sign-in, leaderboards, game content, analytics and crash reports): privacy policy
• Google Firebase Analytics (PictureBound): privacy policy
• AppsFlyer (PictureBound, measuring where players come from): privacy policy
• Apple and Google Play (downloads and in-app payments): Apple · Google

Deleting your data

Each game lets you delete what it keeps about you (see "Our games" above). You can also email us at any time:

contact@midshiftgames.com

Tell us which game, and for leaderboards the player name or score shown in the game. We delete your data within 30 days. Deleting a game from your device removes the progress saved on it. Purchases stay with your Apple or Google account, so you can restore them later.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you can ask us to show you, correct or delete the personal data we hold about you, and you can object to personalised ads. Email us to use any of these rights. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.

How long we keep data

Leaderboard data stays while you play and is deleted when you ask. Analytics and crash data are kept by our providers for a limited time, mostly in combined form that does not identify you.

Children

Our games are made for a general audience and are not directed at children under 13 (or the minimum age in your country). They show ads, and JarSort is rated 13+ on the App Store. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you think a child has given us personal information, contact us and we will delete it.

Security

We take reasonable steps to protect the information we collect. No way of sending or storing data is completely secure, so we cannot promise absolute security.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy, for example when we release a new game. Changes are posted on this page with a new "Last updated" date.

Contact us

Questions about this policy or your data:

Email: contact@midshiftgames.com
Studio: MidShift Games