Privacy
The short version
We don't ask who you are, and we don't want to know.
- No name, no email, no phone number, no address.
- You never make an account or a password.
- Your nickname is picked by the game from a word list. You can't type your own, so you can't accidentally share your real name.
- There are no adverts and nothing that follows you around the internet.
- Your scores are saved on your own device. You can delete everything at any time, from the game's settings.
Who is responsible
CityRunner is an independent game made by Dan Zinkin. For any privacy question, or to ask for data to be deleted, contact us through the project page.
What the game stores, and where
| What | Why | Where it lives |
|---|---|---|
| A random ID (a string of letters and numbers) | To tell one save file from another. It is not linked to you, your device or your phone number. | Your device |
| A generated nickname, e.g. SwiftFalcon42 | To show next to a score on a leaderboard | Your device |
| Scores, souvenirs collected, cities unlocked | To save your progress and rank runs | Your device |
Today, all of this stays on your device in ordinary browser storage. It is not sent anywhere. If online leaderboards are added later, the only things that would be sent are the random ID, the generated nickname and the score — this page will be updated before that happens.
What the game does not do
- No advertising, and no advertising identifiers.
- No third-party analytics or tracking tools.
- No location, camera, microphone, contacts or photo access.
- No selling or sharing of data. There is nothing to sell.
- No profiling and no automated decisions about you.
Children
This game is suitable for all ages and is designed on the assumption that children play it. It follows the UK Information Commissioner's Age Appropriate Design Code: the most privacy-protective settings are the only settings, no personal data is required to play, nicknames cannot be free-typed, and there are no nudges, streaks-with-penalties or other techniques designed to extend play time.
Your rights
Under UK GDPR you have the right to see, correct or delete data held about you. Because everything is stored on your own device and nothing identifies you, you can exercise these rights directly and immediately:
- See it: it is in your browser's storage for this site.
- Change your nickname: reroll it in the game.
- Delete everything: use Erase my data in the game. This removes your nickname, your progress and your scores immediately and permanently. Two things are deliberately left alone because they are settings rather than information about you: whether you turned the music and sound off, and the record that you have already paid for something (so that erasing your data never looks like losing a purchase). To remove those as well, clear this site's data in your browser.
If online leaderboards are added, scores will be kept for a maximum of 400 days, and deletion will remove them from the leaderboard too.
Changes
If this policy changes in a way that affects what is collected, the change will be made here before the new feature is switched on.