NaughtyBear LabsOrbit Shift Privacy Policy
NaughtyBear Labs provides Orbit Shift, an arcade game supported by advertising and optional one-time purchases. This policy explains what stays on your device, what our advertising provider processes, and the choices available to you. For privacy questions, contact naughtybearlabs@gmail.com.
Game progress stays on your device
Orbit Shift stores your personal best score, earned and purchased coin balance, unlocked and equipped customisations, and recent ad-frequency information in the app's local storage. We use these records to remember your progress and limit how often full-screen ads appear. We do not upload these game records to a NaughtyBear Labs server or operate a cloud leaderboard.
No Orbit Shift account is required. There is no cloud save service. Optional purchases use Google Play Billing on Android and Apple's StoreKit on iOS. The game does not request access to your precise location, contacts, camera, microphone or personal media. Gameplay works offline; ads, purchases, purchase restoration and online privacy pages require an internet connection.
Optional purchases
Google Play or Apple processes payments for coin packs and permanent ad removal, depending on your platform. We do not receive or store your card number or bank details. The store handles payment and account information under its own policies. The app receives purchase information such as product and transaction identifiers, purchase tokens or signed transaction information, and purchase status. It saves the records needed on your device to deliver purchases, prevent duplicate coin grants and remember ad removal. The platform's purchase service verifies transactions and confirms delivery. We do not send purchase receipts to a NaughtyBear Labs server.
Coin packs are consumable: once delivered, their balance and any customisations bought with them are saved on that device. Uninstalling the app, clearing its storage or changing devices can lose this progress; Restore purchases does not restore delivered coin packs. Permanent ad removal can be restored using the same store account on the same platform. Purchases do not transfer between Google Play and the App Store. Removing ads stops future banner and full-screen ad requests while the entitlement is active; it does not delete information already processed by Google. Refunds and payment history are managed through the store where you purchased.
The iOS TestFlight version uses sandbox purchases and Google's test ads. Sandbox purchases do not charge real money. Apple processes TestFlight participation and diagnostic information under its own testing service terms. Read Apple's Privacy Policy.
Advertising and Google's services
We use Google AdMob (the Google Mobile Ads SDK) for result-screen banners and occasional full-screen ads between runs. Google processes advertising-related information, including your IP address (which can indicate approximate location), app and ad interactions, diagnostics and device or other identifiers. Depending on the platform, device settings and ad treatment, identifiers can include the Android advertising ID, app set ID, or identifiers scoped to an app or developer on iOS.
Google uses this information to provide and measure ads, analyse service performance and prevent fraud. These services can process and share information with advertising partners under their own policies. We have not added a separate app analytics or crash-reporting service; Google's advertising SDK still performs its own measurement and diagnostics.
We use Google's User Messaging Platform to manage applicable advertising consent and privacy choices. Ad personalisation and the information used for ads depend on your location, choices, device settings and Google's requirements. Ads may still involve data processing when they are not personalised.
The current iOS version requests non-personalised ads and does not request App Tracking Transparency permission or access to the iOS advertising identifier (IDFA). This does not prevent Google's SDK from processing the other advertising and diagnostic information described above.
Read Google's Privacy Policy and how Google uses information from apps that use its services.
Your advertising choices
Where required, the app displays Google's consent message before requesting ads that require consent. When regional privacy options are available, use Ad privacy choices in the game's footer to revisit them. Your device's privacy settings provide additional advertising controls. On Android, these include resetting or deleting the advertising ID. You can also use Google My Ad Center for available Google advertising controls.
Closing a result-screen banner hides that banner; it does not withdraw consent or erase information already processed. You can continue playing without an internet connection.
Sharing a score and contacting us
If you choose Share score, the app passes the score text to the sharing app you select. That service handles the information under its own privacy policy. Orbit Shift does not read your contacts or send messages automatically.
If you email us, we receive your email address, message and any information you choose to include. We use this information to answer your request and resolve support issues. Please do not send passwords or other unnecessary sensitive information.
Retention, deletion and security
Game records stay in the app's storage until you delete them or uninstall the app. Device backups, if enabled and supported, may retain a copy under your platform's backup settings. Apple and Google may retain their own transaction records. There is no Orbit Shift account to delete, and we cannot restore local progress from a server.
We retain support correspondence only for as long as needed to respond, resolve issues and meet applicable legal obligations. Email us to request access to or deletion of information we control. Google determines retention of the information it processes under its own policies; clearing the game does not necessarily delete Google's records. See Google's data-retention information.
Google's advertising SDK encrypts its network traffic using TLS. Local game records are stored within the app's storage, and the app disables Android backup of that storage. No method of storage or transmission is completely secure.
Children and privacy rights
Orbit Shift is intended for people aged 16 and over and is not directed at children under 16. We do not ask players to provide a name, date of birth or other profile information. If you believe a child has provided personal information directly to us, contact us so we can investigate and remove information we control where appropriate.
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete or restrict processing of personal information, object to certain uses, withdraw consent, or complain to your local data-protection authority. Contact us about information held by NaughtyBear Labs, and use Google's privacy controls or contact Google for requests about information it controls. Withdrawing consent does not change the lawfulness of processing that occurred before withdrawal.
International processing and website visits
Apple, Google and our email provider may process information in countries other than your own. Their policies explain the safeguards used for international processing. The public copy of this policy is hosted by Vercel, which processes normal web-request information to deliver and protect the page. The NaughtyBear Labs website policy explains the wider website's practices.
Policy changes
We may update this policy when the game or its data practices change. We will update the date above and provide any additional notice or consent required by applicable law.