Privacy
Policy

Game analytics

With your OK, Orbit Forge sends gameplay stats to Google Analytics for Firebase. We use them to improve gameplay and make the game more fun and enjoyable for everyone: to see where players get stuck, which features they enjoy, whether energy, events and rewards feel fair, and to fix problems and balance the game.

What is sent. Gameplay events, for example finishing a tutorial step, reaching a level or zone, finishing a station task, running out of energy, claiming a daily bonus, joining the weekly event, seeing or buying an offer, and watching a rewarded ad; the length of each play session; and which in-app purchases were made (Google Play purchases are recorded by Firebase itself). Firebase adds your device model, operating system, app version, and your approximate location (country and city), worked out from your network, never your precise location. The stats are tied to a random app id, not to your name, email or pilot name, and are kept for 14 months.

The game asks first. In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, nothing is sent unless you agree on Google's privacy message. Everywhere else, the game asks on its own card, ALLOW or NO THANKS, before anything is sent. You can change your answer at any time with Settings > ANALYTICS. Turning it off stops the stats at once.

Your progress itself is saved on your device, and with cloud save on, in your own Google account.

Purchases

When you buy something, Google Play handles the payment and we never see your payment details. Google Play keeps a record of your purchases under its own privacy policy. The game keeps the store's receipt id in your save so each purchase is paid out only once.

If Google Play refunds a purchase, the game learns it from Google Play on your phone and takes back what that purchase gave. Refunds are handled by Google Play, not by us. Crystals you bought live in your save, so if you delete every copy of your save they cannot be restored or refunded; the Captain's License, No Ads and other one-time purchases come back with RESTORE PURCHASES.

Unity's in-app purchase software may also send Unity basic technical information, such as device and operating system details and app session events, as part of how it works. Unity handles this under its own privacy policy.

Promo codes you type in Settings > PROMO CODE are checked inside the game. They are not sent anywhere.

Google Play Games

Guest or Google Play. On a new install the game asks how you want to play. CONNECT signs you in to Google Play Games for cloud save and the rankings. PLAY AS GUEST keeps your save on this phone only and the game makes no Play Games calls. If you updated from an earlier version and your phone is already signed in to Play Games, the game uses that sign-in. You can change your answer at any time in Settings > CLOUD SAVE > PLAY SIGN IN.

Leaderboards. While you are signed in, the game posts your scores to four Google Play Games leaderboards: Deepest Jump, Commander Rank, Mastery Stars and Weekly Event Stars. Other players see your score with your Play Games name and profile picture, and the game's ranking screen shows theirs. Each score also carries a short tag so the ranking can show your look: the portrait you picked or the face you made in the profile creator, and the border, title and zone badges you wear. The tag holds only those picks, never your pilot name or your save. Google keeps the scores and handles them under its own privacy policy, and you can manage your Play Games profile and who sees it in the Play Games settings on your phone.

Which account. Google Play, not the game, chooses the Google account Orbit Forge signs in with. Settings > CLOUD SAVE > SWITCH ACCOUNT shows how to change it in your phone's settings (Google > All services > Play Games > Sign in management), and the game then saves and starts again on the new account.

Cloud save

When you connect Google Play Games, Orbit Forge backs up your progress to Google Play Games' Saved Games. As a guest nothing is backed up. You can turn this off at any time in Settings > CLOUD SAVE. The backup is stored in your own Google account, in a hidden app folder of your Google Drive that only this game can use, on Google's servers, not ours. Only the save itself is uploaded, including the pilot name you typed. Your notification settings and other device-only data stay on your device.

To delete your cloud save:

• In the game: Settings > CLOUD SAVE > DELETE CLOUD SAVE, then DELETE on the card. It keeps the save on your phone and turns cloud save off.
• Without the game: on a computer, open Google Drive, go to Settings > Manage apps, find Orbit Forge, and choose Delete hidden app data. Or remove all your Play Games data in the Google Play Games app's settings.
• Turning off Settings > CLOUD SAVE > PLAY SIGN IN stops all Play Games use, including cloud save and the rankings.

To delete the save on your phone, use Settings > CLOUD SAVE > DELETE LOCAL SAVE, then ERASE on the card. It does not touch your cloud save.

Ads

Orbit Forge shows ads from Google AdMob: short ads you choose to watch for a reward, and a few full-screen ads between moments of play. Full-screen ads start only after the first levels, are capped each day, and never show for players who own No Ads or the Captain's License.

Google's Mobile Ads SDK collects the advertising ID, your approximate location from your IP address, how you interact with the ads, and diagnostic information, to show and measure ads and to prevent fraud. Ads are rated for teens and are not directed at children. The game itself sends the ad network nothing: not your save or your pilot name.

Where the law requires it, Google's own privacy message (Google's User Messaging Platform) asks you first. In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland it asks for your consent before ads use your data. In US states with their own privacy laws it lets you opt out of personalized ads, which those laws may call selling or sharing your data. Settings > AD PRIVACY lets you change your answer wherever the message applies. You can also reset or limit the advertising ID in your device settings. See Google's policy at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

Notifications

If you allow notifications, the game schedules reminders on your phone for full energy, a fully stocked station and new daily tasks. Your phone creates them itself, so no data leaves your device for them. Turn them off at any time in Settings > NOTIFICATIONS or in your phone's settings.

What we do not collect

We do not collect your name, email address, precise location, contacts or photos. The pilot name you type stays in your save: on your device and, with cloud save on, in your own Google account. It is never sent to us, to the leaderboards or to the ad network.

Sharing

We do not sell your data for money, and we have no server of our own: your save is never sent to us. With your OK, gameplay stats go to Google Analytics for Firebase, where we see them only as reports. Ad data that Google AdMob collects can count as selling or sharing under some US state laws; the AD PRIVACY choice above covers it. Unity (in-app purchases) and Google (Google Play, Play Games, AdMob and Google Analytics for Firebase) process data under their own privacy policies: Unity's and Google's. All of it is encrypted in transit.

Your choices

• Settings > ANALYTICS turns game analytics off or on.
• Settings > AD PRIVACY changes your ad consent answer where the law requires one.
• Settings > CLOUD SAVE > PLAY SIGN IN turns Google Play Games on or off (guest play).
• Settings > CLOUD SAVE > SWITCH ACCOUNT shows how to change the Google account the game uses.
• Settings > CLOUD SAVE > DELETE CLOUD SAVE removes your cloud copy from Google Play Games.
• Settings > CLOUD SAVE > DELETE LOCAL SAVE erases the save on your phone.
• Without the game, delete it from Google Drive: Settings > Manage apps > Orbit Forge > Delete hidden app data.
• Your scores on the leaderboards are kept by Google Play Games; you can hide or remove your Play Games data in the Play Games settings on your phone.
• You can also ask us to delete your data at [email protected].

Delete your data

Orbit Forge by Biggietronics has no account and no server of our own, so you can delete most of your data yourself:

• Your save on this phone: Settings > CLOUD SAVE > DELETE LOCAL SAVE, then ERASE. It is deleted at once. Uninstalling the game also deletes it.
• Your cloud save: Settings > CLOUD SAVE > DELETE CLOUD SAVE, then DELETE, or in Google Drive Settings > Manage apps > Orbit Forge > Delete hidden app data. It is deleted from your Google account at once.
• Game analytics: Settings > ANALYTICS stops new stats at once. Stats already sent are tied only to a random app id, not to you, and are deleted automatically after 14 months. Uninstalling the game resets that id.
• Leaderboard scores: Google Play Games keeps them. Delete your Play Games data in the Play Games settings on your phone to remove them.
• Purchases and ad data: Google Play keeps your purchase records, and Google AdMob handles ad data, under Google's privacy policy. You can reset or delete the advertising ID in your phone's settings.

Ask us. Email [email protected] with "Delete my data" and the game's name. We delete any emails you sent us, help with the steps above, and answer within 30 days. We keep nothing else about you.

Children

Orbit Forge is meant for players 13 and older, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

Changes

We will post changes on this page and update the date at the top.