Chess Burst Privacy Policy

The short version

• Chess Burst has no accounts. You never create one, and we never ask for your name, email, or any contact detail.
• Your scores, settings, and progress live on your device.
• There is no product analytics and no crash reporting. The game does not measure how you play.
• The game shows ads, and the ad service collects data — that is the bulk of what follows.
• Leaderboards are handled by Apple Game Center, and only if you are signed in to it.

What is collected, and by whom

Chess Burst itself stores your progress on your device. The data below is collected by third-party services built into the game. We are responsible for their presence in the app, so they are listed here in full — and the list is short, because the game sends nothing of its own to us.

What stays on your device

The game keeps a small number of files in its own private storage, which no other app can read and which we never receive: your high scores and progress, your settings, a record of your advertising consent choices, whether Remove Ads is owned, the counters that space out ads, and any leaderboard score still waiting to reach Game Center. Deleting Chess Burst deletes all of it.

How you are identified — and how you are not

You are not. Chess Burst assigns you no identifier of its own — not a per-install ID, not a device ID, nothing. It has no server to send one to. Your scores are yours and your device’s, and the only copy that leaves is the one Game Center holds under your own Apple account if you are signed in.

Advertising is the exception, and only with your permission. If you allow tracking when iOS asks, Google may use Apple’s advertising identifier to personalize ads, which can involve data collected in other apps and websites. If you decline, ads still appear but are non-personalized.

Your choices

• Tracking. iOS asks for permission before the first ad, not at launch. You can change your answer at any time in the iOS Settings app, under Privacy & Security → Tracking.
• Removing ads. An optional one-time purchase removes the ads shown between runs. The optional “Revive” offer, which you choose to watch in exchange for continuing a lost run, remains available whether or not you buy it.
• Playing offline. Chess Burst is fully playable with no network connection. No ad is served, no score is submitted, and nothing is queued beyond your own device.

Consent where it is required

In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, Chess Burst presents a consent form from Google’s User Messaging Platform before serving ads, and records your choice. On iOS, the App Tracking Transparency prompt is shown before the first ad rather than at launch. Refusing either never blocks you from playing, and never removes any part of the game.

US state privacy rights

If you live in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Virginia or another state with a comparable law, you have the right to opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of your personal information for targeted advertising, as those terms are defined by your state. Personalized advertising as described above may qualify.

To exercise that right, open Settings → Ad privacy settings in the game, which reopens the advertising choices directly. That row appears wherever a law requires it. You can also email support@egretstudio.com. Opting out does not remove ads — it makes them non-personalized — and we will never charge you a different price or give you a degraded game for exercising any privacy right. We do not sell personal information for money, and we do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of anyone under 16.

Children

Chess Burst contains no objectionable content and is rated as suitable for all ages. It is nonetheless a general-audience game and is not directed to children within the meaning of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided information through the game, contact us at support@egretstudio.com and we will delete what we can identify.

Retention and your rights

We hold no database of players, because there is nothing to hold: the game has no accounts, no analytics, and no server of its own. Advertising data is retained by Google under its own terms, and Game Center data by Apple under Apple’s.

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, delete, or object to the processing of your personal data, and to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. To make a request, email support@egretstudio.com. Because we store nothing that identifies you, most requests are better directed at Google or Apple, and we will say so and point you to the right place rather than leave you waiting. Uninstalling the game deletes every local file it created.

Third-party policies

The services named above process data under their own policies: Google and Apple.

Changes

If this policy changes materially, we will update the date at the top of this page and, where the change affects what is collected, note it in the app’s release notes. Adding any analytics or crash reporting would be exactly such a change, and this page would say so before it shipped.

Contact

Egret Studio LLC, Florida, USA — support@egretstudio.com.

For the website rather than the game, see the Egret Studio privacy policy.