Penguin Pipe and your privacy
Penguin Pipe is free, and it shows ads. The game keeps your progress on your device and does not send it to us. The ads come from Google, and the one purchase that removes them is handled by Apple. This page says what each of them does.
Ads
Now and then, between runs and never during one, the game shows a full-screen ad. The ads come from Google AdMob. To show an ad and to measure it, Google may collect from your device: its advertising identifier and other device identifiers, your IP address (which Google may use to estimate your general location), which ads you were shown and whether you interacted with them, and diagnostic and performance information such as crash logs. We do not receive this information or your name or contact details. We see only the totals Google reports to publishers, such as how many ads were shown. We run no analytics of our own.
Your choices about ads
Ads are personalized only if you agree. Where the law asks for it (the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland), the game shows Google's consent message after your first finished run, before any ad, and you can change your answer later in Settings under Privacy options. On iPhone the game also asks, in Apple's own prompt, whether it may track your activity across other companies' apps and websites. If you say no, the game still shows ads, but they are not personalized and do not use your advertising identifier. You can switch tracking off for every app in iOS Settings under Privacy and Security, Tracking. Remove ads stops all of this.
Remove ads
One purchase, Remove ads, takes away every ad, and the game then stops contacting Google's ad service. It is bought through the App Store (or Google Play) and handled entirely by Apple (or Google). The game never sees your payment details, your name or your Apple ID; the store only tells it that the purchase exists, so the ads stay off if you reinstall the game or use a new device.
What stays on your device
Your records, stars, Locker items, Daily progress, settings and whether ads are removed are saved on your device so the game can remember them. The game never sends them to us or to anyone else, and no one can see them through the game. If you tap Share after a run, the game hands a picture of that run to your phone's share sheet; you choose whether and where to send it, and the game itself sends nothing. If you turn on the daily reminder, your phone itself schedules the notification; nothing is sent to us or to anyone else to do it. The game has no accounts or sign-in and does not ask for your location, camera, microphone, contacts or photos.
Backups and deleting
Your device may include this saved data in its own backups (iCloud on iPhone, Google backup on Android). That is under your control in your device's settings. Deleting the game deletes its saved data from your device. Apart from your device's own backups, there is no other copy.
Google's privacy policy
How Google handles data is described in Google's privacy policy, https://policies.google.com/privacy, and at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
For everyone
The game is meant for a general audience and has no chat and no way to contact or follow another player. The ads it shows are limited to general-audience content (rated G).
Contact
Questions about this policy or the game: penguinpipegame@gmail.com