Patch Planets
Patch Planets
Privacy policy
This page explains, in plain words, what the Patch Planets website and the Patch Planets app do with information about you. The short version: the website uses no cookies or trackers, the app asks your permission before it sends anything about your progress, and we never collect your name, email, location or contacts.
Who we are
Patch Planets is made by Tiny Tools Cloud, an independent developer based in the Czech Republic. We are the "controller" of the data described here. For anything about privacy or your data, write to hello@tinytools.cloud.
The website
The website at patchplanet.space uses no cookies, no analytics, and no scripts or fonts from other companies. Everything on it is served from our own server.
The site is reached through Cloudflare (Cloudflare, Inc.), a service that delivers and protects websites. To do that, Cloudflare handles visitors' IP addresses, under its own terms and the EU–US Data Privacy Framework. You can read Cloudflare's privacy policy.
Our server's own web logs include IP addresses. We keep them for at most 14 days, for security, and then they are deleted. The part of our server that stores game data never stores IP addresses.
The app, for everyone: an anonymous note when a world is finished
Whenever a player finishes every level of a world for the first time on this phone (Launch Pad, Moons, Planets, and any world added later; players who had already finished a world before this update send it once when they first open it), the game sends us one short, anonymous note. It says which world was finished, which version of the app it was, and the date. That is all. There is no player ID, no name and nothing else in it, and we do not keep the IP address it came from. Nothing in the note identifies anyone.
The game sends this note whether or not you agreed to share your progress, because it tells us when a world needs more levels. Because it identifies no one, it can't be linked back to you.
The app, only if you say Yes: your progress
The first time you open the game, it asks: "Help shape new worlds? Share your progress anonymously", with Yes and No thanks. Apart from the anonymous note above, no player ID and no progress data is sent before you answer. If you say No thanks, no ID is created and no progress data is sent, ever.
If you say Yes, the game asks our server for a player ID: a random value that is not linked to your phone, your account or anything about you. The game then sends this, and only this:
| What | When | What it contains |
|---|---|---|
| Level started | The first time you open a level (not on every retry) | The level's name (its ID in the game) |
| Level finished | Each time you finish a level | The level, stars earned (1 to 3), seconds played, whether you used a hint (yes or no), and the number of moves |
| Achievement | When one unlocks, including quiet unlocks at first launch | The achievement's ID in the game |
Every message also carries your player ID and the app's version number. When you say Yes, what you had already done in the game (levels finished with their best stars and best time, and achievements unlocked) is sent once so our numbers include it.
We do not collect your name, email address, location, contacts or advertising ID. Your progress also stays on your phone, as it always did.
Your player ID is shown in the game's Settings ("Your player ID", tap to copy), so you can quote it if you write to us. There is no sign-in. Anyone who holds a player ID can send progress for it or delete its data, which is acceptable because the ID is random and only shown on your own phone.
If you are under 15, please check with a parent or guardian before you say Yes: in the Czech Republic, people under 15 can't give this kind of consent on their own.
Why we use it, and our legal basis
We use progress data to understand how far players get and where they get stuck, so we can make the right new levels. Under the EU's GDPR, our legal basis for it is your consent (article 6(1)(a)). You can withdraw that consent at any time with the Share progress switch in the app's Settings (under "Privacy"). Turning it off stops sending your progress straight away (the anonymous world note still goes). Withdrawing doesn't delete what we already hold: use Delete my data for that (see below and our data deletion page). Your ID stays until you use Delete my data; only after that does turning sharing back on give you a new random ID.
Where your data is kept
On Tiny Tools Cloud's own server, which is in the EU. Backups of that server are kept in storage in the EU for 30 days. We do not sell your data and we do not share it with anyone. The only providers involved are the company that hosts the server, the company that stores the backups, and Cloudflare (for the website, as described above).
How long we keep it
Progress data is kept until you delete it, or until it is deleted automatically after 2 years without any activity from your player ID, whichever comes first. Once data is deleted, it also disappears from the backups within 30 days. The anonymous world-finished notes are not tied to anyone, so they are not part of this and can't be deleted per player.
Security
Everything the app and the website send travels encrypted (HTTPS).
Children
Patch Planets is for ages 13 and over and is not meant for children under 13. If a child's data has reached our server, we delete it on request: write to hello@tinytools.cloud.
Your rights
Under the GDPR you have the right to ask for a copy of the data we hold about your player ID (access), to have it deleted, and to withdraw your consent at any time. Write to hello@tinytools.cloud, or use the Delete my data button in the app's Settings. You also have the right to complain to the Czech supervisory authority, the Úřad pro ochranu osobních údajů (ÚOOÚ, uoou.gov.cz), or to the authority in your own country.
Because we only know you by a random player ID, we need that ID (from Settings) to find your data.
Google Play Games
The game can sign you in to Google Play Games (if you use it), where your achievements are kept. Google handles that sign-in and those achievements under Google's own privacy policy: policies.google.com/privacy. Our server never receives your Google account or your Play Games ID, and the two are not linked to your player ID.
Changes to this policy
We will update this policy before releasing any app update that changes what is collected, for example if ads are added (there are no ads in the app at launch). The date at the top shows when it last changed.
Contact
Tiny Tools Cloud, an independent developer based in the Czech Republic: hello@tinytools.cloud. To have your data deleted, see Delete my data.