Tick Trick Privacy Policy

The app saves a few things on your phone so the game works the way you'd expect: your player name, the clock time and number of rounds you last chose for a room, your Survival best score and longest run, and your Daily Clock guesses and streak. This information stays on your phone. We never receive it. Uninstalling the app or clearing its data deletes it.

You can play with friends whose phones are on the same hotspot or Wi-Fi network. The phones connect directly to each other over that network: nothing goes over the internet or to Acrota. When you play together, your chosen player name and your guesses are shared with the other players in that room, so their game can show them.

Other players can see your player name, so please don't put personal information in it.

• Internet and network: used to connect to the other phones in a room over your hotspot or Wi-Fi, and to show ads. Games themselves never go online.
• Wi-Fi (Android): used to find rooms on the same network, and to keep the game on Wi-Fi when a hotspot has no internet.
• Local network (iPhone): used only to find and connect to rooms on the same hotspot or Wi-Fi.

The app doesn't use your location, camera, microphone, contacts or files.

If you tap Share my score, the app opens your phone's share menu with a short message about your Daily Clock score. You choose whether and where to send it.

The app shows ads from Google AdMob: a small banner on the home screen and across the top of a game, and now and then a full-screen ad between games, on your own or with friends. Ads never pop up or change while the clock is ticking or you are typing a guess, and they are limited to ones suitable for a general audience.

To show ads, measure them and prevent fraud, Google's ads software in the app collects and shares with Google: your phone's advertising ID, your approximate location (worked out from your internet address), information about your phone, how you interact with the ads, and crash and performance information. Google handles this under Google's Privacy Policy; this page explains how Google uses information from apps that use its services. Acrota doesn't receive this information.

• In the European Economic Area, the UK and other places where the law requires it, the app asks for your consent the first time, and you can change your choice later under "Ad privacy settings" on the home screen.
• You can reset your advertising ID, or delete it to stop personalised ads, in your phone's Settings under Privacy → Ads (or Google → Ads).
• Without an internet connection, no ads are shown and nothing is collected.

Apart from ads, the app has no analytics or tracking tools.

The app does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children.

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new date.

Questions about this policy: [email protected]