StopRunPrivacy
In short: StopRun has no accounts and never asks for your name, contacts, photos or location. Your progress is saved on your phone, and the game sends nothing to us. The game shows ads from Google AdMob, so Google receives your device's advertising ID and some device details in order to show them. In the UK and the EU you choose first whether ads may be personalised, and you can change that choice in the game's Settings. We never sell data.
Who we are
StopRun is made by LVL Digital Ventures Ltd, the data controller for the game: company number 17436151, registered in England and Wales, registered office 71–75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9JQ, United Kingdom. Contact: [email protected].
What stays on your phone
Your progress (levels, medals, bolts, skins, stats and settings) and whether you bought Remove Ads are saved in the game's own storage on your device. We don't receive a copy. If your phone backs up its apps to your Google account, your save is included in that backup, which is yours and kept by Google; we never see it. Uninstalling the game deletes the copy on your phone.
StopRun has no analytics or crash-reporting service of its own. The numbers on the Stats screen are worked out on your phone and are not sent anywhere.
Ads
StopRun is free and is paid for by ads from Google AdMob:
- Revive ads, which you choose. From Level 5, after a few failed attempts, the game may offer "Watch ad to revive". Nothing plays unless you tap it.
- Ads between levels. Once you have cleared 10 levels, a full-screen ad may appear between levels, at most once every 4 cleared levels and never within 3 minutes of the last one. Buying Remove Ads turns these off.
When an ad is requested or shown, Google receives your device's advertising ID and App Set ID, your IP address (from which it can tell your rough location), details of your device and how you interact with the ad, and diagnostics about how it ran. Google uses these to show and measure ads, to prevent fraud and, where you allow it, to personalise ads, under Google's privacy policy. How Google uses data from apps is explained at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
In the UK, the European Economic Area and Switzerland, Google's consent form asks you first whether ads may be personalised. Where US state privacy laws apply, the same form lets you opt out of your data being used for targeted ads. You can change your choice at any time in the game's Settings under Privacy options. Everywhere, you can reset or delete your advertising ID in your phone's settings.
Our legal basis is your consent where the law requires it, and otherwise our legitimate interest in keeping the game free to play.
Purchases
Remove Ads is an optional one-time purchase made through Google Play. Google handles the payment under its own privacy policy; we never receive your card or payment details. The game keeps a record of the purchase on your phone and can restore it from Google Play.
Other Google Play features
- Ratings: the game may show Google Play's rating card. What you write goes to Google Play under your Google account, as with any Play review.
- Crash reports: if you allow your phone to share usage and diagnostics with Google, Google Play may give us combined crash and performance reports for StopRun. They don't identify you.
- Sharing: the Share button opens your phone's own share menu with a picture of your result. Nothing is sent unless you send it, and it goes only where you choose.
Who processes data
- Google (AdMob and its consent form): the ads, as described above. For this, Google also decides how it uses the data, under its own privacy policy. Google may process data in the United States; transfers are covered by the EU–US Data Privacy Framework and its UK extension, under which Google is certified, and by standard contractual clauses.
- Google Play handles downloads, payments, reviews and crash reports under its own privacy policy.
Children
StopRun is made for players aged 13 and over. It asks no one for personal information, and we don't knowingly collect personal information from children. If you're a parent and have a question, write to us.
Your rights
Under UK and EU data protection law you can ask to see, correct or delete data about you, object to its use, and withdraw your consent to personalised ads at any time in Settings under Privacy options. We hold no personal data about players ourselves; for data held by Google, you can use the controls in your Google account and your phone's settings. Write to [email protected] and we'll reply within a month. You can also complain to the UK Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.
Changes
If the way the game handles data changes, we'll update this page and its date before the change reaches the game. This page covers StopRun only; LVL Digital Ventures' company privacy policy covers everything else we do.