Privacy Policy

The short version:

• There is no Tap Tray account and no Tap Tray server. We run none. We never receive your progress, your saves, or anything else about you.
• The game keeps one save file on your device. If your phone backs itself up to iCloud or to your Google account, a copy travels with that backup. That copy is yours, in your account, not ours.
• The game itself sends nothing anywhere. It has no analytics and no telemetry — not switched off by default, not present in the build at all.
• Adverts come from Google AdMob, which does collect data. That is the one thing here that does, and it is the only reason this page is longer than a paragraph.

1. There is no account and no server

Tap Tray has no sign-in, no profile, no leaderboard and no chat. There is nothing to log in to. We operate no server that the game talks to, so there is no place where a record of you could exist even if we wanted one.

The game asks for no permissions beyond the ability to vibrate. It does not read your location, contacts, photos, files, microphone or camera, because it never asks the operating system for any of them.

2. The save file, and its backup

Your level, coins, lives and boosters live in a single file in the game's own private storage on your device. Nothing else on your phone can read it, and it is deleted when you uninstall.

If you have iPhone or Android backups turned on, that file is included in the backup, the same way every app's data is. The copy lives in your Apple or Google account under their terms. We have no access to it and no way to ask for it.

3. Adverts

The free game shows an advert between levels — not before level 8, never during play, and never twice in quick succession. Separately, there are places where you may choose to watch a video for a reward: to carry on after the tray fills, for an extra life, or for a free booster. Those are always your choice; declining costs you nothing but the reward.

Both kinds are served by Google AdMob, and Google collects data in order to serve and measure them: device and advertising identifiers, IP address, coarse location derived from it, and how you interacted with the advert.

That is genuinely a separate system from the game. Nothing an advert network knows reaches the board you play on, and the level generator has no field for any of it. But it collects, and saying otherwise would be untrue.

Personalised or not

• In the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland, a consent form from Google's User Messaging Platform appears before any advert is requested. Your answer there decides whether adverts are personalised.
• On iOS, the system asks separately for permission to track. Saying no gives you non-personalised adverts and changes nothing else about the game.
• Google's own explanation of what it collects is at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

What "Remove Ads" actually removes. It stops the adverts between levels for good, on every device signed in to the same App Store or Google Play account. The reward videos you choose to watch still work, because they are yours to start — we would rather say this plainly here than have you find out afterwards.

4. Purchases

Five things can be bought: Remove Ads, three coin packs, and a one-time Starter Pack. All of them are handled entirely by Apple's App Store or Google Play. We never see your card, your name or your address — the store tells the game only whether something was bought.

Refunds are handled by whichever store you bought from, under their terms.

5. What the game measures about itself

Nothing. Tap Tray has no analytics service. The code that could report events exists in the project but is compiled out of the app you install, so there is no identifier, no event list and no destination — not a switch that is off, an absence.

This is unusual enough to be worth stating plainly, because most free games do measure themselves and this policy would ordinarily have a paragraph listing what they send. If that ever changes, this section changes with it before the build ships, and the date at the top will move.

6. What we do not do

• We do not sell data. There is none to sell.
• We do not build a profile of you, and could not: nothing identifying you reaches us.
• We do not use trackers or advertising toolkits beyond Google AdMob.
• We do not show adverts from any network other than AdMob.

7. Children

Tap Tray is not directed at children and is not listed in either store's children's category. It has no chat, no user-generated content and no way for players to contact one another.

We do not knowingly collect anything from a child. If you believe a child's data has somehow reached us, write to the address below and we will look into it — though in practice there is no store of data for it to be in.

8. Your choices

• Change your advert consent. In the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland you can reopen Google's consent form and change your answer at any time.
• Reset or limit your advertising ID. iOS: Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking. Android: Settings → Google → Ads.
• Remove the adverts entirely by buying Remove Ads, after which no advert is requested between levels at all.
• Delete everything by uninstalling. The save file goes with the app. Nothing of yours remains with us, because nothing of yours ever arrived.

9. Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it, and the change ships with the build it describes rather than ahead of it.

10. Contact

Questions about this policy, or about the game: ccsoft.ai@gmail.com.