1. Overview
xHavoc Productions ("we", "our", or "us") makes Zig Fly, a mobile arcade game. This policy explains what information the game handles, why, and who it is shared with.
Zig Fly does not require an account. You do not give us your name, email address or any sign-in details to play, and your game progress is stored on your own device. The exceptions are advertising (section 3), purchases (section 6), and the optional launch and release-update signup on our website (section 5A) — which is part of the website, not the game.
2. Information Stored on Your Device Only
The following stays on your device and is not transmitted to us:
- Game progress: level and world reached, high scores, banked continues
- Upgrades, cosmetics and items bought with in-game currency
- Settings: audio, music and control preferences
- Local statistics and mission progress
- Your current ad-free status and its expiry date
- The leaderboard name you choose, and your rank on the in-game leaderboard, which is generated on your device and is not a shared online ranking
Deleting or uninstalling the app removes this data. We cannot recover it for you, because we never receive it. See section 7 for restoring purchases.
3. Advertising and the Advertising ID
Unless you hold an active ad-free subscription or the permanent ad-removal purchase, Zig Fly displays advertisements supplied by Google AdMob (the Google Mobile Ads SDK): rewarded videos you choose to watch, interstitials between plays, rewarded interstitials, and banners on menu screens.
To do this the Google Mobile Ads SDK collects and processes your device's ADVERTISING ID (on Android the Google Advertising ID / AAID; on iOS the Identifier for Advertisers / IDFA where permitted). It may also process technical information such as device model, operating system version, general location inferred from IP address, and how you interacted with an ad. This is used to:
- select and display advertisements, including personalised advertisements where permitted (see the note on iOS below)
- measure whether advertisements were shown, viewed or completed
- detect fraud and invalid traffic, and comply with legal obligations
THIS DATA IS SHARED WITH GOOGLE as the provider of the advertising service. Google's handling of it is governed by their own policies: https://policies.google.com/privacy https://support.google.com/admob/answer/6128543
We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it with any party other than Google for the advertising purposes described above.
On iOS, we ask you first. The first time you open Zig Fly on an iPhone or iPad, Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt asks whether Zig Fly may track your activity across other companies' apps and websites.
- If you allow it, your device's Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA) is made available to Google and the ads you see may be personalised. Personalised advertising means data from this app may be combined with data collected in other companies' apps and websites, for advertising and advertising measurement.
- If you choose "Ask App Not to Track", or you have turned off "Allow Apps to Request to Track" in your device settings, no advertising identifier is shared and every ad request is sent as non-personalised. The same is true before you have answered the prompt.
The game is identical either way. Nothing is locked, withheld, delayed or rewarded based on your answer, and you can change your mind at any time in Settings > Privacy & Security > Tracking.
If you hold an active ad-free entitlement, banner ads and the interstitials between plays stop. Rewarded ads remain available — those are the ads you choose to watch in exchange for something, such as continuing after a death or earning extra fly food. They are optional, you decide each time whether to watch one, and removing them would take an option away rather than give you one. So while you are ad-free the advertising SDK still requests an ad when you ask for one, and only then, and the advertising ID is still used for those requests.
4. Your Choices About Advertising
You can limit or reset advertising at any time, without losing game progress:
Android: Settings > Privacy > Ads (or Settings > Google > Ads) "Delete advertising ID" or "Reset advertising ID". Deleting it stops personalised ads; you will still see ads, but non-personalised ones.
iOS: Settings > Privacy & Security > Tracking - find Zig Fly and turn its switch off to withdraw tracking permission, or turn off "Allow Apps to Request to Track" to refuse it for every app. You can also decline Zig Fly's App Tracking Transparency prompt when it appears (see section 3). Settings > Privacy & Security > Apple Advertising controls Apple's own personalised ads system-wide.
If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland you will be asked for consent before personalised ads are shown, and you may change or withdraw that choice from the game's menu.
5. Optional Online Features
Zig Fly currently contacts no xHavoc Productions server. Two features were built to do so, and both are switched off in this version:
- Downloadable music: the game plays only the audio bundled in the app.
- Referral codes: the invite-a-friend reward is not offered in the game, and the game does not use the Google Play Install Referrer service.
While they are switched off neither feature transmits anything at all. If either is enabled in a future version this policy will be updated first; the only thing such a server would necessarily receive is your device's IP address as part of the connection — never your name, email address, contacts, photos or precise location.
The game does still make network connections for the features described elsewhere in this policy: to Google for advertising (section 3), and to Google Play or the Apple App Store for purchases and to check whether a subscription is still active (section 6).
5A. The Website: Launch and Release-Update Signup
This section is about xhavocproductions.com, not about the game. The game never asks for your email address.
If you choose to sign up at xhavocproductions.com/notify, we store:
- the email address you type
- whether you asked about the Google Play launch, the App Store launch, or both — these are two independent choices, not one either/or
- which of the two mailings below you asked for
- whether each launch email has been sent to you yet
- the date you signed up, and the date you last changed your choices
We record that you gave consent, and the date. We do NOT store your IP address with your signup.
WHAT YOU CAN ASK FOR. Two separate things, chosen with two separate boxes:
- The Zig Fly launch email. An email on the day Zig Fly reaches a store you asked about, containing the link for that store. Google Play and the App Store may not launch on the same date, so if you ask about both you will receive two emails — one per store, each sent when that store goes live, and never more than one per store. This box starts ticked, because being told about the launch is the whole point of the form. You can untick it. You choose the stores with their own tick boxes; both start ticked, and if you want the launch email you have to leave at least one of them ticked, because otherwise there is no launch for us to tell you about.
- xHavoc Productions release updates. Occasional email about our other releases and major updates — a few times a year at most. This box does not start ticked. You have to tick it yourself. If you leave it alone you will only ever receive the launch email.
You must tick at least one of the two, otherwise there is nothing to sign up for, and the form will tell you so.
WHY WE RECORD WHAT HAS BEEN SENT. Because the two stores can launch months apart, we keep a note against your address of whether the Google Play email and the App Store email have gone out. It exists so that mailing one launch cannot accidentally re-mail people about the other, and so nobody receives the same announcement twice. It is a date, nothing more.
WHAT WE DO NOT DO. We do not sell or share the list, and we do not pass it to any advertiser or analytics provider. We do not use your address for anything except the mailings you ticked.
HOW LONG WE KEEP IT. We keep your address until you ask us to remove it. This is a change from earlier versions of this policy, which said the list would be deleted once the launch email had been sent. Keeping it is what makes the release updates possible, and it also lets us avoid re-adding someone who has already asked to be taken off. If you only want the launch email, you can ask to be removed as soon as you have received it.
REMOVING YOURSELF. Email info@xhavocproductions.com and we will remove your address, no reason needed. You can ask us to confirm it is gone. Every release update we send will also carry an unsubscribe link.
LEGAL BASIS (EEA/UK). Consent, which you give by submitting the form with the relevant box ticked, and may withdraw at any time by emailing us or by using the unsubscribe link. The release-updates box is deliberately left unticked, because consent has to be a positive action you take yourself.
6. Purchases and Subscriptions
Zig Fly offers optional paid items. Two kinds:
ONE-TIME PURCHASES (consumable or permanent)
- Fly food packs (small, medium, large) - in-game currency
- Bonus hearts - extra lives
- Permanent ad removal - a single purchase, never expires
AUTO-RENEWING AD-FREE SUBSCRIPTIONS
- 1 month and 12 months
HOW AUTO-RENEWAL WORKS. An ad-free subscription renews AUTOMATICALLY at the end of each period, and your store account is charged again, UNLESS you cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends. The price and billing period are shown to you in the store's purchase dialog before you confirm. Cancelling stops future renewals; it does not shorten the period you have already paid for.
To cancel or change a subscription: Android: Google Play Store app > your profile > Payments & subscriptions > Subscriptions > Zig Fly > Cancel iOS: Settings > [your name] > Subscriptions > Zig Fly > Cancel
WE NEVER SEE YOUR PAYMENT DETAILS. All payments are processed by Google Play Billing or the Apple App Store, depending on where you installed the game. We do not receive, store or have any access to your card number, security code, bank details or billing address. Refunds are handled under the store's policy, not ours.
WHAT WE DO PROCESS FOR A PURCHASE. To deliver what you bought and to keep your ad-free status accurate, the game handles:
- the product identifier you purchased (for example, the 12-month ad-free plan)
- a purchase receipt or purchase token issued by the store
- the transaction identifier and purchase date
- the current state of a subscription: active, cancelled, expired, in a billing grace period, or refunded, and the date the current period ends
This information is used ONLY to grant what you paid for, to stop showing ads while your entitlement is active, to restore your purchases, and to prevent fraudulent or duplicated entitlements. It is checked against Google or Apple, because they are the authority on whether a subscription is still active. It is not used for advertising, is not sold, and is not shared with anyone else.
7. Restoring Purchases, and What Happens if You Uninstall
Purchases are tied to the store account you bought them with, not to the device. If you reinstall Zig Fly or move to a new device, signing in to the same Google or Apple account and using "Restore purchases" in the game's store screen recovers your ad-free entitlement and any permanent purchases.
Consumable items already spent in the game (fly food you have used, hearts you have consumed) cannot be restored, because they have been used.
Unspent in-game progress and currency are stored only on your device (section 2) and are lost if you uninstall.
8. What We Do Not Collect
THE GAME does not collect, request or transmit (the website signup in section 5A is separate, and is the only place we ever ask for an email address):
- your name, email address, phone number or postal address
- account credentials (there are no Zig Fly accounts)
- card numbers, security codes, bank details or billing addresses
- precise or GPS location
- contacts, photos, files, calendar or SMS
- microphone or camera input
- health information
About the name you type. The game does ask you to pick a leaderboard name the first time you play. That is a nickname of your own choosing, it is stored only on your device (section 2), and it is never sent to us or to anyone else. The in-game leaderboard is generated on your device rather than being a shared online ranking, so your name is never shown to, or compared against, other players.
The app requests only these Android permissions: internet access and network state (ads and purchases), vibration (haptic feedback), the billing permission required to offer purchases, and the advertising / ad-services permissions required by the Google Mobile Ads SDK.
9. Children
Zig Fly is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, contact us using the details in section 12 and we will delete it.
Because the game shows advertising that uses an advertising identifier, and offers paid items, parents who wish to restrict either should use the device controls in section 4 and their store's parental controls and purchase-approval settings (Google Play "Require authentication for purchases", or Apple "Ask to Buy" and Screen Time content and privacy restrictions).
10. Your Rights
Depending on where you live you may have rights over your personal information, including rights to access, correct, delete or object to its processing. Because Zig Fly stores game data only on your device, and identifies you only by an advertising identifier you can reset or delete yourself, you can exercise most of these rights directly:
- to delete game data: uninstall the app
- to break the link between you and advertising data: reset or delete your advertising ID as described in section 4
- for purchase records: these are held by Google or Apple under your store account, and you can review them there
If you are in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom (GDPR), or in California (CCPA/CPRA), and wish to make a formal request, contact us using the details in section 12. We do not sell personal information as those laws define the term.
11. Data Retention and Security
We do not operate a database of player accounts, because there are no accounts. Advertising data is retained by Google under Google's own retention policies. Purchase and subscription records are retained by Google or Apple under theirs, and we keep only what is needed to honour an active entitlement. Data held on your device persists until you delete it or uninstall the app.
12. Contact
Questions about this policy, or a privacy request:
General: info@xhavocproductions.com Developer: jaron@xhavocproductions.com xHavoc Productions, British Columbia, Canada
For billing questions, refunds or cancellations, contact Google Play or Apple Support - they process the payment and are the only party able to act on it.
13. Changes to This Policy
We may update this policy as the game changes. The "Last Updated" date at the top always reflects the current version. Material changes affecting how your information is used will be reflected here before they take effect.
--- Audio credit: original soundtrack composed by Sebastian Rogers (DJ ZYX), published by xHavoc Productions. Audio plays locally on your device.