We don't collect your data.

Scope

This policy covers the mobile applications published by JShock Studios — currently Garage to Glory and Four Stripes — and this website at jshockstudios.com. In this policy, "we" and "us" mean JShock Studios, and "you" means the person using an app or visiting the site.

What we collect

Nothing that identifies you. The apps contain no analytics software, no advertising networks, no third-party tracking SDKs, no crash-reporting service, and no user accounts. We do not collect your name, email address, location, contacts, device identifiers, advertising ID, or any record of how you play.

There is one server, and it holds saved games for people who switch cloud saves on. It is described in full below. Nothing is attached to those saves that says who you are — no account, no email address, no profile — and there is no database of players anywhere to sell, share, or hand over.

Where your data lives

Your game progress — careers, saves, settings — is stored locally on your device using the operating system's standard app storage.

Garage to Glory additionally offers iCloud sync so your career carries across your own devices. That sync goes to your personal iCloud account, under your Apple ID, governed by Apple's privacy policy. We cannot see, access, or retrieve the contents of your iCloud storage. If you turn iCloud sync off, your saves remain only on the device.

Four Stripes offers cloud saves, off unless you turn them on in Settings. With them on, a copy of your career is sent to a server we run at the end of each in-game month, so a lost or replaced phone does not take the career with it. Everything about how that works is set out under Cloud saves below, because it is the one place where anything of yours leaves your device and reaches us.

You can also move a career yourself, in either direction, without any of that. The game packs it into a code or a file and hands it to your device's own share sheet — AirDrop, a file in Drive, an email, whatever you already use. It holds the career and nothing else: no settings, no diagnostics, no crash logs. Nothing passes through us on that route.

Network connections the apps do make

To be complete rather than merely reassuring, here is every connection either game makes. There are two, and both are things you switch on:

• Apple / iCloud. Garage to Glory syncs save files to your own iCloud account. That is between your device and your Apple ID; we are not a party to it and cannot see what it holds.
• Our save server. Four Stripes, with cloud saves switched on, sends a copy of a career to a server we run. Off by default, and it contacts nothing until you turn it on. See Cloud saves.

Neither game does anything else over the network. There is no telemetry, no content service, no licence check, and no call home on launch.

Neither game has any update service of its own. We cannot reach into a copy you have already installed and change it — every change arrives as a whole new build through the App Store or Google Play, handled by the store on whatever terms you have set there.

If you email us from inside a game, the app opens your own mail application with a message prepared. Nothing is sent until you send it, and we receive only what you choose to write.

If you ask to join an Android alpha, the Google account address you send is entered into that game's tester list in Google Play, because that is how an invitation is delivered. We use your address to answer you and for nothing else — it goes on no mailing list, and you can ask to be removed from a tester list at any time.

On Android, the games are distributed through Google Play, including the test tracks. That makes Google your app store for those builds, on the same terms as anything else you install from it, and their privacy policy governs that relationship. We see only what any developer sees from a store — aggregate install counts, and the email addresses of testers we invited ourselves. Nothing about how you play reaches us through it.

Cloud saves

Four Stripes can keep a copy of your careers on a server we run, so that losing or replacing a phone does not lose the career with it, and so the same career can be picked up on another device. It is off until you turn it on, in Settings. Until then the game does not contact us at all.

There is no account

When you switch it on, your device generates a long random secret and shows it to you as a recovery code. That code is the only thing that reaches your careers. There is no email address, no sign-in, no password, and no profile — nothing stored anywhere that says who you are. Hold the code and the careers are yours; lose it and they are gone, and we cannot recover it for you, because we do not hold anything that could identify them as yours.

Saves are filed under a one-way hash of that code rather than the code itself, so what is on the server is a list of meaningless strings rather than a list of everybody's recovery codes.

What is sent

Each upload contains four things, and nothing else:

• the career itself, compressed — the same data the transfer code carries
• the in-game month it reached, so you can tell two copies apart
• the name you gave your pilot, so choosing between two copies means choosing between two people rather than two timestamps
• which game it came from

If you would rather that name not be on a server, give your pilot a different one — it is a field you fill in, and nothing checks it against anything.

The save is compressed, not encrypted. The server stores it as an opaque blob and never opens one, which is why the same service can carry every game without knowing what a career is. But we are not going to tell you we cannot read it: that would take encryption we have not built, and a policy that overstates its protections is worth less than one that describes them plainly.

How often, and which way

Your device uploads at the end of an in-game month. It never downloads over a career that already exists on the device — an empty slot fills itself, but a slot with a career in it is only ever replaced when you have looked at both and said which to keep. Nothing of yours is overwritten because two devices disagreed.

Deleting it

There is a button that removes everything stored for your recovery code and forgets the code on that device. It is immediate and unconditional; you will not be asked to justify it. Your careers on the device are untouched — it deletes the copy, never the original.

Who runs it

The server is ours, hosted on Cloudflare. Making any request to it necessarily reveals your device's IP address to Cloudflare, as any connection to any server does; that is covered by their privacy policy. We do not log IP addresses against saves, and there is nothing to log them against — the request carries no identity beyond the recovery code hash.

Garage to Glory does not use this yet. When it does, this section will say so before that build ships.

This website

jshockstudios.com is a static site. It sets no cookies, runs no analytics, embeds no tracking pixels, and asks you for nothing. Our hosting provider keeps standard server logs, which may include IP addresses, for the ordinary purposes of delivering the site and preventing abuse. We do not use those logs to build any profile of visitors.

There is one thing the site can store on your device, and only if you ask it to. Choosing Light or Dark at the bottom of the page saves that word — light or dark — in your browser's local storage, so the site does not forget between pages. It is not a cookie, it is never sent to us or to anyone else, and choosing System deletes it again. Leave the setting on System and nothing is stored at all.

Children

Our apps are suitable for general audiences and do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children under 13. There is no account to create and no personal information asked for at any point. If a child has switched cloud saves on, a parent can delete everything stored using the button in Settings, without contacting us — but please write to us with any question about this.

Your rights

Privacy laws such as the GDPR and CCPA give you rights to access, correct, delete, and port the personal data a company holds about you, and to know whether it is sold. We have never sold or shared personal information, and we hold nothing that identifies you — no name, no email address, no account.

The one thing we may hold is a copy of a saved game, if you turned cloud saves on. You can take it, replace it, or destroy it without asking us:

• Access and portability — export any career to a file from inside the game, at any time, in a format the game itself reads back
• Correction — upload replaces what is stored for that slot
• Deletion — the button described above removes everything stored for your recovery code, immediately

You can also delete everything an app has stored on the device by deleting the app. For Garage to Glory, save data in your iCloud account is managed by you through iOS Settings.

Third parties

We do not sell, rent, trade, or share personal information, because we do not have any. The only third parties involved in delivering our apps and site are Apple (App Store distribution and iCloud), Google (Play Store distribution on Android), Cloudflare (which hosts the save server described above), and our website host — each acting under its own privacy policy.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes in a way that affects what the apps collect, we will update this page and change the date above before the change ships — not after. The commitment to collect nothing is a design constraint we intend to keep.

Contact

Questions about this policy: support@jshockstudios.com.