Privacy Policy
Effective 8 August 2026 · Applies to the Hazard Heights mobile game and hazardheights.com
The short version
You can play without an account, without giving us your name, and without an email address. What we store is a random account ID, a display name, your progress and your scores. We do not sell data, we do not track you across other apps for our own purposes, and you can delete everything from inside the game. The rest of this page is the detail behind that.
Hazard Heights is made and operated by Nick de Groot in the Netherlands. This policy covers the game and this website. If anything here is unclear, email privacy@hazardheights.com and you will get a real answer.
How your account works
The first time you open Hazard Heights an anonymous account is created for you automatically. There is no sign-up screen and nothing to fill in. That account is a random identifier — it holds your progress and lets your scores appear on the leaderboards, and it is not connected to your identity in any way.
You can optionally link the account to Apple or Google, which is what lets your progress survive a new phone. That works by the operating system handing us a signed token proving the account is genuinely yours. There is no password anywhere in the system — we never see one, store one, or reset one.
If Apple or Google includes an email address in that token, it is stored in the authentication record. The game never displays it, never uses it, and we never send email to it. On iOS you can use Apple's Hide My Email and we will only ever receive a relay address.
What is stored
All of it, in full:
- An account ID. A random identifier created for you on first launch. It is not linked to your real name unless you choose to sign in.
- A display name. Auto-generated as “Builder-1234” until you choose your own. Shown publicly on the leaderboards.
- Your game progress. Levels completed, best scores and heights, blocks and abilities you have discovered, coins earned and spent, and your sound and haptics settings.
- Leaderboard scores. Your best score and height per level, and which board it belongs to. Public by design — that is what a leaderboard is.
- A record of each attempt. When a run started and finished, on which level, and whether you won. Used to keep the leaderboards honest and to run the attempts meter.
- Whether you have bought the full game. A single true/false flag. We never see your card, bank or billing details.
What is never collected
- Your real name, address or date of birth
- Passwords — there are none; sign-in is handled entirely by Apple or Google
- Card, bank or payment details
- Your location
- Your contacts, photos, microphone or camera
- Anything you type, beyond the display name you choose
The game does not currently include analytics or crash-reporting tools. If that changes, this page will be updated before the version that adds them is released.
Why we hold it
- To run the game and save your progress, and to restore it on a new device — this is the service you asked for when you installed it.
- To run leaderboards and verify scores server-side, so the boards are not trivially cheatable.
- To deliver and honour the one-time full-game purchase.
- To show rewarded ads, where you have chosen to watch one and consented.
Under the GDPR our lawful bases are performance of a contract (running the game and your account), consent (advertising identifiers) and legitimate interests (keeping the leaderboards honest and the game working).
Purchases
Hazard Heights is free. There is one optional purchase that unlocks the full game. Payment is handled entirely by the App Store or Google Play — we never see your card or billing details. Our server checks the receipt with Apple or Google and then stores a single flag saying the account is unlocked.
In-game coins are earned by playing. They are never sold for money, have no cash value, and cannot be transferred or cashed out.
Advertising
The only ads in Hazard Heights are rewarded videos you choose to watch in exchange for extra attempts. There are no banners, no pop-ups, and no ads that play without you asking for one.
Ads are served by Google AdMob (via Unity LevelPlay), which may use your device advertising identifier to cap repeats and measure whether an ad played. On iOS this requires your permission through Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt. In the EU and UK we ask for consent through a Google-certified consent form before any ad loads. Declining costs you nothing — no feature is locked behind it, and you can change your mind in the game's settings at any time.
Who else touches your data
We do not sell it or share it for advertising. It reaches these services only:
| Service | What for | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Supabase | Accounts, saved progress, leaderboards | EU (Stockholm) |
| Google AdMob (via Unity LevelPlay) | Rewarded video ads, only when you choose to watch one | Global |
| Unity | The in-app purchase flow | Global |
| Apple App Store / Google Play | Distribution, payments, receipt checks | Global |
Your account, progress and scores are stored in the European Union. Advertising and app-store services may process data outside the EU under the transfer safeguards those companies publish.
How long it is kept
Progress and scores are kept while your account exists — that is the point of them. Delete your account and they are removed. Records of a purchase may be kept longer where tax law requires it, with your gameplay data detached.
Your rights
You can ask for a copy of your data, have it corrected, have it deleted, or object to how it is used. Withdraw advertising consent whenever you like in the game's settings.
The fastest route is to delete the account yourself: Settings → Account → Delete account in the game, which erases your profile, progress, scores, attempts and run history along with the account itself. The data deletion page covers doing it by email if you no longer have the game installed. For anything else, write to privacy@hazardheights.com.
If you think we have handled your data badly, you can complain to your national data protection authority. In the Netherlands that is the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens.
Children
Hazard Heights is not aimed at children under 13, or the equivalent minimum age where you live. We do not knowingly collect their data. If you believe a child has given us data, email privacy@hazardheights.com and it will be deleted.
A note on anonymous accounts
Because an anonymous account exists only on your device, deleting the game without linking it to Apple or Google means the account can no longer be reached — by you or by us. That is a deliberate trade for not making you sign up, but it does mean we cannot recover a lost anonymous account, and we cannot identify it for a data request either.
Changes
If this policy changes in a way that matters, the effective date above changes and the game will tell you.