The short version
Lagoon Air collects nothing about you.
What Lagoon Air collects
Nothing. Lagoon Air has no account and no sign-up. It has no ads, no analytics and no tracking, and it contains no code from other companies. It doesn’t send anything to a server run by me, because there isn’t one.
What stays on your device
The game keeps your settings, your logbook and your best scores on your device. Deleting the game from your device removes that data from the device.
iCloud
If you’re signed in to iCloud, Lagoon Air saves your progress and shared control settings to your iCloud account so they follow you from one of your devices to another. Some settings, such as graphics and sound, stay on each device. That data is stored by Apple in your account. I can’t see it.
Deleting the game removes the local copy; iCloud keeps its saved copy. To clear your saved progress, open Settings in the game, choose Reset progress, then choose Clear progress. This clears your logbook, best scores and found surprises on this device and in iCloud. It ends your flight and keeps your settings. You cannot undo it.
Game Center
Lagoon Air uses Apple’s Game Center for playing with friends and, later, for leaderboards and achievements. Game Center is Apple’s service, and Apple’s Game Center and Privacy notice covers what it does with your information. Your Game Center name, friends, scores and achievements are handled by Apple under that notice.
What the game does with it:
- Other players see a callsign, not your name. In a match, every player is shown as a callsign picked from a fixed list, such as “Puffin 3”. Lagoon Air doesn’t send your Game Center name to the other players. (Game Center’s own screens, such as invitations and friend lists, show Game Center names, because those are Apple’s.)
- There is no chat. There is no text, no voice and no free typing anywhere in the game. Players can’t send each other messages. They can rock their wings, turn their smoke on or off and flash their lights.
- What a match sends. During a match, your device sends the other players your plane’s position, speed and direction, your callsign, your aircraft and livery, and the signals above. Game Center connects the devices directly or through Apple’s servers. The data is used to draw your plane on their screens. Lagoon Air doesn’t store it, and doesn’t collect or store anyone’s network address.
- Matches are by invitation. You only play with friends you invite or who invite you through Game Center. There’s no matching with strangers.
- Parents can turn multiplayer off. Screen Time on iPhone, iPad and Mac lets a parent allow multiplayer with everyone, with friends only, or not at all. The game follows it.
Crash reports
If you have turned on “Share with App Developers” in your device’s analytics settings, Apple may give me anonymous crash reports for the game through App Store Connect. I use them only to fix crashes. The game has no crash reporter of its own.
Children
Lagoon Air doesn’t collect personal information from anyone, including children. It has no chat and no way for players to send each other written messages. It isn’t in the App Store’s Kids category, and it’s meant for players of all ages.
Age range
Some places require apps to know whether a player is a child or an adult. On devices that support it, Lagoon Air can ask your device for an age range, for example “18 or older”. It never receives a birth date. The game keeps only its own decision, in memory while it runs, and doesn’t use the answer to change what you can do: matches are by invitation either way. The age range isn’t sent anywhere and it isn’t stored by me.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the new version will be on this page with a new date.
Contact
Questions about privacy: nick@christoforakis.com