Orbit Ascend: Space Arcade Privacy Policy

Orbit Ascend: Space Arcade is developed and published under the name Paper Egg Studios. This Privacy Policy explains, in general terms, what information may be processed when you use the Game, why it is used, and the choices available to you.

This policy applies to Orbit Ascend: Space Arcade.

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1. Information We Process

The Game may process information needed to provide its features, including:

• Player account information, such as an anonymous player identifier used to maintain your Game profile. On Android, if you are already authenticated with Google Play Games when a new Game profile is first created, the Game may automatically link your Play Games player identifier to that profile if it is not already linked to another Game profile, so progress and eligible purchases can be recovered later. You can also choose to link from Settings. Existing Game profiles are not automatically linked. The Game remains playable without a linked Play Games account.
• First-time guidance and competitive-protection information, including an account reference, account-creation time, guidance status, run references, assistance classification and scores, used to provide first-time account guidance and protect competitive leaderboards.
• Achievement progress: on Android, where Google Play Games achievements are available, the Game reports the badges you earn and your achievement progress to Google Play Games so they can appear in your Play Games profile. This is separate from optional account linking — it does not associate your Google account with your Game profile, and the Game remains fully playable without it.
• Public profile information, such as your callsign, Pioneer ID, equipped badge, leaderboard score, and rank.
• Game progress and settings, such as progression, Zircon balance, unlocked or equipped content, purchases or entitlements, and selected settings.
• Purchase information, such as transaction or entitlement information supplied by the platform store to grant or restore eligible purchases, verify purchases, help prevent fraudulent or duplicate grants, and process refunds or revocations.
• Support and assistance information, such as a pseudonymous Support ID used to identify your account when you contact support, records of support actions relating to your account, and any information you choose to send when contacting us, such as your email address, device/app information, and screenshots.
• Advertising and privacy-choice information, where advertising features are available in your region: advertising providers process device, app, and advertising identifiers (where permitted), network information such as IP address (which can indicate an approximate location), and ad interaction and delivery information, subject to your privacy choices and applicable rules. Your privacy-choice selections are recorded so the Game can honor them.

We do not require you to provide an email address or password simply to begin playing the Game.

If your Google Play Games account is linked to your Game profile, the Game does not intentionally collect or store your Google email address, real name, contacts, Google profile details, or raw provider account tokens. Linking and explicit account recovery use a temporary authorization code that is exchanged during the operation and not retained by us.

Please do not include personal information in your callsign or other public profile information unless you want other players to be able to see it.

2. How We Use Information

We use information processed through the Game to:

• operate and maintain the Game;
• create and maintain player profiles;
• save and synchronize progression and settings;
• provide leaderboards and public profile features;
• maintain inventory, virtual currency, purchases, and entitlements, including verifying purchases, helping prevent fraudulent or duplicate grants, and processing refunds or revocations;
• provide optional rewarded advertising features;
• link a new Game profile automatically where eligible, offer linking from Settings, and provide player-initiated account restoration through Google Play Games;
• provide Google Play Games achievements on Android, where available;
• provide account-management and purchase-restoration features;
• provide optional notifications;
• provide customer support;
• protect the Game, players, and leaderboard integrity; and
• comply with applicable legal and platform requirements.

Paid items do not directly determine leaderboard rank or competitive score.

3. Public Leaderboards

The Game includes public leaderboard features.

Information shown to other players may include your:

• callsign;
• Pioneer ID;
• equipped badge;
• score; and
• rank.

Your internal account identifier is not intended to be displayed publicly.

Callsigns do not have to be unique. The Pioneer ID helps distinguish players who use the same callsign.

4. Third-Party Services

The Game uses third-party services to provide certain features.

These include, where applicable:

• Unity Gaming Services (Unity Technologies), for services such as authentication, cloud saving, leaderboards, purchase verification, and other game services;
• Cloudflare Workers and D1, for first-time account guidance, competitive leaderboard protection and related deletion/security controls. Our D1 application records use keyed pseudonymous account references rather than raw Unity player IDs.
• Unity LevelPlay, Unity's advertising mediation service (including ironSource advertising), for optional rewarded advertisements;
• Google's User Messaging Platform (Google), for the Game's privacy messages and privacy-choice features;
• Google Play Games (Google), for eligible automatic first-launch linking of a new Game profile, linking from Settings, player-initiated account restoration, and Google Play Games achievements on Android (reporting earned badges and achievement progress to your Play Games profile); and
• Google Play, for app distribution and related platform services. If purchases are offered through the platform, Google Play may also process those transactions, refunds, and eligible purchase restoration.

When an eligible new profile is linked automatically, or when you choose to link or recover an account, Unity Gaming Services and Google Play Games process the account association and sign-in on our behalf; a temporary authorization code is exchanged during that operation and is not stored by us. If a Play Games identity is already linked to another Game profile, the Game does not merge or switch profiles automatically; you choose whether to continue with the new profile or start explicit recovery. Achievements are a one-way report: Play Games achievement data is never imported into the Game, and using achievements does not link your Google account to your Game profile.

These third parties may process information required to provide their services according to their own privacy policies.

Paper Egg Studios does not receive your full payment-card details when purchases are processed by an app store.

If additional analytics, diagnostics, advertising, or other third-party services are added to the Game, this Privacy Policy may be updated to reflect those changes.

5. Advertising, Purchases, and Notifications

The Game offers optional rewarded advertisements. These may include, for example, an opportunity to continue a run after a failure ("Restore Signal"), or an opportunity to claim additional in-game Zircon for a completed run ("Double Salvage"). Watching a rewarded advertisement is always optional, and availability may vary.

Paper Egg Studios does not use raw advertising identifiers in its own gameplay, account, or progression systems. Advertising and mediation providers may process device identifiers, network information, and ad interaction information to provide, measure, secure, and personalize advertising where permitted. Paper Egg Studios may receive aggregated advertising performance information from those providers.

Advertising features respect your privacy choices. Depending on your region and applicable requirements, the Game may present a privacy form before an advertising feature is used, and may offer a Privacy Choices entry in the Game's Settings where your region provides for one. Your selections affect how advertising providers may use information, and advertising proceeds only as permitted under those choices and applicable platform rules.

Rewarded advertisements are not intended to directly grant leaderboard score or competitive rank.

In-app purchases, where available, are processed through the applicable platform store. Purchase information, such as purchase identifiers, is processed on our game services to verify purchases, grant or restore eligible items, help prevent fraudulent or duplicate grants, and process refunds or revocations. Eligible permanent purchases may be restorable through that store. Consumable purchases or Game balances may not be restorable after they have been used, consumed, or removed with a deleted Game profile.

If you enable notifications, the Game may schedule optional reminders on your device. You can disable notifications at any time through the Game or your device settings.

6. Data Storage, Retention, and Security

Some Game information may be stored locally on your device and some may be stored using online services associated with your player profile.

Cloud storage does not necessarily guarantee recovery of an anonymous profile after uninstalling the Game, clearing app data, or changing devices. Recovery may depend on account-linking features available in the version of the Game you use.

We retain information only for as long as reasonably necessary to operate the Game, provide its features, comply with applicable legal obligations, resolve disputes, and protect the Game against abuse or fraud.

When you delete your account, ordinary player-associated data is removed as described in Section 7. A limited set of pseudonymous transaction and security records may be retained where necessary for fraud prevention, verifying and restoring eligible purchases, preventing duplicate or fraudulent purchase grants, processing refunds and revocations, and meeting security or legal obligations. Retained records of this kind are pseudonymous — they are not intended to publicly identify you — and we do not describe them as anonymous.

Our first-time guidance and competitive-protection application records use daily cohorts. Each record expires within eight days of its creation. Hourly scheduled cleanup removes expired records, with verification targeted within a further hour. Account deletion erases guidance payloads and retained score values; limited pseudonymous deletion/security markers remain until the applicable cohort expiry. Cloudflare's separate D1 recovery history can retain earlier versions for up to seven days after live removal. Minimal deletion-verification journals are retained through the related purge and recovery-history periods, then retired following verification. Purchase and other security/legal records described elsewhere in this policy have their own necessary retention purposes. These records are pseudonymous, not anonymous.

We use reasonable measures intended to protect information associated with the Game. No electronic storage or transmission method can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

7. Account and Data Deletion

You can delete your Game account from inside the Game:

Settings → System → Delete Account

The Game asks for confirmation before the deletion is submitted. Once the deletion completes, it removes your Game account and associated player data — including your gameplay progression, Zircon balance and entitlement state, your Support ID, your leaderboard scores and entries, and account-link data controlled by the Game. Deleting your Game account does not delete your Google account or your Google Play Games profile.

Account deletion includes the guidance and competitive-protection erasure described in Section6. If required backend deletion cannot be confirmed, deletion stays incomplete for retry; we do not report the game account erased prematurely. Deleting the game account does not delete a Google account or Play Games profile.

If you keep playing after deleting an account, the Game creates a fresh, separate anonymous profile.

If you cannot access the Game, you can also request account deletion without the app through the Delete Account page on the Paper Egg Studios website, or by contacting papereggstudios@gmail.com. External requests are reviewed manually and may require additional verification to protect your account.

Deleting your Game account does not cancel or erase the underlying Google Play transactions themselves. Certain purchase records may be retained as necessary to verify ownership, prevent fraud or duplicate grants, process revocations or refunds, and support restoration of eligible purchases — see Section 6. Eligible permanent purchases may remain restorable through the same platform store.

Deleting the Game from your device does not by itself necessarily delete information stored in online services.

8. Children's Privacy

The Game is not intended to be used in violation of applicable children's privacy laws.

We do not knowingly seek to collect personal information from children where parental consent or another legal basis is required and has not been obtained.

If you believe that information relating to a child has been processed inappropriately, please contact us.

9. Your Choices and Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights relating to your personal information, including rights to request access, correction, deletion, restriction, or other actions provided by applicable law.

You can also control certain features directly through the Game or your device, including notifications, advertising privacy choices where available, and account deletion — from inside the Game or through the Delete Account page on our website.

To make a privacy request, contact papereggstudios@gmail.com.

10. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy when the Game, its features, our service providers, or applicable requirements change.

When we make changes, we will update the “Last updated” date shown at the top of this page and provide additional notice where required.

11. Contact

For privacy questions or requests:

Paper Egg Studios
Email: papereggstudios@gmail.com

For gameplay, account, or purchase help, please use the Support page on the Paper Egg Studios website. The Game is also governed by the Terms of Use.