PRIVACY POLICY

Artaban · effective 18 September 2026

Artaban is made by Ian Sage, trading as Artaban Interactive. This policy covers the Android game Artaban (package com.artaban.alibi) and says plainly what the game does and does not do with information. The short version: the base game collects nothing; the optional Weekly Tournament posts an anonymous score to a leaderboard when you play it; and the two Google services inside the game — ads and purchases — handle their parts under Google's own policies.

What the base game collects

Nothing. Artaban has no accounts, no sign-in, and no analytics. Your progress — which challenges you have beaten, your swing counts, your tickets — is stored only on your device and is never transmitted to us. We have no way to see it. The one thing that ever leaves your device is a Weekly Tournament score, and only if you play that mode — described next.

Deleting the app deletes that progress. There is also a reset option in the game's settings if you want a clean slate without uninstalling.

Weekly Tournament leaderboard

The Weekly Tournament is an optional weekly mode with a worldwide leaderboard (in versions before 1.2 it was the Daily Tournament; it works the same way). When you finish or leave a run, and when you open the leaderboard, the game sends the following to a small server we run (a Cloudflare Worker):

• the throws you made in that run — for each one, how far you pulled the ball and the moment you let go — and which day it was. The server replays those throws through the game's own physics to work out your score itself, so nobody can post a score they did not earn; the score and the booth you reached are what end up on the board
• a random ID the game creates on your device — not your Google account and not your device's advertising ID. It exists only to keep one score per player per day and to show you your own place on the board
• the carnival name the game assigned you (for example “Jolly Duck 510”) — assigned, never chosen, and not linked to your real identity

There are no accounts and no sign-in. We never ask for or receive your name, email, or any other personal detail, and we do not store your IP address alongside your score. If you never play the Weekly Tournament, none of the above is ever sent. The leaderboard resets each week.

Separately, so the title screen can show how this week's tournament is going, the game asks the same server from time to time how many people have played this week. That request carries only the week's number and, if you have played this week, your best score for the week. It does not include your random ID or your carnival name, and nothing about it is stored.

Advertising (Google AdMob)

The free version of Artaban shows ads served by Google AdMob, a third-party service operated by Google. To serve and measure ads and to prevent fraud, AdMob may collect device information, including:

• your device's advertising ID
• IP address and coarse location derived from it
• device type, operating system version, and app package name
• ad interaction data (which ads were shown, viewed, or tapped)

We do not receive or store any of this ourselves. How Google uses it is described in Google's Privacy Policy and AdMob's data practices. You can reset or delete your advertising ID, or opt out of ad personalisation, in your device's Google settings.

Buying Remove Ads stops the game from requesting or showing ads at all, which also stops the collection described above.

Purchases (Google Play Billing)

The Remove Ads purchase is processed entirely by Google Play. We never see your payment details — no card numbers, no billing address. Google tells the game only one thing: whether the purchase exists. That entitlement is remembered by Google Play and restored automatically if you reinstall.

Children

Artaban is a general-audience game. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone — children included — because the game does not collect personal information at all.

Changes

If a future update changes what the game collects — for example, if we ever add analytics or new ad formats — this policy will be updated before that version ships, and the effective date above will change.

Contact

Questions about this policy, or anything else: artabangames@gmail.com