PineBurst Privacy Policy

Effective date: 30 September 2026
Last updated: 30 September 2026
Policy version: 1.1 (matches game version 0.37.0 and later)
Publisher: Raphael Industries Limited Co., a limited liability company organised in Arizona, United States ("we", "us", "the publisher")
Contact: rindustrieslc@gmail.com

PineBurst is a game about a squirrel who defends the hollow. This policy explains what information the game handles, what it never handles, and what choices you have. It is written in plain language on purpose. If anything here is unclear, write to the contact address above and we will answer.

This policy covers the web versions of PineBurst wherever we publish them, including on our own website, on itch.io, on CrazyGames, and on Poki. It also covers the iOS app (Apple App Store), the Android app (Google Play), and the desktop version on Steam. Section 6A describes what is different in the iOS and Android apps.

1. Who may play

PineBurst is intended for players aged 13 and older. It is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13. The game asks for no name, no email address, no date of birth and no account, so there is nothing for a child to enter. If you believe a child under 13 has sent us information through a crash report or an analytics event, write to the contact address and we will delete it.

2. The short version

• The game never asks who you are. There is no account, no login, no name, no email, no phone number and no precise location.
• Your game save stays on your own device, in your browser's storage or in the app's own storage.
• The game sends us a small number of gameplay counts and crash reports so that we can see whether the tutorial works and fix errors. Those reports carry a random install number. We cannot connect that number to you, but the law treats it as a pseudonymous identifier, so this policy treats it as personal data and you can switch the sending off in Settings.
• On advertising portals such as CrazyGames and Poki, the portal shows the advertisements and handles any consent prompt.
• On iOS and Android, optional rewarded advertisements are shown by Google AdMob. The app never asks permission to track you and never uses your device's advertising identifier.
• The Steam version has no advertisements; its conveniences are free.
• We do not sell personal information, and we do not share it with anyone except the service providers named below.

3. What the game stores on your device

The game uses your browser's local storage (a small store that belongs to this website in your browser), or, in the iOS and Android apps, the app's own storage on your phone, for:

• your game save (progress, unlocked weapons, currencies, settings);
• a backup copy of the save that the game makes before it refuses to load a save from a newer version of the game;
• a random install number (see section 4);
• a short buffer of analytics events waiting to be sent, when sending is switched on.

The save and the settings are strictly necessary to play, because a game that forgets your progress is not the game you asked for. The install number and the event buffer are not necessary to play; they exist only for the statistics in section 4, and the "Share play statistics" switch in Settings turns them off and clears them.

The game sets no cookies of its own. Clearing your browser's site data for the page you play on deletes everything above, and so does deleting the app from your phone. The Settings screen also offers "Reset save", which deletes the save and the backup on that device, and "Reset install number", which replaces the random install number with a new one.

If you play on a portal that offers its own player storage, such as CrazyGames when you are signed in to a CrazyGames account, the game may also keep a copy of your save in that portal's storage so that your progress follows you to another device. That copy is held by the portal under the portal's own privacy policy. The game never overwrites a newer save on your device with an older copy from the portal.

4. What the game sends to us

When "Share play statistics" is switched on in Settings (it is on in published builds and can be switched off at any time), the game sends the following to a server we operate on Cloudflare:

A random install number. When the game first runs on a device it draws a random number and keeps it in local storage. That number is not derived from your device, your browser, your network or any advertising identifier, and it is not shared with any advertising network. It lets us count players and tell one crash from another. Because it recognises the same installation over time, data-protection law treats it as a pseudonymous identifier rather than anonymous data, and so do we. You can replace it at any time from Settings, and the old number is then never used again.

Six kinds of event. The game sends only these:

| Event | When it is sent | What it contains |
| --- | --- | --- |
| game opened | the game starts | install number, game version, platform name (for example "itch", "crazygames", "ios", "android" or "steam"), device class (phone, tablet or desktop), screen size class, graphics quality tier |
| tutorial finished | the player completes the tutorial | the same fields plus the time since the game opened, in seconds |
| Level 1 cleared | the player clears the first Level | the same fields plus the time since the game opened, in seconds |
| Level 5 cleared | the player clears the fifth Level | the same fields plus the time since the game opened, in seconds |
| advertisement watched | the player finishes a rewarded advertisement | the same fields plus which in-game offer it was (for example "revive" or "double coins"); nothing about the advertisement itself |
| crash | the game hits an error it did not expect | the same fields plus the error message, up to three lines of code location, the name of the screen and the Level id. Crash reports never include free text typed by the player, because the game has no text entry. The game sends at most five crash reports per session. |

We do not store your IP address. The server that receives these events runs on Cloudflare, and Cloudflare processes the connection (including the IP address it arrives from) as our service provider under Cloudflare's own privacy policy; we do not read or keep that address in our records.

There is no other tracking in the game itself. The game has no tracking pixels, no fingerprinting, no advertising identifiers and no third-party analytics libraries. Section 6A describes what Google AdMob's software collects in the iOS and Android apps, which is separate from the events above.

5. Why we use that information

We use the events above to:

• see whether new players finish the tutorial and the first Levels, so that we can fix the parts of the game that lose people;
• count how many rewarded advertisements are watched, so that we can reconcile the advertising portal's payment reports;
• find and fix crashes.

We do not build profiles, we do not target advertising, and we do not combine these events with any other data source.

6. Advertising

On advertising-supported portals, the portal's own software shows the advertisements. That means:

• on CrazyGames, advertisements are served by CrazyGames and its advertising partners under the CrazyGames privacy policy, and CrazyGames shows any consent prompt that your region requires;
• on Poki, advertisements are served by Poki and its partners under the Poki privacy policy, which also handles consent;
• in the iOS and Android apps, advertisements are served by Google AdMob (see section 6A);
• on Steam there are no advertisements; the conveniences that an advertisement would otherwise unlock are given free;
• on itch.io and on our own website there are no advertisements in the game.

Every advertisement in PineBurst is optional and rewarded: you choose to watch one, and you get a convenience in return. The game can be finished without watching a single one; advertisements only offer conveniences such as an extra life, doubled Coins at the end of a run, or a free re-roll of upgrade cards. There are no pop-up advertisements and no banners. When an advertisement is playing, the game pauses and mutes itself, and it never passes the advertising service any information about you beyond what the service's own software collects.

6A. The iOS and Android apps

In the iOS app (Apple App Store) and the Android app (Google Play), Google LLC's AdMob is our advertising service provider. Its software runs inside the app and talks to Google directly, under Google's policies: https://policies.google.com/privacy and https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

What AdMob's software collects when an advertisement is requested or shown:

• your IP address, which Google uses to work out an approximate location;
• how you interact with advertisements, such as views and taps;
• diagnostics, such as crashes and performance;
• device identifiers such as the app set ID or the vendor identifier;
• but not the advertising identifier (see below).

We do not receive this information from Google, and we do not combine it with the events in section 4.

The consent prompt. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, Google's consent form appears before any advertisement is requested. If you do not agree, the app asks for no advertisements at all and the game works the same without them. You can change your choice at any time under Settings, "Ad privacy choices".

Non-personalised ads only. The app asks AdMob for non-personalised advertisements on every request, which means the advertisements are not chosen from your past activity.

The advertising identifier. The advertising identifier is a number your phone offers to apps for advertising. We use it only if you give consent, and this version of the app never asks for it, so it is never used. On iOS we do not show Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt, because we do not track you; without that permission Apple does not give the app, or the advertising software inside it, the advertising identifier. Google's iOS software lists a device identifier among the data it may use for advertising in its own privacy declaration, and the App Store label follows that declaration. On Android the app does not hold the advertising-ID permission, and the Privacy Sandbox advertising permissions (ad ID, attribution and topics) are removed from the app as well.

Every advertisement is optional and rewarded. The game pauses and mutes while an advertisement plays.

6B. Store privacy summaries

The app stores ask us to summarise the above in their own forms. For completeness, here is what we tell them.

Google Play Data Safety:

• Device or other IDs: our random install number, plus AdMob's app set ID.
• App activity: gameplay counts and advertisement interactions.
• App info and performance: crash logs and diagnostics.
• Approximate location: inferred from the IP address by AdMob, and not stored by us.
• Data is shared with AdMob for advertising and fraud prevention.
• Everything is encrypted in transit.
• You can ask for deletion by sending us your install number (see section 9).
• Sending our statistics can be switched off in Settings.

Apple App Privacy:

• Identifiers: Device ID.
• Usage Data: Product Interaction and Advertising Data.
• Diagnostics: Crash Data and Other Diagnostic Data.
• The game's own data (the install number, gameplay counts and crash reports) is not linked to you and is not used to track you. Google declares the data its advertising software collects in its own privacy manifest, and the App Store label follows Google's declaration.

7. Service providers and where data goes

We share information only with the following providers, and only for the purposes above:

| Provider | What they do for us | Their policy |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cloudflare, Inc. | receives and stores the anonymous events in section 4 on our behalf | https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/ |
| itch.io (Leaf Corcoran) | hosts the game page and the game files when you play there | https://itch.io/docs/legal/privacy-policy |
| CrazyGames (Maxflow BV) | hosts the game, serves advertisements and offers optional player storage when you play there | https://www.crazygames.com/privacy-policy |
| Poki B.V. | hosts the game and serves advertisements when you play there | https://poki.com/en/privacy |
| Google LLC (AdMob) | serves the optional rewarded advertisements in the iOS and Android apps | https://policies.google.com/privacy |
| Apple Inc. (App Store) | distributes the iOS app | https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/ |
| Google LLC (Google Play) | distributes the Android app | https://policies.google.com/privacy |
| Valve Corporation (Steam) | distributes the desktop version | https://store.steampowered.com/privacy_agreement/ |

Each host also collects its own information about your visit under its own policy, exactly as it does for every other game on its site. We do not receive that information.

Cloudflare stores our events on its global network, which may place them outside the country you play from, including in the United States. Cloudflare provides the contractual protections that United Kingdom and European Union law require for such transfers.

8. How long we keep it

• Analytics events and crash reports are stored in Cloudflare Analytics Engine, which keeps data for three months and then deletes it automatically. We keep no separate longer-lived copy except totals (for example "players who cleared Level 5 this week") that contain no install numbers.
• The game save, its backup and the install number stay on your device until you delete them or clear your browser's site data.
• Portal save copies are kept by the portal under the portal's policy.

9. Your choices and rights

Everyone can:

• switch "Share play statistics" off in Settings, which stops every event and clears the local buffer;
• play without ever watching an advertisement;
• replace the install number from Settings, which disconnects every future event from every past one;
• delete all local data with "Reset save" in Settings or by clearing your browser's site data;
• write to us with questions.

Because we cannot identify you. The events we hold are keyed only by the random install number. We have no way to look up which install number belongs to which person, so we cannot retrieve, correct or delete "your" records on request unless you send us your install number from the Settings screen. If you do, we will delete every event carrying that number within 30 days and confirm by email.

If you are in the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area. You have the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability and objection under the UK GDPR and the EU GDPR, and the right to complain to your data protection authority. Our legal basis for the events in section 4 is our legitimate interest in keeping the game working and improving it, balanced against the minimal and pseudonymous nature of the data, the fact that nothing identifies you, and the switch that lets you stop it at any time. The random install number is a pseudonymous identifier; we treat it as personal data for the purpose of your rights even though we cannot link it to you. Where the law of your country requires your consent before a game stores statistics identifiers in your browser, the first-run notice and the Settings switch are how you give or withhold it.

If you are in California. We do not sell personal information and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising. We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information. Our business is well below the thresholds at which the California Consumer Privacy Act applies, but the rights above are available to you regardless.

10. Security

The game is delivered over HTTPS wherever we publish it, the event server accepts only the six event types above and rejects anything else, and no server we run holds an account, a password or a payment detail, because the game has none.

11. Changes to this policy

When we change this policy we will change the version number and the "Last updated" date at the top, and the game's Settings screen will link to the current version. Version 1.1 is the change that added the iOS and Android apps, Google AdMob in those apps, and the Steam version. Future substantial changes, such as adding another advertising network or a new kind of data, will be announced on the game's store page before they take effect.

12. Contact

Raphael Industries Limited Co.
rindustrieslc@gmail.com