Skootoo privacy policy

Who we are

Zed & Sons Games is a family game studio in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, run by Christopher Zerebecki. This policy covers our games and this website. Each game's own section says exactly what that game collects.

Who to contact

Christopher Zerebecki, Person in charge of the protection of personal information, at [email protected]. Write to us to ask what we hold about you, to have it corrected or deleted, or with any question or complaint about privacy. We answer within 30 days. In Quebec you may also contact the Commission d'accès à l'information.

What we never do

We don't sell or rent information, show ads, track you across other apps or websites, or use third-party analytics or advertising tools.

Who helps us

Our game servers run on Amazon Web Services, and this website on Cloudflare. They store and process data only to run our services, under their own security and privacy commitments, and their data centres may be outside your province or country. Apple runs the App Store and Game Center.

This website

This site uses no cookies, no analytics and no forms. Cloudflare, which serves it, may briefly log technical details such as your IP address to keep it secure.

Changes

If this policy changes, we update it here with a new date. If a change affects what a game collects, the game's section says so.

Skootoo

Skootoo is built to collect as little as possible. It has no ads, no third-party analytics and no tracking, and it never asks for your name, email address, contacts or location.

What stays on your device

Your stars and progress, settings, Daily streak, hints left, levels you are making, and whether you own Skootoo Plus. We never receive these. Deleting the app deletes them.

Anonymous usage data

If Share anonymous usage data is on in Settings > Privacy, the game sends us short records of what happens in play: for example, that a level was started or finished, a hint was used, the Plus screen was shown or Plus was bought, or the Daily was played or shared. Each record carries a random ID made by the app on your device (not linked to your name, Apple ID or device), a random ID for that play session, the app version, and the platform. It does not include your IP address. We use it to see which levels are too hard and whether the game is working, and we keep it for up to 400 days. Turn the setting off and nothing more is sent.

Levels you publish

When you publish a level, we store the level (its board and the name you gave it) under your Game Center player ID, so you can update or unpublish it and so we can count your publish slots. Anyone with the level's link can play it. We do not receive your Game Center name or nickname, only the ID that Apple provides to our game.

When someone opens a published level, the game tells our server that one device played it. We store a one-way scrambled form of that device's random ID, which cannot be turned back into it, so that each device is counted once. We use these counts only to award publish slots. They are not shown to anyone.

Published levels stay until you unpublish them or use Delete my data.

Purchases and Game Center

Skootoo Plus is bought through the App Store. Apple handles the payment; we never see your payment details or Apple ID. Game Center is Apple's service, and Apple's own privacy policy covers it.

Deleting your data

Settings > Delete my data removes your published levels and everything stored under your Game Center player ID from our server, and clears your progress and Daily streak from the device. If you are not signed in to Game Center at the time, levels you published from another device stay; sign in and delete again, or email us. Anonymous usage records can't be linked to you, so they can't be picked out and deleted, but Delete my data gives your device a new random ID so nothing afterwards is connected to them.

Children

Skootoo is for everyone, including children. It has no ads, no chat and no tracking, and it does not knowingly collect personal information from children. Level names are typed by players and can be seen by anyone the level's link is sent to.