Privacy Policy
This policy explains what the WOBBLE mobile game ("WOBBLE", "the game") and its online service collect, why, who it is shared with, and the choices you have. WOBBLE is operated by SOTER SYSTEMS ("we", "us"). Contact: support@sotersystems.in.
In short: you can play without an account. If you sign in, we store only an anonymous account ID from Google or Apple, not your email or name. Your display name, country and scores are public on leaderboards. Ads are served by Google AdMob, which uses device identifiers only as you allow.
1. What we collect
| Data | Why | When |
|---|---|---|
| A random player ID and a secret access token (we store only a hash of the token) | To recognise your copy of the game when it talks to our server | The first time you use an online feature (friend challenges, ranks, sign-in) |
| Display name you choose | Shown next to your scores on leaderboards and challenge boards | When you set a name |
| Country you choose (suggested from your phone's region setting) | Country leaderboards | When you set or change it. We never use GPS or location permission |
| Game results: scores, tower height, run time, and for ranked runs the timing of your taps | Leaderboards, ranks, friend challenges, and checking that ranked scores are genuine | When you finish an online run |
| Google or Apple account ID (an anonymous identifier provided by them) | So you can sign in on any device and keep your progress | Only if you choose "Sign in" |
| Saved progress: level, XP, goals, stars, themes, missions | Restore your progress on a new device | Only when signed in |
We do not collect your email address, real name, phone number, contacts, photos, precise location, or microphone/camera data. When you sign in with Google or Apple we request only the basic "openid" permission, which does not include your email.
Our servers see your IP address when the game connects, as every internet service does. We use it only briefly, in memory, to stop abuse (rate limiting). We do not write IP addresses to our logs.
Solo play works offline. Your settings and offline progress are stored only on your device until you sign in.
2. What is public
Your display name, country, rank tier and scores appear on the world and country leaderboards, and on any friend challenge you join. Anyone with a challenge link can see the names and scores on that challenge. Do not use your real name or personal information as your display name.
3. Advertising (Google AdMob)
The free game shows ads provided by Google AdMob: an optional "watch an ad for double XP" video that you choose to play, and occasional full-screen ads between games. Ads never appear while you are playing a tower.
Google's Mobile Ads SDK runs inside the app and may collect your device's advertising identifier, IP address, approximate location derived from the IP address, and information about the ads you see and tap, to show, measure and personalise ads and to prevent fraud. This data goes directly to Google; we never receive it.
- iPhone/iPad: the app asks for permission to track (App Tracking Transparency). If you decline, Google cannot access your advertising identifier and ads are not personalised with it.
- European Economic Area, UK and Switzerland: a Google consent form asks for your choices before ads load. You can change them any time in Settings → AD PRIVACY CHOICES.
- Android: you can reset or delete your advertising ID in your phone's settings (Settings → Privacy → Ads).
See how Google uses information from apps that use its services and Google's Privacy Policy.
4. Who we share data with
- Google and Apple: only if you sign in with them, to verify your sign-in. Google AdMob for ads, as described above.
- DigitalOcean: our cloud hosting provider, which stores our server and database on our behalf.
- Other players see only the public information in section 2.
- Authorities, only if the law requires it.
We do not sell your personal data, and we do not share it with data brokers.
5. How long we keep it
- Account and game data: until you delete it (see section 6) or we shut the service down.
- Friend challenges close after 14 days. The results stay visible on the challenge board.
- Database backups are kept for up to 14 days, so deleted data disappears from backups within 14 days.
- Server logs record the time, the page requested and the result. They contain no IP addresses, names or tokens and are overwritten automatically as they rotate.
6. Your choices and rights
- Change your display name or country any time in Settings.
- Delete your account and ranks in the game: Settings → DELETE ACCOUNT (signed-in players). This permanently removes your account, sign-in link, saved progress, ranks and ranked history. See Delete your data for other options.
- Ad choices: as described in section 3.
- Access or correction: email us and we will reply within 30 days.
Depending on where you live (for example India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023, the EU/UK GDPR, or US state privacy laws) you may have additional rights, such as the right to access, correct, erase or port your data, to withdraw consent, and to complain to your data protection authority. Contact us to exercise them.
7. Children
WOBBLE is a general-audience game and is not directed at children. Ads are limited to content suitable for general audiences. If you believe a child has given us personal data without the consent of a parent or guardian, contact us and we will delete it.
8. Security
All connections to our servers are encrypted (HTTPS). Access tokens are stored only as hashes, the database is not reachable from the internet, and access is limited to the people who run the service. No system is perfectly secure, but we work to protect your data and will notify you as the law requires if a breach affects you.
9. International transfers
Our servers may be located outside your country. Google and Apple process sign-in and advertising data on their own global infrastructure under their own privacy policies.
10. Changes
If we change this policy we will update the date above, and tell you in the game when the change is significant.
11. Contact and grievances
SOTER SYSTEMS
Email: support@sotersystems.in
Questions, requests and grievances about your personal data go to this address. We aim to respond within 30 days.