This Privacy Policy explains what information Shooting Birds Carnival collects, how it is used, and your rights. Shooting Birds Carnival is built and operated by Tech Artists ("we," "us," or "our"). It applies to the Shooting Birds Carnival mobile application and the shootingbirds.app website.
The TL;DR 🎪
- We collect nothing. No name, no email, no account, no sign-up, no device identifiers.
- Your progress stays on your device. Tickets, prizes and best scores are saved in a file on your phone and never leave it.
- No ads. There is no advertising SDK in the app at all, personalized or otherwise.
- One in-app purchase, handled entirely by Apple. The game is free with three booths; a single $4.99 unlock opens the rest. Apple takes the payment and tells the app only whether you own it — we never see your name, your card, or any payment information.
- No analytics or crash reporting. We don't know how you play, or that you play.
- No tracking. The app does not use the Advertising Identifier (IDFA) and never asks for tracking permission.
1. Information We Collect
None. That is the whole answer, but here it is in the usual table so it can be checked against Apple's privacy categories.
| Category | Collected? | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Contact info (name, email, phone, address) | No | The game has no accounts and never asks. |
| Identifiers (user ID, device ID, IDFA) | No | No advertising or attribution SDK is present. |
| Usage data / analytics | No | No analytics SDK is present. |
| Diagnostics / crash logs | No | We collect none. Apple may offer you the choice to share crash data with developers through iOS itself; that is Apple's system, governed by Apple's privacy settings, and any such report is anonymized. |
| Purchases / financial info | No | There is one in-app purchase, but Apple processes it. We receive no payment details, no card data and no identity — only an on-device flag recording whether the booths are unlocked. Apple's own handling of the transaction is covered by Apple's privacy policy. |
| Location, contacts, photos, camera, microphone, health | No | The app requests none of these permissions. |
| Game progress (tickets, prizes, best scores) | Stored on your device only | A small file in the app's private storage. Never transmitted. |
2. What Is Stored On Your Device
The game saves a small file inside its own private app storage containing your ticket total, which prizes you have won, and your best result per booth. This never leaves your device and is not readable by other apps.
You can erase it at any time from Main Menu → Start Over, which asks you to confirm and then deletes the file outright. Deleting the app also removes it.
3. How We Use Information
We do not receive any information from the app, so there is nothing for us to use, sell, share, or disclose. We do not build profiles, we do not run advertising, and we have no database of players.
4. Children's Privacy
Shooting Birds Carnival is family-friendly and suitable for children. Because the app collects no personal information whatsoever, it does not knowingly or unknowingly collect personal information from children under 13 — or from anyone else.
This means the app does not require the parental-consent mechanisms of COPPA, because there is no collection to consent to. If you believe otherwise, please contact us and we will investigate immediately.
5. How We Share Information
We share nothing, because we hold nothing. There are no third-party SDKs, no ad networks, no analytics vendors and no data processors involved in the app.
6. Your Rights
Privacy laws including the GDPR (EEA/UK), the CCPA/CPRA (California) and similar regimes give you rights to access, correct, delete, and port your personal data, and to opt out of its sale or sharing.
We honour all of them trivially: we hold no personal data about you, so there is nothing to access, correct, port, or delete on our side, and we have never sold or shared personal information. The only data that exists is the save file on your own device, which is entirely under your control and which you can delete at any time as described in section 2.
If you would like written confirmation of this for your own records, email us and we will provide it.
7. Security
The strongest security measure available is not collecting data in the first place, which is the approach taken here. Your save file is protected by iOS app sandboxing, which prevents other apps from reading it.
8. Third-Party Services
The app itself integrates no third-party services. Note that:
- Apple distributes the app through the App Store and TestFlight, and its own privacy policy governs your relationship with Apple, including anything Apple collects about downloads or crashes.
- This website loads fonts from Google Fonts, which may log your IP address as part of serving them. No other third-party service is used on this site, and we run no analytics or advertising on it.
9. Changes to This Policy
If the game ever changes in a way that affects this policy — for example if a future version added ads, analytics or online features — we will update this page and change the "last updated" date before that version ships. Material changes will also be noted in the App Store release notes for the version that introduces them.
10. Contact Us
Questions about this policy, or about privacy in our games generally:
Email: techartists.support@gmail.com
Web: shootingbirds.app
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