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Privacy Policy
In short
- Lightlag has no accounts, no ads, no analytics and no tracking. We do not collect or sell personal data.
- Your progress, settings and in-game photos are stored on your device. They are not sent to us.
- If you use Game Center, Apple handles your Game Center profile, scores and achievements under Apple's privacy policy.
- Reminders are local notifications scheduled on your device, and only if you turn them on.
- This website sets no cookies and uses no analytics. Our hosting provider processes standard technical data to deliver it.
- If you email us, we use your message only to reply.
01Who we are
Lightlag is a mobile game made by T-PLUS, an independent space channel run from India. This policy covers the Lightlag app (the "App") and this website (the "Site"). In this policy, "we", "us" and "our" mean T-PLUS.
You can contact us about this policy at krishcdbry@gmail.com.
02What the App stores, and where
The App works without an account or login, and it does not send personal data to us or to any server we run. To let you pick up where you left off, it stores these on your device only:
- Progress: missions finished, stars, range, science points, badges earned and the rover you picked.
- Settings: sound, music, haptics, reduce motion, the daily reminder and display options.
- Photos you take in photo missions: up to twelve pictures of the game's own terrain, kept in the App's storage.
We cannot see or access any of this. It stays on your device until you reset your progress in the App's Settings or delete the App. Your device's own backups, such as iCloud Backup, may include the App's data under Apple's terms.
03Game Center
On iPhone, the App uses Apple Game Center for leaderboards (range, stars and lifetime science) and achievements. If you are signed in to Game Center, the App reports your scores and achievements to Game Center, and Apple shows them to you and to other players according to your Game Center settings, for example with your Game Center nickname on a leaderboard.
Game Center is run by Apple and covered by Apple's Privacy Policy. We do not receive your Apple Account details, email address, contacts or friends list. You can sign out of Game Center, or change who sees your activity, in the iOS Settings app.
04Notifications
If you turn on the daily reminder, the App asks iOS for permission to show notifications and schedules them on your device: a reminder at 14:00 UTC when a new drive is live, and a one-time note when Voyager 1 reaches one light-day from Earth. They are local notifications. No push service is used, and nothing about them is sent to us. You can turn them off in the App's Settings or in the iOS Settings app.
05Permissions and sharing
Apart from notifications, the App does not ask for access to your camera, microphone, location, contacts, photo library or any other personal data on your device.
When you tap Share on a photo from a mission, the App hands the picture to the iOS share sheet, and it goes only where you choose to send it. Haptic feedback uses your iPhone's built-in vibration motor and collects nothing.
06Ads, analytics and purchases
The App contains no advertising, no analytics or tracking tools and no third-party software development kits that collect data. It does not use the advertising identifier and does not track you across other companies' apps or websites.
This version of the App has no in-app purchases. If we add purchases in the future, Apple will process them through the App Store, and we will update this policy before that version is released.
07The Site
You do not need to give us any personal information to use the Site. There are no accounts, forms, comments or newsletters. The Site sets no cookies and uses no analytics, advertising pixels, fingerprinting or other tracking. Its fonts, images, 3D models and code are served from its own host, so browsing it does not send requests to third parties.
The Site is a static website served by a third-party hosting provider. Like every web server, its servers receive technical information when your browser requests a page: your IP address, the date and time, the page requested, your browser and operating system, and the referring page. The provider uses it to deliver pages and keep the Site secure, and keeps it in logs for a limited period under its own policies, which may involve servers outside India, including in the United States. We do not use this data to identify you. To find out which provider we use, email us.
The live distances on the Site, such as Voyager 1's light time, are computed in your browser from data bundled with the page.
08Links to other services
The Site and App link to other services, such as T-PLUS on YouTube (run by Google) and Instagram (run by Meta). When you follow those links, their own privacy policies apply. If and when the App is on the App Store, Apple's terms and privacy policy cover your use of the App Store.
09When you email us
If you email us, for example for support or to join the beta list, we receive your email address, your name if you include it and whatever you write. We use it only to read and answer your message, and, if you asked to join the beta or hear about the launch, to write to you about that. We do not add you to any marketing list, and we do not sell or share your message, except where the law requires it.
Our email is provided by Google (Gmail) and is stored under Google's Privacy Policy. We keep correspondence only as long as we need it, and you can ask us to delete it at any time.
10Children
Lightlag is made for a general audience, including children. The App does not collect personal information from anyone, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has emailed us personal information, contact us and we will delete it.
11Your choices and rights
Because the App keeps its data on your device, you control it directly: reset your progress in the App's Settings, or delete the App to remove everything it stored. Game Center data is managed through Apple in the iOS Settings app. See Delete your data for step-by-step instructions.
Depending on where you live, laws such as India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, the GDPR in the European Union and the United Kingdom, or US state privacy laws may give you rights to access, correct or erase personal data we hold about you. The only personal data we are likely to hold is email you have sent us. To make a request, email krishcdbry@gmail.com. You can also complain to the data protection authority where you live.
12Security
The Site is served only over HTTPS. Neither the App nor the Site runs accounts or databases of player data, so there is no store of your personal data on our side to breach.
13Changes to this policy
If we change this policy, for example before adding online features or purchases, we will post the new version on this page and update the date at the top before the change takes effect.
14Contact
For questions about this policy or your data, email krishcdbry@gmail.com or visit Support.