Stranded on Principle privacy policy

Who this covers

This policy covers the Stranded on Principle app, made by Pettigrew Lab LLC, on every device it runs on.

What the game stores on your phone

Your current island, the ideas you’ve built, your plane, your test flights, your settings, whether you’ve escaped an island yet, your sandbox settings, and whether you bought Remove ads.

All of it is saved on your phone, inside the app. It isn’t sent to us and we can’t see it.

On Android, it’s included in your phone’s backup if you have backup turned on, under your Google account. On iPhone, it’s part of your phone’s own backup if you use one, under your Apple account.

Ads

Stranded on Principle shows ads from Google AdMob: one at most after a test flight’s result or after your final try, never after the first flight of a session, and no more than one every five minutes. There are no banner ads, and no ads at camp, on the map, in the workshop, in Learn or in the sandbox.

To show and measure those ads, and to catch ad fraud, AdMob collects information about your device. That includes your device’s advertising ID, an approximate location worked out from your IP address, how you interact with the ads, and diagnostic information about how they performed. In Google Play’s Data safety section, those are listed as device or other IDs, approximate location, app interactions and diagnostics.

Google handles that data under its own privacy policy: policies.google.com/privacy. We don’t get a copy of it, and we can’t tie it to you.

Where the law gives you a choice, including the EU, the UK, Switzerland and several US states, the game asks before any ads load. If you say no, the ads you see aren’t personalized. You can change your answer any time from the start screen, under Ad privacy choices.

On iPhone, the game may also ask permission to track. If you say no, ads still show, they just aren’t personalized to you.

You can reset or delete your advertising ID in your phone’s settings whenever you want.

Remove ads

Remove ads is a one-time purchase through Google Play or the App Store. They handle the payment under their own privacy policies, and we never see your card or your store account.

The game keeps a note on your phone that you bought it, and checks with the store so Restore purchases works on a new phone.

Ratings

After you get everyone off an island, the game may ask your phone to show its own rating box. That box belongs to Google Play or the App Store, and we only see a rating if you post one on the store.

What the game doesn’t do

There’s no account and nothing to sign into, so we don’t have your name or your email unless you write to us yourself.

There’s no analytics, no crash reporting of our own and no tracking by us. The only outside code that sends anything is AdMob, and the store’s own purchase and rating code.

The game doesn’t ask for your location, camera, microphone or contacts. It plays offline, start to finish. Ads just need a connection to load.

Kids

Stranded on Principle is made for teens and adults, ages 13 and up, and isn’t directed at children under 13. Ads in the game are limited to ones rated for teens.

Deleting your data

Uninstall the game or clear its data in your phone’s settings, and everything it saved is gone. There’s nothing on our side to delete, because nothing was sent to us.

For the data AdMob collected, reset your advertising ID, or use Google’s controls at myadcenter.google.com.

If you email us

If you write to the address below, we have your email and whatever you put in the message, and we keep it only as long as it takes to answer you.

If this changes

If a future version collects anything new, this page is updated before that version ships, and the date at the top changes.

Questions

Email pettigrewlabllc@gmail.com.