Privacy
Outline Privacy Policy
Outline is a single-player reflex game for iPhone. It is built to keep your data on your device. This policy explains what the app handles and the only circumstances in which anything leaves your phone.
Summary
- Outline does not sell your personal information, and collects nothing automatically or in the background.
- There are no accounts, no analytics, no tracking, and no advertising.
- Your scores, personal bests and play history are stored only on your device.
- Information leaves your device in two cases, both under your control: scores you post to Game Center leaderboards, and anything you choose to include when you contact support.
What the app stores
Outline keeps your game results — the score for each session, the mode it was played in, its date, and your personal best for each mode — in the app's own storage on your device. That is the whole of it. There is no profile, no name, no email address, and nothing that identifies you. This data is never sent to the developer, and there is no server behind the app to send it to.
Game Center
Outline uses Apple's Game Center for leaderboards. If you are signed in to Game Center on your device, the app submits your session scores to Apple so they can be ranked, and reads leaderboard entries back to display them. What Apple receives is a score and the Game Center identity you have already set up with them — Outline sends no additional information, and receives no personal information about other players beyond the nicknames Game Center itself displays.
Apple's handling of that data is governed by Apple's Privacy Policy, not this one. Game Center is optional: personal bests and play history are stored locally and work correctly offline, before you sign in, and if you never sign in at all. You can control Game Center in Settings → Game Center on your iPhone.
Contacting support
The support page offers two ways to get in touch, and nothing is sent unless you use one of them. If you email, the developer receives whatever you write, along with your email address, and it is used only to reply to you. If you use the feedback form, your submission is delivered through Google Forms, which records it for the developer to read; Google processes the submission on the developer's behalf and its use of the data is governed by Google's own policies.
The app itself has no built-in feedback screen and sends no diagnostic or crash reports of its own. Please include only what you are comfortable sharing — a device model, an iOS version and the app version from Menu → Version is usually all that is needed to look into a problem.
The App Store and TestFlight
Downloading Outline, and taking part in a TestFlight beta, are transactions between you and Apple. Apple may provide the developer with aggregate, anonymous statistics — such as download counts or crash reports — through App Store Connect. These come from Apple, not from anything the app collects, and do not identify individual players.
Data sharing
Aside from the cases described above, the developer does not receive, store, share, or sell any of your data. Outline contains no third-party analytics, advertising, or tracking software of any kind.
Data retention and deletion
Because your game data is stored only on your device, you are in full control of it: deleting the app removes all of it, and the developer holds no copy and therefore cannot access or delete it on your behalf. Scores already posted to a Game Center leaderboard are held by Apple and managed through your Game Center account. Messages you send to support are kept only as long as needed to deal with them.
Children's privacy
Outline is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect any personal information from anyone, including children.
Changes to this policy
This policy may be updated from time to time. Material changes will be reflected by updating the "Last updated" date above.
Contact
Questions about this privacy policy: alcock.jc@gmail.com.