Privacy policy

1. Who is responsible

Data controller: Simon Perathoner, Italy. Contact: info@perathonersimon.com. Postal address: see our legal information.

2. What the game stores on your device

To let you continue where you left off, Animanova saves the following in the app’s local storage on your device:

• the callsign and colour you choose for your profile;
• your settings (sound, graphics style, language, haptics, controls, accessibility and power options);
• your progress: currency (“Cells”), unlocked content, upgrades, mastery, missions, achievements, mode records, Symbiosis germlines and Research, and the state of your Biosphere;
• your recent run history (scores, levels reached, run duration and the date and time of each run).

This information never leaves your device through the game. It is not sent to us or to anyone else, and it is not used for advertising or profiling.

While it runs, the game also reads your device’s temperature state, battery level and charging state, low-power mode, operating-system version and device model. It uses them only to adjust frame rate and visual effects so your device stays cool. These values are kept in memory and are not stored or transmitted.

Do not enter sensitive personal information as your callsign; it is only a display name.

3. What the game does not do

Animanova does not access your location, contacts, photos, camera, microphone, health data, advertising identifier or any other app. It does not use cookies or tracking technologies. It has no chat, no user-generated content shared with others and no links to social networks. The Android version declares the “internet” permission because the app framework requires it, but the game never uses the network.

4. App stores and platforms

You obtain Animanova from a platform (Apple App Store, Google Play, Steam, itch.io or our website). The platform processes your purchase, download, updates and, if you have enabled it on your device, crash reports and usage statistics, under its own privacy policy. We receive only aggregated, anonymous statistics the platform chooses to show developers; we never receive your name, payment details or contact information from a platform.

When you visit this website or play the browser version, our web hosting provider, which serves the pages, processes standard server logs (IP address, browser type, time of access) to deliver them and protect the service. These logs are kept according to the host’s default retention and are not used by us to identify players.

5. When you contact us

If you email info@perathonersimon.com (for support, to join a playtest, to ask for launch news, or to send a diagnostic report from a closed-test build), we receive whatever you send: your email address, your name if you include it, and the content and attachments of your message. We use it only to answer you and to fix the problem you report (Article 6(1)(b) and 6(1)(f) GDPR). We keep the correspondence for as long as the request is open and for a reasonable period afterwards, then delete it; you may ask us to delete it sooner. Our email provider processes the messages on our behalf.

6. Closed-test diagnostics (test builds only)

Special builds given directly to invited testers contain an optional Tester Diagnostics panel. It is off by default, records nothing until the tester switches it on, and stores its report on the tester’s device only. The report contains the app version, platform, OS version, device model, screen size, screen and menu sequence, input-to-frame timing, frame-rate and stall measurements, thermal and battery state, session timing, run outcome and anonymous error counts. It does not contain the callsign, saved progress, raw touch positions, keys pressed, location, account, advertising identifier, browser user-agent string or any persistent device identifier. We receive it only if the tester exports it and sends it to us; we use it solely to investigate compatibility, stability, heat and performance, keep it only for the test, and delete it afterwards or on request. Public store builds do not contain this panel.

7. Retention and deletion

Game data stays on your device until you remove it. You can delete everything the game stores with Settings → Clear Data in the game, by clearing the app’s storage in your operating system, or by uninstalling the app (on Android, the system backup may keep a copy under your Google account until you disable or delete that backup). Because the game has no account and no server, there is nothing for us to delete on our side unless you have emailed us; in that case, write to the address above.

8. Your rights (EU/EEA and UK)

You have the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict or object to the processing of personal data we hold about you, the right to data portability, and the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority — in Italy, the Garante per la protezione dei dati personali (www.garanteprivacy.it). In practice the only personal data we may hold is our email correspondence with you. Write to info@perathonersimon.com to exercise any right.

9. Children

Animanova does not collect personal data from anyone, including children, and has no features that would require age verification. Parents or guardians with questions may contact us at the address above.

10. Security

Your saved game is protected by your device’s security. Our mailbox is protected by our email provider’s security controls. Please do not send passwords, payment details or other sensitive data by email; we will never ask for them.

11. Changes

If a future version of Animanova adds a feature that processes personal data (for example online rankings), we will update this policy and the store privacy declarations before that version is released. The version and effective date at the top identify the current policy.

12. Contact

Simon Perathoner — info@perathonersimon.com