SharpAccent / Tapslingers
Tapslingers Privacy Policy
Effective date:
This policy explains how Athos Kelesidis, operating as SharpAccent ("we", "us"), handles information when you play Tapslingers or contact us about the game.
1. Guest play and optional accounts
You do not have to register or link a Google or Apple account to play. When online services initialize, the game can create a guest player identity through Unity Authentication. Guest play is therefore not necessarily anonymous to the game services: a player identifier can be associated with your progress and online activity.
You can choose to link an account through Google Play Games on Android or Sign in with Apple on supported Apple devices. These services authenticate you and provide account identifiers and authentication credentials used to link or restore your game profile. We do not receive your Google or Apple password. The game does not request your real name or email address through its Apple sign-in flow.
2. Information the game handles
- Player and account information: guest or registered player identifiers, linked sign-in provider identifiers, authentication tokens, and your chosen or generated in-game username.
- Game progress: match results, wins and losses, scores and bounty, ranks, unlocked content, character progress, and other gameplay statistics associated with your player profile. Progress is stored on your device and can be synchronized with our game backend.
- Online play: matchmaking tickets, room identifiers, connection information, and the gameplay messages needed to connect players and run a match.
- Technical information: our hosting, authentication, and networking providers process information such as IP addresses, device or app information, request timestamps, and operational or error logs to deliver and protect their services.
- Support messages: your email address and anything you choose to send when you contact us. Please do not send passwords, sign-in tokens, or unnecessary sensitive information.
The game also stores settings and cached progress locally on your device. Local storage is used for gameplay and account continuity rather than advertising.
3. Why we use information
We use this information to run the game, identify your player profile, authenticate optional accounts, save and restore progress, synchronize gameplay statistics, provide matchmaking and leaderboards, respond to support and privacy requests, and investigate faults, abuse, or unauthorized access.
Tapslingers does not use advertising SDKs or collect data for targeted advertising. We do not sell your personal information. Gameplay statistics and service operation logs support the game; they are not used for advertising profiles.
4. Service providers and information visible to others
- Unity Authentication provides guest identity and optional account linking. See Unity's Game Player and App User Privacy Policy.
- Google Play Games and Apple handle sign-in when you choose those options. Their services are also governed by the Google Privacy Policy and Apple Privacy Policy, respectively.
- Microsoft Azure hosts our game backend and player data and provides operational monitoring. See the Microsoft Privacy Statement.
- PurrNet / PurrTransport networking services process room, connection, and gameplay data to establish multiplayer connections, including relay connections where needed. Direct peer connections can expose your network address to the other connected player.
- Other players can see information the game displays publicly, such as your in-game username, leaderboard scores, and relevant match information. Do not use your real name or sensitive information as your username if you do not want it visible.
We may also disclose information when required by law, to protect players or the service, or to establish or defend legal claims. We limit disclosures to what is needed for the relevant purpose.
5. Storage, retention, and security
Player profiles and progress can remain stored while they are needed to provide the game and account recovery, until you request deletion, or until we remove data that is no longer needed. Signing out or uninstalling the game does not automatically delete server-side profiles. Technical logs and support correspondence may be retained as needed for troubleshooting, security, legal obligations, or resolving a request.
We use HTTPS for authentication and game backend requests, validate authentication for protected backend operations, and restrict access to backend data. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure.
Our providers may process information in countries other than yours. Where applicable law requires safeguards for international transfers, those requirements apply to the relevant processing and providers.
6. Your choices, rights, and deletion requests
You can play without linking a Google or Apple account and can choose not to use online features. You can manage linked sign-in permissions through your Google or Apple account settings. Revoking a sign-in permission or signing out does not by itself delete the game profile.
To request deletion of your Tapslingers account or guest profile and associated server-side game data, email unityguru23@gmail.com with the subject "Tapslingers account and data deletion". Include your in-game username and player ID if available, and say whether you used guest play, Google, or Apple. If you cannot find your player ID, contact us anyway so we can help identify the profile. Do not send passwords or authentication tokens.
We may ask for information reasonably necessary to verify that you control the profile before deleting it. Deletion removes the associated profile, progress, and identifying leaderboard records from our active game systems, subject to information we must retain for legal or security reasons. Any retained information will be limited to that purpose. Requests will be handled within the time required by applicable law. Deletion does not delete your separate Google, Apple, or other third-party account. You can clear local game data through your device settings or uninstall the app; copies held in device backups are controlled through the relevant backup service.
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, erase, or receive a copy of your personal data, restrict or object to processing, withdraw consent where processing relies on consent, or complain to your local data protection authority. Contact us using the address below to exercise these rights.
7. Legal grounds where applicable
Where data protection law requires a legal basis, we process information as necessary to provide the game features you request, for legitimate interests such as securing and maintaining the service, to meet legal obligations, or on the basis of consent when required. You may withdraw consent without affecting processing that was lawful before withdrawal.
8. Children and parents
Parents or guardians who believe a child has provided personal information inappropriately, or who want to request access to or deletion of a child's game data, can contact us. Please avoid including sensitive information in a public username or support message.
9. This policy page and changes
This page can be read without signing in and does not load advertising, analytics scripts, or third-party fonts. The website host may process standard request and security logs when delivering it. We may update this policy when the game's features or data practices change. The effective date above identifies the current version; where required, material changes will also be communicated through the game or another appropriate notice.