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STEREO BOY Privacy Policy

This policy describes the kind of player data we (Main Gauche Games) collect via the Stereo Boy game client.

First off, we don't require players to consent to data collection to play the game. Players are presented with an opt-in prompt at the very start of the game. It might even be how you arrived at this document. If you happened to opt-in, this document should help you understand what we're collecting and why.

We collect data for the following reasons:

• To capture information about crashes and other error conditions in the game, with the goal of identifying and fixing bugs.
• To estimate the number of people playing the game for a given time period.
• To understand how players proceed through the game, e.g., which and how many levels they play, how many optional items they collect, how long they play, etc.

We do not collect information for marketing purposes, nor do we sell the information we collect.

The vast majority of the data we collect is restricted to technical details that come purely from the game, such as frame rate, memory consumption, how many levels were played, etc. Moreover, we analyze the data almost entirely in aggregated form, i.e., as averages, distributions, and sums.

We do not collect any information that is tied directly to the real-world identity of the player. The game client does not have access to details like your name, contact info, age, etc. However, some of the information that the game collects may be considered personally-identifying information by stricter privacy laws such as the EU's GDPR. This includes the following:

• Randomized tracking codes that are generated when you install the game and then persisted between play sessions. This is effectively a cookie, and it's how we can tell how many unique players we have.
• Non-unique details about your computer, such as your operating system, model of laptop, and type of CPU. These are mainly used to provide context in crash reports.
• Your IP address. We're not actually interested in IP addresses, but since we use vendors to collect and store the data, we can't prevent IPs from being collected.

We do not directly receive data from the game client. Instead, the data that the game collects is sent from player devices to two vendor services, each of which have their own privacy and data handling policies that could interest you:

• Unity Analytics, a general game analytics service. Read their privacy policy, starting with the heading "I play a game that was built with or uses certain Unity software, what should I know?"
• Bugsnag (aka SmartBear), a crash/error tracking service. The most useful document for our players is their Data Processing Addendum, although it is written as if addressed to their direct customers, i.e., us.

If you have any questions, feel free to reach us at info@maingauche.games. Thanks for reading!