METEORBIT

Terms of Use

The game

Meteorbit is an arcade game: fly round small planets, shoot the meteors that rain down, collect their ore, and land to bank it. It has a Daily Run that is the same for every player each day, Expeditions that go as far as you can fly, practice drills, and a hangar of upgrades and looks earned with in-game ore. By using Meteorbit, you agree to these terms.

The free game and purchases

Meteorbit is free to download. The Daily Run is free for everyone, and Expeditions can be played free up to sector 3. The free game shows ads (see "Advertising" in the Privacy Policy). Meteorbit sells one-time purchases, never subscriptions:

Meteorbit Premium unlocks full Expeditions and every ship module, and removes all ads.
The Supporter Pack adds every look sold in the game, two looks sold nowhere else, and a Founding Pilot badge. It is cosmetic only and does not include Premium.
Single looks (ship paints and engine colours) can be bought one at a time. They change how your ship looks, never how it plays.

Nothing sold in Meteorbit makes you stronger in the Daily Run: it is played with the same ship and modules by everyone.

Payment is charged to your Apple ID (or Google Play account) at confirmation of purchase. Prices are shown in the store before you buy.
Purchases are yours for good on the account you made them with. If you reinstall the app or move to a new device, use Restore purchases (in Settings and in the Store) to get them back.
Payments are processed entirely by Apple or Google; refunds are handled under their standard policies, not by Meteorbit's developer directly.

Leaderboards and fair play

Daily Run scores, best sectors and total ore can appear on Game Center (iPhone) or Google Play Games (Android) leaderboards. Don't use cheats, modified copies of the app or other tricks to post scores you didn't fly for; scores that look impossible may be removed.

Ownership

Meteorbit's game, artwork, sounds, music, text and code belong to its developer. The sounds are made by the game itself; no outside media is used.

Acceptable use

Use Meteorbit only for its intended purpose of playing it and sharing your results. Don't attempt to reverse-engineer, resell, or misuse the app or its content.

"As is," no warranty

Meteorbit is provided "as is," without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose or uninterrupted availability. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the developer's total liability arising from your use of Meteorbit is limited to the amount you paid for the app or its purchases in the 12 months before the claim.

Changes to these terms

If these terms change, this page will be updated with a new effective date, and material changes will be noted in the app's release notes.

Privacy Policy

The short version: Meteorbit has no user accounts and no backend server of its own. Your progress, purchases, stats and settings stay on your device. Two things aren't purely local: the free game shows ads through Google's Mobile Ads SDK, which can use an advertising identifier only if you agree to it; and if you're signed in to Game Center or Google Play Games, your scores and achievements go to them. Both are explained below, with how to decline.

Information we collect

None, on our own servers. Meteorbit has no backend server of its own and uses no analytics or crash-reporting SDKs. The third parties it works with are the advertising SDK, the game services and the app stores, each described below.

Advertising

Meteorbit's free version shows ads through Google's Mobile Ads SDK (AdMob): an occasional full-screen ad between runs, and short ads you can choose to watch for a reward (a second chance in a run, double ore, a free reroll of upgrade offers, or an extra practice run). There are no banner ads, and rewarded ads are always optional.

Your consent comes first. Where the law requires it (such as in the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland), Meteorbit shows Google's consent form before any ads, and you can change your answer anytime in Settings → Privacy choices.
On iPhone, the app asks for App Tracking Transparency permission before any tracking-based ad targeting, as Apple requires. You can allow or decline in the system prompt, and Meteorbit plays exactly the same either way.
Personalised only with your yes. Ads are personalised only if you agree in both places that apply to you. If you decline, or on Android, ads are requested as non-personalised: they aren't targeted by your interests. Even then, the ad SDK may use your device's advertising identifier to limit how often an ad repeats, prevent fraud and measure ads. You can reset or delete your advertising ID in your device's settings.

Google's use of any data collected through the SDK is governed by Google's own privacy policy and its disclosures for how it uses information from apps that use its services, not by Meteorbit's developer. Meteorbit Premium removes ads (and this SDK's ad activity) entirely; Premium players are never asked about ad consent or tracking.

Game Center and Google Play Games

On iPhone, Meteorbit signs in to Apple's Game Center if you use it; on Android, to Google Play Games. When you're signed in, your achievements and your Daily Run, best-sector and total-ore scores are sent to that service, and your scores and player name can appear on its leaderboards for other players to see. These services are run by Apple and Google under their own privacy policies. If you're not signed in, Meteorbit keeps all of this on your device only. You can sign out in your device's Game Center or Play Games settings.

Game settings download

When it starts, Meteorbit may download a small file of game settings (such as how fast meteors fall) from its developer's website, so the game can be fine-tuned without an app update. The download sends nothing about you; like any visit to a website, it lets the web host serving the file see your device's IP address, but Meteorbit's developer doesn't collect it. If the download fails, the game simply uses the settings it already has.

Your data

Local storage only. Your ore, upgrades, looks, purchases, Daily Run streak, stats and achievements, and your settings (controls, sound, accessibility and privacy choices) live in your device's local storage.
Deleting your data. Uninstalling the app permanently deletes everything on your device. There is no account to delete and no server-side copy, because none exists. Purchases can be restored on a reinstall from your Apple or Google account; anything sent to Game Center or Play Games is managed in those services.

Sharing a result

When you share a run, Meteorbit makes the result card (an image and a short text summary) entirely on your device and hands it to whatever app you pick in your device's own share sheet (Messages, email, and so on). Meteorbit never uploads it anywhere.

In-app purchases

Purchases are processed entirely by Apple or Google through their standard in-app purchase systems. Meteorbit's developer never receives your payment details (card numbers, billing address, and so on) — that's handled directly between you and Apple or Google under their own privacy policies. Meteorbit only learns which items you own, so it can unlock them on your device.

Ratings

After a good run, Meteorbit may ask whether you'd like to rate it, using Apple's or Google's built-in rating prompt. They handle the prompt and any rating you leave; Meteorbit doesn't see your answer.

Children's privacy

Meteorbit does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children. The app has no accounts, no chat, and no messaging between players; the only third-party data collection is the advertising SDK and the game services described above, which are limited by Apple's and Google's own platform rules for apps used by a general audience.

Changes to this policy

If this policy ever changes, this page will be updated with a new effective date, and that change will be described in the app's release notes.

Contact

Questions about these terms or this policy can be sent to: erbuilapps@icloud.com