Unthread Privacy Policy

Unthread is a puzzle game for Android, iPhone and iPad published by TechStack Atlas (“we”). On Google Play it is listed under the developer account Paracodex. Questions about this policy: hello@techstackatlas.com.

We don't collect your name, email address, phone number, contacts, photos, precise location, microphone or camera. Payment details are handled only by Google Play or Apple; we never see your card. There is no chat or messaging.

The first time you play, Firebase creates an anonymous game account so your progress can be saved in the cloud. If you are signed in to Google Play Games (Android) or Game Center (Apple), the game links that account, so your progress comes back after a reinstall or on a new phone. Leaderboards and achievements are run by Google Play Games and Game Center and show your profile name there.

You don't have to sign in to anything to play. Without it, your cloud save stays tied to this install of the game. Your cloud save can only be read and changed by your own game account.

Unthread is free and shows ads from Google AdMob: optional reward videos (for example an extra heart or a free hint) and occasional full-screen ads between levels, never in the middle of one. Ads are limited to content suitable for teens. Buying Remove Ads stops the ads between levels; reward videos stay available, and only play when you choose them.

• Consent (EEA, UK, Switzerland and US states that require it): at first launch Google's consent form asks for your choices. Change them any time in Settings → Privacy choices.
• iPhone and iPad: Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt asks before the IDFA is used. If you decline, ads are not personalised with it.
• Android: reset or delete your Advertising ID, or opt out of personalised ads, in your device's Google settings.

How Google uses data from apps that show its ads: policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

• Google: policies.google.com/privacy
• Apple: apple.com/legal/privacy
• Unity: unity.com/legal/privacy-policy

These providers may process data outside your country, including in the United States, under their own data-protection commitments (such as standard contractual clauses).

• On your device: until you uninstall the game or clear its data.
• Cloud save: until you delete it in the game or ask us to.
• Purchase records: as long as tax and consumer law require, to handle refunds and disputes. They are linked only to the random game account ID.
• Leaderboards: kept by Google and Apple under their own policies. The weekly and daily boards restart every week and day.
• Analytics: for the retention period set in Google Analytics (2 to 14 months). Crash reports: up to 90 days.
• Advertising data: according to Google's own retention policies.

Depending on where you live (for example under the GDPR, UK GDPR or US state privacy laws), you may have the right to access, correct, delete or port your data, and to object to or restrict how it is used. We rely on providing the game and its purchases, our legitimate interests (security, fixing crashes, aggregated analytics) and your consent (personalised ads, and anything else the law asks consent for).

You can delete your cloud save and game account at any time in the game under Settings → Delete my data. To make any other request, see how to delete your Unthread data. We reply within 30 days. We never sell your personal information.

Unthread is meant for players aged 13 and over. It is not directed at children under 13. If you believe a child has created an account, contact us and we will delete it.

Everything the game sends travels over encrypted connections (HTTPS/TLS). The database only lets your own game account read or change your cloud save, and requests must come from the genuine app.