Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy explains how ScrollRace collects, uses, stores, and protects information when you use the ScrollRace mobile app and related services.
Summary
ScrollRace is a mobile game where users race by scrolling, save personal records, and compete on leaderboards. To operate the app, we collect information such as account details, usernames, race results, leaderboard data, device information for calibration, and race input data for anti-cheat and fairness purposes.
We do not sell your personal information. We use your data to provide the app, keep rankings fair, secure accounts, improve performance, and respond to support requests.
1. Who we are
ScrollRace is operated by the owner of the ScrollRace app and the domain scrollraces.com.
For privacy questions, data requests, or account deletion help, contact us at: contact@ooptifood.com.
2. Information we collect
Account information
When you create or use a ScrollRace account, we may collect:
- Email address, used for sign-up, login, account confirmation, and password reset.
- User ID, used to identify your account in our database.
- Username, used for your public profile and leaderboards.
- Authentication information handled by our authentication provider.
Profile and leaderboard information
To provide rankings and competitive features, we may collect:
- Username.
- Country or country code, if you choose to set one.
- Race times and personal bests.
- Weekly records, all-time records, rankings, and leaderboard entries.
- Friend or invite-related identifiers, if friend or invitation features are used.
Race and performance information
When you complete races, we may collect:
- Race time.
- Average speed and peak speed.
- Race date and time.
- Track or arena style used during the race.
- Whether a result is considered valid, suspicious, or flagged.
- Race statistics used to calculate records, rankings, and progress.
Device and calibration information
ScrollRace relies on device-specific calibration to make race results fairer across phones. We may collect or process:
- Device model.
- Device identifier or installation identifier.
- Screen and device characteristics used for race distance calibration.
- Operating system and app version.
- Information used to check whether a race came from the expected device.
Input and anti-cheat information
To detect impossible, automated, manipulated, or unfair race results, we may collect and analyze:
- Scroll input samples.
- Touch or scroll timing patterns.
- Peak speed calculations.
- Input regularity indicators.
- Anti-cheat flags and reasons, such as suspicious speed or overly regular input patterns.
App settings and preferences
We may store settings such as:
- Language preference.
- Dark mode preference.
- Distance and speed units.
- Selected arena, custom colors, and visual preferences.
Support information
If you contact us, we may collect your email address, message content, and any information you choose to provide so we can respond to your request.
Advertising and analytics information
If ScrollRace uses advertising, analytics, crash reporting, or measurement services, those services may collect information such as device identifiers, advertising identifiers, approximate location, app usage information, diagnostic data, and ad interaction data, depending on your device settings and consent choices.
3. How we use information
We use collected information to:
- Create, authenticate, and manage user accounts.
- Save race results, records, and leaderboard entries.
- Display public usernames and rankings.
- Provide country, world, weekly, all-time, and friend leaderboard features.
- Calibrate race distance across different devices.
- Detect cheating, automation, abuse, or suspicious race activity.
- Prevent fraud and protect the integrity of rankings.
- Provide customer support.
- Improve app performance, stability, and user experience.
- Comply with legal obligations and enforce our Terms of Use.
4. Public information
Some information is visible to other users as part of the competitive features of ScrollRace. This may include:
- Your username.
- Your country, if you set one.
- Your leaderboard position.
- Your race time or personal best.
- Your weekly or all-time ranking.
Do not use personal, sensitive, or private information in your username.
5. Legal bases for processing
If you are located in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, or another region with similar data protection laws, we rely on the following legal bases where applicable:
- Contractual necessity: to provide the app, accounts, race results, and leaderboard features.
- Legitimate interests: to secure the app, prevent cheating, validate races, improve performance, and protect the fairness of rankings.
- Consent: where required for optional features, advertising, analytics, or certain device permissions.
- Legal obligation: where we must keep or disclose information to comply with applicable law.
6. Third-party services
ScrollRace may use third-party service providers to operate the app. These providers process information on our behalf or according to their own privacy practices.
Supabase
We use Supabase or similar backend services for authentication, database hosting, account management, and storage of app data such as profiles, race results, and leaderboard information.
Apple App Store
If you download ScrollRace from the App Store, Apple may process information related to downloads, purchases, subscriptions, device settings, and App Store interactions according to Apple's own policies.
Advertising providers
If ads are enabled in ScrollRace, we may use advertising providers such as Google AdMob or similar services. Advertising providers may process device identifiers, ad identifiers, approximate location, ad interactions, and usage information to provide, limit, measure, or personalize ads where permitted.
Analytics, diagnostics, and crash reporting
We may use analytics or diagnostic tools to understand app performance, crashes, errors, and usage patterns. These tools help us fix bugs and improve the app.
7. Device permissions
ScrollRace may request device permissions only where needed for app functionality. Depending on the version of the app, this may include notification permissions or other permissions shown by your operating system.
You can manage device permissions in your phone's system settings.
8. Data retention
We keep personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including providing the app, maintaining leaderboards, preventing fraud or cheating, resolving disputes, enforcing our Terms of Use, and complying with legal obligations.
Race results, leaderboard records, anti-cheat indicators, and account-related data may be retained while your account is active. If you delete your account, we will delete or anonymize account-related data, subject to reasonable retention for security, fraud prevention, legal compliance, backup recovery, or dispute resolution.
9. Account deletion
You can delete your ScrollRace account from inside the app where account deletion is available.
You can also visit: https://www.scrollraces.com/delete-account
If you cannot access the app, contact us at contact@ooptifood.com.
10. Your privacy rights
Depending on your location, you may have the right to:
- Access the personal information we hold about you.
- Correct inaccurate or incomplete information.
- Delete your personal information.
- Object to or restrict certain processing.
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
- Request a copy of your information in a portable format.
- Lodge a complaint with a data protection authority.
To exercise these rights, contact us at contact@ooptifood.com.
European users have rights over their personal data under EU data protection rules, including access and correction rights.
11. Children
ScrollRace is not intended for children under the age required by applicable law to use online services without parental consent. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children where parental consent is required.
If you believe a child has provided personal information to ScrollRace without the required consent, contact us at contact@ooptifood.com.
12. Security
We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect personal information. However, no app, network, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
You are responsible for keeping your login credentials secure and for using a strong password.
13. International data transfers
Your information may be processed and stored in countries other than your country of residence. Where required, we rely on appropriate safeguards for international transfers of personal information.
14. Do Not Track and tracking choices
Some browsers or devices offer “Do Not Track” or similar signals. ScrollRace is primarily a mobile app, and we do not currently respond to browser-based Do Not Track signals.
You can control certain tracking, advertising, analytics, and permission settings through your device settings, Apple privacy controls, and any consent prompts shown in the app.
15. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we may notify users through the app, website, or other appropriate means. The updated version will be posted on this page with a new effective date.
16. Contact
For privacy questions, data requests, or account deletion help, contact:
Website: https://www.scrollraces.com