Gravskip Privacy Policy

Effective date: October 26, 2026 Applies to: the Gravskip app for Android, and our website (section 3) Web address: https://thov-runeworks.com/privacy/gravskip

1. Who we are

Gravskip is a mobile game made and published by Thov Runeworks LLC, a single-member limited liability company based in Colorado, United States ("Thov Runeworks", "we", "us" or "our").

This policy explains what information is involved when you play Gravskip, who handles it, and the choices you have. You can open it at any time from Settings → Privacy Policy in the game. If you have questions, see section 13, "Contact us".

The short version

  • No accounts. Gravskip has no sign-in. It never asks for your name, email address, phone number, contacts, photos, camera, microphone or precise location.
  • Your progress stays on your device. Scores, Stardust, looks and settings are saved on your phone or tablet. The game doesn't send them to us.
  • One question about your age. The first time you play, Gravskip asks how old you are, only to pick suitable ads. It keeps only an age group on your device, never your age. Players under 13 see no ads at all.
  • Ads come from Google. Gravskip shows ads through Google AdMob. To show and measure ads, Google's software collects information from your device, including its advertising identifier, your IP address (which can reveal your approximate location) and how you interact with ads. Where the law requires it, Gravskip asks for your choices before it requests any ads, and Google may use the information to show you personalized ads only where the law and your choices allow.
  • Google Play handles payments. The optional Remove Ads purchase goes through Google Play. We never see your payment details.

2. Information Gravskip keeps on your device

Gravskip saves a small file in the app's private storage on your device. It holds:

  • your best score and lifetime totals (runs played, planets landed on, perfect landings and total score);
  • your Stardust, the looks you've unlocked and the ones you're wearing;
  • your Star Atlas discoveries (the bodies you've landed on and the hazards you've seen), pilot rank and current missions, including the date your missions were last refreshed;
  • your settings (Sound, Haptics and Reduce Motion), whether you've finished the tutorial, and which tips you've already seen;
  • your age group from the age question (under 13, 13 to 17, or 18 or over), but not the age you entered;
  • how long you've played since the last full-screen ad, so the game can space ads out;
  • whether you own Remove Ads, so ads stay off even when you're offline.

This file is used only to run the game. Gravskip doesn't send it to us or to anyone else, and we can't see it.

Gravskip also uses a few device features, on the device only: vibration for haptic feedback (you can turn it off in Settings), the device's date to refresh daily missions, and the internet connection for ads and purchases.

Gravskip doesn't have accounts, analytics or crash-reporting tools of its own. It doesn't ask for permission to use your location, contacts, photos, files, camera or microphone.

3. Information collected automatically by third-party services

Google AdMob (ads)

Gravskip includes Google's Mobile Ads SDK and Google's consent tool (the User Messaging Platform), provided by Google LLC. Gravskip starts them only after you've answered the age question, and never for players who said they're under 13 (see section 9). The consent tool then connects to Google to check which privacy messages apply to you and, where the law requires it, asks for your choices. Gravskip requests ads only after you've made your choices, or where no choice is needed. If you decline personalized ads, Google may still show limited or non-personalized ads. While you play, Google's ads software connects to Google to load ads and to report how they performed. Google states that its ads software automatically collects:

  • Device identifiers: your device's advertising ID and app set ID, other identifiers Google uses to deliver and measure ads, and, where applicable, identifiers related to accounts signed in on the device. Gravskip turns off Google's publisher first-party ID.
  • Your IP address, which can be used to estimate your general location, such as your city or region.
  • Interactions, such as app launches, taps, video views and which ads you've seen.
  • Diagnostic information, such as app launch time, hang rate and energy use.

Ad requests may also include technical details such as your device model, operating system version and language. They also carry Gravskip's request for family-friendly ads and, for players who said they're 13 to 17, a setting that tells Google the player is under the age of consent and asks it to turn off personalized ads (see section 9). Your age itself is never sent.

Cookies and similar technologies. To serve and measure ads, Google and companies Google works with may store and read cookies or similar technologies on your device, use the identifiers above, and use web beacons or your IP address to collect information as a result of the ads shown in Gravskip.

Google uses this information to show ads, measure them, produce analytics and prevent fraud. Where the law and your choices allow, Google may combine it with information from other apps and websites to show you personalized ads.

Google handles this information under its own privacy policy, not ours:

Google Play (purchases)

Remove Ads is an optional one-time purchase handled by Google Play. It isn't offered to players who said they're under 13, who see no ads, and for them Gravskip doesn't connect to Google Play's billing. Google Play processes your payment under its own terms and privacy policy, and we never receive your card or bank details. For everyone else, each time Gravskip starts, it asks Google Play for Remove Ads' price and whether you already own it, so it can switch ads off. Google's billing software talks to Google Play to do this.

Reports we can see from Google

We don't run servers for Gravskip, but Google shows us reports in our developer accounts:

  • Ad reports from AdMob: how many ads were shown and what they earned, in totals grouped by things like country and ad type. They don't identify individual players.
  • Sales reports from Google Play: for example, the product, price, date, order number and the country or region of each purchase. We use them only for accounting and taxes, and to help with refunds. To help with a refund, we may look up your order in Google Play by its order number or by the email address you give us.
  • Crash and performance reports, only if you've chosen in your device settings to share usage and diagnostics data. They come to us through Google Play, generally without your name or contact details.

Our website

This policy is published on our website, thov-runeworks.com, which is hosted by Squarespace. When you visit it, Squarespace uses the cookies the site needs to work, and, like any website, processes technical information such as your IP address, browser and device information, and the pages you visit, to run and secure the site. With your consent, it also uses an analytics cookie that recognizes returning visitors for up to two years, so we can see visit statistics such as page views and the general location of visitors. We see only totals, which don't identify you.

The site asks with a cookie banner before it sets the analytics cookie, and you can decline. You can also delete or block cookies in your browser. Squarespace handles this information under its own privacy policy: https://www.squarespace.com/privacy.

4. How we use information

Information is used to:

  • run the game and remember your progress and settings (on your device);
  • show ads suited to your age group, space them out, and give you Stardust when you choose to watch a rewarded ad;
  • unlock Remove Ads and restore it if you reinstall;
  • ask for, and respect, your privacy choices about ads;
  • keep accounts and tax records, and find and fix crashes (from the reports in section 3);
  • answer you when you contact us.

We don't use the information for anything else, and we don't build profiles of players.

5. Advertising

Where ads appear. A banner at the top of the game-over, Missions, Star Atlas and Looks screens; at most one full-screen ad for about every 15 minutes of play, shown as you leave the game-over screen; and optional rewarded ads that you choose to watch for extra Stardust. Ads never appear while you're playing a run. Players who said they're under 13 see no ads at all, including rewarded ads.

Family-friendly ads. Every ad request from Gravskip asks Google for ads rated suitable for general audiences (rating G).

Personalized and non-personalized ads. For players who said they're 13 to 17, Gravskip asks Google to turn off personalized ads (see section 9). For players 18 or over, Gravskip doesn't choose between them: Google decides, based on the laws where you are, your answers in Google's consent message (where it's shown), your device's ad settings and our AdMob account settings. Non-personalized ads are based on things like the app you're using and your general location, not on your activity in other apps and websites.

Remove Ads. Buying Remove Ads turns off the banner and the full-screen ads. Rewarded ads stay available because they're optional, so Google's ad software keeps running in the game and still collects the information described in section 3.

Ad clicks. If you tap an ad, it may open a website or another app, which has its own privacy policy.

Other ad companies. Gravskip doesn't add ad networks other than Google. Google may work with other companies that bid on or measure ads. Where Google's consent message is shown, such as in Europe and the UK, it lists them.

6. Sharing and disclosure

When you play Gravskip, the information collected by Google's ads and billing services goes directly from your device to Google. It doesn't pass through us, and we don't pass it on. When you visit our website, Squarespace processes the website information described in section 3. We don't run servers for Gravskip, but we can see the reports described in section 3.

We may share the little information we hold (emails, and copies of the reports in section 3):

  • with companies that help us run the business, such as an email provider or an accountant, only to provide that help;
  • when the law requires it, or to protect rights, safety or property;
  • with a buyer or successor if the business or Gravskip is sold or reorganized, in which case this policy continues to apply to that information.

Some US state privacy laws may treat the use of the information in section 3 for personalized ads as a "sale" or "sharing" of personal information, or as "targeted advertising". Where those laws apply, you can opt out as described in section 8.

7. Storage and retention

  • On your device: your game data, including your age group, stays until you delete Gravskip or clear its storage. We have no copy, and Gravskip turns off Android's cloud backup for its data, so if you reinstall Gravskip, your progress starts over. On some devices, moving to a new phone with Android's device-to-device transfer may copy your progress along with the app.
  • Google: Google keeps what it collects for as long as its policies say. See Google's retention policy: https://policies.google.com/technologies/retention.
  • Reports: Google keeps the reports in section 3 in our developer accounts. If we save copies, we keep them only as long as we need them for accounting, tax and legal reasons.
  • Emails: we keep them only as long as we need to answer you and keep reasonable business records, then delete them.
  • Our website: the analytics cookie lasts up to two years unless you delete it, and Squarespace keeps visit statistics as its policy says.

To ask us to delete anything we hold about you, such as your emails, contact us (section 13).

8. Your privacy choices and rights

Choices about ads

  • In the game: where the law requires it, you can review or change your ad choices, including withdrawing consent you gave, at any time in Settings → Privacy Options. The button appears only where Google's consent tool says it's needed, such as in Europe, the UK and some US states.
  • On Android: you can delete or reset your advertising ID in your device's settings (usually under Google → Ads, or Privacy → Ads). Once it's deleted, apps can't use it for ads.
  • Fewer ads: buying Remove Ads turns off the banner and the full-screen ads (see section 5).
  • Stop everything: uninstalling Gravskip stops all collection by the app and the services in it.

Your game data. It's on your device only. To delete it, uninstall Gravskip or clear its storage. There's no account to delete.

Your age group. Gravskip asks once. To answer again, clear Gravskip's storage or reinstall it, which also erases your progress.

Our website. Decline the analytics cookie in the site's cookie banner, or delete or block cookies in your browser.

Your rights. Depending on where you live, for example in the European Economic Area, the UK, Switzerland or certain US states, you may have the right to ask for access to, correction of or deletion of your personal information, to object to or opt out of some uses (including targeted advertising), and to complain to your local data protection authority. We hold almost no information about players, so most ad-related requests are best made to Google, through the links in section 3. For anything we hold, such as your emails, contact us (section 13) and we'll answer within the time the law requires. We won't treat you differently for using these rights.

Legal bases (EEA, UK and Switzerland). Where these laws apply, personalized ads, and ads that store or read information on your device, rely on your consent, collected by Google's consent message. Any ad processing that doesn't need that consent, such as preventing fraud, relies on legitimate interests. Choosing ads suited to your age group relies on our legitimate interest in protecting younger players and on our legal obligations. Purchases rely on the contract with you, handled by Google Play. Accounting records rely on legal obligations. Answering your messages relies on legitimate interests. Our website's analytics cookie relies on your consent.

9. Children and teenagers

Gravskip is intended for players aged 13 and over, and isn't designed for children. Because younger players may still play it, Gravskip asks "How old are you?" the first time it starts, before any ads. Every age can be entered, no answer is chosen in advance, and nothing suggests a better answer. All players can access Gravskip's core gameplay regardless of age. Players under 13 do not have access to advertisements or advertising-based rewards. The question's screen says the answer is only used to pick ads and stays on the device. Gravskip keeps only the age group, never the age, and treats ads as follows:

  • Under 13: no ads. For these players, Gravskip doesn't start Google's ads software or consent tool, doesn't request ads, and doesn't use the advertising ID for ads. Rewarded ads and the Remove Ads purchase aren't offered, and Gravskip doesn't connect to Google Play's billing.
  • 13 to 17: Gravskip tags its ad requests, and its requests to Google's consent tool, as being for someone under the age of consent. This asks Google to turn off personalized ads and remarketing, so the consent tool doesn't ask these players for choices about them. Google also applies its own safeguards for teenagers, as its policies describe.
  • 18 or over: ads work as described in section 5.

Every ad request asks for ads rated suitable for general audiences (G), and Gravskip has no chat, accounts or other ways for players to share personal information.

We don't knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you're a parent or guardian and believe your child has sent us personal information, contact us and we'll delete it.

10. Data security

  • Your game data stays in the app's private storage on your device, protected by your device's own security. Gravskip doesn't encrypt it separately.
  • Google states that its ads software encrypts the data it sends using TLS. Payments are handled by Google Play.
  • We protect the reports and emails we can access with reasonable measures, such as accounts protected by passwords and two-step verification.

No method of storage or transmission is completely secure, so we can't guarantee security.

11. International data processing

Thov Runeworks is based in the United States. Google processes information in the United States and other countries, under its own safeguards for international transfers. If you contact us, your message is processed in the United States, and possibly by our email provider in other countries.

12. Changes to this policy

We'll update this policy when Gravskip or the services in it change in ways that affect your information. The new version will be posted at this address with a new effective date. If a change is significant, we'll also tell you in the app or on its store page where reasonable. This policy covers Gravskip for Android, and our website as described in section 3. If Gravskip comes to other platforms, we'll update it first.

13. Contact us

Email us about anything in this policy, including requests about your information: