We collect almost nothing. Here is exactly what that means — adverts included.

The short version. Our games have no accounts and no analytics of our own (apart from counting how many times each shop code is redeemed), and your progress is saved on your own device and never sent to us. Roamferux shows adverts provided by Google AdMob: Google's advert software uses your device's advertising ID, its IP address and information about how adverts are shown and used — in the UK and EU, only after you have been asked. Purchases are made through Google Play, and we never see your payment details. This website sets no cookies and runs no analytics. The only personal data we hold ourselves is what you choose to send us by email, and the order records Google Play gives us when you buy something.

Who we are

Feruxos Ltd is the data controller for this website and for the games we publish — currently Roamferux, our first title. We are registered in England and Wales under company number 17340113, with our registered office at 1 St. Clements Road, Bournemouth, BH1 4DU, United Kingdom. You can reach us about anything in this policy at roamferux@gmail.com.

This website

feruxos.com is a static site: pages, images and fonts served from our own domain. We do not set cookies, we do not run analytics, and we do not load fonts, scripts or trackers from third parties.

The site is delivered by Cloudflare, our hosting provider. When your browser requests a page, Cloudflare processes technical information such as your IP address, browser type and the address requested, in order to deliver the site and to protect it from attacks and abuse. This is done under our legitimate interest in running a secure, reliable website. We do not use this information to identify you, and Cloudflare's handling of it is described in Cloudflare's privacy policy.

Where we link to other sites — Google Play, for instance — those sites have their own policies, and this one stops at the link.

Our games

What a game stores, and where

Our games save your progress and settings on the device you play on: in the app's own storage if you installed it from Google Play, or in your browser's site data if you play in a browser. This data stays on your device. It is never transmitted to us or to anyone else, and we have no way to read it.

That includes a record of anything you buy, so the game can deliver it and remember an advert removal. You are in complete control of it. Uninstalling the app, or clearing the game's site data in your browser, deletes everything.

What our games do not do

• They have no user accounts and ask for no name, email address or other details.
• They contain no analytics or telemetry of our own. We do not know how often you play, how far you get or what you do. The one exception is a count: when you redeem a shop code in the Roamferux app, the app tells our server which code it was and whether it was the Android or the iPhone app, so we can see how many people used each code. Nothing else is sent with it — no name, no account, nothing that identifies you or your device — and our server keeps only a running total for each code. (Cloudflare, which carries the message, sees your device's IP address, as with any internet connection; we do not keep it.)
• They do not ask for access to your contacts, location, camera, microphone, photos or files.

Adverts (Google AdMob)

Roamferux is free to play and shows adverts, provided by Google's advertising service for apps, AdMob, through Google's own software inside the app. There are two kinds: an advert at certain natural breaks in play — the game tells you before each one, and any single purchase of £4.99 or more removes them on that device — and short adverts you can choose to watch in exchange for an in-game reward.

To show adverts, measure them and prevent fraud, Google's software collects and sends to Google: your device's IP address (which can be used to estimate its general location); your device's advertising ID and app set ID; information about how the app and its adverts are used, such as app launches, taps and video views; and performance information, such as how long the app takes to start. It is sent encrypted. It goes to Google, not to us — we only ever see totals, such as how many adverts were shown and what they earned. Google is responsible for its own use of this information, which is described in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services and in Google's privacy policy.

Your choices. If you are in the UK, the European Economic Area or Switzerland, the game shows Google's consent form before any adverts are requested, asking whether your data may be used to personalise adverts; that use rests on your consent. You can change your answer at any time: open the game's SHOP tab and choose 🔒 PRIVACY OPTIONS at the foot of it. If you don't consent, Google may still show adverts that are not personalised. Wherever you are, you can reset or delete your device's advertising ID in Android's settings (usually Settings → Privacy → Ads, or Settings → Google → Ads), and manage how Google personalises adverts at My Ad Center.

Purchases (Google Play)

Purchases in Roamferux are made through Google Play's billing system. Google takes the payment and holds your payment details; we never see them. Google gives us a record of each order through the Google Play Console — such as the order number, the item, the price, the date and the country it was bought in — which we use to keep our accounts, meet our tax obligations, and deal with refunds and questions about orders. We keep these records for as long as UK law requires us to keep accounting records, usually six years. The record of your purchase that the game keeps on your device is not sent to us.

If you install through Google Play

Google Play is operated by Google LLC. When you install or update a game through Google Play, Google processes information about you — your Google account, your device and the installation — under Google's privacy policy, not ours. Google may make aggregated, non-identifying statistics about the app (such as install counts, ratings and crash rates) available to us through the Google Play Console. These do not identify you, and we cannot use them to identify you.

If you email us

If you write to us, we will hold your message and email address (and any order number you give us) for as long as we need them to deal with your enquiry, and for a reasonable period afterwards so we can refer back to it if you write again. We use them for nothing else, we do not add you to any list, and we do not share them with anyone except where the law requires it. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in answering the people who contact us.

Children

Our games are made for players aged 13 and over and are not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian with a concern, email us and we will help.

Your rights

Under UK data protection law you have the right to ask what personal data we hold about you, to have it corrected or erased, to restrict or object to its use, and to receive a copy of it. In practice, unless you have emailed us or bought something, our answer will be that we hold nothing — and we will confirm that in writing. Advert data is held by Google: the controls under Adverts are the quickest way to act on it, and Google's privacy policy explains how to exercise your rights with Google. To exercise any of these rights with us, email roamferux@gmail.com.

If you are unhappy with how we have handled your data, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk. We would be grateful for the chance to put things right first.

Changes to this policy

If we change what the site or a game does with data, we will change this page and update the effective date at the top. Material changes to a game's behaviour will also be announced in the game itself.