Pyrespire · Hero Tower Defense
Pyrespire Privacy Policy
The short version: Pyrespire does not collect, store on our servers, share or sell any personal information. There are no accounts, no analytics and no ad tracking in the current version.
1. Who we are
Pyrespire is developed and published by Feign Narula, an individual developer based in Ontario, Canada (“we”, “us”). Feign Narula is the seller of Pyrespire on the App Store and is responsible for personal information handled in connection with Pyrespire under Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and, where they apply to you, other privacy laws such as the EU/UK GDPR and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). This policy explains how Pyrespire handles information.
Privacy questions go to our privacy contact at feignnarula@nexaplaytech.com.
2. What the app collects, and why
The current version of Pyrespire does not collect personal information. Specifically, Pyrespire does not:
- ask you to create an account or sign in;
- collect your name, email address, phone number, contacts, photos, location or payment details;
- include analytics, attribution, crash-reporting or advertising SDKs (software kits) from third parties;
- access the Advertising Identifier (IDFA) or any other ad identifier, or show Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt (and it never will);
- track you across other companies' apps or websites;
- send your gameplay or device information to our servers. Pyrespire is played offline and we do not operate game servers.
Because nothing is collected, there is no purpose for which we process personal information through the app. Any “sample” or test ad screens in this version are built into the game itself and do not contact any ad network.
3. Data kept only on your device
To work as a game, Pyrespire saves your progress and settings (for example, maps cleared, difficulty, audio and control preferences) locally on your device. This data never leaves your device through Pyrespire, and we cannot see it. It may be included in your own iCloud or computer backups under your Apple settings. Deleting the app deletes this data from the device.
5. Apple and the App Store
You download Pyrespire through Apple's App Store. Apple processes information about your purchase, download and device under Apple's Privacy Policy, and we have no control over that processing.
If you have chosen in your device settings to share analytics with app developers, Apple may provide us with aggregated, de-identified App Store statistics and crash reports. These do not identify you to us. We use them only to understand how many people play and to fix bugs. You can turn this off at any time in Settings → Privacy & Security → Analytics & Improvements (on iPhone and iPad).
6. If you contact us
If you email us for support or with a question, we receive the information you choose to send, such as your email address, your message, and any device details or screenshots you include. We use it only to reply to you and fix the problem you report. Our email is hosted by Apple (iCloud Mail), which stores messages on our behalf. We do not add you to any mailing list and we do not share your message with anyone else.
Under the GDPR, our legal basis for handling a support request is our legitimate interest in answering it, or taking steps you ask for.
7. Children's privacy
Pyrespire is a general-audience game and is not listed in the App Store Kids category. Because younger players may play it, we treat every player as if they are under 13, whatever their age.
- The app does not collect personal information from anyone, of any age.
- Pyrespire will never show personalised ads, use an advertising identifier, track players across apps or websites, or show a tracking permission prompt.
- If ads are added (see section 10), every ad request will be marked as directed to children and under the age of consent, in line with the US Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and similar rules elsewhere.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 (or under the age of digital consent where you live, such as 16 in some EU countries). If a parent or guardian believes their child has sent us personal information, for example by emailing us, contact us at feignnarula@nexaplaytech.com and we will delete it.
8. Data retention and security
The app sends us no personal information, so there is nothing to retain from gameplay. Support emails are kept only as long as needed to resolve your request and handle any follow-up, and are then deleted, normally within 12 months. You can ask us to delete your emails sooner.
We protect the email account we use for support with strong authentication. No method of transmission or storage is perfectly secure, which is one reason we keep data collection to a minimum.
This website itself uses no cookies, analytics or trackers. Like any website, the service that hosts it may process standard technical logs (such as IP address and browser type) to deliver and secure the pages.
9. Your privacy rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights over your personal information, including:
- Canada (PIPEDA): to access and correct personal information we hold about you, to withdraw consent, and to complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.
- EU / UK (GDPR): to access, correct, delete, restrict or object to processing, to data portability, and to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.
- California and other US states: to know, access, correct and delete personal information, and to opt out of its sale or sharing. We do not sell or share personal information, and we will not treat you differently for using your rights.
Because the app collects nothing, in practice the only personal information we may hold is a support email you sent us. Requests are handled by Feign Narula, the individual developer responsible for Pyrespire. To make a request, email feignnarula@nexaplaytech.com. We respond within 30 days and may ask you to confirm the request comes from the same email address.
10. Future updates: advertising
Not active in the current version
We plan to add optional, clearly labelled ads to a future version of Pyrespire, for example a voluntary “watch an ad for reinforcements” reward. Nothing in this section applies until that update ships. Before it does, we will update this policy, change the effective date, and tell you in the app and in the App Store release notes.
How ads will work
- Non-personalised ads only. Ads are chosen based on the game, never on a profile of you, and are limited to content suitable for a general audience.
- Every player treated as under 13. Every ad request is marked as directed to children and under the age of consent (for example, the “child-directed” and “under age of consent” settings that ad networks provide), so the ad partner may not use it for personalised advertising, profiling or building a profile of you.
- No advertising identifier. Pyrespire does not access the Advertising Identifier (IDFA) or any other ad identifier.
- No tracking. Pyrespire does not track you across other companies' apps or websites, and it will not show Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt, because there is no tracking to ask about.
- No data sold. We do not sell or rent any data, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising.
What an ad partner may process
To serve and measure non-personalised ads, the ad partner's software in the app may process limited technical data that does not identify you: device type, operating system version, app version, language, and coarse ad interaction data (for example, whether an ad was shown or completed). It may also process data needed to detect fraud and to limit how often ads appear. Like any internet request, an ad request also reveals your device's IP address, which the partner may use only to deliver the ad and estimate your country. The partner's name and a link to its privacy policy will be listed in section 4 before ads go live.
Removing ads
If we later offer a one-time “Remove Ads” purchase, payment is handled entirely by Apple. We never see your payment details.
11. Changes to this policy
If we change how Pyrespire handles information, we will update this page and the effective date before the change takes effect. For material changes, such as adding ads, we will also give notice in the app.
Change log
- : first version, for Pyrespire 1.0.
- : named Feign Narula, an individual developer in Ontario, Canada, as the developer, seller and party responsible for personal information (sections 1 and 12).
- : confirmed that any future ads will be non-personalised, with every player treated as under 13, no advertising identifier, no tracking and no tracking prompt (sections 7 and 10).
12. Contact us
Feign Narula (individual developer and seller of Pyrespire)
Ontario, Canada
Email: feignnarula@nexaplaytech.com