MailDash Privacy Notice
MailDash is made for children. It collects no personal information from anyone who plays it. This notice explains exactly what the game does and does not do.
What MailDash does not do
Plainly, and without exceptions:
- No ads. No advertising of any kind is shown in the game.
- No third-party analytics. There are no analytics or advertising SDKs in the app, so no outside company receives any data about your child.
- No advertising identifier. The device advertising identifier (IDFA on iOS, GAID on Android) is never read.
- No account and no sign-in. There is nothing to log into. The game never asks for a name, an email address, a birthday, or a phone number.
- No access to the device. The game does not use the camera, the microphone, photos, contacts, or location.
- No social features. There is no chat, messaging, sharing, friend list, or way for players to post anything.
- Nothing is sold or shared. No data is sold or shared with anyone, and none ever has been.
What MailDash does do
An installation number that is not about your child
When the game is installed it generates a random number and keeps it on the device. It is not taken from the device, its hardware, or any person, it is not the advertising identifier, and it is not connected to any name or account. Its only job is to keep gameplay settings consistent for that installation.
Gameplay statistics
The game sends basic gameplay statistics, such as how long a run lasted and which level was reached, to servers run by Chris Brock LLC. This is how we learn which levels are too hard. It contains no personal information. The game is built so that any field marked as personal data is removed before anything is sent when a player is treated as a child, and because MailDash is a children's game, every player is treated as a child.
Progress stays on the device
Game progress is saved on the device itself, not on a server. Deleting the app deletes it.
Purchases, if the game offers them
Any in-app purchase is handled entirely by Apple, Google, or Amazon. Chris Brock LLC never sees or stores payment card details. Purchases sit behind a parental gate designed so that a young child cannot complete one without an adult.
Crash reports
If the game crashes, we may collect a crash report so the problem can be fixed. A crash report describes what the software was doing when it failed. It does not contain personal information about your child.
COPPA, in plain terms
The United States Children's Online Privacy Protection Act requires an app directed at children under 13 to get a parent's verifiable consent before collecting personal information from a child.
MailDash does not collect personal information from children, so there is nothing for a parent to consent to and no verifiable parental consent is required. We would rather not hold your child's information at all than ask you to approve holding it.
Parents: what you can ask for
Even though we hold no personal information about your child, you can always write to privacy@chrisbrock.io to:
- ask a question about anything in this notice;
- ask what, if anything, is held in connection with your installation of the game;
- ask for any data associated with your installation to be deleted.
Please include enough detail to identify the installation, and say which device and platform it is on. You will get a response within 30 days. There is no charge, and you do not need to give a reason.
How long anything is kept
Gameplay progress and the installation number live on the device, and deleting the app removes them. Gameplay statistics on our servers are kept only for as long as they are useful for improving the game, and they contain no personal information. Crash reports are kept only until the defect they describe is resolved.
Families outside the United States
MailDash is distributed internationally. Where the EU General Data Protection Regulation or the UK GDPR applies, the same facts hold: the game collects no personal data from players, so the consent and children's data provisions of those laws have nothing to attach to. The gameplay statistics described above are not personal data. If you believe otherwise in your situation, write to us and we will look into it.
If this notice changes
If the game's data practices ever change, this page is updated before the change reaches players, and the "last updated" date at the top changes with it. If a change ever meant collecting personal information from children, we would obtain verifiable parental consent first, as the law requires. Please check this page from time to time.
Who we are
MailDash is published by Chris Brock LLC, a Georgia limited liability company, in the United States. Privacy enquiries: privacy@chrisbrock.io. This notice is governed by the laws of the State of Georgia, United States, without regard to its conflict of laws rules.