Acornaut · Quarterdrop LLC
Privacy Policy
Effective 30 September 2026
Acornaut does not collect personal information. There are no accounts, no analytics and no tracking, and nothing about you or how you play is sent to us.
Your progress is saved on your own device and stays there. The app-store version shows optional advertisements through Google AdMob and can post scores to Game Center or Google Play Games; those two services are described below, and neither gives us anything about you.
This policy explains that in full. The web version at acornaut.app has no advertising and no leaderboards at all.
Who we are
Acornaut is made and published by Quarterdrop LLC, a Michigan limited liability company based in Novi, Michigan (about the studio). In this policy, "we" and "us" mean Quarterdrop LLC, and "the game" means Acornaut on the web at acornaut.app and any app-store version of it.
What is stored on your device
The game keeps a single save file in your browser's local storage (or, in an app-store version, in the app's own storage). It never leaves your device unless you deliberately move it there yourself.
| What | Why it is kept |
|---|---|
| Progress — stars, missions completed, gates reached, best scores | So a run picks up where you left off |
| Acorns, Star Dust and what you own — suits, helmets, trails, companions | So your hangar is still yours next time |
| Purchase receipts | So an item you paid for is granted once and never charged twice |
| Settings — sound, music, help prompts, motion | So you set them once |
| Pilot name, if you type one | To show on your own profile screen |
| Lifetime tallies — runs flown, acorns collected, zones seen | The three counters on the profile screen |
About the pilot name
The pilot name is the one place the game accepts free text from you. It is optional, it is stored only in your own save file, and it is never transmitted anywhere. Nothing checks it, reads it or uploads it. If you would rather not enter a name, leave it blank and the game uses a default.
What the game does not do
- No accounts. There is nothing to sign up for and no password to give us.
- No analytics or telemetry. The game contains no analytics library and reports no events, sessions, crashes or usage to anyone.
- No advertising on the web. acornaut.app has no ad network and no ad SDK. The app-store version shows ads through Google AdMob, described in its own section below.
- No tracking. No tracking cookies, no pixels, no fingerprinting, no cross-app or cross-site tracking, and nothing is shared with data brokers. The app asks AdMob for non-personalised ads only.
- No third-party services in the web game. The web version loads no fonts, scripts, frames or resources from anyone else's servers. The app-store version's only third-party services are AdMob and the platform's own game service, below.
- No location, contacts, camera, microphone, photos or health data. The game never asks for these permissions.
- Nothing is sold. We have no personal information to sell or share, and would not.
Hosting, and the one thing we do not control
The web version of Acornaut is a set of static files. When you open it, your device downloads the game's own pages, code and artwork from acornaut.app and nothing else.
Those files are hosted for us by GitHub Pages. Like any web host, GitHub's servers record ordinary request information — including your IP address, the time of the request and your browser's user-agent string — as a normal part of delivering a web page and protecting the service. We do not have access to those logs, we do not receive reports built from them, and we do not use them. Their handling is governed by GitHub's Privacy Statement.
This is the only routine data collection connected with the game, it is done by the host rather than by us, and it happens with any website you visit.
Purchases
Where the game offers optional paid items, the payment is handled entirely by the app store you installed from — Apple's App Store or Google Play. We never see or receive your payment details: no card number, no billing address, no name. The store tells the game only whether a purchase succeeded and gives it a transaction reference, which the game records on your device so the same purchase is never granted twice.
Apple and Google handle that transaction under their own privacy policies. The web version at acornaut.app takes no payments at all.
Advertising App-store version only
The app-store version of Acornaut can show two kinds of advertisement through Google AdMob: a rewarded ad you choose to watch (to continue a run, or for a little Star Dust, a few times a day) and an occasional full-screen ad between runs. The web version shows none.
- The game asks AdMob for non-personalised ads. Where the law requires it, AdMob asks for your consent before any ad is shown, and you can decline.
- To serve and measure an ad, Google's SDK may read your device's advertising identifier and collect ordinary device and usage information (device type, operating system, app version, how the ad performed). That data goes to Google, not to us; we never see it and cannot look you up from it. It is governed by Google's Privacy Policy and how Google uses information from partner apps.
- The game never asks permission to track you across other companies' apps or websites, and the ad SDK is not used for that.
- Whether you watched a rewarded ad is remembered only on your device, so the reward is granted once.
Leaderboards App-store version only
The app-store version can post your best scores to your platform's own game service — Game Center on Apple devices, Google Play Games on Android. The web version has no leaderboards.
- The game sends a numeric score and which board it belongs to. That is all it sends.
- The name shown beside your score is the nickname you have already set with Game Center or Google Play Games. It is not your Acornaut pilot name, which stays on your device.
- Your identity on the board is held by Apple or Google, not by us. We never receive your account name, email address or any identifier for you, and we cannot look you up.
- Participation is optional and controlled through your Game Center or Google Play Games settings, not through us.
Children
Acornaut is a general-audience game. It is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children — or, for that matter, from anyone, since the game collects none at all. If you believe a child has somehow provided personal information to us, please get in touch and we will act on it.
Your data, and how to remove it
Because your save lives on your device, you are the one holding it, and you can delete it at any time without asking us:
- In the game: open your Profile and use Start Over, which erases your progress, records, settings and pilot name. Items you bought, your Star Dust and your boosts are kept so a purchase is never lost.
- On the web: clear site data for acornaut.app in your browser's settings.
- In an app-store version: delete the app.
Any of these removes your progress permanently. There is no copy on a server for us to delete, and no request you need to send us — but if you have a question about your information, or want to exercise a right under the GDPR, the CCPA or a similar law, write to us and we will answer.
Changes to this policy
If the game changes in a way that affects this policy — a new feature that sends something, or a service we begin to use — we will update this page and change the effective date at the top before that change reaches you.
Contact
Questions about privacy, or about anything on this page:
acornaut@outlook.com