Privacy Policy

Dead Center Apps LLC ("we", "our", "us") respects your privacy. This policy explains what we collect when you use deadcenterapps.com, our browser games, the DCA Hub app for Android, and our other mobile apps, and what we do with it. App-specific details for Track Drive Mileage are in its own data and privacy policy.

What we collect

If you sign in with Google

Signing in is optional. You can play our games as a guest without an account. When you choose "Sign in with Google", Google shares your account ID, name, email address and profile picture with us. We use them to create your player profile. We never receive your Google password and we cannot post anything to your Google account.

Your player profile and game data

For signed-in players we store: your display name, profile picture link, friend code and optional tagline; your game results (scores, levels reached, multiplayer placements and wins) and totals built from them; your friends list (players you added and players who added you); notifications such as game invites; waitlist sign-ups for upcoming games; and presence information (when you were last active, which game you are in, and the room code of a multiplayer lobby you are in) so your friends can see you are online and join you.

Multiplayer

When you play online, your game inputs and display name are sent to our game server so the match can run. Other players in your room see your display name, color and score, and signed-in players can see that you are signed in so they can add you as a friend.

On your device

Games store settings and your local best score in your browser's storage. The website uses one essential sign-in cookie (dca_session) to keep you signed in. We do not use advertising or cross-site tracking cookies.

The DCA Hub app (Android)

You can play DCA Hub as a guest: your progress, settings and guest gold stay on your phone. If you sign in, the app opens deadcenterapps.com in your phone's browser to sign in with Google, then keeps a sign-in token on your phone so it can load the same player profile, gold, Flaming Sparrow Eggs and unlocks as the website.

Purchases: Flaming Sparrow Eggs bought in the app are paid through Google Play. Google handles your payment details; we receive the purchase record (product, order number and purchase token) and add the eggs to your account.

Ads: the only ad in DCA Hub is a video or banner ad shown to the host of an online room while other players join. Ads are served through Unity LevelPlay and the ad networks it works with. To show and measure ads, these providers may collect your device's advertising ID, IP address, device and app information and how you interact with the ad, as described in Unity's privacy policy. You can reset or delete your advertising ID, or opt out of personalized ads, in your phone's settings (Settings > Google > Ads, or Settings > Privacy > Ads). Players who unlock ad-free play never see this ad.

DeadCenterApps Books and the DCA Books app (Android and Android Auto)

Anyone can browse the book rack and read or listen to free samples without an account. If you sign in (the app opens deadcenterapps.com in your phone's browser to sign in with Google and then keeps a sign-in token on your phone), we store which books you own or bought, where you left off in each book (page or chapter and time), so you can resume on any device, and a random ID for each device you save a book to (to enforce the device limit). Book purchases on the website are paid through Stripe; we receive the purchase record, never your card details.

Downloaded books stay in the app's private storage or, on the website, encrypted in your browser. The DCA Books app has no ads and no analytics, and does not access your location, contacts, microphone or files. When you use it with Android Auto, your car shows the book list and playback controls; no data is sent to your car maker or to us beyond what is described here.

Contact form and email

If you contact us, we receive what you send (for example your name, email address and message) and use it only to reply.

How we use it

• To run the games: saving scores, building leaderboards, matching you with friends, sending invites and "your friend is playing" alerts.
• To keep play fair: detecting impossible scores and abuse, and suspending accounts that cheat or harass other players.
• To maintain and improve our games, apps and website, and to answer support requests.

Your display name, profile picture and scores appear publicly on leaderboards. Your email address is never shown to other players.

Who else processes data

We do not sell or rent your personal information. We use service providers to run the service: Google (sign-in, and Google Play for in-app purchases), Netlify (website hosting), Supabase (our database and private book file storage), Render (our multiplayer game server), Stripe (website payments for Flaming Sparrow Eggs and books: Stripe collects your card details directly and we only receive the purchase record), Unity LevelPlay and its ad network partners (the lobby ad in the DCA Hub app, see above) and Google Fonts (fonts loaded by the website). They process data only to provide those services.

Keeping it and deleting it

We keep your profile and game data while your account exists. Invites expire after 30 minutes and other notifications after 30 days. To delete your account and all associated game data, use deadcenterapps.com/account/delete (also linked from Profile & Settings in the DCA Hub app), or email DeadCenterApps@gmail.com from the email address on your Google account and we will delete it within 30 days. Deleting removes your profile, balances, store items and unlocks, stats, progress, friends and notifications right away; records of past payments are kept for up to 7 years for tax and accounting. You can also remove our access at any time from your Google Account's security settings. Track Drive Mileage stores its data on your device only; uninstalling the app removes it.

Children

Our games contain cartoon violence and are not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has created a profile, contact us and we will delete it.

Security

Data travels over encrypted connections, sign-in cookies are signed and cannot be read by page scripts, and game data sits in a separate, access-restricted part of our database. No system is perfectly secure, but we work to protect your information.

Changes and contact

We will post any changes here with a new effective date. Questions: DeadCenterApps@gmail.com, Dead Center Apps LLC.