Privacy Policy

Hoody Studios runs no servers, keeps no accounts, and runs no analytics. We cannot see your game data, and neither of our games shows you an ad you didn't ask for. Everything that leaves your device is described below. It is written about Frolfy, our first game; the section at the end says exactly where RTO: Survive the Week differs, which is not much.

This policy is issued by Hoody Studios LLC, a Pennsylvania limited liability company, the owner and operator of hoodystudios.com and the publisher of Frolfy and RTO: Survive the Week. Our postal address is at the end of this page, and hello@hoodystudios.com reaches us.

What Frolfy stores on your device

Your scores, streak, coins, unlocked items and settings are saved on your iPhone by the app itself. This data never leaves your device except through the Apple services described below. Deleting the app deletes it.

iCloud

If you are signed in to iCloud, Frolfy saves your progress to your own private iCloud database so it survives reinstalling the app and follows you to another device. This uses Apple's CloudKit.

Hoody Studios cannot read this data. It is stored in your personal iCloud account, governed by Apple's privacy policy, and we have no access to it. Frolfy is fully playable without an iCloud account.

Game Center

If you are signed in to Game Center, Frolfy submits your daily score to a leaderboard so you can see where your round landed. Your Game Center nickname is shown on that leaderboard, as it is in any game using Game Center. Game Center is operated by Apple under Apple's privacy policy.

Frolfy never asks you to sign in to Game Center, and declining costs you nothing but the leaderboard.

Notifications

If you turn on the daily reminder, Frolfy schedules a local notification on your device. There is no server involved, no push token, and nothing is sent anywhere.

Photos

If you save a replay of a shot, Frolfy writes that one video to your photo library. Frolfy has add-only access: it can save a video and cannot read, browse, or upload anything already in your library.

Every ad in Frolfy is one you chose to watch. There are no banners, and no ad ever interrupts a round. Ads exist only as an offer you can take or ignore: replay a hole, another go at the Lost & Found, double a round's coins, refill your bag of discs. If you never tap one, no advertising data about you leaves your device at all.

When you do choose to watch one, the ad is served by Google AdMob, and Google receives what it needs to show and measure it: your device's advertising identifier, an approximate location worked out from your IP address, which ads you were shown, and basic device and performance information. That is handled under Google's privacy policy rather than ours. We never receive any of it, and we cannot connect it to anything you do in the game.

You decide about tracking. Before any of that can happen, iOS asks whether Frolfy may track you across other apps and websites. Say no and you will see exactly the same number of ads and get exactly the same rewards. The ads are just less specific to you. Nothing in the game is ever withheld for saying no, and you can change your answer whenever you like in Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking. In the UK and EU you are also shown Google's own consent form before any ad is requested.

Everything above applies to RTO too — the same studio, the same rules, the same absence of servers and accounts. The differences:

What is on your device

Your runs, currencies, gear, talents, streak and settings are saved on your iPhone by the app itself. RTO does not use iCloud yet; deleting the app deletes your progress.

Game Center

If you are signed in, RTO submits your Daily Stand-up score and your Boss Rush time to two leaderboards, under your Game Center nickname. Nothing else is sent, and declining costs you only the boards.

The Company Goal

One number in RTO is shared by everyone: a running count of interns stapled across all players. Your contribution is added to that single anonymous total through Apple's CloudKit public database. It carries no identifier of any kind — not your name, not your device, not your Game Center account — and it cannot be traced back to you.

Notifications

If you allow it, RTO schedules one local notification when your energy is full. No server, no push token.

Advertising and purchases

Exactly as in Frolfy: every ad is a rewarded one you chose to tap (a second chance, an energy refill, a doubled salary), and if you never tap one no advertising data leaves your device. Purchases — Stock Options packs and the seasonal Benefits Package — go through the App Store and nowhere else. Chest odds are shown in the shop before you open one.

Analytics

Frolfy contains no analytics or attribution software of any kind. We do not know how many rounds you have played, which holes you struggle with, or when you last opened the app.

Purchases

Anything Frolfy sells is handled entirely by Apple through the App Store. We never see or store your payment details, your card, or your billing address. The app is only told whether you own something, never who paid for it.

Children

Frolfy is suitable for all ages and collects no personal information from anyone, including children.

Changes to this policy

If Frolfy ever starts collecting anything, this page will be updated before that version ships, and the "last updated" date above will change.

Contact

Questions about any of this, or a request about your data:

Hoody Studios LLC, registered office
502 W 7th St, Ste 100, Erie, PA 16502, United States
hello@hoodystudios.com