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Privacy policy

Last updated: 18 September 2026

Tethered Rifts Studio, LLC ("Tethered Rifts") is the company behind this page. It covers our mobile games, this website, and the tool we use to publish to our own social media accounts. Our Steam games are covered by their own policy, linked below.

Mobile games

Tethered Rifts games are playable without an account. This section explains what is stored when you do sign in.

What we store

• Game progress and settings, so a new device picks up where the last one left off.
• Your Rift Gem balance and any purchase that removes ads, tied to the account you signed in with.
• Anonymous usage events (which screen was opened, when a run ended), sent to Google Analytics with a random id for your install, never your account. We use them to find bugs, balance the games and see which ones people enjoy. Turn off Share anonymous usage data in the game's Settings, under Privacy, to stop them.

What we do not do

• We do not sell personal data. The advertising partner described below receives the data it needs to show ads, as that section explains.
• We do not ask for contacts, photos, precise location or your address book.
• Playing as a guest stores your progress on the device and nothing about you on our servers.

Advertising

Our mobile games are free and show ads from Google AdMob: an ad you choose to watch for a reward (a tool refill or coins), and full-screen ads between levels or after a game ends, never more than one every 90 seconds. Our games are not directed at children, and ads are not requested as child-directed.

To show and measure ads and to prevent ad fraud, Google may collect and use your device's advertising ID, your IP address and approximate location derived from it, information about your device and the app, and how you interact with the ads. Google may use this to show personalised ads. How Google uses this data is set out in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services and the Google Privacy Policy.

Your choices:

• In the European Economic Area, the UK and other places where the law requires it, Google's consent form asks for your choice before any ad is requested. You can review it again from the game's Settings, under Privacy.
• Turn off Personalised ads in the game's Settings, under Privacy, to receive only non-personalised ads.
• On Android you can reset or delete your advertising ID in your device's settings (Settings → Privacy → Ads, on most phones).

We do not receive your advertising ID or any personal data from these ads; we see only totals, such as how many ads were shown.

Steam games

Rift Crashers, our game on Steam, has its own privacy policy at riftcrashers.com/privacy.

Social media publishing

We publish our own game videos, images and posts to YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Threads, Bluesky and Discord using a tool we run ourselves. This section explains what that tool does with data from those accounts.

The tool uses YouTube API Services. Our use of it is subject to the YouTube Terms of Service and the Google Privacy Policy.

When one of our accounts is connected, the tool accesses and stores the account or channel's ID, name and profile image; the access tokens the platform issues; the videos, images and text we upload; and basic performance figures for our own posts.

It is used only to publish, schedule and report on our own posts. It does not access anyone else's account, and this data is not sold or shared with third parties, except the platform each post is sent to.

This data is stored on servers we operate. Tokens are deleted when an account is disconnected.

You can revoke the tool's access at any time. For Google accounts, visit myaccount.google.com/connections. For other platforms, use that platform's own app or security settings, or email us.

The same applies to TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Threads, Bluesky and Discord, each under its own terms and privacy policy.

This website

This site is plain static pages. It carries no ads and sets no tracking cookies.

It is served through Cloudflare, which processes visitor IP addresses to deliver and protect the site. See the Cloudflare Privacy Policy.

Deleting your data

You can delete your account from inside any of our mobile games, or ask us to delete it — or just some of your data — by email. The steps, and exactly what is deleted and what is kept, are on Delete your account. Or email support@tetheredrifts.com from the address on your account (mobile games) or with your account details, and we will confirm and delete it.

Children

Our games are not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from them. If you believe we have, contact us and we will remove it.

Changes

We will post any change to this page here and update the date at the top.

Contact

Tethered Rifts Studio, LLC — support@tetheredrifts.com