GLITCH

Glitch: The Lost Pixel is a small game made by two people. There are no accounts and no ads, and nothing is sold or shared with advertisers.

What the game stores on your device

Your progress, settings and a random player id (a string of letters and numbers, not tied to you), in your browser's local storage. Clearing your site data erases them.

What it sends to our server

Your random player id, so your runs and leaderboard place stay together.
Runs: score, level, how long it took, where and how you died. We use this to tune the levels.
Visits: what you were doing when you left (menu, playing, ...), the game version, a coarse description of the device (for example "iOS 18 · Safari 18 · 390x844"), whether it's a phone, tablet or computer, and the name of the site that linked you here, if any. Not your full browser details.
The name you choose for the leaderboard, if you set one. It's shown publicly.
Feedback you send from the game: your message, your email only if you give it (so we can reply), and the game version, device description and how far you've got, so we can follow up on bugs.

We don't collect your real name, contacts or location, or your email unless you add it to feedback. Like any website, our host (Microsoft Azure) may briefly keep standard request logs, which include IP addresses. Our game server itself doesn't see or store IP addresses.

How long we keep it

Your runs, leaderboard name and scores stay for as long as the game is running, so your progress and place on the board stay with you. Visit and death records are deleted after two years. Feedback, and any email you gave with it, is deleted a year after you send it.

Children

The game is not aimed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect anything from them. If you think a child under 13 has sent us something (a leaderboard name or feedback), email us and we'll delete it.

Who sees it

Only us, to make the game better. Leaderboard names and scores are public.

Deleting your data

Email privacy@playglitch.app with your leaderboard name (or the device and roughly when you played) and we'll delete everything tied to it.

Feedback

Use Feedback under the game's menu, or email hello@playglitch.app. We read everything.

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