ORBITAL SANITATIONPRIVACY POLICY

What stays in your browser

Your pilot profile — completed worlds, settings, render quality, control style, and the ZIP code you can optionally enter in Settings — is stored in your browser's localStorage, like a memory card. It never leaves your device except as described below, and you can wipe it at any time with RESET PROFILE in the game's Settings, or by clearing your browser data.

The optional ZIP code

If you enter a ZIP code, the game uses it only to decide which local sponsor boards to show. The lookup is answered from a table bundled with the game whenever possible. If your ZIP isn't in that table, the ZIP code alone — nothing else — is sent to the public Zippopotam.us geocoding service to fetch its coordinates. Leave the field blank and no lookup ever happens.

Sponsor boards

The billboards inside the game world are static entries served from this site's own files. They set no cookies and run no scripts. When you tap one, the game notes that a board was clicked — which sponsor, and on which world — so the sponsor can be told how their board performed. That note goes to Google Analytics along with the other gameplay events described below; it records the board, not you. Tapping a board opens the sponsor's website in a new tab, after which that site's own privacy policy applies.

Advertising (Google AdSense)

Interstitial ads shown between shifts are served by Google AdSense. Google and its partners use cookies and similar identifiers to serve and measure these ads, and may personalize them based on your visits to this and other websites. You can read how Google uses this data at policies.google.com/technologies/ads and manage ad personalization at adssettings.google.com. Where local law requires it (for example in the EEA and UK), a consent message is shown before any such cookies are set, and declining still lets you play.

Analytics (Google Analytics)

Google Analytics records how the game is played, so the worlds and the difficulty can be tuned against what actually happens rather than guesswork. It notes when a shift starts and ends, which world and ship you picked, whether you finished or crashed and what killed you, roughly how long the shift ran, and whether you tapped a sponsor board. Google sets a first-party cookie named _ga to tell one visit from the next, and works out an approximate location from your IP address as it does on any site.

Your ZIP code and its coordinates are never included — the ZIP decides which boards serve, and since the board that served is already in the record, the geography is implicit and the code itself is never sent. You can read how Google handles this data at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. Blocking the script, with an extension or a browser setting, stops the collection outright; the game notices and carries on without it.

Hosting

The site is served by GitHub Pages, which may collect standard technical logs (such as IP addresses) as described in GitHub's privacy statement. This site has no access to those logs' contents beyond aggregate traffic.

Children

The game is a general-audience arcade game. It asks for no personal information and has no way of knowing who you are. The advertising and analytics services described above do set their own identifiers, as they do across the web. If you believe a child's data has been collected here, write to the address below and it will be dealt with.

Changes & contact

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted at this address with an updated effective date. Questions: contact@orbital-sanitation.com.