WHISKERS: NIGHT RUN
The short version
Whiskers: Night Run has no player accounts and does not ask for your name, email address, phone number or contacts. Game progress and settings stay on your device. The app uses third-party advertising services, and its optional live-race feature sends limited gameplay and connection data to our race server.
Data stored on your device
The game stores progress and preferences locally, including your best level, fish, unlocked or selected companions, sound settings, consent choices and ad-free entitlement. This data stays on your device unless an operating-system service backs up app data. You can erase gameplay progress from Settings, and uninstalling the app removes its local data subject to your device's backup behavior.
Whiskers does not require an account, username, password or external login.
Advertising and consent
The free version uses Appodeal to provide interstitial and optional rewarded ads. Appodeal and the advertising partners available through its mediation service may collect or receive:
- advertising, device or similar identifiers;
- IP address, network information, device model, operating-system and app information;
- ad impressions, clicks and other ad interactions; and
- diagnostic and performance information.
They use this information to deliver and measure ads, limit repeated ads, detect fraud, maintain their services and, where permitted by your consent and age eligibility, personalize advertising. Whiskers does not request device location permission, so the advertising SDK cannot obtain GPS location from the app; an IP address may still reveal an approximate area.
Consent choices are presented through InMobi Choice. You can review or change them from Settings → Privacy Choices. The partners offered can vary by platform, country and availability; the consent screen shows the current partner list and purposes. Ad-free and legacy entitled players do not initialize the advertising SDK.
Live races
If you choose a live race, the app sends a random installation token, a generated racer name, selected character appearance, race-room information and gameplay updates to our encrypted race service. This lets players join a room, see each other's runner and determine race results. There is no player chat or free-text profile.
Active rooms and matchmaking information are temporary. The service keeps a rolling set of up to 20 completed ghost tracks for each level layout and version so later racers can compete against recent runs; older tracks are overwritten. The random installation token is not stored with completed ghost tracks. Like most internet services, the server and network provider receive IP addresses and basic request metadata for connection, reliability and security.
Purchases and Apple Music
Apple or Google handles store purchases and payment details. Whiskers may read store-provided entitlement information to recognize an existing ad-free purchase, but we do not receive your full payment-card details.
If you enable Apple Music on an Apple device, MusicKit accesses your subscription and plays music with your permission. We do not receive or store your music library or listening history. Apple's handling of that information is described in Apple's Privacy Policy.
Children and age signals
The game is designed for a broad audience. Where the operating system provides a declared age range, or where applicable law or your consent choice requires it, Whiskers and its advertising services use that signal to restrict data use and ad personalization. We do not ask children to submit contact details or create an account. A parent or guardian may contact us about a child's data using the address below.
Your choices and deletion requests
- Use Settings → Privacy Choices to review advertising consent.
- Use Settings → Reset Progress to erase locally stored gameplay progress. You can also uninstall the app to remove its local data.
- To request deletion of data associated with Whiskers, email whiskersapp@icloud.com with the subject “Whiskers data deletion request.” Tell us your platform and enough detail to identify the relevant race or advertising data. Do not send passwords or payment-card details. We will delete data we control that we can reasonably identify and explain how to contact a third-party provider when it controls the data.
Security, retention and changes
Data sent by the app uses encrypted HTTPS or secure WebSocket connections. Local data remains until you reset it, uninstall the app or your device/backup service removes it. Race data is retained as described above. Advertising providers keep data under their own policies and retention schedules.
We may update this policy when the app or its service providers change. The revision date at the top shows when this page was last updated.