This Privacy Policy explains how Maneki Neko Productions Inc. (“we”, “us”, “our”), the operator of hitstop.app and the “HitStop” mobile app (the “Service”), collects and uses your information.
We try to collect as little as possible and to be plain about what we do with it.
1. What we collect
Information you give us directly
HitStop does not require an account, email address, or password. To take part in leaderboards, you create a profile by choosing a display name (username) and selecting a country. If you contact us, we keep the content of your email so we can reply and follow up.
Information collected automatically
When you use the Service we collect:
- Your scores, streaks, and game history (so we can show them back to you and keep leaderboards working)
- Device and browser type, operating system, approximate location inferred from IP address, and general usage data (screens visited, features used, time spent)
- A session identifier stored in a cookie or equivalent local storage, so the Service remembers your profile and progress on your device
- Mobile advertising identifiers (such as Apple’s IDFA or Google’s Advertising ID) where allowed under your device settings, so our ad partners can show ads in the free version of the App
Payment information
If you buy coins or subscribe to HitStop Pro, payments are processed by Apple or Google. We don’t receive or store your card details — only enough information to recognise your purchase (for example, a transaction ID and the type of item bought).
2. What we don’t collect
We don’t ask for your email address, real name, phone number, or password. We don’t sell your data, and we don’t use your gameplay data to train machine learning models.
3. How we use your information
We use your information to:
- Run the Service — show you the game, track your scores and streak, and display global leaderboards
- Maintain and improve the Service, diagnose bugs, and prevent cheating or abuse
- Process purchases of coins and HitStop Pro subscriptions through Apple and Google
- Show ads in the free version of the App (HitStop Pro subscribers don’t see ads)
- Comply with legal obligations
4. Public leaderboards
The username and country you choose, together with your scores, appear on public global leaderboards visible to anyone using the Service. Don’t use a username or country that you wouldn’t want shown publicly — for example, don’t put personal information (such as your real name, email, or phone number) into your username.
You can change your username or remove your profile at any time from the in-app settings, or by emailing contact@hitstop.app.
5. Legal bases (for users in the EU, UK, and similar jurisdictions)
We rely on the following legal bases under the GDPR and UK GDPR:
- Contract — to provide the Service you’ve chosen to use
- Legitimate interests — to keep the Service secure, prevent cheating, and improve it
- Consent — for analytics and advertising cookies and identifiers, where required
- Legal obligation — where we have to keep records or respond to lawful requests
6. Who we share it with
We share information only with service providers that help us run the Service, and only to the extent they need it. That includes:
- Our hosting and backend infrastructure providers
- Analytics and crash reporting tools (such as Google Analytics and Firebase) for understanding how the Service is used and diagnosing problems
- Advertising partners that serve ads in the free version of the App
- Apple and Google (for in-app purchases and subscriptions)
These providers are contractually required to protect your information and use it only for the services they provide to us.
We may disclose information if required by law, to protect our rights, or in connection with a business transaction (merger, acquisition, or sale of assets).
7. International transfers
The Service is operated from Panama and uses providers that may store data in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere. Where required, we rely on appropriate safeguards (such as Standard Contractual Clauses) for transfers out of the EU and UK.
8. How long we keep it
We keep your profile and gameplay data for as long as your profile is active on a device. If you remove your profile, we remove or anonymise your personal data within 30 days, except where we need to keep it longer for legal, tax, or fraud-prevention reasons.
Aggregate and anonymised data (for example, “the average accuracy on a 5-second target was 87 ms”) may be kept indefinitely.
9. Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:
- Access the personal information we hold about you
- Correct information that’s inaccurate
- Delete your information
- Object to or restrict certain processing
- Receive a copy of your data in a portable format
- Withdraw consent where we rely on it
- Lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority
For California residents: under the CCPA and CPRA, you have rights to know, delete, correct, and opt out of any “sale” or “sharing” of personal information. We don’t sell or share personal information as defined in those laws.
To exercise any of these rights, email us at contact@hitstop.app. Because we don’t tie profiles to email addresses, we may need to ask you for your username and approximate date of profile creation, or for a confirmation action from inside the App, to identify your data.
10. Children
The Service isn’t intended for children under 13. We don’t knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has given us information, contact contact@hitstop.app and we’ll delete it.
11. Security
We use reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect your information, including encryption in transit (HTTPS) and access controls. No system is perfectly secure; if we ever become aware of a breach affecting your information, we’ll notify you as required by law.
12. Cookies and similar technologies
We use cookies, local storage, and mobile advertising identifiers to remember your profile, measure usage, and (in the free version of the App) show ads. You can control cookies through your browser settings, and you can limit or reset advertising identifiers in your device settings. Where required by law, we’ll ask for your consent before setting non-essential cookies or identifiers. For more detail, see our Cookie Policy.
13. Changes to this policy
If we make material changes to this policy, we’ll let you know through the Service before they take effect. The “last updated” date at the top shows when it was last revised.
14. Contact
Questions, requests, or complaints:
Maneki Neko Productions Inc.
Panama