Privacy Policy

What MayBolt Media collects directly

Nothing. I run no servers for this game and receive no personal information from it. Your progress stays on your device, in the operating system's normal app storage. Uninstalling the app removes it.

Advertising

Thumb Slugger shows ads through Google AdMob. Unity Ads (run by Unity Technologies) is mediated through AdMob and bids on those ads. Each time the game asks for an ad, AdMob takes a bid from Unity Ads, and whichever bid wins serves the ad. Data from this is shared with those ad partners for advertising and measurement. The ads are a banner, full-screen (interstitial) ads, and rewarded ads. A rewarded ad plays only when you pick one.

Google's User Messaging Platform (UMP) is the consent tool for these ads. To bid on, show, and measure ads, Google and Unity may collect and process:

• Device and advertising IDs: your device's advertising identifier (the IDFA on iOS, the Advertising ID on Android), when the platform and your choices allow it, and identifiers their own code creates for this install of the game;
• Your IP address, and an approximate location from IP;
• Device and software details such as model, operating system version, language, screen size, and network type;
• Ad interaction data: whether an ad was shown, whether you tapped it, and whether you watched it;
• Diagnostics and crash data about how their ad code is running. Google's ad code reports its own crashes and performance to Google, and Unity's ad code reports its own diagnostics to Unity.

Google and Unity each decide independently how to use that information, under their own privacy policies:

• Google AdMob: policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites and policies.google.com/privacy
• Unity Ads: unity.com/legal/game-player-and-app-user-privacy-policy

Your choices about ads

Google's User Messaging Platform (UMP) is the consent tool for these ads. It is how Google asks for consent in the EEA, the UK, and Switzerland, and how it offers US state privacy opt-outs where Google determines those laws apply. Each time Thumb Slugger starts, it checks with UMP before it requests any ads. Google's consent tool records your choice, and Thumb Slugger passes that choice on to Unity Ads as well.

On iOS

On iOS, the advertising identifier is the IDFA. Apple's App Tracking Transparency is the system control for whether an app may use it. Thumb Slugger shows Apple's tracking prompt as part of Google's consent step, and only checks your answer. It never reads the IDFA itself. If tracking is not allowed, iOS withholds the IDFA. You can change this any time in Settings, under Privacy & Security, then Tracking.

In the EEA, the UK, and Switzerland

In the EEA, the UK, and Switzerland, Thumb Slugger shows Google's consent message before it requests any ads. The message covers personalized advertising under the GDPR and the UK and Swiss privacy laws. You can consent, refuse, or manage your options. Google's tool records the choice, as described above.

In US states with privacy laws

Some US states, California among them, let you opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information and of targeted advertising. Where Google's tool determines one of those laws applies, UMP is where that opt-out is offered. Google's tool records the choice, as described above.

Changing your mind

Where Google's tool says you need a way to change your choices, Settings shows a Privacy choices button. Tap it to open the privacy options and change or withdraw your consent. If you withdraw it, the game stops loading ads and removes any that are waiting.

On Android

The advertising identifier on Android is the Advertising ID. You can reset or limit it in your phone's Ads settings. Deleting it means apps get no tracking identifier at all.

Analytics

Thumb Slugger includes Firebase Analytics, which is Google Analytics for Firebase. I use it so I can see how the game is used, which is the practical way for a small studio to know whether an update helped or hurt.

Analytics consent starts denied. After Google's consent check, Thumb Slugger applies that choice to Firebase.

When it runs, Firebase Analytics records usage and interaction data. That includes the events Google collects automatically, such as the app being opened and a session starting, along with an app instance identifier, device and advertising IDs where you've allowed them, the device model, the operating system version, the app version, the language, and an approximate location from your IP address. There is no account, so none of it is tied to your name or email, and I don't receive a copy of it on a server of my own. Google's description of what Firebase Analytics collects, and how long it keeps it, is on the same partner-sites page linked above.

On iOS, Apple withholds the IDFA when tracking is not allowed.

I don't run a crash-reporting service of my own. Diagnostics and crash data from the ad code go to Google and Unity, as described above.

Game Center and Google Play Games

Thumb Slugger can use Apple's Game Center on iPhone and Google Play Games on Android. There are four leaderboards: Games Won, Career Home Runs, Most Runs in a Game, and Championships. Each takes a whole number. There are 10 achievements: First Win, Going Yard, Grand Slam, Big Inning, Slugfest, Sandlot Champs, Rising Stars Champs, Big Show Champs, Payback, and Hall of Famer.

Signing in is optional. If you skip the sign-in screen, the game stays playable. Scores and achievements are sent to Apple or Google only after a sign-in. Once Game Center or Play Games reports that sign-in, the game can send them without another tap.

The game starts that sign-in once Google's consent step is done and you are not in a game. Scores and achievements are sent after a game ends, not during play. A tap on the trophy button on the home screen opens the leaderboards and achievements. If you cancel the sign-in, the trophy button is hidden until the next time you open the app. If you don't have a Play Games profile yet, Google may ask you to create one on its own screen. That profile belongs to your Google account, and I don't receive it.

The game uses the platform player id only to match an on-device record to that player: which achievements were already sent, and the totals each leaderboard last confirmed. It stores a salted SHA-256 hash of the id on the device, not the id itself. I don't receive the id or the hash, and the game-services code doesn't write them into Firebase events.

Apple and Google run these services under their own privacy policies:

• Apple: apple.com/legal/privacy
• Google: policies.google.com/privacy

To delete scores and achievements that Play Games holds, use your Play Games profile or your Google account. Uninstalling Thumb Slugger removes the on-device record of what was sent. Game Center data stays with Apple, under Apple's policy linked above.

Ratings

After you win a league final, the game may ask the App Store or Google Play once to show its rating prompt. Apple or Google decides whether the prompt appears. Your rating goes to them, not to me.

Children

Thumb Slugger is a general-audience game. It isn't directed at children under 13, and I don't knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information through this game, email me and I'll act on it promptly.

How long data is kept

I hold no personal information, so there's nothing for me to keep. Data that Google and Unity handle for advertising and measurement is kept according to their own policies, linked above. Everything the game stores on the device is removed when you uninstall the app.

Deleting your data

To ask for deletion, email [email protected]. Because there are no accounts with me, the in-game data lives on the device, and uninstalling the app removes it. I don't keep a copy to delete. Ad partners' data is handled under their own policies, linked above. Game Center and Play Games data is handled by Apple and Google, as described above.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, delete, or restrict the use of personal information about you, and to object to its processing. Because MayBolt Media holds none, those requests about advertising and analytics data are best sent to Google or Unity, which control that data. If you're not sure where to start, email me and I'll point you to the right place.

If you live in California or another US state with a comparable law, you also have the right not to have your personal information sold or shared for cross-context behavioral advertising. I don't sell personal information, and I don't receive any to sell. The ad networks above may use data from the game for personalized advertising, which some of these laws count as selling or sharing. The US-states section above explains how to opt out.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the new version goes up at this address with a new date at the top. The first version was dated October 5, 2026. Version 2, dated October 9, 2026, added Game Center and Google Play Games. This version, dated October 10, 2026, adds the Privacy choices button, the rating prompt and the ad formats.