Last updated: 17 September 2026 · Version 9
Arkadia is a collection of arcade games where you draw the artwork yourself. This policy explains what the app collects, what it does not, and what you can do about it.
It is written to be read, not to be survived. If anything here is unclear, open a support ticket from Settings and ask.
There is a birth year field in Settings → Age. It is optional, nothing asks you for it, and the whole app works without it. This is not to identify you, it decides one thing only: whether the community features (publishing designs, and browsing designs other players made) are available, which they are from age 13. Those features are not in the app yet.
You can set it once. After that it is fixed, because a field you can change freely answers nothing.
The year stays on your device. It is never sent to us. If you publish a design, all our server ever learns is that you were old enough to do so.
We ask for a year rather than a full date of birth because a year is enough to answer the only question we have, and a full date of birth is personal information we would then have to protect for no benefit.
The first time you open Arkadia, the app generates a random identifier for your installation. It is a random number. It is not derived from your device, your phone number, your advertising id, or anything about you, and it cannot be used to identify you as a person.
This id is what lets your high scores be yours rather than anyone else's.
Optional, and shown on the leaderboard. Choose something you are comfortable having other players see. Please do not use your real full name.
When you finish a run, the app sends:
Run length is sent because the leaderboard checks that a score is physically possible for the time taken. That check is the only thing keeping the leaderboard meaningful.
The app adds up how many seconds you have actually spent playing — not how long the app was open, and not time spent in menus. It stops counting the moment you pause or switch away.
This number never leaves your device. It is not sent anywhere, it is not attached to your player id, and nobody can see it. Its only job is to decide when you have played enough to be offered the Spokn code described further down. If you delete the app, it goes with it.
Your coin balance lives on your device and is not uploaded. The one exception is a gift: if we credit coins to your account — to make good on a problem you reported, or as a thank-you — the server stores a record of that gift so it can be delivered to you exactly once. It holds the amount, a short reason such as "support ticket 41", when it was created, and when your app collected it.
We keep gifts as a record rather than just adjusting a number because a balance that changes with no explanation is indistinguishable from a bug, and if you ever ask us where your coins went, we want to be able to answer.
If you open a support ticket, we receive the subject, the message, and your player id so we can reply. Please do not include personal information in a support message, we do not need it, and asking you not to send it is more honest than promising to protect it.
Arkadia works fully without one. Connecting an account exists for a single purpose: an anonymous installation cannot be recovered if you lose or replace your phone, and an account gives us a way to give your scores back.
There are three ways to connect one, and they collect different things.
Sign in with Apple. Apple tells us an identifier for you and an email address. If you choose Hide My Email, the address Apple gives us is a private relay address that forwards to you, and we never see your real one. We do not ask Apple for your name.
Sign in with Google. Google tells us your email address and an identifier for you. We do not ask Google for your contacts, your Drive, your calendar, or anything else, and we cannot see them.
An email address and password. We store the address and an encrypted form of the password.
In every case, what we keep is the same short list: an identifier, an email address, and which provider you used. We do not send marketing email. We would only ever email you about your account.
If you have been playing anonymously on this device and you then sign in to an account you already had, the runs recorded on this device are moved onto that account, and the anonymous identity is deleted. Nothing is duplicated and no score is changed: each run keeps the result it was given when you played it.
If the account is new, nothing moves at all. Signing in simply attaches the provider to the identity this device already had, so your scores were never anywhere else.
If you connect an account and post a score, your display name and your best score become visible to every other player on that game's leaderboard.
Nothing else is shown. Not your email, not your country, not when you played, and not your drawings.
Two things worth knowing before you post:
Deleting your account removes your scores from the leaderboard.
Arkadia can tell you about announcements, new games, updates, planned maintenance, events, and daily-reward reminders. You choose which of these you want in Settings → Notifications, each one separately, and separately again for the two places a message can appear.
Announcements shown on the Announcements screen. These need no permission and send us nothing. Your in-app choices are stored on your device only.
Notifications delivered to your device's notification centre, even when Arkadia is closed. Push is off until you turn it on. The first time you switch on a push category, your device asks your permission, and you can refuse. Refusing never stops the app working, and the same messages remain readable in the app.
When you turn push on, two things are stored on our server:
Turning off every push category deletes the token from our server, rather than keeping it and choosing not to use it. So does deleting your account, and so does uninstalling the app, as soon as we next attempt a delivery and learn that the device is gone.
Apple or Google carries the notification itself, and Expo, which operates the service we send it through, handles delivery. What they carry is the title and body of the announcement, the same words everyone else receives.
We do not use notifications for advertising, and we do not send them on behalf of anyone else.
We want to be specific here, because "we care about your privacy" is what every policy says.
Everything you draw is stored on your phone, in the app's own storage. It is not uploaded, not backed up to us, and not visible to anyone else.
If you import one of your own photos to use as artwork, the same applies. The photo is copied into the app's storage on your device and goes no further. The app asks for photo access only at the moment you tap Import, and only to let you pick the picture.
If you choose to publish a drawing so other players can use it, a separate, explicit action, available from age 13, that drawing and the stroke record behind it are stored on our servers and shown to other players. That is the whole point of publishing, and it is the only thing you make that ever leaves this device.
Your display name is shown alongside it. Nothing else about you is.
Artwork made from a photo can never be published. Not for sale, not for free, not shared, not synced, it stays on the device that made it, permanently. This is enforced in the app rather than merely promised here: the app records at the moment of creation whether artwork was drawn or imported, and no code path carries imported artwork off the device.
We are strict about this because a photograph can contain another person, someone else's copyrighted work, or something that should never be distributed, and none of that becomes acceptable because it was free rather than sold.
Supabase hosts the database that stores scores, leaderboards, announcements and support tickets. They process this data on our behalf and do not use it for their own purposes.
Apple and Google as sign-in providers, and only if you choose to sign in with one. They confirm to us that the account is yours and pass on an email address. They do not receive your scores, your drawings, or anything about how you play.
Expo does two things. It operates the push notification service we send through, if you have turned push on, passing the announcement's title and body to Apple or Google for delivery. It also hosts the app's own updates: Arkadia can download improvements to itself without waiting for an app store review, and to check for one it sends the app version and the platform. No account information and nothing about how you play is sent when it checks.
Apple and Google distribute the app and deliver push notifications, and may collect their own information under their own privacy policies, which we do not control.
Spokn, another app we make, but only in one narrow way. If you have played Arkadia for a while, Arkadia may put a one-time code in your notifications that you can enter in Spokn for a reward. When Arkadia asks Spokn for that code, it sends nothing about you — not your player id, not your name, not your scores, not how long you have played. The request is empty; Spokn simply hands back an unused code. Nothing links the code to you unless you choose to enter it in Spokn yourself, and if you never open Spokn, nothing happens at all.
That is the complete list. We do not sell, rent, or share your information with anyone else, and we have no interest in doing so.
You can delete everything from Settings → Delete my account. This removes your player record, your scores, your leaderboard entries, your push token, your sign-in details including any connection to Apple or Google, and your support tickets from our servers, and clears the app's data on your device.
Deleting your Arkadia account does not touch your Apple or Google account. It removes our connection to it. You can also revoke that connection from Apple's or Google's own settings at any time.
It is immediate and it cannot be undone. We do not keep a shadow copy.
Arkadia is available to everyone, and everything that makes it a game works at any age, all five games, the drawing tools, coins, and your own high scores.
The community will be 13+. Publishing a design so other players can see it, and browsing designs other players made, are the only features we intend to gate by age, and neither is in the app yet. The optional birth year in Settings is how that will be applied when they arrive, and the answer never leaves your device.
We gate those features rather than the app because they are where the risk is. A gallery of drawings made by strangers is a place where something inappropriate can eventually appear, and a nine-year-old should not be one tap from it. The games themselves carry no such risk.
There is no chat, no messaging, no friend list, and no way for one player to send anything to another. The only free text a player can write is a support message, which reaches us and nobody else.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. The app requires no personal information to play. If we learn that a child under 13 has used the community features, we remove their content and close their access to those features. If you believe a child has sent us personal information, most likely inside a support message, contact us and we will delete it.
What there is to report today is small, because there is very little to see. No player can publish a design, send you anything, or write anything you will read. The one piece of text another player can put in front of you is the display name beside their score on the leaderboard.
To report a name, press it on the leaderboard. That sends it to us with the game it appeared on, and you will see our reply in Settings → Support, which is a real two-way thread rather than a form that disappears. Anything else you want to raise can go through that same screen directly.
We can suspend an account, which removes that player from every leaderboard immediately. Names are also checked when they are set, and one that is clearly offensive is refused before anyone sees it — though no such check catches everything, which is exactly why the report button exists as well.
When publishing and a design gallery arrive, reporting and blocking arrive with them, and this section will describe them then. It previously described them as though they already existed, which was wrong, and is the reason this policy is at version 9.
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, export or delete the information we hold about you. The delete option in Settings does this immediately and without needing to ask. For anything else, contact us.
If this policy changes in a way that affects you, the app will tell you rather than quietly updating this page.
Open a support ticket from Settings → Support inside the app, or email help@usespokn.app.
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