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Who we are. Found Horizons is made by Valentine Donegan. You can write to us at foundhorizonsgame@gmail.com. We are the controller of the information described here under UK data protection law.

What the game keeps, and why.

• Which streets you have walked, and on which day. This is the game. It is kept on your phone, and a copy is kept on our server so that it is safe if you change phone. It is a list of street segments and day numbers.
• The route of each walk, as a simplified line with its times, so you can export your walks and keep them if you change phone. Only you can see it, and it is deleted with your account.
• Where you are while you share it. If you choose "Share where I am" during a walk, your latest position is sent to our server so the people you sent the link to can see it. Only the latest spot is kept, and it is deleted when sharing stops.
• Your nickname, which is the name other players see, and an email address if you choose to add one, so you can get back in on another phone. Without an email address your account is on this phone only.
• Where you have set your home, as an area name, so the game can work out what counts as near home. Your home is never shown to anyone else, never put on a table or a profile, and is used for nothing but the game's own arithmetic. The game may notice, from where your walks begin and where your phone rests overnight, that home seems to have moved - and does exactly one thing with that: asks you, at most twice ever, whether home is still in the right place.
• The places you have stopped at and for how long, in minutes, as the game's own record of what paid you. Not the time of day.
• A weather reading for the area you are in, fetched from a weather service using an area-sized location, so the map's sky matches the sky outside. The service is not told who you are.
• Which days you use the app (the date only, no time or place), so we can count how many players come back and notice when something we change makes people stop.
• Bug reports you choose to send, with whatever you write in them.
• What you tell us about a place - a note, a place that is missing (with the spot you pressed on the map) or a place that has changed. It comes to us and nobody else sees it.
• Your face picture, if you choose one. The picture is checked on our server for anything unsuitable, squared, made smaller and kept, so other players can see it beside your nickname. You can take it off in the app at any time, and that deletes it. A report about you hides it at once.
• A drawn face, if you ask for one. The photo you give us for it is sent to an image service to be drawn in the game's style, and is deleted once the drawing is made; only the drawing is kept.
• Your date of birth, given at sign-up, to work out what you are old enough for and so the game can mark your birthday. It is never shown to anyone else.

What we never keep. Anything from your contacts or other apps, or any photo except the one you choose to send.

Who else sees it. Other players see your nickname, your face picture if you have one, the places you keep, your percentages and your medals. Other players can see that some number of people walked a street in a week, never who, and never within six hours of the walk. Ground near where your walks habitually start is hidden from everyone else. Nobody else sees your route: only you can.

Anonymous counts. We also keep counts of how many people walked each short stretch of street, or visited each place, on each day and in each hour. They carry no name or account, and they stay if you delete yours. We may share or sell these counts, but only where enough people are counted that nobody can be picked out.

Adverts. We use Google AdMob to show adverts. Google's software in the app may collect information about your phone to do this, such as its internet address, under Google's own privacy policy (policies.google.com/privacy). We tell Google whether you are under 18, so that it shows only adverts suitable for your age.

Adverts picked for you, only if you agree. If you are 18 or over, the adverts can be picked to suit you, using your phone's advertising identifier and what Google knows from other apps and websites. That happens only if you say yes. Where the law asks for it, Google asks you first, on a screen of its own. On an iPhone, Apple also asks whether the game may track you; we ask that once, the first time an advert would show. Say no to either, or give no answer, and the adverts are simply not picked for you: you see no more of them, and nothing else in the game changes. To change your mind at any time: in the game, Settings, then Privacy choices (where Google asks); on an iPhone, the phone's Settings, then Privacy & Security, then Tracking; on Android, your phone's own settings for ads.

Where it is kept. On servers in Ireland and Germany. Beyond those counts and the under-18 mark the adverts need, we do not sell it, share it for advertising, or send it anywhere else, except a photo you send for a drawn face, as above.

How long. For as long as you have an account. Deleting your account deletes your streets, your walks' routes, your medals, your face picture and the places you keep, on our server and on your phone, and it cannot be undone.

Your rights. You can see everything we hold about you, correct it, take a copy of it, or delete it, from inside the app or by writing to us. If you think we have got something wrong you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.

Children. The game is not for anyone under 13, or under the higher age your country sets. It asks your date of birth once at sign-up, keeps it as above, and refuses an account to anyone younger. Under 18, your real name is never shown to other players, and we tell Google only that you are under 18 so the adverts suit your age. Adverts are never picked for anyone under 18.

Changes. If what the game keeps ever changes, the app tells you before the change, not after.

Last changed: 16 October 2026.