Privacy Policy
Orbion is a game. You can play every level without an account, and what the game itself keeps about you stays on your phone. Three things work differently, and this page describes each in full: the global board, the optional player chat with its Chat+ subscription, and ads.
What stays on your device
- Which levels you have cleared and how many stars you earned.
- Your sound and haptics settings.
- Whether you own Orbion Clear, the ad-free unlock.
None of this is sent anywhere, except your totals of cleared levels and stars: to the global board only if you join it, and to your chat card if you use the chat (both described below). Deleting the app deletes it.
The global ranking board
The board is optional. From version 1.2.0 on iPhone and iPad, the app asks before it sends anything to it: the first time you open the board, it explains what is shared and offers Join or Not now; until you choose Join, nothing about you is uploaded, and the board is read without identifying you. You can change your answer at any time in Settings (Show me on the global ranking). Earlier versions, and the Android test version, send the three things below each time the board is opened; see the end of this section to remove them.
If you join, each time you open the board the app sends three things to our server: a random identifier the app generated on your device the first time it ran, the pilot name you chose, and how many levels and stars you have. That is the whole message. Other players see your pilot name, level and score.
The identifier is not your device ID, your advertising ID or anything Apple or Google issued. It is a random string with no meaning outside this board, it never leaves the app for any other purpose, and resetting the app abandons it rather than following you.
We do not store your IP address, your location or your device model. Ranking data is held on Cloudflare's network while you are on the board. In version 1.2.0 or later, turning the Settings switch off or choosing Not now deletes your row from our server (if you are not on the board but an earlier version put you there, Settings also offers Delete my ranking entry); if the server cannot be reached at that moment, the app deletes it the next time it can. With any version, you can also email the address below with the pilot name you used, and we will delete the row.
Player chat (optional)
Orbion includes a chat shared with other Erek Studio games. You can play without it. Nothing in the list below happens unless you open the chat and sign in, except the purchase check in its last point, which also runs when you buy Chat+ on Orbion's purchase screen without a chat account.
- Sign in with Apple. We store only the identifier Apple gives us for your account. If Apple includes your email address, we do not store it.
- Your chat profile. A nickname (required) and your birth year (required, never shown to anyone, used only to confirm you are an adult). Optional: a display name, country, city, gender and the languages you speak, an avatar picked from a built-in set, a profile photo if you have Chat+ (see below), and a short "about" line. Gender is never shown to other players; it is used only if you choose "only people of my gender can message me". City appears only on your full profile.
- Your Orbion card. Other players see your total stars and cleared levels next to your nickname.
- Messages. What you post in rooms and send in direct messages is stored on Cloudflare's network so it can be delivered. Message text is deleted after 180 days.
- Safety checks. Every message is checked by automatic rules and by an AI model from Anthropic (Claude), which classifies it for harassment, sexual content, threats, scams and sharing contact details. Anthropic processes the text only to return that classification and, under its commercial terms, does not use it to train its models. You are asked to agree to this before you can use the chat.
- Optional AI assistants. Guide_AI and Buddy_AI are AI bots, not human players. If you start a direct chat with one, or address one by name in an English or Korean official room, Anthropic (Claude) processes your message to generate a reply; a direct chat may include up to four recent messages from that conversation. Ordinary room conversation is not sent for AI reply generation. Bot messages are stored like other chat messages and checked for safety. The two bots share a limit of 10 messages per account per UTC day, across games and linked devices; Chat+ does not increase it. Bots are excluded from human activity and online counts. You can block or report them.
- Reports. If someone reports a message, we keep a copy of it and the five messages around it for up to 365 days to handle the report and meet legal obligations.
- Profile photo (Chat+ only, optional). If you add one from your photo library, the app shrinks it to 512×512 and removes its location and camera data before sending it. Before anyone can see it, it is checked by the same AI model from Anthropic (Claude) for nudity, children, violence, hate and contact details. As with messages, Anthropic uses the photo only to return that check and does not use it to train its models. A photo that fails is never stored; we keep only a note that it was refused, and why. Approved photos are stored on Cloudflare's network and shown on your chat profile while your Chat+ is active. Removing the photo or deleting your chat account deletes it.
- Player rooms. Chat+ members can create rooms of their own, public or private (entered with an invite code). We store the room's name, optional description, language, owner, members and the people its owner removed. A room's name and description are checked by the same rules and Anthropic AI model before a public room is listed, and anyone who can see a room can report it. A room with no messages for 14 days is archived. Player rooms are not available in Korea mode.
- Notifications. If you allow them, we store your device's push token to tell you about new messages. A notification never contains message text.
- Chat+. Chat+ is bought through the App Store, in the chat or on Orbion's purchase screen, and we never see your payment details. To check a purchase, the app sends the purchase record Apple signed to our server, which confirms it with Apple's server. If you are signed in to the chat, we store the purchase's identifier, product and expiry date with your chat account, so Chat+ works in every Erek Studio game where you sign in. If you bought it without a chat account, our server saves nothing about it: the app keeps the purchase record and its expiry date on your device, and sends the record again only to re-check it, or to link it to your chat account if you sign in.
Other players see your nickname, display name, avatar or approved photo, country, languages, "about" line, Orbion card and what you post, and your city on your full profile. They never see your birth year, gender, email or Apple identifier.
Deleting your chat account: Chat → Settings → Delete account. Your profile, sign-in link, push tokens and message text are deleted immediately. Report copies described above may remain for up to 365 days. Your Orbion progress is not affected.
Advertising
Orbion's free version shows ads supplied by Google AdMob: a full-screen ad between levels, and optional ads you choose to watch in exchange for a hint, a look at the global board, or a level skip.
To serve those ads, Google may collect and use data as described in its own policies — this can include your device's advertising identifier, coarse location derived from your IP address, and information about how you interact with ads. We never see this data ourselves and we cannot access it. Google's handling of it is governed by Google's privacy policy.
On first launch the app asks for your advertising choices through Google's consent form. You can decline. Declining changes nothing about the game: every level, every hint and the board all still work, and the ads simply become less specific to you. You can change your answer any time from Settings → Ad privacy options.
On iPhone and iPad, Orbion asks once, with Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt, whether Google may use your device's advertising identifier to show you more relevant ads. If you choose "Ask App Not to Track", Orbion's ads are never personalised using an identifier tied to you across apps, and the game is the same either way. You can change your answer any time in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking.
Owning Orbion Clear stops the between-level ads, and an active Chat+ subscription does the same for as long as it lasts. With either, hints, the board and level skips are instant, with no ad to watch. If you own Orbion Clear, the ads SDK is never started at all — no consent form and no ad requests — and the same is true with Chat+ whenever the app already knows at launch that it is active. If Chat+ ends and you do not own Orbion Clear, the ads come back.
Purchases
Orbion Clear, the one-time ad-free purchase, is handled entirely by the App Store or Google Play. We never see your payment details, your name or your email address. All we store for it is a yes/no flag on your own device saying it is owned.
Chat+ is the player chat's subscription. In Orbion it also gives everything Orbion Clear gives, for as long as it is active. How a Chat+ purchase is checked, and what is kept, is described in the player chat section above.
Children
Orbion is rated for everyone and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. The player chat is for adults only (18+, and 19+ in Korea): a birth year that does not show the player is old enough closes the chat for that account.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it.
Contact
Questions, or a request to remove your ranking row: mustafasalimerek@gmail.com.