The Time Barrier — privacy policy
Updated on 28 October 2026 · in case of discrepancy, the French version prevails · Français
1. In short
- The Time Barrier is played without an account and without transmitting any personal data. The whole solo game, co-op on one screen, the control tower on one computer and challenges exchanged as files work without the internet.
- Online play is optional and needs your agreement (article 7): games for two at a distance, challenges sent by code, leaderboards. Without that agreement, the game connects to nothing.
- Online: a pseudonym drawn at random, never your name, e-mail or location.
- Your progress stays on your device. You can export it to a file and delete it at any time. Your online account is exported and deleted from within the game.
- No analytics, no advertising, no tracking. No data is sold or shared.
2. Controller
Jérôme Lasalle, sole trader, trading as Aplomb, 4 impasse du Couchant, 78630 Morainvilliers, France — contact@aplomb-apps.fr. Data protection officer: not appointed (not required for the publisher's activity).
3. What the game stores on your device
This information is written to the game's private storage on your device. The publisher has no access to it; it only leaves the device if you export your save yourself.
| What | Why | How long |
|---|---|---|
| Your progress: episodes and stars, in-game money and experience, aircraft, weapons and upgrades, best scores and records, Wings, Career | Resume the game where you left it | As long as the game is installed, or until you delete it |
| Your Career pilot: the name you choose (freely — a nickname will do), its portrait and crest built in the game | Show it in the Career | Same |
| A paused flight: the game's seed and your controls during the flight | Resume the interrupted flight exactly | Until the flight ends |
| Your settings: sound, vibration, controls, accessibility, language | Restore them at the next launch | Same |
| A technical log: start-up and loading times, frames per second, device model | Measure performance during development | Disabled in the released version: it is written only during development tests |
Export. The "Export" button writes your save to a readable file (Documents folder on a computer, the game's folder on a phone). What you then do with that file — copy it, send it — is entirely up to you.
Deletion. Uninstalling the game deletes this data. The "Erase all my data" button (Settings › Information) erases it too, and first deletes your online account if you have one; without a network, the game tells you so and lets you erase the device anyway (the server then forgets the account after 24 months without a connection).
4. Purchases
Optional purchases (era packs, cosmetic items) go through your device's store (Apple's App Store, Google Play, Microsoft Store). The store processes your order and payment, under its own privacy policy. The game only receives from the store the proof of purchase of the content (its identifier and confirmation that it was bought), checked on the device to unlock the content; the publisher receives neither your name, nor your address, nor your bank details. The check stays on the device: the game asks the device's store (StoreKit at Apple) and sends the proof of purchase to no server of the publisher (checked in the code, version 1.0).
5. Crash reports and store statistics
If you have allowed it in your device settings, Apple, Google or Microsoft may send the publisher crash reports and aggregated usage statistics (number of installs, system versions), without your identity. The publisher views them in these stores' consoles, only to fix bugs. You can refuse this sharing in your device settings.
6. Writing to us
If you write to contact@aplomb-apps.fr, the publisher uses your address and message only to reply to you, within 15 days. The message is kept one year after the last exchange, or five years for a consumer complaint (general limitation period), then deleted. The publisher's email is hosted by OVHcloud, in France.
7. Online play (only with your agreement)
On the Multiplayer screen, the game asks for your agreement before any exchange with a server: "I am 15 or older — I agree" or, for a child, "Under 15 — a parent agrees" (article 8). You can withdraw it at any time (Leaderboards and account screen): nothing is sent afterwards.
Host: Supabase (project hosted in Dublin, Ireland, European Union), the publisher's processor. The contracting processor is Supabase Pte. Ltd (Singapore); its data processing agreement (article 28 GDPR) incorporates the European Commission's standard contractual clauses (decision 2021/914), applying by default, for any access from outside the Union.
| What | Why | Kept |
|---|---|---|
| Your account: a token drawn by the server (the server keeps only an unreadable fingerprint of it) and a pseudonym drawn at random from the game's lists; creation and last-seen dates | To recognise you from one game to the next, without a name or e-mail | Until the account is deleted, or 24 months without connection (30 days for an account left empty and never used again after its creation) |
| Your submitted scores (Endless, Wings): the score, and the whole game (seed, aircraft, inputs) so that the server replays it before ranking it | Leaderboards without cheating | The game is erased as soon as it is checked; the score: only your best per leaderboard, 90 days for the daily boards; a refused submission, 30 days |
| Your duels: both players' inputs, replayed by the server; your rating (Glicko-2) | Ranking the Duel of the skies | Inputs erased once checked; the duel 12 months; the rating until the account is deleted |
| Live games for two (co-op, control tower, Duel, challenge sent by code): your inputs, the room code, an identifier drawn for the game, a few preset messages | Playing together at a distance | Nothing is kept: these messages only pass through the server (Supabase Realtime), which sees the IP address while connected |
What online play does not do: no free chat (preset messages only), no friends list, no analytics, no data sold or shared, nothing about the device's location.
8. Children
The game is intended for players aged 7 and over. Without online play, it collects no personal data. Online play requires, for a child under 15, a parent's agreement (article 8 GDPR and article 45 of the French Data Protection Act): the "Under 15 — a parent agrees" button, to be pressed by the parent. Online, the child appears only under a pseudonym drawn at random and can neither write nor receive any free message. The Career pilot name stays on the device; we advise children to use a nickname.
9. Your rights
You have the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection and portability over your data. The data described in article 3 is on your device, under your sole control: you view it, export it (portability) and delete it yourself. Your online account (article 7): the "My data" button writes to a file everything the server keeps about you (access, portability), "Delete the account" erases it with your scores and rating (erasure); duels already played stay for your opponent, with nothing left that points to you. For any question, or to exercise your rights over the data in articles 6 and 7: contact@aplomb-apps.fr. The publisher replies within one month.
You may also lodge a complaint with the CNIL (Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés, 3 place de Fontenoy, TSA 80715, 75334 Paris Cedex 07, France — www.cnil.fr) or with the supervisory authority of your country of residence.
10. Security
The data stays in the private storage the device's system reserves for the game, inaccessible to other apps. The game contains no third-party advertising or analytics module.
11. Changes
This policy is changed whenever a processing operation changes; the new version is shown in the game before it applies. The publisher keeps the successive versions.