Privacy Policy
Effective October 6, 2026
In short: Sheep and Dog never asks anyone for their name, email, photos or anything else personal. To learn which levels are fun and which are too hard, it sends us an anonymous record of how the game is played. There are no ads, no accounts, and nothing is sold or shared.
This policy is for the Sheep and Dog game for iPhone and iPad, made by Vildan Akchurin ("we"). It explains what the game collects while it is played, why, and what you can do about it.
What the game collects
While the game is open, it sends us:
- How the game is played: when it is opened and closed, which levels are played, the buttons tapped, where on the screen the player touches and drags, and how each try ends.
- A device identifier: a random code that Apple gives the game for this device, so we can tell one player's sessions apart from another's. It is not tied to your name or your Apple Account, and it changes once all of our apps are deleted from the device.
- About the device: its model (for example "iPhone 15"), its iOS version, the game's version, the language and time zone it is set to, and its screen size.
- Approximate location: the country, region and city, worked out from the device's internet (IP) address when the record reaches our server. We don't keep the IP address itself, and the game never asks for, or uses, the device's location services.
What it doesn't collect
No names, email addresses, phone numbers, contacts, photos, voice, precise location, or advertising identifiers. The game has no accounts, no chat, no ads and no in-app purchases, and it asks for no permissions.
Why
Only to make the game better: to see which levels players breeze through and which they get stuck on, how long they play, and when something goes wrong. We look at these records ourselves. They are not used for advertising, not used to contact anyone, and not used to track anyone across other apps or websites.
Where it is kept, and for how long
The records are stored on our server, run for us by Fly.io in the United States. Nobody else gets them. We keep them for as long as they help us improve the game, and delete them sooner if you ask. Finding a place from an IP address is done on our own server with the DB-IP database; no data is sent to DB-IP.
Children
Sheep and Dog is made for all ages, including young children. The game never asks a player who they are, and the records described above aren't used to contact a child, to show them ads, or to build a profile of them. A parent who would like a child's records deleted can write to us at any time.
Your choices
- To have the records from your device deleted, email us with the device's model and roughly when the game was played on it, and we will delete what matches.
- Deleting the game from the device stops all collection.
- Where data protection laws such as the GDPR apply, we rely on our legitimate interest in improving the game, and you have the right to ask what we hold about you, to have it corrected or deleted, and to object.
Changes
If what the game collects changes, we will update this page and its date.
Contact
Questions or requests: vil.nice.software@gmail.com