Privacy Policy

1. Your game, on your device

One in Eight Billion: Life is a fictional life simulation for players aged 16 and older. You do not create a game account. Your saved lives, choices, fictional people, finances, journal, archive and preferences stay in the app's local storage. We do not operate a server for uploading or synchronizing these saves.

The game uses bundled currency references and stories. Playing a downloaded life does not need an internet connection. App updates, Apple services, support email and links you choose to open can use the internet as described below.

2. What the app stores locally

Local data includes your display currency, appearance and movement preferences, age acknowledgement, current life and decisions, fictional relationships, game money, saved journal moments, completed lives and purchase access information. Game health, income and relationships describe fictional characters; we do not ask for your real health, finances or relationships.

The standalone iOS app marks its game storage folder as excluded from automatic device backup. There is no cloud save, save transfer, or playable save-file export or import. The operating system controls the final backup behavior. Deleting the app, erasing the device or losing it may permanently remove your stories. Offloading an app can retain its documents. We cannot recover a local save remotely.

3. Remembering the free life

A small device-only iOS Keychain marker records whether the free life has been used. It does not contain your story or create an account. It is not synchronized by the game to other devices, and it may remain after the app is deleted. Reinstallation is not a promise of another free life or of recovering your old stories.

The app does not use this marker for advertising or send it to a game server. Deleting app documents does not cancel an Apple subscription or necessarily remove Keychain records.

4. Apple purchases and access

Apple processes subscriptions through your Apple Account. StoreKit supplies product prices and verified purchase access information, which can include an original transaction identifier, so the app can unlock new lives and restore eligible purchases. Payment card details and your Apple Account password are not provided to the game.

For each life started with subscription access, the app saves the access type, the time that life began, Apple's original transaction identifier, and permission to finish that admitted life after normal expiry. These details are stored in local SQLite with the life, including its completed archive, for as long as the local game data remains. There is no scheduled expiry for these records. The time a life began is not a payment timestamp.

The current subscription status, time of the latest access check, and downloaded product prices are held in app memory rather than separately saved in the game's database. We do not use RevenueCat or a purchase backend. The saved transaction identifier is associated with a local fictional life, not a game account or an advertising identifier. The app does not send it to a game server or attach it to Expo update requests.

Apple associates purchases with your Apple Account and keeps its own purchase and account records under its policies. Your Apple Account email, password and payment card details are not provided to the game. Removing the game does not cancel a subscription; use Apple's subscription settings to manage it.

5. Ages 16 and older

You must acknowledge that you are 16 or older before beginning. Where supported and applicable, the standalone iOS app requests an age range through Apple's system age features. It uses the result to check age eligibility without asking you to type an exact date of birth. The returned age range is not saved in your game or sent to a game server; only your age acknowledgement is saved.

The game is not directed to anyone under 16. If you are 16 or 17, a parent or legal guardian must provide permission where required by applicable law. A parent's permission does not remove the minimum age of 16 or any higher applicable age restriction. Contact [email protected] about a minor's privacy or eligibility. A checkbox alone is not identity verification.

6. App updates and technical requests

The standalone iOS app uses Expo EAS Update to check for and download compatible code, stories and artwork. An automatic check can happen at launch, including before first-launch setup is complete. You can also request an update in Settings. A downloaded update is normally applied on a later launch; the downloaded game can still be played offline.

These requests send Expo a randomized installation identifier (EAS Client ID), operating system or platform, app runtime and update identifiers, and connection information such as your IP address. A request can also include technical information about a previous update failure. The app does not attach your saved lives, choices or archive to update requests.

The information is used to deliver a compatible update and operate the update service. Expo and its infrastructure providers handle technical service records under their policies. We do not describe this service as collecting no data. See Expo's privacy policy for its practices, retention and international processing.

7. Crash diagnostics

Our internal iOS Preview builds send crash and error reports to Sentry to diagnose faults and improve reliability. Reports may include the time of the error, the app version and build, the device model, the operating system and a stack trace showing where the error occurred.

The app does not attach your saved lives, choices, journal, purchase details, screenshots or recordings to these reports. Sentry may process your IP address to receive the report. We configure Sentry to remove IP addresses from stored events. Sentry processes and retains diagnostic data as a service provider. You can contact us about diagnostic data using the address below.

Native iOS crash reports may also contain a random identifier for this app installation.

Read the Sentry privacy policy.

8. No advertising or session recording

The game does not include advertising SDKs, behavioral advertising, session replay, screen recording for analytics, or a marketing analytics service. It does not sell your personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising. Update delivery is described separately above.

The app uses system or bundled resources rather than downloading Google Fonts. It does not request access to your contacts, microphone, camera, precise location or photo library to play. There is no in-game chat, user-upload service, marketing email list or automated promotional SMS service.

9. Sharing a remembrance

Sharing is optional and starts only when you choose it. The app prepares an image or text about a fictional life and passes it to the system share sheet or clipboard. A shared remembrance cannot restore a playable life. Temporary share images can remain in the app's cache until removed by the app or operating system.

The destination app or person you select receives the shared content under that service's own rules. Anyone who receives or sees a shared image may save or redistribute it. Copying text places it on the system clipboard, which is managed by your device and system settings. Opening external source links also connects to the selected website.

10. When you contact support

If you choose to email [email protected], we receive your email address, message and any attachments you choose to send. Your email provider and our email service process the correspondence to deliver it. This is separate from local gameplay. Please do not send passwords, payment card details or unnecessary sensitive information.

We use correspondence to respond, investigate the issue, handle privacy or rights requests and keep records needed for those purposes or legal obligations. We do not enroll support senders in a marketing list. A support email is not an automatic upload of your save.

11. Retention and deletion

Local stories and preferences remain while kept in the app's storage. Deleting the app removes its sandbox data subject to operating-system behavior; the device-only free-life marker may remain. Apple purchase records and Expo service records are separate from these local saves and follow the relevant provider's retention rules.

Support correspondence is kept as needed to resolve the request, meet applicable obligations and handle related disputes, then deleted or minimized when no longer needed. There is no central game account or server copy of your life for us to delete, inspect or restore. Contact us about information you provided to support or questions about provider records.

12. Your privacy choices and rights

Depending on the law that applies to you, you may have rights to information, access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection or portability, and to complain to your local data-protection authority. Contact [email protected] to make a request. We may ask for information reasonably needed to verify and handle it, but do not ask for your Apple Account password.

We can address information under our control, such as support correspondence. We cannot access a local save on your device or promise to identify an Expo service record from your fictional character's name. We will explain relevant limits and available routes for a request. No game account or marketing consent is required to contact us.

13. Service providers and international processing

Local gameplay does not upload your save. Network services are separate: Apple provides purchases and system age features, Expo provides app updates, and email providers deliver messages you choose to send. Their infrastructure can process information outside your country. Applicable transfer safeguards and provider arrangements must be considered for those services; local storage does not make all network processing local.

This notice covers this game. Expo Go, development previews, linked websites and apps you choose for sharing have their own data practices. Their privacy policies do not replace this game's notice.

14. Contact and changes

For privacy, support or copyright questions about One in Eight Billion: Life, email [email protected]. We will update this notice when the app's data practices change and identify the current version and date. Where a change requires additional notice or consent, it must be provided before the affected processing begins.

15. These website pages

Cloudflare, Inc. provides hosting, delivery and security for these pages through Cloudflare Pages. Requests can include your IP address, requested URL, browser or device information, request time and security signals. Cloudflare may process service logs and security cookies to deliver and protect the website. These pages do not include advertising, marketing pixels or a separate marketing analytics service.

Cloudflare technical records are separate from local game saves. Provider retention depends on the service and security purpose, its configuration and applicable obligations; we do not promise that deleting the game deletes provider records. Contact us to ask about records under our control.

Cloudflare privacy policy

16. Purposes, legal bases and service providers

Where the EEA or UK data-protection rules apply, we rely on performance of the requested service or contract for providing the game and paid access; legitimate interests, where permitted, for necessary update delivery, security and responding to support; and legal obligations for required records and rights requests. Where a particular activity requires consent, another basis does not replace that requirement. We do not treat use of the game as blanket consent to advertising or unrelated processing.

Apple Inc. and the relevant Apple entities provide App Store purchases and system age features; 650 Industries, Inc. (Expo) provides EAS Update; Cloudflare, Inc. provides website hosting and security. Email delivery involves the sender's and recipient's email services. Service providers may use infrastructure in other countries. International processing remains subject to applicable transfer requirements and the relevant provider arrangements; this policy is not a waiver of those requirements.

Apple privacy policy · Expo privacy policy · Cloudflare privacy policy

17. Requests and complaints

Contact [email protected] to request access, correction or deletion of information you supplied to us, or to ask about this policy. We may ask for proportionate information to identify the correspondence, without requesting your Apple Account password or full card number. Where applicable, you may complain to your local data-protection authority. Local saves, Apple purchase records and provider records have different controllers and recovery or deletion limits.

We do not sell personal information or use game data for cross-context behavioral advertising. A fictional character's health, finances or relationships are game content rather than a request for your own sensitive information.